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数年前，当我还在大学读书的时候，史密斯教授给我们做了一次讲座，题为 《有感染力的话语》。其实，这些语句非常简单，但却具有很强的感染力，而且我们每个人也都乐意听，比如：“我为你感到自豪。”“你值得信任。”“我相信你。” “我爱你。”“你肯定能行。”而当时恰逢感恩节临近，我们要更多地说这样一句令人鼓舞的话,即“谢谢你”。 史密斯教授告诉我们这句话应该永远没有说够的一天。对那些每天给予我们帮助的人，我们要真心地表达谢意，这句话要永远挂在嘴边 上帝慷慨地赐福于我们，我们非但不及时表达谢意，却总是无止境地抱怨。 或许我们过分地以自己为中心，忙于过自己的日子,忘了对别人表达谢意；又或许有些人因为过着奢华、悠闲的生活而沾沾自喜，而这种奢靡的程度是世界上很多地方的人难以想象的。 上帝赐福于我们，我们却将此视为理所当然。有个故事说的是,有位房主雇了一个房产经纪人，要他帮忙设计一则卖房的广告，他打算卖出旧房再买更好的房子。很快，广告在报纸上登出来了，将房子的优点一一作了介绍。房主看了报纸后，马上打电话给经纪人说他不想卖了。问他为何改变主意时，他说:“看了广告，我才意识到，现在住的房子其实就是我梦寐以求的理想住所。” Thank You Years ago, when I was a college student, Prof. Smith gave us a speech entitled “Powerful Phrases”. These were very simple but powerful phrases that we all liked to hear, such as“I’m proud of you.，，‘‘I believe in you.，，“I trust you.，’“I love you.”“You can do it.”At that time, with Thanksgiving Day approaching, we were focused on other powerful phrases, in particular,44 Thank you. ’， We could never wear out that phrase. It should always be on the tip of our tongue if we are grateful to others who help us each day.，’Prof. Smith told us. Despite God，s abundant blessings, we are often too slow to give thanks but so quick in complaining. Maybe we are so concentrated on ourselves and so busy with our lives that we forget to give thanks. Or maybe ifs because some of us have become complacent with a level of luxury and leisure beyond the imagination of much of the world’s population. We tend to take our blessings for granted，like the story about a homeowner who hired a real-estate agent to prepare an advertisement to sell his home for a better one. After the homeowner read the ad in newspaper about many attractive features of his home, he called the real estate agent saying that he no longer wished to sell it. When asked what changed his mind，the homeowner said，“ After reading your ad，I realized I have already lived in the house I had always dreamed of. |
