牧者心聲
傷健群體的見證
程續戰牧師
2023 年 8 月 12 日 / 13 日
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「分辨神在你日常生活中的作為，並分享這故事」是今年教會的主題，感恩，有一位導師主動為傷健科設計了紙本的感恩簿，另一位姊妹又幫助我們設計了電子感恩簿，讓團友可以記錄自己的感恩事項。
最初推動弟兄姊妹使用感恩簿時，有些肢體坦言，以為記下的感恩事項必須是一些特別的事，正如一位團友在感恩簿說：
「我一直以為只有發生一些特別的事情才值得感恩，如果一整天都是平淡度過的話，我真的不懂如何寫感恩事項。然而，今天我很感恩，天父忽然讓我覺得寫感恩簿是一件很幸福的事，我自己也不知道為甚麼有這改變，但我為這事感恩。」
那天開始，這位姊妹就成為了電子感恩簿的常客。感謝神，大家的分享激勵了其他肢體也來分享，原來不論事情大小，我們都可以感恩。肢體的分享如下：
「感謝主的看顧，通常週六下午，康澤六樓平台都有不同的車輛使用，但昨天卻很神奇，連一架私家車都沒有，可以讓兩至三輛復康巴士同時間進入平台，所以我們很快便接了團友，讓他們可以快些回家。」
「昨晚打乒乓球，收枱時，整張枱砸在我兩隻手腕上，我馬上去了醫院急症室照 X 光，感恩我的筋骨沒有受傷，只是雙手有些腫痛和少許皮外傷。其實我也不知道為何百多磅的乒乓波枱砸在我的手上，而我竟可以沒有受傷，我的手腕只是皮包骨，根本沒有肌肉去保護手腕骨，多謝神暗中的保護！」
「那天，我和兩個孩子在外用膳後，他們兩個堅持要坐巴士回家，但等了很久都沒有巴士，兩個兒子開始失去耐性，小兒子大叫，哥哥也四圍撞頭 ⋯⋯ 我安撫他們，並提議一起禱告，小兒子大聲禱告：『主啊，我好想坐 85 號巴士回家，等了很久也沒有車，我好不開心，求你幫助我啊。奉主名求，阿們。』好感恩，沒多久，巴士好像從天而降，拯救了我。」
「在 4 月 30 日，我兒子的呼吸機中午時突時停止運作，兒子的臉立即變得蒼白，感恩他能保持呼吸；我們立刻接駁後備呼吸機，兒子的情況就穩定下來，恢復正常的氣息。感謝主！」
藉著以上的分享，我看見了我們的神是一位有能力改變的神，又是一位看顧、保護、聽禱告和拯救我們的主，原來記錄和分享感恩事項是喜樂的泉源。感謝神，因祢有說不盡的恩賜（林後九 15）。
"Discern God's work in your daily life and share the story" is NPAC's theme for this year. We are grateful that one of our counselors has taken the initiative to design a Thanksgiving Book in hard copy format while another sister has helped us design an e-version so that our fellowship members can record things they are grateful for.
When we first encouraged brothers and sisters to use the Thanksgiving Book, some frankly shared that thanksgiving items to be put down in the Book must be something special. One member wrote: "I always thought that only some special events are worth giving thanks. If a day passes just like any other day, I would not know what to write down to give thanks for. But I am very grateful today. Our Heavenly Father helped me discover suddenly that it is a blessing to write down matters of gratitude in the Thanksgiving Book. I have no idea why I changed, but I am really grateful for this."
From that day onwards, this sister became a frequent writer in our Thanksgiving eBook. And thanks be to God, their sharing inspired others to do the same. Indeed, we can give thanks for everything, big or small. Below is the sharing of some brothers and sisters:
"Thank the Lord for watching over us. On Saturday afternoon, usually the podium on 6/F of Fortress Metro Tower is quite busy with various vehicles. But yesterday was miraculous. Not a single car was there, and so two or three of our rehab buses could enter at the same time. We were able to pick up members quickly so that they could go home earlier."
"Last night I played table tennis. While collapsing the table, the entire table closed up on my two wrists. I immediately went to the emergency room at hospital for x-ray. I am thankful that none of my bones were hurt. There were only some bruises on both hands and some external wounds on my skin. I really do not understand why the table, which weighs more than 100 pounds, collapsing on my hands did not cause any major injury. My wrists are really only skin and bones with no muscles to protect the wrist bones. Thank God for protecting me in secret!"
"The other day after eating out with my two children, they insisted on going home by bus. We waited for a long time, but no bus was in sight. My two sons ran out of patience. The younger son yelled, and the elder bumped his head on whatever surface he could reach…I tried to calm them down and suggested that we pray together. The younger son prayed aloud, 'Lord, I wanna take Route 85 bus home. We have waited for so long and still there is no bus. I am very unhappy. I pray You will help me. In Jesus' name. Amen.' I am so thankful that a bus soon came as if it fell from the sky. It saved me."
"On April 30, my son's breathing machine suddenly stopped working at noon. His face immediately turned pale. Thank God he could still breathe. We immediately switched to a backup machine. My son's condition became stable and finally resumed normal breathing. Thank the Lord!"
I can tell from the above sharing that our God is mighty and He can bring about change. He is also the Lord who watches over us, protects us, listens to our prayers and saves us. Recording and sharing what we are thankful for turns out to be a fountain of joy. "Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!" (2 Corinthians 9:15)
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