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Life is like a painted dream!
人生如同一幅彩绘的梦境！
(Octavius Winslow, “This God is Our God”)
(奥克塔维斯·温斯洛，《这位神是我们的神》)
“For this God is our God forever and ever-He will be our guide even to the end.” Psalm 48:14
“因为这位神永永远远是我们的神，祂必引导我们到生命的终点。”诗篇48:14
“The world passes away.”
“这世界正在逝去。”
Everything here in this present world is changing.
这现今世界上的一切都在变迁。
“Life is like a painted dream,
Like the rapid summer stream,
Like the fleeting meteor’s ray,
Like the shortest winter’s day,
Like the fitful breeze that sighs,
Like the waning flame that dies,
Darting, dazzling on the eye,
Fading in eternity.”
“生命如彩绘的梦境，
似夏日急流奔涌，
如流星闪耀光芒，
似最短冬日时光，
如阵阵叹息微风，
似渐熄垂死火焰，
在眼前闪烁晃动，
消逝于永恒之中。”
A rope of sand, a spider’s web, a silken thread, a passing shadow, an ebbing wave, are the most fitting and expressive emblems of all things belonging to this present time’s state.
沙绳、蜘蛛网、丝线、掠影、退潮的浪花，是这现今世代万物最贴切生动的象征。
The homes that sheltered us in childhood we leave.
我们离开了庇护童年的家园。
The land which gave us birth we leave.
我们离开了生我们养我们的土地。
The loved ones who encircled our hearths pass away.
围绕在我们炉边的亲人离世。
The friends of early years depart.
少年时期的朋友离去。
And the world that was so sunny, and life that was so sweet, is all beclouded and embittered; the whole scenery of existence changed into wintry gloom.
那曾经阳光明媚的世界，那曾经甜美的生活，如今都蒙上阴霾变得苦涩；整个人生景象都变成了冬日的阴郁。
Such are the saddening, depressing effects of life’s vicissitudes.
这就是人生变迁带来的悲伤和沮丧。
But in the midst of all, “This God is our God FOREVER AND EVER!”
但在这一切之中，”这位神永永远远是我们的神！”
All beings change, but God.
万物都在改变，唯独神不变。
All things change, but Heaven.
万事都在变迁，唯独天堂不变。
The evolutions of time revolve, the events of earth go onward-but He upon whom all things hang, and by whom all events are shaped and controlled, moves not.
时间不断演进，地上的事件持续发生——但那位托住万有、塑造并掌管一切事件的主却永不改变。
“I, the Lord, do not change.”
“我耶和华是不改变的。”
Our affairs may alter.
我们的境遇可能改变。
Our circumstances may change.
我们的环境可能变迁。
Our relations and friends may depart one by one.
我们的亲朋好友可能一个接一个离去。
Our souls in a single day pass through many fluctuations of spiritual feeling.
我们的灵魂在一天之内可能经历多次属灵感受的起伏。
But He who chose us to be His own, and who has kept us to the present moment, is our covenant God and Father forever and ever, and will never throw us off and cast us away.
但那位拣选我们作祂子民、保守我们到如今的神，是我们永远的立约之神和天父，祂永不丢弃我们，永不撇下我们。
“For this God is our God forever and ever-He will be our guide even to the end!” Psalm 48:14
“因为这位神永永远远是我们的神，祂必引导我们到生命的终点！”诗篇48:14