Honesty and Forgiveness 诚实和宽恕

in #life5 years ago

There is a story about a young worker who killed a duck. When he was taking care of the ducks, he carelessly killed a duck. He immediately dug a hole and buried the duck. He thought that no one had noticed what he did.

That evening, an older worker came ordering him to do something. He refused but that older worker immediately told him that if he refused, he would report the case of dead duck to the boss. He was so afraid and he yielded to the threat. From then on he had to do his own work as well as to carry the workload of his colleague. It was certainly unbearable for him to do two persons’ works everyday. Worse still, he had to live in fear since he was anxious about the dead duck would be exposed.

In the end he went to the boss and confessed the killing of the duck. When the boss came to know about it, he extended his forgiveness to this young worker.

Then the older worker came to threaten him again. But the young worker had already been set free. He told the older worker that he had confessed the dead duck to the boss and he was granted forgiveness. He would not need to do the work of the older worker. The situation then changed dramatically and now the older worker was afraid that the boss would come to know about him having threatened his colleague.

We are living in a world that many people are afraid to be honest of the failure and wrong deed. They assume that by being honest their lives are going to be affected negatively. And they try to hide or defend their wrongs. In the end, they cannot live with integrity nor having a real sense of freedom. Indeed, the freedom comes when we honestly deal with our wrongs. What a freedom when we are forgiven!

有一个关于年轻工人杀死一只鸭子的故事。在他照顾鸭子的时候,他不小心杀死了一只鸭子。他很快的挖了个洞,把鸭子掩埋了;他以为没有人注意到所發生的事。

那一天晚上,较年长的一位工人就来命令他做事;他想要拒绝,但年长的工人立刻警告他,如果他違抗便会向老板报告死鸭子的事,他非常害怕,只好屈服于威胁。从那天起,他不得不做自己的工作並同时承担年长同事的工作。每天做两个人的工作当然非常难以忍受,更糟糕的他还要生活在恐惧中,因为他担心死鸭子会被暴露出来。

最后他去找老板,承認杀死了鸭子。而老板了解这件事,便宽恕了这年轻工人。

当年长的工人再次威胁他的时候,这年轻工人已经释放了,所以他告诉他的同工,他已经向老板承认了自己的过失並获得了宽恕,他不会再屈服于威胁了。情况已经明显的改变,现在反而是年长工人害怕老板会知道他曾经威胁他的同事了。

我们生活在一个许多人会不敢诚实面对自己的失败和错误的世界,他们以为诚实反会受到负面影响。因此,人们会难以旦承自己的错误。他们什至试图隐藏或捍卫他们的错误。结果,造成了不能以诚信生活,也不能拥有真正的自由。事实上,当我们勇于诚实地处理我们的错误时,就能开啓真正自由之门;而当我们被宽恕时,那將是何等的自由呢!

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