10月8日
如何去爱
How to Love
我这样吩咐你们，是要叫你们彼此相爱。
——约15:17
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
—John 15:17
我们该如何去爱呢？我们要像神爱我们一样去爱……我们应该接受和赞赏他人……彼此接纳，就像神接纳我们一样。太多父母不接受不欣赏孩子本来的样子，这就是为什么去年有一百万美国儿童离家出走的原因。耶鲁大学的一个研究小组得出结论：大部分离家出走的儿童为了逃离不幸的家庭环境，他们渴望得到赞赏。
我们被告知青少年犯罪的原因是破碎的家庭、贫困、缺乏娱乐设施、身体健康不佳、种族歧视、全职工作的母亲等等。专家们似乎从来没有提到爱的缺乏以及对神信仰的缺失。然而这是青少年健康成长的两个最重要的因素。
你有多久没有表扬你的孩子而是批评他们了？大卫为所罗门祷告，每天赞美他。我们也应该每天赞美我们的儿女。赞美你的妻子。我发现赞美往往比批评更有效，每个人都需要被赞赏。
How are we to love? We are to love as God loves us . . . we are to show acceptance and appreciation . . . [to] accept each other as God accepts us. Too many parents refuse to accept and appreciate their children for what they are. That is why a million American children ran away from home last year. A team of Yale researchers has concluded that the majority of these runaways were attempting to escape an unhappy family situation. They yearned to be appreciated.
The causes of delinquency, we are told, are broken homes, poverty, lack of recreational facilities, poor physical health, racism, working mothers, and so on . . . The experts never seem to mention the lack of love, or the lack of faith in God. Yet these are the two most important elements for an adolescent’s successful maturity.
How long has it been since you praised your children instead of criticizing them? David prayed for Solomon and daily praised him, and we are to praise our children daily. Praise your wife. I have found that praise goes a lot further than criticism. Everybody needs to be appreciated.
今日祷告
批评身边亲近的人很容易，但是主啊，求你将你那毫无保留的爱赐给我，好叫他们知道我是多么地感激赞赏他们。
Prayer for the day
It is so easy to criticize those close to me; but Lord, give me Your unreserved love so that they may know how deeply I appreciate them.
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