【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶
Stop for a moment in all your busyness, and see what you are putting first. Is it work? Is it living? Is it your wants? Your desires? Seek ye first My kingdom. Find your direct contact with Me and all else shall be added unto you. Do you not realise that your communion with Me means far more than anything else, for it is from this contact that all else stems. Do your part and put first things first. You cannot draw water from a well unless you get a bucket and let it down into the well, fill it with water and then draw it up. You have to do something; you have to make the effort and do your part. Standing at the top of the well looking: at the water will not draw it up. So with this spiritual life: standing around watching others find their oneness with Me will not do it for you. Every soul has to do its own inner seeking and finding.
在我的忙碌中停下來一刻，然後看看我將什麼放在首位。它是工作嗎？它是生活嗎？它是我想要的事物嗎？它是我的慾望嗎？首先去尋找上天的王國。找到我和上天直接的連接，那麼一切其他的都會隨之到來。
我難道沒有意識到我和上天之間的交流比任何其他事物都來得更有意義嗎，因為其餘一切正是源於這個連接。
完成我的部分，並且分清主次。我沒辦法從一口井中取水，除非我先拿到一個水桶，然後將它放進井裡，把它灌滿水然後再拉起來。我必須得做些什麼；我必須得付出努力，完成我的部分。站在井邊看著裡面的水，是無法將它取出的。
這靈性生活也是這樣：站在旁邊看著其他人找到他們與上天的合一，是無法對我有什麼作用的。每一個靈魂都需要完成它自己內在的尋找與發現。
