英文原版图书-《GOD》平安夜的睡前故事

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Do not fear, I am here,

And I love you my dear,

For tomorrow will be bright!

说来都是有故事的人,母亲是虔诚的基督教徒，四十多年前我的外婆常年生病，一日梦见一位穿着白衣服的洋人，拿着十字架，跟外婆祷告，醒来后外婆将梦说给母亲听，正在学习英文的母亲说，这不是基督吗？后来外婆开始成为虔诚的基督徒，病也就渐渐的好了。

如今外婆已经过世，而这关于一个庞大的家族和基督的故事就以这样的方式被延续。

唯物主义的父亲和母亲，也不会排斥自己是基督教徒的说法，家族中很多人受到外婆的影响，也就基本都信仰了基督。从我读大学时候开始，每次回家离家，甚至工作后很多年母亲知道我又要出差远行，都会祷告上一段，女儿也会学着母亲的样子，细细碎碎的念叨着。

在江苏农村的很多地方，大家都是基督教堂，我的公公婆婆如今也是虔诚的一员，每年到了圣诞节这一天，都会以家族的名义给基督教堂捐赠，以祈求来年的平安喜乐。

而在城市，圣诞节更像是一个欢喜的节日，这一天人们相互赠送礼物，孩子们期盼着圣诞爷爷的礼物，而我们在忙碌和这些人情的交际之间，似乎忘记了这一天的来由，这一天我们到底要感谢什么？

我们似乎都太浮躁了，浮躁都没有时间静下来听自己内心的感受，在这样的一个夜晚，推荐给大家这本原版英文绘本《god》,希望能带孩子最初的认识，神到底是什么样的存在，或者在这样亲子互动的过程中，感受这繁花似锦或凄冷落寞，而故事中表达的温暖的淡淡的爱，也许才是真的照亮我们前行的力量。

上帝不是孤独的存在，它是母亲的吻，是父亲的臂膀，是给我们力量和为我们付出的家人和朋友，这才是我们对上帝的真正的理解，不纠缠于形式，不拘泥于某个虚拟或神话的人物，爱自己爱家人和身边的朋友才是真实的生活。

带女儿读英文原版绘本的目的很简单，在这样一个长期阅读的过程中，用有趣的她喜欢接受的方式接触英文，比强硬的辅导班应该来的更有意思，同时接触不同的文化存在对拓宽孩子的世界观，也是有一定助益的。

Good whispers to us in our hearts

Do not fear, I am here

And I love you my dear

Close your eyes and sleep tight

For tomorrow will be bright

All is were dear child

Good night!

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God is great

Look at the stars in the evening sky

So many millions of miles away

That the light you see shining left its star

Long, long years before you were born

Yet even beyond the farthest star

God knows the way

Think of the snow-capped mountain peaks

Those peaks were crumbling away with age before the first people lived on earth

Yet when they were raised up sharp and new

God  was  there ,too

Bend down to touch the smallest flowers

Watch the busy ant tugging at his load

See the flash of jewels on the insect’s back

This tiny world your two hands could span

Like the oceans and mountains and far-off stars ,

God planned.

Think of our earth, spinning in space

So that now ,for a day

Of play and work

We face the sunlight

The we run away

To the still

Soft darkness for rest and sleep

This ,too

Is god’s doing

FOR GOD IS GOOD

God gives us everything we need

Shelter from cold and wing and rain

Clothes to wear and food to eat

God gives us flowers ,the songs of birds

The laughter of brooks the deep song of the sea

He sends the sunshine to mark things grow

Send in its turn the needed rain

God makes us grow, too, with minds and eyes to look about our wonderful world

To see its beauty ,to feel its might

He gives us  a small ,still voice in our hearts

To help us tell wrong from right

God gives us hopes and wishes and dreams

Plans for our grown-up years ahead

He gives us memories of yesterday

So that happy time and people we love

We can keep with us always in our hearts.

For god is love.

God is the love of our mother’s kiss

The warm ,strong hug of our daddy’s arms.

God is in all the love we feel for playmate and family and friends

When we’re hurt or sorry or lonely or sad

If we think of god, he is with us there

Good whispers to us in our hearts

Do not fear, I am here

And I love you my dear

Close your eyes and sleep tight

For tomorrow will be bright

All is were dear child

Good night!