To deal with the meaning of alleluia in life means to deal with moments
that do not feel like alleluia moments at all.
But how is it possible to say alleluia to the parts of life that weigh us down,
that drain our spirits dry, that seem to deserve anything but praise?
Life, after all, is a struggle, a journey in uncharted space,
an exercise in both gain and loss, joy and sorrow.
No life consists of nothing but success and satisfaction, security and self-gratification.
Failure and disappointment, loss and pain are natural parts of the human equation.
인생에는 갈등과 고통이 꼭 당연히 있다.
피할 수도 없고 외면할 수도 없다.
좋은 것과 나쁜 것, 높은 것과 낮은 것,더러운 것과 깨끗한 것.
인생은 역설적이다.
항상 상반대는 두가지를 함께 가지고 가기 때문이다.
낯설고 익숙하지 않은 곳으로 걸어 들어 가는 것이 인생이다.
새로운 것, 다른 것을 환영하자.
Alleluia is not a substitute for reality.
It is simply the awareness of another whole kind of reality—beyond the immediate,
beyond the delusional, beyond the instant perception of things.
The word is an injunction to praise, a call to the people to summon up praise in themselves.
It is a challenge to see in life more than is seeable in any single moment and to trust it.
찬양과 감사는 내 삶 속에서 일어난 일들 뒤에 숨겨진 있는 의미를 발견하는 것이다.
Directive: Sing his name with all my heart.
Dig deep into my heart.
Not just a superficial praise but meaningful one.
See beyond the event.
Sing beyond the format.
Every segment of life is both gift and challenge, both endowment and responsibility.
It is the warp and woof of the fabric we call time.
The delicate interplay between the two has the power to rock us back
and forth between total confidence and abject despair.
We lurch through life between doubt and faith, between security and cloying uncertainty,
between the enrichment that comes from differences and the divisions that comes from fear.
It is learning to cling to a sense of alleluia for both that carries us through life to that moment
when everything in us has come to fullness and our only next step is immersion in God.
Understanding the relationship between what is now and what is meant to become in us.
Learning, Education.
배움이란 끝이 없다.
배우기를 멈추는 순간, 나는 교만해 지는 것이고 후퇴하는 것이다.
배움을 멈춘다는 것은 사라을 멈추고 살아 있기를 포기하는 것이다.
배움은 새로운 것을 경험하는데서 온다.
새로운 것을 경험한다는 것은 기쁠 때도 있지만 슬플 때도 있다.
새로운 것, 다른 것, 배우는 것.
