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#摘要

• 深陷癮患者，通過眾人長期同心協力的幫助，就能走出困境。

• 每人出一分力量，眾籌助人，社會更美善。～寓言故事：煮石頭湯。（圖二）

【傳4:9】兩個人總比一個人好，因為二人勞碌同得美好的果效。

【傳4:10】若是跌倒，這人可以扶起他的同伴；若是孤身跌倒，沒有別人扶起他來，這人就有禍了。

• 主耶穌，我願意加入社會服務的行列幫助人。

#圖一癮患走上光明人生

#圖二飢餓的旅人請村民互助大鍋煮湯

#故事  

Meggie’s ten years of drug use kept her in and out of jail. Without a life change, she’d soon return. Then she met Hans, a former addict who almost lost his hand when a vein ruptured due to his substance abuse. “That was the first time I cried out to God,” Hans said. God’s answer prepared him to be a peer specialist for an organization that coordinates recovery for jailed addicts.

Called Stone Soup, the program is helping an American jail provide formerly imprisoned people with support to reenter their communities. Through the plan, Meggie moved into a sober-living house and has stayed sober. Hans now helps her and others with job placement, educational options, treatment, and family resources—a coordinated approach.

深陷癮患者，需要眾人長期同心協力，才能走出困境。

#默想  

How can pooling our resources help us serve people better? What can you give to make a “stone soup“ for your community?

每人出一分力量，眾籌助人，社會更美善。

#經文 

One can help the other up. Ecclesiastes 4:10

【傳4:9】兩個人總比一個人好，因為二人勞碌同得美好的果效。

【傳4:10】若是跌倒，這人可以扶起他的同伴；若是孤身跌倒，沒有別人扶起他來，這人就有禍了。

#禱告  

Please bless me, dear God, to join others to help well.

主耶穌，我願意加入社會服務的行列幫助人。

#神學

Ecclesiastes portrays the sobering realism about life on earth “under the sun“ (Ecclesiastes 1:3; 4:1)—that is, life experienced within the limits of our humanity. “The Teacher“ (1:1) exposes the futility of “chasing after the wind“ (4:4, 6, 16)—the vapor of what we often assume will bring fulfillment—work, wealth, power, prestige, pleasure, learning, and more. He‘s resigned to our powerlessness in the face of oppression, poverty, illness, and death. 

聖經傳道書的主旨：工作、財富、權力、地位、享樂、知識，這些成就都將站立不住，在壓迫、貧窮、殘病、死亡的面前。唯有智者，能處富足，也能處卑賤。