Remember when I said it all came together for the good? Because of the money shortage, we had changed our schedule for India, but when funding became available, we rescheduled our visit there and actually made it a week earlier.
这项变动可能救了我们的命。离开孟买几天后,我们行程里的三个地点便遭到恐怖分子攻击。那次的恐怖攻击行动总共造成180人丧生,300人受伤。
That change in schedule may well have saved our lives. Just a couple days after we were in Mumbai, three of the locations we visited were hit by terrorists. The Taj Hotel, the airport, and the southern Mumbai train station were among their targets in attacks that killed 180 people and left 300 injured.
若按照原来的计划,我们停留在孟买的时间、地点,正好会遇上恐怖攻击。你可以说我们命大,但我相信上帝对此有着我们无法了解的计划。这就是为何你必须对未来有信心,在即使看来胜算不大时,还是要继续朝着目标前进。
Our original schedule would have had us in Mumbai, at those very locations, during those attacks. You might say we were lucky, but I believe God had a plan that we could not see. That is why it is so important to have faith in the future and to keep working toward your goals even when the odds seem stacked against you.