Randy Alcorn

تصور کنید عضوی از تیمی در ناسا هستید که برای مأموریتی پنج‌ساله به مریخ آماده می‌شود. پس از یک دورۀ آموزشی فشرده، سرانجام روز پرتاب فرا می‌رسد. همان‌طور که موشک از زمین بلند می‌شود، یکی از فضانوردان همراهتان می‌پرسد: «دربارۀ مریخ چه می‌دانی؟»

Immaginate di far parte di un team della NASA che si sta preparando per una missione di cinque anni su Marte. Dopo un lungo periodo di addestramento, arriva finalmente il giorno del lancio. Mentre il razzo decolla, uno dei vostri colleghi astronauti vi chiede: “Che cosa sai di Marte?”

कल्पना गर्नुहोस् तपाईँ मंगल ग्रहको पाँच वर्षे अभियानको तयारी गरिरहेको नासा टोलीको एक हिस्सा हुनुहुन्छ। लामो समयको प्रशिक्षण पछि, अन्ततः प्रक्षेपण मिति आइपुग्छ। रकेट उडान भर्दै जाँदा, तपाईँका एक सहयात्री अन्तरिक्ष यात्रीले सोध्छन्, "मंगल ग्रहको बारेमा तपाईँलाई के थाहा छ?"

Imaginează-ți că faci parte dintr-o echipă NASA care se pregătește pentru o misiune de cinci ani pe Marte. După o perioadă îndelungată de pregătire, în sfârșit sosește ziua lansării. În timp ce racheta se ridică de la sol, unul dintre colegii tăi astronauți te întreabă: „Ce știi despre Marte?”

Тасаввур кунед, ки шумо қисми гурӯҳи NASA ҳастед, ки барои як миссияи панҷсола ба Марс тайёри мебинад. Пас аз як давраи омӯзиши тайёридида, ниҳоят рӯзи парвоз фаро мерасад. Ҳангоми парвози ракета яке аз ҳамастронавтҳои шумо мепурсад: «Шумо дар бораи Марс чӣ медонед?» 

Though most pets have a short lifespan compared to humans, they occupy an important place in our hearts while they are with us. A pet is part of daily life in a way few friends are. We can affirm people’s greater worth, while still missing a pet more because of that daily bond.

In my last blog, I shared John Piper’s reflections on turning 80. What follows is not a biography of John, but just a personal remembrance of some of the connections I have had with him over the past forty years.

John Piper’s 80th birthday was earlier this year. Piper’s life and ministry, books, and his insights and passion for God, have been a great gift to me and Nanci and our children and grandchildren, and countless others.

ကျွန်ုပ်၏ ချစ်လှစွာသောဇနီး နန်စီ၏ကင်ဆာရောဂါနှင့် ရုန်းကန်ခဲ့ရသည့် လေးနှစ်ကျော် ကာလအတွင်း ဝမ်းသာစရာ ဆေးစစ်ချက်နှင့် စိတ်ပျက်စရာသတင်းများစွာကို တစ်လှည့်စီ ကြားခဲ့ရပါသည်။ သူမ၏ ခွဲစိတ်မှု သုံးကြိမ်၊ ဓာတ်ရောင်ခြည်ပြ ကုသမှု သုံးကြိမ်နှင့် ကီမိုဆေးသွင်းကုသမှု သုံးကြိမ်စလုံးကို ဖြတ်သန်းခဲ့ရစဉ်အတွင်း ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် စိတ်ခံစားချက်မျိုးစုံ၏ အတက်အကျ အနိမ့်အမြင့်ကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ခံစားခဲ့ရကြသည်။