作者：Eileen Caddy
翻譯：熊倩涵
編輯：顏士寶
As you follow My laws and obey them, your life becomes rich and mightily blessed. Disobey these laws, and sooner or later you will find yourself slipping downhill, until you realize where you have gone wrong and are determined to rectify those wrongs. It is when you have to start putting first things first and when you have to turn away from your waywardness and seek Me and My kingdom. It is when you have to start putting first things first and when you have to turn away from your waywardness and seek Me and My kingdom. It is no easy to do when you have reached rock-bottom and feel there is no purpose in life. Yet it is what you will have to do. Put your feet on the bottom rung of the ladder and start climbing, no matter how difficult it may appear at the time. As you pull yourself up to the next rung and gradually work your way out of the despair you have sunk into, life will begin to change for you and you will find a real purpose in your life and living.
當我跟隨並服從上天的法則，我的生活就會變得豐富且受到很多祝福。如果我違背這些法則，那麼遲早我會發覺自己在向下坡滑落，直到我意識到自己在哪裡走錯了，並決心去糾正這些錯誤。那就是當我不得不開始把重要的事情放到第一位，並且當我必須得離開自己的任性，來尋求上天及上天的王國。
當我已經跌到最低點，感到生命沒有任何意義時，要這樣做並不容易。然而這仍然是我將必須去做的。把我的雙腳放在梯子的第一級然後開始攀爬，不管在當時這看起來有多麼的困難。當我將自己拉升至下一個梯級，然後逐漸地從我所陷入的絕望裡走出來，生活會開始為我而改變，我也會在生命與生活中找到真正的意義。
