人生不设限·我受到鼓舞
Of course I don't have all the answers. I don't know the specific pain or challenges you face. I came into this world shortchanged physically, but I've never known the pain of abuse or neglect. I've never had to deal with a broken family. I've never lost a parent or a brother or a sister. There are many bad experiences I've been spared. I'm certain that I've had it easier in thousands of ways than many people.
当我看见丹尼尔在教堂的人群之中被举起，那真是改变我生命的一刻，因为我知道自己已成为那个我所祈求的奇迹。上帝没有给我那样的奇迹，但他把我变成奇迹，给了丹尼尔。
In that life-changing moment when I looked out and saw Daniel held above the crowd in that church, I realized that I'd become the miracle that I'd prayed for. God had not given me such a miracle. But he had made me Daniel's instead.
遇见丹尼尔时，我24岁。那天稍晚，他的妈妈派蒂抱住我，说自己仿佛走进未来，拥抱着已经长大的儿子。
I was twenty-four years old when I met Daniel. When his mother, Patty, hugged me later that day, she said it was like stepping into the future and hugging her own grown-up son.
“你一定不知道，我一直向上帝祷告，请他给我一个神迹，让我知道他没有忘了我和我的儿子。”她说着，“你是奇迹，你就是我们的奇迹。”
"You have no idea. I've been praying that God would send me a sign to let me know that He has not forgotten my son or me," she said. "You are a miracle. You are our miracle."
那一天，我父母正在从澳大利亚来美国的路上，那是他们在我一年前移居美国后第一次来访。几天后，父母和丹尼尔及他的父母见了面——你应该想象得到，他们有聊不完的话题。
One of the great aspects of our meeting was that on that Sunday my parents were on their way from Australia for their first visit since I'd moved to the United States a year before. A couple days later my mum and dad met with Daniel and his parents. You can believe that they had a lot to talk about.
克里斯和派蒂认为我是丹尼尔的祝福，而我父母是他们更大的祝福。谁比我父母更适合指引他们如何养育一个没手没脚的孩子?我们能为丹尼尔的家人带来的不只是希望，更是明确的证据，证明丹尼尔可以过相当正常的生活，而且他也会找到注定要与人分享的福分。
Chris and Patty may have considered me a blessing for Daniel, but my parents were an even bigger blessing to them. Who better to prepare them and guide them through the parenting of a child without arms and legs? We could give them not just hope but solid evidence that Daniel could live a fairly normal life, and that he too would discover the blessings he was meant to share.
我们很有福气，可以跟他们分享经验、鼓舞他们，向他们证明没有四肢依然可以活得毫不受限。
We have been blessed to share our experiences with them, to encourage them and to offer proof that there are no limits to a life without limbs.
同时，精力充沛的丹尼尔也是我的祝福，因着他所拥有的能量和喜悦，他带给我的远远超过我给他的。这是另一个完全在我意料之外的回报。
At the same time Daniel is a dynamo who is a blessing to me, giving me far more than I could ever give him because of his energy and joy, and that is another, totally unexpected reward.
