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라벨이 builders인 게시물 표시

The attitude of the builders (Nehemiah 4:15-23)

  The atitude of the builders       [Nehemiah 4:15-23]     Here is the story of a Sufi teaching: A man wanted to get married.   He wandered all over the world to meet the most perfect woman, but he could not find the perfect woman.   In the end, her friend asked him who just came back after wasting her life.   ‘Yes, isn’t there a single woman in the world who is so perfect?’   The 70-year-old bachelor replies. ‘No, there was one.   She miraculously found the perfect woman.’ asked the startled friend again.   ‘So how did it go?’ the bachelor replied with a gloomy face.   ‘Whatever she is, she is looking for the perfect man.   So, in the end, she was blown away’ (Jeong-ho Kim).   Maybe that's why there are old bachelor and old virgins, we don't know.   What is the essence of Sufi teachings here?   There is no perfect church in this world.   But what's the problem?   Like a 70-year-o...