佳作欣赏——心灵鸡汤——永恒的爱（2）

When I called again an hour later, the nurse at her house told me the impossible:  Mom was sitting up, her oxygen tubes removed.  She was smiling. 我在一个小时后再次打电话给她的时候,她房里的护士告诉了我一件不可思议的事情:妈妈坐起来了,她的氧气管已经拿掉.她在微笑.      "Mom, it's a boy!  You have a new grandson!" "妈妈,是个男孩儿!你有一个新孙子了!"      "Yes! Yes!  I know!" "是!是!我知道了!"      Four words.  Four beautiful words. 四句话.美丽的四句话.      By the time I brought Jacob home, Mom was sitting in her chair, dressed and ready to welcome him.  Tears of joy blocked my vision as I laid my son in her arms and she clucked at him.  They stared at each other. 到我带着雅克布回家的时候,妈妈收拾一新,坐在椅子上准备迎接他的到来.我把儿子放到妈妈怀里她逗弄着他.他们互相对视着.    They knew. 他们好象早已相识.      For two more weeks, Mother clucked, smiled and held Jacob.  For two weeks she spoke to my father, her children and grandchildren in complete sentences.  For two miracle weeks, she gave us joy. 有两个多星期,妈妈微笑,抱着雅克布,逗弄他.在这两个星期里她用完整的句子和我父亲,她的儿孙们讲话.在这奇迹般的两个星期里,她带给了我们欢乐.      Then she quietly slipped back into a coma and, after visits from all her children, was finally free of the pain and confines of a body that no longer did her will. 接下来在所有的孩子们看望过她以后,她便又安静地,逐渐地陷入昏迷,直到最后从疼痛中解脱出来,她的肉体不再听命于她的灵魂...      Memories of my son's birth will always be bittersweet for me, but it was at this time that I learned an important truth about living.  For while both joy and sorrow are fleeting, and often intertwined, love has the power to overcome both.  And love can last forever. 儿子出生的记忆将总是喜忧参半的,但正是在这个时候我认识到了生活中的一个重要的真理.那就是快乐和悲伤都是短暂的,并且常常是纠缠在一起的,爱则有力量超越这两者.且爱可以永恒!