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J: I’ll be the dancer at Kids Choir this year. How about you, Ben? Still gonna be the speaker?
Ben: I wish I could still go to Kids Choir, or Awana, or both!
J: Why?
Ben: My dad doesn't believe in God and he doesn't let me go any more.
J: Tell him that you really really really want to.
Ben: Nah…he’ll just say no. He likes to take me to his friends’ and he plays computer stuff there. There was that guy who gave me a hundred bucks for Chinese New Year.
Me: Can you ask your mom to take you to church for Kids Choir?
Ben: Nah…she always goes with my dad.
Me: Or, come with us!
Ben: Nah…I don’t want to. They'd stay up late at friends’ house. If I don’t go with them I’ll have to stay at Esther’s house for a long long time, and sometimes even have to sleep over. I want to be with my own parents, not Esther’s parents.
N: Hey, I got an idea! You can say “please”, lots of “please’s”, and “thank you’s” too!
Ben: Come on. I know he’s gonna say “no”. It’s always a “no” from him.
T: How about you just cry, until your mom fights with your dad. Make them fight and kill each other. Hahahahaha…then you can go anywhere you want!
J: That won’t work. Ben doesn’t even know how to drive. How does he go anywhere if his parents die and would no longer drive for him?
Ben: Yeh, it’s true. I can’t walk to church. That’s 50 miles of walk, or maybe, 100 miles, I am not sure.
T: Looks like you need to learn to drive, today, right now!
Ben: Nah…forget about it. That’s too hard. I don’t have to be the speaker at the Kids Choir after all. I already remembered all the Bible verses in my heart. I’ll be ok.
Ben是一個八歲的小孩。
我把我們幾個人的這段對話記錄下來,也許哪天可以拿給他的爸爸看。關於孩子的信仰,一直是個眾說紛紜的話題。
記下來也是為了提醒自己。我常常以為小孩子可憐,沒有自主的能力,其實我們成人在消化煩惱、自我調節方麵,不見得強過一個孩子。小孩容易知足,眼睛裏邊也總看得到希望,值得我們大人學習。
馬太福音上說:我實在告訴你們,你們若不回轉,變成小孩子的樣式,斷不得進天國。
我是不明白小8毛為什麽把那麽私人的事搬了出來。為了傾訴?為了建議?如果為了前者,她已經做到了;如果為了後者,她早應該知道,這種事情,隻有自己對自己的心理處境最明白,聽來聽去,隻能越聽越亂。預期的結果,也沒什麽好說的,網絡不就這德性麽。
當然了,我知道,你問我也不是真問我,是問你自己呢。你要罵人我也攔不住你,反正你丫被封也不是頭一回了,嗬嗬。
你說我要不要出去罵人? 那幫罵小8毛的很多是年輕的母親,蠢的不是一般!
這是一個世界範圍的program,全世界用的課本都是一樣的,轉來轉去都不成問題。裏邊的老師都是義務的,孩子們有時也帶些自己的錢去給老師買糖果用,或者是捐獻給窮困地區的小朋友什麽的,給不給錢也憑孩子自願。其實你不妨試試。
沒什麽不好意思的。我還老趁送他們去那兒的時間出去買菜呢!
你不是出門了麽?寫了個好玩兒的,怕你出門看不到,一直沒貼呢。那我等下改改貼出來吧。:)
我得到的啟示是,在孩子小的時候,多鼓勵他們參加這樣的活動,他們會記得的。神的話就這樣進入他們心裏,對他們來說,這比那幾百美金還要珍貴。
司小令:誰讓你隻給淑女當司令的,象我這種不怎麽淑女的...
孤小草,看到無名想讓我冒充她被你聰明地發現勇敢地拒絕了:))
這個Ben是個很不尋常的孩子,好像是個很平靜的孩子,完完全全的接受他的生活,很讓人心疼。