【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶
Many souls talk about faith, but fail to live by it. Those same souls talk about loving Me, but do not know the first thing about love. It is a waste of time talking about loving someone you have not seen, when you are incapable of loving those souls you have all around you and who need your love, wisdom and understanding. First learn to love those souls whom I have placed in your immediate surroundings; then you will know what it means to love Me truly. Why grope your way through life when all you have to do is to stride firmly through it in faith and confidence, knowing that I AM with you? Here I AM holding out to you all My good and perfect gifts, but if you will not accept them, you cannot benefit from them. Freely I give them to you; freely you have to accept them, and then use them wisely for the benefit of the whole.
很多靈魂談論信念，但沒能活出它。那些同樣的靈魂談論愛上天這件事，卻不知道關於愛首要的事是什麼。當我都無法愛我周圍那些需要我的愛、智慧和理解的靈魂時，談論愛一個我沒見過的人是在浪費時間。首先學習去愛那些上天安排在我身邊的靈魂；然後我會知道愛上天的真實意義。為什麼要靠摸索我的道路去度過一生？當我所需要做的只是堅定地大步向前，在信念與自信中去度過它，因知道上天與我同在。在這裡上天將上天所有美好的、完美的禮物捧在我面前，但若我不會接受它們，我就無法從中受益。上天將它們無償地贈與我；我也得無償地接受它們，然後有智慧地使用它們，為了全體的利益。
