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行在主路上 楊景釗弟兄感恩見証分享(二)

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「我們一生的年日是七十歲,若是強壯可到八十,但其中所矜誇的,不過是勞苦愁煩,轉眼成空,我們便如飛而去。」(詩篇九十:十)	
	有了創造主,關於人生的問題不再向『人』尋問,而是改向『上帝』!首先,人在上帝眼中處於什麼位置呢?根據《聖經—創世記》,上帝用了五天時間以言語創造了萬物,包括一切的活物。然後,上帝用了一天,按祂自己的形象,以地上的泥土用祂的手,造了人的模式,並在他的鼻孔吹入一口氣,有靈的活人便是如此造出來。這個人具備了上帝賜與的智慧與能力,所以人能管理整個世界。
	世界樣龐大,自然需要大量不同的人,才能完成整個管理工作。事實上,所有人都是平等。
	那麼人為什麼活著呢?可以分為兩大類理由:	
	●人當盡人在世上的責任,每一個人生存在世上一定負有不同的工作;此外,在人生的歷程中亦不斷承擔不同的身份。 	
	● 作為神的兒女,在神的國度裡亦當盡人子的責任。那麼人如何方能達到上帝的要求呢?每一個人的能力與意願上帝都好清楚,所以祂的要求很簡單:就是敬畏神,謹守祂的誡命,這是人所當盡的本分。


盡本分 	
	「生老病死」是人的必然,無可逃避。研究『死』的人不少,追尋死後何處去的人更多。雖然我曾經看過這一類專書,或者他們的見解太深奧,超越了我有限的思維。
	上文曾提到我有閱讀有關人體結構的參考書,記得其中有一篇是談到血液裡的血小板,我節錄了一些資料:當一個人受傷開始流血時,血小板會聚集起來「塞住」破洞,然後「自體瓦解」釋出化學物質啟動凝血作用。很明顯血小板一定有個訊息接收器,所以當人體某地方破損時,而人體總中樞發出指令之後,血小板便去「塞住」那破洞。與此同時又會釋出化學物質去凝固血液,所以血不會不停地再流。另一問題,就是血小板的壽命平均是五至十一天,隨時由骨髓補充。
	當日,看完了該書《人,美妙的傑作》關於血小板的介紹,我不得不停下來想一個問題:「當我受傷時,我有向血小板下達任何指令嗎?」當然很清楚我沒有這樣做,因為還只是那一刻我才認識血小板多一點點而已。	
魂 	
	究竟除了我之外,誰下指令呢?而我更加相信我那異常複雜的身體,可能每天都有些變化,而管控血小板那個總中樞,一定同樣地肩負著發出指令的任務,讓身體作出正常運作。我發現了原來除我以外,還有另外一個我,而這個『另外的一個我』比諸『我』更加瞭解『我』。 	
	在神學書裡面,神學家指人是有「靈魂」的,其中「靈」是與造物主連系,而「魂」是管控人體的運作。靈魂之說,我自認識血小板之後便深信不移。原來,人的肉體必然會毀滅,但靈魂不屬肉體,所以依然存在。 	
天國居所 	
	人死後何去呢?耶穌在經上說:「在我父的家裡,有許多住處。若是沒有,我就早已告訴你們了。我去原是為你們預備地方去。」(約翰福音十四:二)	
有歷練人生的人,相信對下列描繪會有強烈感受:	
	●人生有如白駒過隙,轉迅即逝。 	
	● 經上說:「我們一生的年日是七十歲,若是強壯可到八十,但其中所矜誇的,不過是勞苦愁煩,轉眼成空,我們便如飛而去。」(詩篇九十:十)環顧世界各地,不是戰爭,便是隨時一觸即發的戰爭,又或是政治的鬥爭,凡此種種,用『勞苦愁煩』來形容,可謂非常貼切,而人的生命轉瞬即逝,亦確實如此!如此日子確是帶來異常灰暗的人生。
	不過,相信你曾經到過各地旅遊,無論你所去何處,住什麼酒店,你祗是一個旅居他地的旅客,最後還是要回到你的老家。原來,我們今天所在的世界,只是旅居之地。聖經常常提醒我們,我們不過是一個『過客』。你的老家就是上文耶穌為你預備的地方。
	『信』,是人渴望擁有,但不容易得到的東西,聖經對『信』是這樣說:信就是「對所盼望的事的把握,是還沒有看見的事的明證。」(希伯來書十一:一)	
 	朋友:當你相信上帝是創造人和萬物的創造主時,那麼你便應相信上帝所給予我們的一切。 	(全文完)
神與我同在	
     陳翠華姊妹感恩見証分享	
你要以你的訓言引導我,以後必接我到榮耀裡。除你以外,在天上我有誰呢?除你以外,在地上我也沒有所愛慕的。我的肉體和我的心腸衰殘,但神是我心裡的力量,又是我的福分,直到永遠。(詩篇七十三:二十四至二十六)	
	
	二○二○年十月十八日星期日,吃過午飯後,我的先生如常一樣出去散步,然後午睡,起床後吃了酸牛奶,一切很正常。下午三點半左右,先生突然覺得有點冷,於是就穿上毛衣,但還是覺得很冷,就再穿上一件薄羽絨服。	
	過了一會兒,他開始全身發抖。我深知大事不妙,一定是發高熱了。果然一探熱是華氏三十七度六,於是馬上吃「TYLENOL」退燒藥,並上床休息。但蓋了被子還一直發抖。到了晚上七點多,再探熱是華氏三十八度六,怎麼辦好呢?星期天家庭醫生不開診,去醫院覺得不安全(因為前段時間公寓裡有老人去醫院後,反而感染了新冠病毒而去世)。怎麼辦呢?	
	記起聖經中上帝的話語:「你不要害怕,因為我與你同在;不要驚惶,因為我是你的上帝。我必堅固你,我必幫助你;我必用我公義的右手扶持你。」(以賽亞書四十一:十)神的話給了我力量,改變了我過去對疫病害怕、惶恐的心理,就馬上打電話通知孫女,她和男朋友立刻去藥房買了一種效力較強些的退燒藥送來。先生吃了一次強力退燒藥後,在午夜時,高熱開始退了一些,再吃了一次「TYLENOL」退燒藥後,天亮時就退熱了。	
	第二天起床後,發現先生的尿液顏色很深而量又少,我猜想可能是他的泌尿系統有問題。早上九點後,便打電話到家庭醫生診所,醫生聽到先生發過高熱,不論退熱已否,一定要去做病毒檢測。
	於是女兒和孫女很快就找到了一個檢測點,我們便飛車前去。來到檢測點,只見到工作人員,沒有見到一個要檢測的人,我們覺得很安全,害怕感染到病毒的恐懼,頓時消失了,很快就做完了檢測。回到家後,我便立刻聯繫了先生的泌尿科醫生,並約好了星期二上午九點見醫生,一切都很順利。	
	在星期一那一天,雖然沒有見到醫生,由於大量喝水,尿液增多了,顏色也淡了很多。星期二早上,得知病毒檢測的結果是陰性。見過泌尿科醫生,吃了消炎藥,情況好了很多。
	我很高興在這裡分享,因為我真是感受到神的恩典!先生從發高熱到退熱,尿液從少到增多,從尿液從濁到清,檢測到診病,一切都很順利。這就是神的恩賜!一切榮耀歸於神!

	        二○二二年七月九日	
	
	

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    An example provided by Irwin at Dartmouth College points to one plausible explanation — and it has to do with the steeper cost of imported goods.

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    A study by the Federal Reserve Board found that a rise in input costs resulting from US tariff hikes in 2018-19 led to job losses in American manufacturing. The damage from those higher expenses was compounded by retaliatory taxes on US exports, more than offsetting a small boost to manufacturing employment from US tariffs — at least so far, the 2024 paper said.

    Retaliation by other countries is indeed another danger of pulling the tariff lever. Higher tariffs on American exports would typically raise their prices for foreign consumers, hitting demand for the goods in many cases.

    When Trump announced new tariffs this year, America’s major trading partners were quick to strike back with their own levies, although the US then agreed a temporary truce with China and the European Union.

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    While economists generally agree that free trade has benefited the global economy in recent decades, they acknowledge that it comes with certain costs.

    One is the loss of jobs in communities that are particularly exposed to new competition from foreign manufacturers.

    That is similar to the impact of technological progress on workers. “Manufacturing jobs as a share of the labor force have come down everywhere. It isn’t a US-specific story,” said Gimber at JPMorgan Asset Management, pointing to automation.

    He drew a parallel between helping workers affected by higher imports and what is known as a just transition — the idea that the drastic changes needed to move toward a greener economy should be fair to everyone and minimize harm to workers and communities.

    In both cases, providing workers in impacted industries with new skills or retraining them could be key, Gimber said.

    Another potential cost of free trade is dependency on far-flung manufacturers. That took on new relevance during the pandemic, which snarled global supply chains, contributing to shortages of products such as face masks and respirators in the US and elsewhere.

    However, economists do not typically see tariffs as a good way to build up domestic manufacturing, Fatas at INSEAD said, noting that subsidies for specific industries are viewed as a better tool “because they work more directly.”

    But perhaps the strongest argument in favor of free trade is its importance to maintaining peace between nations.

    As Gimber’s colleague David Kelly noted in March, closer trade relations give countries more to lose in any conflict.

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    Jones says that when kids play with dolls that have mobility challenges, for example, it helps them identify and understand the struggles of people with disabilities whom they meet in real life.
    “Barbie in a wheelchair cannot use the doll’s house in their kindergarten classroom, so they have to build a ramp in order for her to be able to access the door to their doll’s house, for example,” said Jones, who lives with cerebral palsy.

    When she started her work incorporating disabled dolls into school curricula, Jones said, there were few available for purchase. She mostly had to make them herself. Now, she can buy them from big companies like Lego and Mattel, “which is wonderful.”
    Mazreku says the work to design the doll was well worth it. She recently got to bring one home to give to her 3-year-old daughter.

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    The tall, bearded Mainer is an engineer on an offshore oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico. But when it came time for him to build a home in Southern Maine, Goodson largely bypassed fossil fuels.
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    Emergency crews carried out at least 85 swift water rescues in the Ruidoso area, including of people who were trapped in their homes and cars, said Danielle Silva of the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

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    Crawford said that some people were taken to the hospital, although the exact number was not immediately clear. He encouraged residents to call an emergency line if their loved ones or neighbors were missing.
    The floods came just days after flash floods in Texas killed over 100 people and left more than 160 people missing.

    In New Mexico, officials urged residents to seek higher ground Tuesday afternoon as the waters of the Rio Ruidoso rose nearly 19 feet in a matter of minutes amid heavy rainfall. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings in the area, which was stripped of vegetation by recent wildfires.

    A weather service flood gauge and companion video camera showed churning waters of the Rio Ruidoso surge over the river’s banks into surrounding forest. Streets and bridges were closed in response.

    Kaitlyn Carpenter, an artist in Ruidoso, was riding her motorcycle through town Tuesday afternoon when the storm started to pick up, and she sought shelter at the riverside Downshift Brewing Company with about 50 other people. She started to film debris rushing down the Rio Ruidoso when she spotted a house float by with a familiar turquoise door. It belonged to the family of one of her best friends.

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    The area has been especially vulnerable to flooding since the summer of 2024, when the South Fork and Salt fires raced across tinder-dry forest and destroyed an estimated 1,400 homes and structures. Residents were forced to flee a wall of flames, only to grapple with intense flooding later that summer.

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    The study’s focus on 12 cities makes it just a snapshot of the true heat wave death toll across the continent, which researchers estimate could be up to tens of thousands of people.
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    “Heatwaves don’t leave a trail of destruction like wildfires or storms,” said Ben Clarke, a study author and a researcher at Imperial College London. “Their impacts are mostly invisible but quietly devastating — a change of just 2 or 3 degrees Celsius can mean the difference between life and death for thousands of people.”
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    The world must stop burning fossil fuels to stop heat waves becoming hotter and deadlier and cities need to urgently adapt, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. “Shifting to renewable energy, building cities that can withstand extreme heat, and protecting the poorest and most vulnerable is absolutely essential,” she said.

    Akshay Deoras, a research scientist at the University of Reading who was not involved in the analysis, said “robust techniques used in this study leave no doubt that climate change is already a deadly force in Europe.”

    Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading who was also not involved in the report, said the study added to huge amounts of evidence that climate change is making heat waves more intense, “meaning that moderate heat becomes dangerous and record heat becomes unprecedented.”

    It’s not just heat that’s being supercharged in out hotter world, Allan added. “As one part of the globe bakes and burns, another region can suffer intense rainfall and catastrophic flooding.”

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    The visitors who trek to America’s national parks are already noticing the changes, just months after President Donald Trump took office.

    “I’ve been visiting national parks for 30 years and never has the presence of rangers been so absent,” one visitor to Zion National Park wrote in National Park Service public feedback obtained by CNN.

    The visitor said they saw just one trail crew at the iconic Utah park. There were no educational programs offered at any of the five parks they visited on their trip.
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    At Yosemite, another visitor said there were no rangers at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir entrance station, preventing visitors from picking up wilderness permits.

    “More staff would be a BIG and IMPORTANT improvement,” that visitor wrote.
    America’s most treasured national parks are getting crunched by Trump’s government-shrinking layoffs just as the summer travel season gets into full swing.
    Top officials vowed to hire thousands of seasonal employees to pick up the slack after the Trump administration fired around 1,000 NPS employees as part of wide-ranging federal firings known as the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Department of Interior officials said in a February memo they would aim to hire 7,700 seasonal workers at NPS, and post listings for 9,000 jobs.

    But those numbers haven’t materialized ahead July 4th — the parks’ busiest time of the year. Internal National Park Service data provided to CNN by the National Parks Conservation Association shows that about 4,500 seasonal and temporary staff have been hired.

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    Goodson, the homeowner in Maine, was able to save big money with his engineering background and penchant for DIY. He installed a rooftop solar system and electrical improvements himself, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process. He wound up spending around $500,000 in all, which he estimates was $200,000 less than he otherwise would have.
    “It’s a big number to swallow, I’m not making light of that at all, but it’s not that far out of what’s reasonable,” Goodson told CNN. It’s also not considering the long-term savings he will experience with no utility bills.

    He was also able to take advantage of federal tax credits that reduced the cost of his rooftop solar, which saved him more than $10,000 on his panels. Those tax credits are now endangered with House Republicans’ tax bill.

    “That was huge,” he said. “It’s fairly unfortunate they’re looking at doing away with it.”

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