寫自17年前的自己（A letter from myself 17 years ago）

Once upon a time when there was no mobile phone, BB Call or e-mail, I wrote a short letter to myself in a fellowship group, at the end of the year 1994. Of course, the letters were not intended to be kept so long that none of their writers could still remember them. But somehow it has returned to me. Interestingly enough, while reading it, I feel as if 'he' had actually been talking to 'me'. What I expected of myself then applies perfectly to me now. I now post it here.

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國安：

這是第二次寫信給你了。上一次我已忘了是什麼時候了，但現在是1994年的最後一天了；明年也是大學生活的最後一年，聰明的你、有抱負的你，有否為自己定下什麼目標、有否清楚自己的方向？

感覺你的生活不算忙亂，卻是散慢；在沒有任何外在規範下的你，似乎需要更多的節制。此外，和他人的關係也需要多加維繫，可不能太厚此薄彼了。在身旁的人都這麼願意體諒你的同時，是否應為自己所努力的盡上更大、更深的心力呢？這些在讀書上的付出，是為將來服事神而預備的；既是如此，就將自己當作個傳道人般地要求、操練自己罷！

期待在諸多要求之下，你能更上一層樓，過個真實的－－HAPPY NEW YEAR！

國安 12.31.'94