【天堂來信】色彩絢麗的調色板

天父說：    God said:

你們和我的區別在於我們對於責任的不同感受以及如何在世間履行我們的責任。你們可能會把責任當作沉重的負擔，又或許，對於責任總感覺心情沉甸甸的。你們可能會覺得責任緊壓在肩頭。你們衡量責任的輕重程度， 並發覺它是如此沉重。

One difference between you and Me concerns how We feel about responsibility and the carrying out of responsibility into the world. You may feel responsibility as heavy-duty and, perhaps, feel heavy-hearted altogether. You may feel responsibility clinging to your shoulders. You weigh responsibility, and find it heavy.


或許，你們為了自己的責任而擔心焦慮著，反反覆覆，就像貓和老鼠。你可能認為責任超過了你的負荷。這時，你可能會聳聳肩然後以某種方式推卸掉責任。如果你堅信責任超過你所能承擔，那麼你將要擔負的責任定會如此，而最終你會選擇逃避。

Likely, you worry responsibility back and forth like a cat with a mouse. You may have the idea that responsibility is too much for you. In that case, you may shrug your shoulders and find one way or another to get out of it. If you believe that responsibility is too much for you, then responsibility will be too much for you, and you will shrink from it.


你將責任與煩惱混在了一起。你懷疑並擔憂著你所做的一切是否足夠好，是否得到人們的認同。擔心自己能否做好自己的工作，會不會失敗？

You lump responsibility together with worry. You doubt, you worry about how well you will do and how well you may be thought of. Will you do a job well-done, or will you be a flop at it?


你不願感受到責任不足。你不希望把自己放在需要承擔責任的位置上，所以你會直接拒絕掉責任。你可能會為自己找藉口說："我不是那種喜歡擔負重任的人。在這方面我不擅長。我甚至不想精於此道。"

You don"t want to feel lacking. You don"t want to put yourself in that position, so you may decline responsibility. You may excuse yourself by saying："I"m someone who never liked responsibility. I"m not good at it. I don"t even want to be good at it."

在這場遊戲中，"接納度"並不是生活的全部，但對你們來說卻關係重大。你非常樂於得到超乎預期的讚賞。至少，你不希望被否定。在生活中你可能受到過多的批評，較少被認可。你不僅拒絕某些選擇，還在消磨中度日，表面上看似無憂無慮。

The Game of Life is not all about-approval ratings, yet approval-ratings matter a lot to you. You would love to be appreciated beyond your wildest dreams. At the very least, you don"t want to feel disapproved of. You may well have had too much criticism and too little sanction given to you in life. You not only disallow some choices, you may dribble along in life, seemingly without a care.

如果你什麼都不做，或做的很少，就不用承擔任何失敗，那你也不會被關注。你的注意力都放到了安全區域，給自己的生活畫一個圈並且不越雷池半步。這會使你缺失很多生命體驗。相對於不斷挑戰創新，你可能更喜歡在風平浪靜中安穩度日。

If you don"t do anything, or if you don"t do much, you won"t take a fall for anything, and so you are without attention. Your own attention may go to safe activity, letting yourself skirt your life and just be on the rim. Likely you short-change yourself. You may prefer an uneventful life over an inventive life.


某些人勇於承擔責任，而另一些人逃避責任。你可以自己選擇加入其中一方。

There are those who take responsibility, and there are those who avoid it. You can put yourself into either category as you choose.


對某些人來說，也許是天性使然讓他們選擇承擔責任，喜歡上它並付諸行動，然而某些人最終成為領導者只因為這樣一個事實，即他們克服了恐懼並勇敢的成長為一名領導者。

It may be the nature of some people to choose responsibility and like it and run with it, yet there are those who become leaders by the simple fact that they swallow their fears and dare to become leaders.


你不必成為這個世界的一名重要領導者，你還是可以選擇的。你認為你沒有選擇嗎？

You don"t have to be a vocal leader in the world, yet you have choice. Did you think you had no choice?


原文：http://www.heavenletters.org/a-palette-of-beautiful-colors.html
傳導：Gloria Wendroff 發佈於2016年05月16日
翻譯：紫蝶
校對：天堂豎琴    http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1554109041