| 我曾經跨過山和大海
也穿過人山人海 我曾經擁有著一切 轉眼都飄散如煙 我曾經失落失望失掉所有方向 直到看見平凡才是唯一的答案
平凡之路 (The Ordinary Road) by Pu Shu
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I’ve crossed mountains and seas, And gone through crowds of people. I once had everything, But in the blink of an eye, it disappeared like smoke. I’ve been lost, disappointed, lost my sense of direction, Until I saw the answer in the ordinary.
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As the season of Lent approaches, I can’t help but think of my own seasons in life and how they’ve shaped me. In particular, as I prepare to graduate from college, I find myself at the end of a very arduous season. In the past, I’ve always know what to anticipate from a new stage in life: I finish elementary school, time for middle school. I finish middle school, time for high school. I finish high school, time for college. I finish college…but now what? I tend to find the time between one phase of life and the other to be a time of great uncertainty. Uncertainty makes me feel as though I’ve lost my sense of direction, like I’ve become aimless and purposeless; but more than anything, uncertainty makes me feel alone.
But we are never truly alone, are we?
I find that God makes himself known to me in small, ordinary moments to remind me that I am never alone. Through the words in a song, the warmth of the sun, a tight embrace, heartfelt laughter, or a bite of something delicious – such ordinary moments can fill me with extraordinary feelings, if only I choose to pay attention. I think that Lent is a time of refocusing our attention on God and our relationship with him; to remind us that he is here with us always, in every season of life, if only we choose to pay attention.
And how marvelous is that? To know that as the seasons change, God is with us in every moment, forever unchanging and calling us to find him in all the ordinary moments of life.