■ 真爱 True Love
◎ Julie Parker
An ancient Hebraic text says: “love is as strong as death”. It seems that not everyone experiences this kind of strong love. The increasing poverty, crime and war tells us that the world is in indispensable need of true love. But what is true love?
一篇古代希伯来文说：“爱和死一样强烈”。好像不是每个人都经历过这种强烈的爱。日益增加的贫穷、犯罪和战争告诉我们，这个世界极度需要真爱。 但是，什么又是真爱？
Love is something we all need. But how do we know when we experience it?
爱是我们都需要的东西，但是，我们怎么知道什么时候经历了爱？
True love is best seen as the devotion and action, not an emotion. Love is not exclusively based how we feel. Certainly our emotions are involved. But they cannot be our only criteria for love. True love is when you care enough about another person that you will lay down your life for them. When this happens, then love truly is as strong as death.
真爱最好被看成奉献和行动，而不是情感。爱不完全基于我们的感觉。当然，我们的情感也参与其中，但是，情感不能成为我们对爱的唯一标准。真爱是当你足够关心在乎另一个人，你愿意为他们放弃自己的生命。当这一切发生时，那么爱的确是和死亡一样强烈。
How many of you have a mother, or father, husband or wife, son or daughter or friend who would sacrifice his or her own life on yours? Those of you who truly love your spells but unchildren, would unselfishly lay your life on the line to save them from death? Many people in an emergency room with their loved ones and prayed “please, God, take me instead of them”.
你们当中有多少人的父亲或母亲、丈夫或妻子、儿女或朋友愿意为你牺牲自己的生命？你们当中谁愿意无私地放弃生命来拯救你真正爱着的配偶和孩子，拯救他们脱离死亡？许多人在急救室为他们所爱的人祈祷：“上帝，请让我来代替他们”。
Find true love and be a true lover as well. May you find a love which is not only strong as death, but to leave to a truly for feeling life.
找到真爱，并成为一个真正的爱人。祝愿你找到一种爱——不仅和死亡一样强烈，而且让你真正地感受生命。
