GRANDAD'S PRAYERS OF THE EARTH BY DOUGLAS WOOD
ILLUSTRATED BY P.J.LYNCH
如果你問我在工作室整櫃的繪本中, 有哪幾本書是我最喜歡的，那麼這本〝Grandad's Prayers of The Earth, 中譯本：地球的禱告〞會是其中一本我認為一定要分享的繪本。
Douglas 的文字非常的優美, 跟著他的文字以及P.J. Lynch 的插畫讓人可以一同進入爺爺和孫子在散步的過程關於大地的祈禱的對話 ，讓人重新憶起和大地的連結以及關於祈禱的意涵。
這本繪本的文字和意境非常值得細細品嚐,最能夠依照自己的速度感受的方式是手邊有實體書閱讀。
When I was little, my Grandad was my best friend.
Being with him always made the world seem just right.
Grandad and I liked to for walks in the woods together.
We didn't walk very far. Or very fast. Or very straight.
While we walked, I would ask him questions about things I wasn't sure of.
" Why is it, Grandad...?"
And " What if...?"
And " Does it ever...?"
One day I asked my Grandad about prayers.
以下是我很喜歡的一段：
We had walked far enough and Grandad said it was time to go back, but I had one last question.
“Are our prayers answered，Grandad?” I asked.
Grandad smiled. “Most Prayers are not really questions,” he said. “And if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. Like the trees and winds and waters, we pray because we are here-not to change the world, but to change ourselves.
”Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.“
" Bending down to smell a flower can be a prayer, " said my Grandad.
Quietly watching the sunrise, feeling the slow turning of the earth and saying hello to a new day is one of the oldest prayers.
Standing in the snowy woods on a winter day and watching your breath become part of the breath of the world is a way to pray.
Making music or painting a picture can be a prayer.
Holding hands around the table with family and friends, remembering all that holds us together and giving thanks is one of the greatest prayers.
" Sometimes, " said Grandad.
"people pray when they are sad or sick or lonely,or have problem too big to carry by themselves. They may say words they have learned from their fathers
or mothers or grandads or great-grandmothers. But often they must find their own words. The important thing to remember is that the words will always be
right if they are real and true and come from the heart."
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