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Have a Little Faith (Paperback)
미치 앨봄 지음 / Hyperion Books / 2010년 8월
평점 : 
미치 앨봄의 책은 원서로 읽기에 적합하다. 읽기도 쉽고 메시지도 있고 분량도 적고. 하지만 이번 작품은 그다지 만족스럽지 않다. 유대인의 입장에서 어렸을 때부터 알아온 랍비의 마지막을 함께 해달라는 부탁을 받고 6년간 랍비와 대화를 나누고 인생에 대해서 알아가는 이야기. 더불어 힘든 삶을 살아가는 사람들의 삶에 대한 이야기가 중간중간 삽입된다. 그 부분에서 개신교들의 가스펠 장면도 많이 나오고. 유대인이 이런 것들에 대해 서술하는 것 자체가 높이 살만 한 것이겠지만 글쎄..그리 감동적이지 않았다. 하지만 주옥같은 대목들은 있다.
You are how you act, not just how you believe.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. - Mohandas Gandhi
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm.
If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. -- EZEKIEL 36:26 -- 성경구절이 마음에 와 닿을 때가 있다. 특히 영어로 읽을 때.
The joy you get from that same closeness-when you watch your children, when you wake up and smile at each other - that, as our tradition teaches us, is a blessing.
One concerns a farmer who wakes up to find that his horse has run off.
The neighbors come by and say, "Too bad. Such awful luck."
The farmer says, "Maybe."
The next day, the horse returns with a few other horses. The neighbors congratulate the farmer on his reversal of fortune.
"Maybe," the farmer says.
When his son tries to ride one of the new horses, he breaks his leg, and the neighbors offer condolences.
"Maybe," the farmer says.
And the next day, when army officials come to draft the son-and don't take him because of his broken leg-everyone is happy.
"Maybe," the farmer says. -- 내가 가장 좋아하는 '인생지사 새옹지마'이야기가 나왔다. 영어로 읽는 새옹지마 고사..ㅎ