“他们必如鹰展翅上腾。”（赛40章31节）
相传有一个寓言，说鸟类最初被造的时候，是没有翅膀的。神将翅膀造好了放在它们面前，对它们说：“来，戴起这些翅膀来。”
那时的鸟类也有丰美的羽毛和悦耳的歌喉；它们能唱悠扬的乐歌，它们的羽毛能在日光下放光，只是它们不能翱翔空中。神吩咐它们戴起翅膀来的时候，它们起初还不大愿意，但是不久就服从了，用嘴尖啄起翅膀来，安在肩头上。
起初，肩头上的担子似乎很重，背着也很费力，但是不一会，它们将翅膀展开，觉察了利用翅膀的方法，于是就能高飞空中——啊，重担变成了翅膀！
读者，这是一个比喻，我们就是那些无翅的小鸟，我们的工作和职务是神替我们预备带领我们向天的翅翼。我们也顶会望着我们面前的重担畏缩；但是只要我们一挑起那担子来，它们便会变成我们的翅膀，藉着它们我们便能飞向神去。
如果我们高高兴兴地用爱心负起一切重担来，我告诉你，没有一件重担不能变成我们的福祉。神原命定我们的工作来做我们的帮助的。
They shall mount up with wings as eagles (Isaiah 40:31).
There is a fable about the way the birds got their wings at the beginning. They were first made without wings. Then God made the wings and put them down before the wingless birds and said to them, "Come, take up these burdens and bear them."
The birds had lovely plumage and sweet voices; they could sing, and their feathers gleamed in the sunshine, but they could not soar in the air. They hesitated at first when bidden to take up the burdens that lay at their feet, but soon they obeyed, and taking up the wings in their beaks, laid them on their shoulders to carry them.
For a little while the load seemed heavy and hard to bear, but presently, as they went on carrying the burdens, folding them over their hearts, the wings grew fast to their little bodies, and soon they discovered how to use them, and were lifted by them up into the air -- the weights became wings.
It is a parable. We are the wingless birds, and our duties and tasks are the pinions God has made to lift us up and carry us heavenward. We look at our burdens and heavy loads, and shrink from them; but as we lift them and bind them about our hearts, they become wings, and on them we rise and soar toward God.
There is no burden which, if we lift it cheerfully and bear it with love in our hearts, will not become a blessing to us. God means our tasks to be our helpers; to refuse to bend our shoulders to receive a load, is to decline a new opportunity for growth.
--J. R. Miller
Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders.
--F. W. Faber
相传有一个寓言，说鸟类最初被造的时候，是没有翅膀的。神将翅膀造好了放在它们面前，对它们说：“来，戴起这些翅膀来。”
那时的鸟类也有丰美的羽毛和悦耳的歌喉；它们能唱悠扬的乐歌，它们的羽毛能在日光下放光，只是它们不能翱翔空中。神吩咐它们戴起翅膀来的时候，它们起初还不大愿意，但是不久就服从了，用嘴尖啄起翅膀来，安在肩头上。
起初，肩头上的担子似乎很重，背着也很费力，但是不一会，它们将翅膀展开，觉察了利用翅膀的方法，于是就能高飞空中——啊，重担变成了翅膀！
读者，这是一个比喻，我们就是那些无翅的小鸟，我们的工作和职务是神替我们预备带领我们向天的翅翼。我们也顶会望着我们面前的重担畏缩；但是只要我们一挑起那担子来，它们便会变成我们的翅膀，藉着它们我们便能飞向神去。
如果我们高高兴兴地用爱心负起一切重担来，我告诉你，没有一件重担不能变成我们的福祉。神原命定我们的工作来做我们的帮助的。
They shall mount up with wings as eagles (Isaiah 40:31).
There is a fable about the way the birds got their wings at the beginning. They were first made without wings. Then God made the wings and put them down before the wingless birds and said to them, "Come, take up these burdens and bear them."
The birds had lovely plumage and sweet voices; they could sing, and their feathers gleamed in the sunshine, but they could not soar in the air. They hesitated at first when bidden to take up the burdens that lay at their feet, but soon they obeyed, and taking up the wings in their beaks, laid them on their shoulders to carry them.
For a little while the load seemed heavy and hard to bear, but presently, as they went on carrying the burdens, folding them over their hearts, the wings grew fast to their little bodies, and soon they discovered how to use them, and were lifted by them up into the air -- the weights became wings.
It is a parable. We are the wingless birds, and our duties and tasks are the pinions God has made to lift us up and carry us heavenward. We look at our burdens and heavy loads, and shrink from them; but as we lift them and bind them about our hearts, they become wings, and on them we rise and soar toward God.
There is no burden which, if we lift it cheerfully and bear it with love in our hearts, will not become a blessing to us. God means our tasks to be our helpers; to refuse to bend our shoulders to receive a load, is to decline a new opportunity for growth.
--J. R. Miller
Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders.
--F. W. Faber