that, in the past, would have started him 4
again. For a few years we were 5
to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.
"I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day," was Dad's 6
to my 18-year-old unasked question. "The words were a constant (经常的)
to me that things were 8
so hard that I could not deal with them," Dad said. Then he 9
the poem with me. The poem's 10
, yet profound (深刻的) words immediately became of my daily routine as well.
About a month after this 12
with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one 13
for each day of the year.
It has been my 14
that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own 15
.
I 16
opened the book to November 10 to see 17
words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was 18
when I looked at the page, and then tears of disbelief and appreciation 19
down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had 20
my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静) Prayer:
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