Remember when I said it all came together for the good? Because of the money shortage, we had changed our schedule for India, but when funding became available, we rescheduled our visit there and actually made it a week earlier.
這項變動可能救了我們的命。離開孟買幾天后,我們行程里的三個地點便遭到恐怖分子攻擊。那次的恐怖攻擊行動總共造成180人喪生,300人受傷。
That change in schedule may well have saved our lives. Just a couple days after we were in Mumbai, three of the locations we visited were hit by terrorists. The Taj Hotel, the airport, and the southern Mumbai train station were among their targets in attacks that killed 180 people and left 300 injured.
若按照原來的計劃,我們停留在孟買的時間、地點,正好會遇上恐怖攻擊。你可以說我們命大,但我相信上帝對此有著我們無法了解的計劃。這就是為何你必須對未來有信心,在即使看來勝算不大時,還是要繼續(xù)朝著目標前進。
Our original schedule would have had us in Mumbai, at those very locations, during those attacks. You might say we were lucky, but I believe God had a plan that we could not see. That is why it is so important to have faith in the future and to keep working toward your goals even when the odds seem stacked against you.