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And now with time, rather than bitterness, I feel blessing. In the place of anger, I have found absolution. And in the place of revenge I have found reconciliation. And my initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.
現在我不再感到痛苦，我感覺很幸福。在憤怒中，我發現了寬恕，在報復中，我發現了和解，就連最初的憤怒也慢慢變成了寬恕。
Almost a decade ago, I founded a charity called Heal the World. The title was something I felt inside me. Little did I know, as Shmuley later pointed out, that those two words form the cornerstone of Old Testament prophecy. Do I really believe that we can heal this world, that is riddled with war and genocide, even today? And do I really think that we can heal our children, the same children who as the paper reported this morning, can walk into a high school in San Diegoand shoot down two beatiful students, just at the begining of their lives? A horrifying reminder of the guns and hatred that shot through Columbine almost two years ago. Or children who can beat a defenseless toddler to death, like the tragic story of Jamie Bulger? Of course I do, or I wouldn't be here tonight.
差不多十年前，我成立了一個叫作“拯救世界”的兒童慈善機構，這個機構的名字本身只是我內心的感覺。直到施慕禮告訴我，我才知道這兩個詞構成了《圣經》舊約預言的基石。我真的能相信我們能拯救這個因戰爭和種族滅絕屠殺而變得千瘡百孔的世界嗎？我真的相信我們能夠拯救孩子嗎？正如今早報紙報導的那樣，正是這些孩子走進圣地亞哥的一所高中向兩位漂亮的同學開槍，結束了他們年輕的生命。這些孩子能被拯救嗎？這讓人想起了大約兩年前《科倫拜恩》里演的槍支和憤怒的可怕場面?；蛘哒f我們能拯救那些像杰米·巴爾格的悲劇故事一樣， 把毫無防御能力的蹣跚學步的小孩打死的孩子嗎？當然可以。當然可以，否則我今晚就不會站在這里。
But it all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us. As an adult, and as a parent, I realize that I cannot be a whole human being, nor a parent capable of unconditional love, until I put to rest the ghosts of my own childhood.
但是這一切都要從寬恕開始，因為要拯救世界我們必須先拯救自己。而要拯救兒童，我們首先要拯救孩子的內心，我們每一個人都有責任這樣做。作為一個成年人，作為一名父親，我知道我并不完美，也不能給予孩子們無條件的愛，直到我把自己對童年的怨恨完全釋放出來。
