失袜博客由来
Original: https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-lost-sock.html
日期： 2019-06-30
上周有人问我，为什么我的博客名叫“失袜”（The Lost Sock）。于是，我得以分享自己见证的一部分。我曾热衷于收藏袜子猴。后来某天，我在一家古董店发现了一只非常凄凉、老旧又脏兮兮的袜子玩偶。我竟对这个可怜的小家伙产生了奇异的爱意——可它的标价却高得令人咋舌！后来，凯瑟琳·西顿（Kathryn Seaton）出其不意地把它当作礼物送给了我。我视若珍宝。它启发我用那些遗失的袜子亲手制作出一个个甜美而忧伤的玩偶。我持续做了好一阵子。
大约在2009年一个夜晚（此前数月，我已在灵性上觉醒），上帝于深夜将我从睡梦中唤醒。祂呼召我起身，带着日记本前往另一间屋子。我躺在地板上——那地方日后将成为婴儿房——静心聆听上帝的话语。祂向我启示了一个故事的构思。我当即把它记录下来……
这是一个关于失落与绝望之物的故事……一只“失袜”。在世人眼中，它毫无实际用途，也毫无价值。但对一位满有盼望、富于创造力的上帝儿女而言，它却拥有极其特别的使命！或许这使命并非世人所认定的；或许它并非原本被设计去承担的用途；然而，正因为它不幸失去了自己的另一半，才由此开启了一段更宏大的故事。当上帝的话语被诵读，生命便注入这只袜子之中；当这位孩童朗读真理之声，袜子便获得了生命与灵性！它生出了翅膀，得以成就远超自身想象之事！
倘若我们人人都能拥有孩童般的远见——为那些失落之人满怀盼望；
倘若我们真能帮助他人看见上帝所看见的；
倘若我们真能借着分享真理、道与爱，去激励他人，点亮他们的生命——
倘若……
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失袜博客由来
Original: https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-lost-sock.html
Date: 2019-06-30
Somebody asked me why my blog is called The Lost Sock last week. So I got to share a part of my testimony. I used to collect sock monkeys. Then I found this very sad, old and dirty sock doll at an antique store one day. I fell strangely in love with the poor thing, but it was proudly priced! Kathryn Seaton surprised me with it for a gift later. I treasured it. It inspired me to make my own sweet sad dolls from lost socks. I did this for a while.
One night, around 2009, (after I had been spiritually awakened months earlier), God woke me up from my sleep late at night. He called me to get up and bring my journal to the other room. I laid on the floor of what would one day be a nursery, and listened to God speak. He revealed an idea of a story to me. I wrote it down...
It was a story of something lost and hopeless... a Lost Sock. To the world it had no real purpose or worth. But to a creative child of God, filled with hope, it did have a very special purpose! Maybe not what others If the world would think. Maybe not what it was thought to be used for, but it’s unfortunate loss of its mate led it to a greater story. When life was breathed into this sock by the reading of God’s word, the voice of this child reading truth gave it life and spirit! It had wings to do more than it had ever imagined!
If only we all had the vision of a child full of hope for others who are lost. If only we could make them see what God sees. If only we could encourage others by sharing the truth, the Word and light up their lives with love.
If only...
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