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J: I’ll be the dancer at Kids Choir this year. How about you, Ben? Still gonna be the speaker?
Ben: I wish I could still go to Kids Choir, or Awana, or both!
J: Why?
Ben: My dad doesn't believe in God and he doesn't let me go any more.
J: Tell him that you really really really want to.
Ben: Nah…he’ll just say no. He likes to take me to his friends’ and he plays computer stuff there. There was that guy who gave me a hundred bucks for Chinese New Year.
Me: Can you ask your mom to take you to church for Kids Choir?
Ben: Nah…she always goes with my dad.
Me: Or, come with us!
Ben: Nah…I don’t want to. They'd stay up late at friends’ house. If I don’t go with them I’ll have to stay at Esther’s house for a long long time, and sometimes even have to sleep over. I want to be with my own parents, not Esther’s parents.
N: Hey, I got an idea! You can say “please”, lots of “please’s”, and “thank you’s” too!
Ben: Come on. I know he’s gonna say “no”. It’s always a “no” from him.
T: How about you just cry, until your mom fights with your dad. Make them fight and kill each other. Hahahahaha…then you can go anywhere you want!
J: That won’t work. Ben doesn’t even know how to drive. How does he go anywhere if his parents die and would no longer drive for him?
Ben: Yeh, it’s true. I can’t walk to church. That’s 50 miles of walk, or maybe, 100 miles, I am not sure.
T: Looks like you need to learn to drive, today, right now!
Ben: Nah…forget about it. That’s too hard. I don’t have to be the speaker at the Kids Choir after all. I already remembered all the Bible verses in my heart. I’ll be ok.
Ben是一个八岁的小孩。
我把我们几个人的这段对话记录下来,也许哪天可以拿给他的爸爸看。关于孩子的信仰,一直是个众说纷纭的话题。
记下来也是为了提醒自己。我常常以为小孩子可怜,没有自主的能力,其实我们成人在消化烦恼、自我调节方面,不见得强过一个孩子。小孩容易知足,眼睛里边也总看得到希望,值得我们大人学习。
马太福音上说:我实在告诉你们,你们若不回转,变成小孩子的样式,断不得进天国。
我是不明白小8毛为什么把那么私人的事搬了出来。为了倾诉?为了建议?如果为了前者,她已经做到了;如果为了后者,她早应该知道,这种事情,只有自己对自己的心理处境最明白,听来听去,只能越听越乱。预期的结果,也没什么好说的,网络不就这德性么。
当然了,我知道,你问我也不是真问我,是问你自己呢。你要骂人我也拦不住你,反正你丫被封也不是头一回了,呵呵。
你说我要不要出去骂人? 那帮骂小8毛的很多是年轻的母亲,蠢的不是一般!
这是一个世界范围的program,全世界用的课本都是一样的,转来转去都不成问题。里边的老师都是义务的,孩子们有时也带些自己的钱去给老师买糖果用,或者是捐献给穷困地区的小朋友什么的,给不给钱也凭孩子自愿。其实你不妨试试。
没什么不好意思的。我还老趁送他们去那儿的时间出去买菜呢!
你不是出门了么?写了个好玩儿的,怕你出门看不到,一直没贴呢。那我等下改改贴出来吧。:)
我得到的启示是,在孩子小的时候,多鼓励他们参加这样的活动,他们会记得的。神的话就这样进入他们心里,对他们来说,这比那几百美金还要珍贵。
司小令:谁让你只给淑女当司令的,象我这种不怎么淑女的...
孤小草,看到无名想让我冒充她被你聪明地发现勇敢地拒绝了:))
这个Ben是个很不寻常的孩子,好像是个很平静的孩子,完完全全的接受他的生活,很让人心疼。