感恩主日崇拜聽道心得：
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“罰你三天不可以出去玩！
還有，明天開始跟我一起準備晚餐！”
家中有小孩的父母都知道，
餐桌如戰場，
同樣的戲碼每一天都在餐桌上演。
大兒子挑食的問題，
常常搞得老子火冒三丈。
吃一餐要費時一小時以上，
這個不吃， 那個不吃就算了， 還嫌食物不好吃！
搞得人家以為我們夫妻倆在虐兒，
害兒子瘦骨如材。
為了解決兒子「挑」和「拖」的問題，
我軟硬兼施。
說教的方式，
收買的方式，
處罰的方式，
禁食的方式，
通通都無效！
心力交瘁的我，
也不曉得那根筋不對， 烙下狠話：“明天開始跟我一起準備晚餐！”
隔天傍晚，
鄰家小孩來敲門找兒子玩，
我說他要煮飯。
“為什麼我不可以出去玩？”
“那為什麼不是你煮飯， 我出去玩？”
兒子沒話說，乖乖跟我到廚房去。
我一個指令，他一個動作。
洗米，打蛋， 剝蒜， 洗菜， 切菜， 削蘿蔔。。。
“拿刀的方式錯了，你要切到自己嗎？”
“要輕輕敲打雞蛋殼，別太用。。。力。。。你看！不是才剛說不要太用力嗎？”
“人家第一次敲雞蛋嘛！”
我開瓦斯，點火，倒油在平底鍋裡；
他按順序丟食材，炒菜。。。
“鏟子不是這樣握， 是這樣握！”
“炒菜的動作不是這樣， 是這樣！”
“鹽巴拿來，撒一點點。。。水！水！倒水！”
終於，菜煮好了，蛋蒸好了，飯也好了。
上桌！
“今天我給你三十分鐘，看你吃得完嗎。”
結果，
不到十五分鐘，兒子把飯菜給吃完了。
我傻眼。
看來我誤打誤撞，
撞出了一個調教兒子的方式。
那就是讓他親身去體驗準備飯菜的過程，
方能體會箇中滋味。
這個方式比用說的有效千萬倍！
仔細想想，
人與人之間的互動不就是這樣嗎？
有人埋怨父母不關心自己，
等自己為人父母了，才明白父母有多難為；
有人埋怨老師的教課能力，
等自己真的去教了， 才明白孩子有多難教；
有人埋怨政府的辦事不力，
等自己有機會參政，才明白人民有多難搞；
有人埋怨牧者的牧養模式，
等自己有機會牧養，才明白教會有多難帶；
有人埋怨領袖的領導風格，
等自己有機會上位，才明白領袖有多難當；
有人埋怨教會的規定政策，
等自己有機會參與， 才明白政策有多難定；
有人埋怨上司的尖酸刻薄，
等自己有機會創業，才明白員工有多難管。
有人埋怨丈夫，太太， 男友，女友，鄰居。。。
諸如此類的例子不勝枚舉⋯⋯
有的時候，
只要一個簡單的換位思考，
就有多一點點的體諒包容。
肯定的是，
換位思考是雙向，而非單向的。
睡前，我問兒子：
“自己炒的菜好吃嗎？”
兒子靦腆地點點頭。
“Pastor, you can climb up to see the traditional bell of our church if you want.” Bro Teo suggested.
“Really? Sure!” With curiosity and wanting to have a glimpse of the traditional bell hidden in a small attic on the top floor of the church, I grabbed a ladder and climbed up to the attic of the church prayer room. After all, having heard the bell ring for two years, I have never really seen it with my own eyes. To be honest, I was attracted by the traditional church bell immediately when I looked up at it hanging on the top floor of the church. Watching it sway from side to side, making a loud noise, so clean, simple and calming and divine.
“I must take some good photos of it with a good camera.” I said to myself.
After a few days, I brought brother Hii Yiuk Choon to the attic of the prayer room. When planning to take some photos from a distance under the bell, we noticed there was a long ladder reaching the small attic where the bell was situated. In order to get a better view, we decided to have an “adventure” by climbing up to the top of the attic.
With much care, we reached the small attic room at the top of the church building successfully. Lo and behold! What we saw at that moment was a breath-taking traditional church bell. I was excited inexplicably by just standing in front of the traditional bell and scrutinize it in zero distance, it felt like time had frozen and that moment was all that’s left, for eternity.
The top pin of the bell is firmly anchored to a solid bell yoke, and the bell canon consists of six miniature human heads. Besides the flowery design that was engraved on the surface of the bell and the inscription of 「ACHILLE MAZZOLA FUSE VALDUGGIA VERCELLI」, the most memorable and distinctive part of the bell is the inscription「WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, SIBU; SPRING 1984」. It turns out that this traditional church bell has been placed here for 36 years.
Thanks to Rev Dr Su Chii Ann for his good recollection as to why or how it came about. Rev Su was the PIC of WMC in 1983-1984 when the present Wesley Methodist Church building project was in progress. Mr Wilson Chang Jih Ren was the architect who did our church drawings. His late father Mr Chang Ching Chii was instrumental in the supervision of the entire building project on a volunteer basis. The late senior Chang wanted very much to look for a church bell for WMC, so he asked his good friend the late Mr Lau Hieng Hie to source it. By God’s grace, Mr Lau found one in UK. Mr Chang Ching Muo, Wilson Chang’s third uncle donated the bell to Wesley Methodist Church Sibu.
Gazing at the traditional church bell in front of me, I felt like I was standing in the torrent of history.
I can only imagine,
How did this bell travel this far from England to Sibu?
How many expectations, dreams, missions and love have been carried by this bell?
How many people have been called to worship by this bell?
How silently has this bell been witnessing the joy and sorrow of this church?
How has this bell fulfilled its mission in loneliness but faithfully for the past 36 years?
Today,
This bell is still emitting a loud sound every Sunday, trying to wake the sleeping generation up and return to the house of God.
Let the church bell continue to ring…
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Note： According to the result of searching online, it seems like「ACHILLE MAZZOLA FUSE VALDUGGIA VERCELLI」 is the name of the bell manufacturer.
“牧師， 你可以爬上去看我們教堂的古鐘啊。”張永聯弟兄如此建議。
“真的嗎？好啊！” 我抓著梯子，好奇地爬上教堂二樓禱告室的閣樓，想一窺藏在教堂頂樓小閣樓裡的古鐘。畢竟聽了兩年的鐘聲，卻從來沒有真正見過其廬山真面目。當我抬頭仰望高掛在教堂頂樓的古鐘時，頓時被這口古舊的鐘所吸引。看著它左右搖擺，發出震耳的響聲，如此響亮， 清脆， 乾淨，簡單，沈穩又不失神聖。
“一定要用相機好好拍照存檔。”我當時是這麼想的。
幾天後， 我帶著許毓俊弟兄爬上禱告室的閣樓去給古鐘拍照。原本只是計畫遠距離地在古鐘底下拍幾張照片存檔就好， 卻發現閣樓處有一個爬上安置古鐘小閣樓的長梯。為了拍攝，我們決定“冒險”爬上頂樓。
根據1983-1984年在衛斯理堂擔任主理牧師的蘇慈安牧師回憶，當年新教堂的建築工程正如火如荼地進行。新教堂的設計師是張濟仁弟兄， 他的父親（已故張經樞）自願擔任建築工程的督工。他非常想替衛斯理堂找一口鐘，就委託在英國的好友（已故劉賢惠）幫忙。在神的帶領下，他順利找到了一個合適的鐘。最終已故張經樞的弟弟（張經模）願意奉獻古鐘給詩巫衛斯理堂。
凝視著眼前的古鐘，感覺自己就站在歷史的洪流中。
我只能想像當年，
這口鐘是如何從英國長途跋涉來到詩巫的？
這口鐘承載了多少人的期待， 夢想， 使命和愛心？
這口鐘的鐘聲曾呼喚過多少人來朝見神？
這口鐘如何默默地見證了這個教會的喜怒哀樂？
這口鐘在過去三十六年來如何孤獨且忠心地履行它的使命？
今天，
這口鐘依然在每主日發出洪亮的鐘聲，試圖去喚醒這個沈睡的世代，回到上帝的家中。
讓教堂的鐘聲繼續響起吧。。。
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（備註：上網查了「ACHILLE MAZZOLA FUSE VALDUGGIA VERCELLI」的資料，翻譯後得知，這似乎是廠商的名稱。 ）
