 母親節早上，正想起床，阿丹已悄悄打開房門，一手拿碗沖好的麥片，一手拿張母親卡。口中說不知道沖的麥片對不對？他自己是不喝熱麥片的。
卡上印著他寫的詩：獻給我自己的母親。
每行詩的頭一個字母，可以組成這句話：Swiftly doing God’s blessing (快速傳遞神的祝福)
可想每位母親拿到自己孩子寫的詩，無論描述得多麼言過其實、多麼肉麻，都喜顛顛的想到處獻寶、展示。(這就是我在母親節當天的表現。)
這首詩，我最欣賞的在於他對信仰的認識。
他知道另有一位高於母親，也是他要投奔的所在。
能真正認識自己的人，是有福的；能知道自己的有限，是有福的。他知道自己在神眼中的價值。他不會看自己過於所當看的；他也不會輕看自己。他是懂得感恩的人。我為他感謝神，我也為他的成長成熟感謝神。
/ 瀟碧 5. 17. 2009
/ 圖：如意Roi繪
To My Own Mother So much has placed in the years' racing pace
With my one & only Mother, there can be no other.
In which I was graced & given upon thus Thee Creation, it was meant to lead to my Salvation.
From her lips of loving care & wise instruction; is there any end in it preventing future destruction?
Too often has her unfailing presence been there at my present, so no fear has come of becoming a lowly peasant.
Long – forever shall I remember my Mother's prayers on my endeavor.
Yes, her kind deeds will never come to cease in laying the passion burning of a fire from the seeds of peace.
Does such acts of goodness & love come
Out of & into darkness?
It cannot be so as from the Great Heavenliness.
Nor done to personal gain,
Great unto me as my Mother drove towards the Lord’s aim.
Going nowhere but done a-kindled for her children,
Overbearing within thy gentle heart whereto no known emptiness could ever fill in.
Duration in patience & perseverance to which of all the hardest times has
'Since took stand to be & bring us deliverance.
But to the end here, there is no room left for more marveling fear.
Lost not will I ever be from my Mother’s unbending work to steer.
Everlasting glow of her kindly happiness, should we to also take hold as a whole.
Similar acts carried down to our descendants, from all that my Mother has done while being so ever pleasant.
Stooping in like the Lord’s guardian angel itself,
Immeasurable in all her safety protection guarded all by herself.
Now thus we receive my Mother’s generosity to be forgiven,
Go forth & spread her accomplishments as for her to not be forgotten.
(by Josh 5. 7. 2009)
獻給我自己的母親
歲月馳騁，許多事情發生過；
母親伴著，沒有人能夠取代。
一直以來蒙造物者的恩惠，為著就是領我得救。
愛的關懷、智慧的教導，不都防止我邁向毀滅？
她持久不變的同在，我不怕會變成露宿的流浪漢。
在我的人生中，永遠都會記得母親的禱告。
是的，她源源不絕的在我裡面種下如火焰般強烈的情感，
這情感是從神平安的種子生出。
這些良善與愛
會是出於黑暗？引向黑暗？
不！這些都是從神而來。
絕不是為了個人的好處，
乃是將我帶向神為我預定的人生。
她專注點燃孩子們人生的火花，
她的和藹源源不絕，永無窮盡。
無論孩子多麼煩人，她的耐心恆久不變，
這樣的耐心，為的是將主耶穌帶給我們。
就寫到這裡，再寫這紙怕要容不下了。
因著母親不屈的引導，我絕不會迷失。
她的快樂洋溢，我們源源不絕的汲取。
母親所做的一切，我們也要做在子孫身上。
就像上帝的守護天使，她奮力看護著我們。
我們領受了母親無盡的寬恕，
我要傳說她所做的，讓人不至遺忘。
（5. 17. 2009 阿丹口語解釋，媽媽意譯）
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