約翰內斯牧師的隱居生活 兼職隱士的一年生活 - 五月 - 鳥鳴、蜜蜂和蜻蜓

我在澳大利亞讀了一段時間的博客課程 我喜歡和學生一起讀 雖然我猜,博客課程對兩者都很疲憊 它們容許你少許時間讓想法安定 與它們爭辯或討論 我最大的禮物之一 是我的大學教育的第一五年學習的地方和方法 我在澳大利亞的國際理論學院學習 我們沒有講課 但還是跟隨了博客課程的方法 理念和哲學的偉大的文章 讓作者們親自帶領我們進課室 然後我們會一起進行小博客課程 與教授討論文章 從不同的背景和國家帶來的學生 你會得到一些令人激動 但並不頻繁地令人沮喪的東西 你可能沒有達到你所期望的地步 有時你甚至沒有達到你的目標 但你做出了自己的問題 你不僅是在挖掘一些早期的東西 你也在與它競爭 正如當時的我所說 當然也因為那些大學教育的好朋友 真正的生活、愛和學習的社群 我大概只意識到 這些課程在我一般大學的畢業課程中 因為這個任務 大致上只是聽課 然後再跟教授說一遍 但這只是一種複雜的知識 這是一種非常真實的二手知識 問題和一套計劃 一套計劃 在失敗之下 可能不會導致你達到正確的結論 但它會給你勇氣 去探索世界和其他東西 我遇到一個問題 最近幾天下了不少下雨 當房子剛建成的時候 前面只有一個非常狹窄的空間 在80年代 當它第一次被恢復 一個六呎高的保留牆 是用來建造這個屋頂 但同樣的屋頂 已經被清理掉了 在過去的幾十年 保留牆一直向外傾 從我購買這棟房子開始 但這些破洞是新的 它們只是在一天內建成 而這些下雨 並不是我經歷過的最糟糕 這棟房子 從我所知 但如果這屋頂 在未來的下雨下崩塌 它會將半個花園 被岩石和淹沒 所以我必須做點事 我必須將屋頂的重量 或許甚至降低屋頂 這是困難的 因為屋頂上 有一個鋼鐵輪 來穩定它 如果我拆除它 會不會讓它更糟糕 我還不確定 但一件事 無論如何都必須做 我必須開始修補 我用我的垃圾桶 把地球移動的電線 那是一個快速的修復 但現在我知道 前屋主已經把電線放在哪裡 我還限制了 我可以在這裡掘地的深度 300毫米的雨 或大約一公尺的雨 沉到地面 我計算 將最嚴重的範圍 現在 如果我把地球的三噸 從這個範圍取出 即使在這樣的下雨 屋頂也不會受到 任何額外的壓力 如果再加上 我把地球封住 然後把水淹沒 地面會保持乾燥 而不會受到下雨 這就是我的計劃 我希望它可以 在我花園的牆壁保存 你好 早上好 鄰居 早上好 你也來 現在還在下雨 我希望在某個時候 還沒結束 不不 下個夏天 就要開始下雨了 我剛才說 下個夏天就要下雨了 我必須結束這個節目 快點 I'm saying this because I do not want you to get the wrong impressions from these videos. That is also true of my person. People have visited over the past few years to do stories about my life, and they have generally painted their portraits in a kind light. No surprise, really. The reason they came here was to find and show their viewers something they feel would be inspiring. But it is a truncated view of reality, and I'm somewhat uneasy at the admiration that I've received in comments and messages on those occasions. So let me make this clear. I'm not a guru. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a person to aspire to meet or even talk to. You don't need me. You don't need to discern any secrets of happiness in my life or take me as an example. I am fundamentally like you. A man, a fallible man, a human. If you find any of the propositions in these videos helpful, if anything that is said rings true, or at least if any of the questions do, it is not because I am a source of wisdom. Truth is not something we make. It is something already there in the things as they are. It is something we merely discover. Reality, if you really seek it out, will have answers about who we are, how we are, and what we are called to be. If anything that I say is true, it is not because of me, but because of everything else. If on the other hand you watch these videos primarily because you find them pleasing, I'm happy you enjoy them. But enjoy them like a story, like one of these movies with a disclaimer, based on real events, of which we all know that they take some liberties. The liberty here is not that I went looking for drama or to invent something to show to you, but as I said, that I chose not to show everything. If thirdly you find these videos not only instructive or relaxing, but inspiring, may they inspire you to live your own life. I'm not going to give you the hamster wheel talk, so popular with motivational speakers. I'm not going to tell you that you should leave the treadmill of ordinary life to follow wild dreams. I'm not suggesting you break out from your 9 to 5. I simply propose that you choose to lead an extraordinary life, and you do not have to go anywhere for that. I contend that a life is extraordinary only in as much as the ordinary things are done with an extraordinary amount of love. If you are married for 48 years and kindly put up with your spouse's frailties, your life is extraordinary. If you are a father who goes to work in an office not because of self-fulfillment, but just in order to put food on the table for your family of six, your life is extraordinary. If you are a single mother in tears helping your teenage daughters to navigate this crazy world with the compass of virtue that many have forgotten, your life is extraordinary. If you have lost your wife to cancer, and after years of letting grief take over, you begin struggling to rid yourself of alcohol addiction, your life is extraordinary. If your sister gave you grief, but you chose to forgive her from the bottom of your heart, your life is extraordinary. If someone was unjust, but every day you overcome feelings of revenge, your life is extraordinary. Any of these lives,and many more like them, in fact are more extraordinary than a life in which one escaped to the woods on the slope of a mountain. They may be less Instagramable, but they are more extraordinary because they require a greater love. For it is love that makes any life extraordinary.