La Vie en Yvonne

Change Starts With You 

Don’t try to change others or your circumstances around before you first learn to change yourself. Judge not or you will be judged. Before we try to change what is around us, let us look within us, with an honest heart and see what needs to be changed in our own lives.

改變從自己開始

學會改變自己之前，別試著改變別人或環境。不論斷他人，因論斷他人，則人論斷之。試著改變周遭環境前，誠實地問自己內心，生命中是否有需要改變之處。 

Change Requires Humility

Humility is being honest to yourself and others with who you really are. No need to justify your shortcomings or wrong actions, simply own up to your mistakes and recognize that you need help in changing them.

改變需要謙卑

謙卑是誠實面對自己及週遭人們。不需要為自己的缺點及錯誤行為作解釋，而是單單地承認錯誤， 瞭解改正是需要協助的。

Change Moves Us to Action

If we are really going to change, we must make a commitment to change followed with action. Change is not just talk, but it is walk. If you want to quit smoking cigarettes, or change a bad habit, stop eating so much, spending on what you don’t need, or change your own understanding of yourself, you need to take the necessary actions to see the change become a reality. In the same way, if we want real change we must not just talk about it, but be about it. Change doesn’t start tomorrow, it starts with doing what you know is right today.

改變是行動

若我們真心改變，許下承諾時，必須伴隨著行動。坐而言不如起而行，想要戒煙、改掉壞習慣、停止暴食、不再恣意花費、改變自我認知等，需要採取必要措施，直到成功改變為止。

Change Is Not Easy, So Give Yourself Grace

We also need to understand that change is a process. It doesn’t happen over night, it happens with time. Just as it takes years for a child to grow to an adolescent and from an adolescent to a young adult and so forth, so it takes time for anyone and everyone to change for the better. Give yourself grace when you make mistakes, fall into temptation, or keep doing things you don’t want to do. God forgives you, so you must learn to forgive yourself. With grace, nothing is impossible to overcome. Pick yourself back up, let go of the past, don’t be so hard on yourself and keep moving forward. With a little grace, we can all change for the better. 

2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

改變非易事，無須自我苛刻

認知改變是個過程，不會即刻發生，它需要時間。就如同幾年的時光，才能讓孩子成長為青少年，從青少年成為青年，再持續成長至另一個階段。對所有人而言，要變得更好，時間是必經過程。犯錯、落入試探、持續作非本意之事時，無須自我苛刻。神饒恕我們的過錯，而我們也須學會饒恕自己。因著神的恩典，我們能克服一切。放下過去、重新振作，別苛刻自己，持續向前行進。即便只有一丁點的恩典，我們都能變得更好。

歌羅西後書 12章9節 「祂跟我說：『我的恩典夠你用，在你軟弱之處彰顯我的大能。』」