我看见阳光冲破云雾

I have seen the sun break through

照亮了一小块田地

to illuminate a small field

一会儿，我继续赶路

for a while, and gone my way

并忘了它。但那却是

and forgotten it. But that was the

重价的珍珠，一块藏着

pearl of great price, the one field that had

宝贝的田地*。现在我意识到，

treasure in it. I realise now

我必须交出我所有的一切

that I must give all that I have

去得到它。人生不是匆匆

to possess it. Life is not hurrying

奔向一个后退着的未来，也不是渴望

on to a receding future, nor hankering after

一个想象的过去。人生是转过

an imagined past. It is the turning

脸，像摩西朝向那个神迹

aside like Moses to the miracle

那燃烧的荆棘*，朝向一个光明

of the lit bush, to a brightness

它看似短暂如你曾经的青春

that seemed as transitory as your youth

但却是等候着你的那个永恒。

once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

译注：

*1.关于“重价的珍珠”和“藏宝的田地”，典出马太第十三章。

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls,who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.(Matthew13:44-46 NKJV)

*2.关于“摩西”看见“燃烧的荆棘”，典出出埃及记第三章。

And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. (Exodus3:2 NKJV)