航海喻人生 ... Life is like a sea voyage

9:55 a.m.     24.5.2018

(English at the bottom)

有天早上看見海面風平浪靜，朝陽斜照下，呈現水面紋理交織。如此豐富而清晰的紋理甚少見。

這種水面紋理，大概是船隻航行留下的踪跡。

當今天閱讀靈命日糧的文章《凝視地平線》時，隨即令我憶起這照片中的畫面，頓時想起那些海面上的痕跡，猶如人生的經歷。

人生如砌圖，由不同的人和事交織在一起，許多遭遇並非自己所能夠控制；人生中的種種經歷，交織之下，在腦海回憶區域留下「痕跡」(印記)。

航行的人，不會望著船在海面所留下的痕跡，只會專注朝向目的地進發。

      文章中說：『我們在一生中難免會恐懼不安，那位地平線的創造者（約伯記26章10節）也深知這點，但只要我們凝視那在遠處不變的永恆盼望，就能獲得正確的焦點。……當前的苦難是暫時的，我們「在世上是客旅，是寄居的」（希伯來書11章13節）。但上帝的應許卻有如地平線亙古不變，若能專注凝視便能保持正確的焦點。』

Life is like a sea voyage

A few days ago, I noticed lots of ‘lines’ on the sea surface. The lines were mostly ‘drawn’ by boats passing by. The sea was very calm and under the morning sun ray, the pattern looked unusually clear and complex .

When I was reading the article ‘Gazing at the horizon’ in Our Daily Bread today (29 May 2018), an idea suddenly came up in my mind: those 'lines' on the sea surface resemble incidents that we have experienced in our lives.

      Life is like a jigsaw puzzle, interwoven by different people and incidents. Experiences in life are interwoven, leaving behind markings in our memory.

      For the people who are steering a boat, they won’t be looking at the markings that the boat has left behind on the sea. They would only focus on their journey’s destination and head towards it.

      In the article 'Gazing at the horizon', it said, “The Maker of the horizon (Job 26:10) knows that sometimes in life we may become fearful and restless. We can regain perspective by focusing on the distant but steady point of our destiny…Our present troubles are temporary. We are “foreigners and strangers on earth” (11:13), but gazing at the horizon of God’s promises provides the point of reference we need.”