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2015-16 國際扶輪社長 四 月份 文告
 

親愛的扶輪社友們：

幾多年前，在印度的加爾各答，我有機會見到德蕾莎修女。她是一位了不起的女性，有了不起的人格力量。當她走在街道上，群眾會在她面前自動讓路避開，就像紅海一樣。然而，當你跟她說話，如果你提到她所做的豐功偉業，她幾乎不會參與這個話題。根據許多報導，如果你問她最大的成就是什麼，她會回答：「我是掃廁所專家。」

 

　　

　　這個答案既幽默又絕對認真。她的工作就是照顧他人，廁所需要打掃，所以她就去掃。沒有什麼工作是她不屑去做的。幫助需要幫助的人是她的工作，世上沒有事情比這個更崇高，比這個更重要。

　

　　所以有一天，有一位衣著高雅的男士到加爾各答找德蕾莎修女，應門的修女告訴他說她人在屋子後面打掃廁所。她們指路，他真的看到德蕾莎修女在刷廁所。她打了招呼，認為他是來當義工的人，就開始向他解釋怎麼拿廁所刷子才正確以及怎樣才不浪費水。然後她把刷子交給他，讓他一個人穿著昂貴的西裝，站在廁所裡。

　　

　　後來，這個男人出來，再度找到德蕾莎修女說：「我刷好了；我可以跟妳說話了嗎？」她說：「好，當然。」他從口袋裡拿出一個信封說：「我是航空公司的董事，這是你們的票。我只是想親自拿來給妳。」

　　

　　這位航空公司的董事後來再三陳述這個故事。他說刷廁所的那20 分鐘帶給他此生莫大的快樂─因為用他的手來做德蕾莎修女的工作，也讓他成為那個工作的一部份。那20分鐘裡，他像她一樣照顧病人─用他的手，用他的汗水。

　　

　　這正是扶輪所給予我們的機會。我們可能不會做德蕾莎修女做的事─放棄我們的生活、我們的家、我們的家人。可是在20 分鐘、20 小時、20 天裡，我們可以像她一樣。

　　

　　我們可以做別人不會做的事，用我們的手、我們的心、我們的汗，及我們的奉獻─心裡明白我們所做的是世界上最重要的工作。
 

雷文壯 K.R. Ravindran

2015-16 年度國際扶輪社長

2015-16 RI Presidential Message in April 2015

 

Dear Fellow Rotarians,
 
Many years ago, in Kolkata, India, I had the chance to meet Mother Teresa. She was an incredible woman with an incredible force of personality. When she walked down the street, the crowd parted in front of her like the Red Sea. Yet when you talked to her, if you mentioned the tremendous things she had done, she almost did not engage in this topic at all. By many reports, if you asked her what her greatest achievement was, she would answer, "I am an expert in cleaning toilets."

The answer was both humorous and absolutely serious. Her business was caring for others. Toilets had to be
cleaned, so she cleaned them. There was no question of a job being beneath her. Helping people who needed
help was her work, and there was nothing higher, nothing in the world more important than that.
So one day, when an elegantly dressed man came to Kolkata looking for Mother Teresa, the nuns who
answered the door informed him that she was at the back of the house, cleaning the toilets. They pointed the
way, and indeed he found Mother Teresa scrubbing the toilets. She said hello, assumed he was there to
volunteer, and began explaining to him how to hold the toilet brush correctly and how not to waste water. Then she put the brush in his hand and left him standing there, in his expensive suit, alone in the lavatory.
Later, the man came out, found Mother Teresa again, and said, "I have finished; may I speak with you now?"
"Yes, certainly," she said. He took an envelope out of his pocket and said, "Mother Teresa, I am the director of the airline, and here are your tickets. I just wanted to bring them to you personally."
That airline director told that story again and again for the rest of his life. He said those 20 minutes spent cleaning toilets had filled him with the greatest joy he had ever known – because by putting his hands to
Mother Teresa's work, he became part of that work. For those 20 minutes, he cared for the sick just as she did: with his own hands, his own sweat.
That is exactly the opportunity that Rotary gives us. We might not do what Mother Teresa did – give up our lives, our homes, our families. But for 20 minutes, 20 hours, 20 days of the year, we can be like her.
 
We can do the work that others will not with our hands, and our hearts, and our sweat, and our devotion – knowing that what we do is the most important work in the world.

K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran

President, Rotary International, 2015-16
 

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