我爱人人，人人爱我 To Love and to Be Loved

[阿尔巴利亚]特雷莎修女/Mother Teresa

特雷莎修女（1910-1997），生于欧洲的马其顿，18岁进加尔各答修道院。1948年她走出修道院高墙，开始为世界上最贫穷的人服务；1979年获诺贝尔和平奖，1997年9月5日辞世。“特雷莎妈妈”是一个美丽的名字，被世人用不同的语言表达同一个意思即“爱”。她刻苦善良，以身作则，毕生坚持不懈服务全人类，其功绩令世人深受感动和启发。

It is not enough for us to say,“I love God.”But I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?And so it is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I must be willing to give whatever it takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them. This requires that I am willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

It hurts Jesus to love us. We have been created in his image for greater things, to love and to be loved. We must“put on Christ,”as Scripture tells us. And so we have been created to love as he loves us. Jesus makes himself the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, the unwanted one, and he says,“You did it to me.”On the last day he will say to those on his right,“whatever you did to the least of these, you did to me,”and he will also say to those on his left,“whatever you neglected to do for the least of these, you neglected to do it for me.”

When he was dying on the Cross, Jesus said,“I thirst.”Jesus is thirsting for our love, and this is the thirst for everyone, poor and rich alike. We all thirst for the love of others, that they go out of their way to avoid harming us and to do good to us. This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

仅仅说“我爱上帝”是不够的，我们还必须爱我们的邻居。圣约翰说过，如果你不爱邻居却还说你爱上帝，那你就在撒谎。连耳触目及、伸手可摸的邻居都不爱，你又怎能热爱看不着、听不见的上帝呢？所以，认识到这点十分重要——说句实话，有爱就有伤害。我们应该甘愿倾我所能，以求不伤害他人，事实上这样就是在对他人行善。这也就要求我们心甘情愿地付出，遭受痛苦也在所不惜。否则，我们心中就不会有真爱，我们所带给周围人们的就不是安宁，而是不公正。

因爱着我们，耶稣也是痛苦的。上帝按照自己的形象创造我们，是让我们去成就更伟大的事业，是让我们做到“我爱人人，人人爱我”。正如经文中训导的那样，我们必须“所作所为向基督看齐”。上帝因此创造我们，教我们像他爱我们一样去爱别人。耶稣让自己忍饥挨饿，让自己赤身裸体，让自己无家可归，让自己遭人躲闪。他说：“你是这样对待我的。”到了最后的审判日，他将对在他右边的人说：“你对这些人中最卑微的人所做的事情，就是对我做的事情。”他还将对在他左边的人说：“你忽视了为这些人中最卑微者做的什么，就等于忽视了为我做的事。”

在十字架上生命即逝的时刻，他还说：“我渴望。”耶稣渴望的是我们的爱，是对全天下不分贵贱的苍生的爱。我们每个人都渴望得到别人的爱，渴望别人小心翼翼而不将我们伤害，都渴望自己得到善待。不惜痛苦地去施爱吧，这就是真爱的意义。

心灵小语

爱是一个我们如此频繁谈论的话题，但如果它仅存在于我们的话语之中，就像繁盛一时的鲜花，那么，这不是爱。爱是用我们的双手，让花朵结出果实。

词汇笔记

liar['laiə]n.说谎者；撒谎者

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

一个爱说谎的人就是他说的实话也没有人相信。

injustice[in'dʒʌstis]n.不公平；非正义；待……不公正；冤枉

I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.

我不会屈服于来自任何人的不公正。

scripture['skriptʃə]n.经文；圣典

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

魔鬼为了自身的目的也会引用《圣经》。

neglect[ni'ɡlekt]v.疏忽；忽略；遗漏

Many men run after success, and often neglect their wives and children.

许多男人一心追求成功，而忽略了对妻子、孩子的关心。

小试身手

说句实话，有爱就有伤害。

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因爱着我们，耶稣也是痛苦的。

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不惜痛苦地去施爱吧，这就是真爱的意义。

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短语家族

I must be willing to give whatever it takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them.

be willing to：乐于

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Jesus is thirsting for our love……

thirst for：渴望；热望

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