To Be a Theologian of the Cross

如果沒有上帝旨意之意識的話，那麼我們的生活將被窄化淪落為物質世界而已。我們就像是個盤據在自己財產上頭的守財奴，從來沒看過天空。的確，我們不斷地窄化我們的牢籠，只以我們的想像來看待每件事情。

但是一旦我們明白了事物的偉大乃是上帝愛的表現，我們看到並且活出它們的聖禮性價值，那麼我們就得著釋放，成為一個更大的無期徒刑囚徒：永恆的風吹拂著我們，而無垠的天空是我們的家，並且我們也要在無盡的山嶺中奔跑。

Without the sense of God's Will we narrow down our lives to the material world. We are like misers crouching over their hoards and never seeing the skies; indeed we may narrow our prison still further, seeing in everything only the image of ourselves.

But once we are made aware of the greatness of events as expressions of God's love, once we see and live their sacramental value, then we liberated into a greater lifer; the winds of eternity blow about us, and the infinite skies are our home, and we too walk the eternal hills.

Gerald Vann