Name: 田納西州州長比爾·李發表演說：強而有力、令人難忘的致詞！| AC14 (BILL LEE SPEECH: Tennessee Governor Delivers Powerful and Unforgettable Words | AC14)
Uploaded: 2026-02-12T05:59:33.000Z
Duration: 15 min 25 s

But please welcome as our final speaker tonight, this morning, the 50th governor of the great state of Tennessee, Bill Lee.

但請歡迎今晚、今天早上我們最後一位講者，偉大的田納西州第 50 任州長 Bill Lee。

I spoke to Zach a few minutes ago and said we should just not do this last speech.

幾分鐘前我跟 Zach 說，我們乾脆不要辦最後這場演講了。

I assured him I would go quickly, but it is a real honor for me to be here.

我向他保證我會講得很快，但能來到這裡對我來說是莫大的榮幸。

I came to this first National Prayer Breakfast 25 years ago or so.

我大概是 25 年前第一次參加這個全國祈禱早餐會。

Never imagined that I would be on stage, much less speaking.

從沒想過我會站在臺上，更別說是要上臺演講。

And look, I realized that I am actually the fill-in speaker for the one who was proposed to be the keynote speaker.

而且你看，我意識到我其實是原本預計擔任主講人的那位講者的遞補講者。

And if you think you're surprised that I'm the keynote speaker, I just found out yesterday that I was the keynote speaker.

而且如果你覺得你很驚訝我會是主講人，我昨天才知道我竟然是主講人。

Where we find ourselves in places that we might never have imagined that we would be.

我們會發現自己身處在從未想像過的地方。

We all have days in our lives that we've always remembered.

我們人生中都有一些日子，是我們一直記得的。

Maybe the day you were married, or the day your parents divorced, or the day your first child was born, or the day your dad died.

也許是你結婚那天，或是你父母離婚那天，或是你第一個孩子出生那天，或是你爸爸過世那天。

Those days that make up the story of our life.

那些日子組成了我們人生的故事。

I heard it said that the days of our lives.

我聽過一句話，說我們人生的日子。

There are days in our lives that can be described by a simple sentence.

我們的人生中，有些日子可以用一句話簡單帶過。

Then there's other days that chapters are written about.

但有些日子，卻能寫成一個篇章。

我的那一天，是幾年前的七月下旬。

And on that day chapters were written in the story of my life.

在那一天，我人生的故事裡，寫下了新的篇章。

I lived a life most men dreamed of living.

我過著許多男人夢寐以求的生活。

Beautiful wife, beautiful kids, beautiful home, sprawling farm, prosperous business.

有美麗的妻子、可愛的孩子、漂亮的房子、寬敞的農場，還有生意興隆的事業。

But on that July afternoon that I drove home from work and I saw my son fishing and my other son playing.

但在那個七月的下午，我從公司開車回家，看到我的大兒子在釣魚，另一個兒子在玩耍。

And my daughter was on a mission trip and my 4 year old was on a horseback, was on a horse with my wife.

我女兒在參加一個傳教之旅，我四歲的小兒子則騎著馬，和我太太一起。

And I drove up the drive of my home and thought about the fact that I must be the most blessed man ever.

我開車回到家，心想我一定是世界上最幸福的人了。

A few minutes later I heard far away cries of a four year old.

幾分鐘後，我聽到遠處傳來一個四歲小孩的哭聲。

And I knew that something was terribly wrong.

我知道有非常糟糕的事情發生了。

And I jumped in my truck and I drove as fast as I could.

我立刻跳上我的卡車，盡我所能地快速開去。

And I found my wife lifeless on the ground next to a horse.

我發現我太太倒在地上，一動也不動，就在馬旁邊。

That day in my life, my life took a very dark turn.

在那一天，我的人生，走向了一個非常黑暗的轉折。

The questions from a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old and a 14-year-old and a stunned father who doesn't have any answers for them.

來自四歲、九歲和十四歲孩子們的提問，以及一個茫然無助、沒有答案的父親。

In the days and weeks and months that followed, her confusing grief was so bad she actually got a gun and shot herself in an attempted suicide, which she survived miraculously.

在接下來的幾天、幾週和幾個月裡，她令人困惑的悲傷非常嚴重，她甚至拿了一把槍試圖自殺，但奇蹟般地活了下來。

But on that day, the trauma of that for my family was overwhelming.

但在那一天，這對我的家庭來說，創傷是壓倒性的。

And on the brink of failure, the days of my life had become chapters of grief and brokenness and sorrow.

在瀕臨失敗的邊緣，我的人生日子變成了悲傷、破碎和憂愁的篇章。

And I remember a few months after my wife had died, we had this old farm cemetery.

我還記得我太太過世幾個月後，我們有一個舊農場的墓園。

It was beautiful iron fence and ancient tombstones out there, or hundreds years old tombstones.

那裡有美麗的鐵柵欄和古老的墓碑，幾百年前的墓碑。

But a family cemetery shaded by big trees, a beautiful spot.

但這是一個被大樹遮蔽的家族墓園，一個美麗的地方。

And I had ordered a marker for my wife's life, my wife's grave.

我為我太太的生命、我太太的墳墓訂了一個墓碑。

And it was the day that these guys were supposed to deliver that marker.

而這一天，就是這些人應該要來送那個墓碑的日子。

And I sat there on a bench and these two guys showed up in a truck and erected the marker, put it up and drove away, kind of leaving me bereft.

然後我就坐在長椅上，這兩個人開著卡車出現，立好了墓碑，把它放好就開走了，感覺有點孤單。

And I walked up to the cemetery marker and this beautiful marble carved Celtic cross with Proverbs 31 on it.

我走到墓碑前，上面是美麗的白色大理石雕刻凱爾特十字架，上面寫著箴言31。

And then four names of my children on the circle and my wife's name on the bottom with the day she was born and the day she died.

然後是四個我孩子的名字在圓圈裡，我太太的名字在下面，寫著她出生的日子和去世的日子。

And I stood there looking at this and it was very surreal.

我就站在那裡看著，感覺非常超現實。

It is funny, isn't it, how life will take you places and you will find yourself in a place you thought you might never be.

人生就是這麼有趣，對吧？它會帶你去意想不到的地方，讓你發現自己身處在一個你以為永遠不會到的地方。

I knew that I would have a tombstone right there beside her.

And as I stood there contemplating that, I thought I had this thought that went through my brain.

當我站在那裡沉思時，我腦中閃過一個念頭。

I wonder what she would say to me, standing right here.

我想她會對我說什麼，就站在這裡。

I know she's still alive, more alive than ever.

我知道她還活著，比以往任何時候都更有活力。

The thought came to me what she would say is what God would say and is saying.

一個念頭閃過，她會說什麼，就是上帝會說的，而且正在說的。

There are very few things in life that matter and we should be about them.

人生中真正重要的事非常少，我們應該專注在那些事上。

And as I walked out of that cemetery, I didn't know what the days held for me ahead.

當我走出那個墓園時，我不知道接下來的日子會如何。

But I knew that I would ask God for the steps to move forward.

但我知道我會祈求上帝賜予我前進的步伐。

Sometimes following God doesn't always mean that it's going to work out the way that we want it to.

有時候跟隨上帝並不總是意味著事情會照我們期望的方式發展。

After all, Jesus did say that in this world you'll have many troubles.

畢竟，耶穌說過，在這世上你們會有許多苦難。

But he also said, I will overcome the world.

但他同時也說，你們將克服這世界。

And in my life, that truth then became real.

在我的人生中，這個真理就變得真實了。

And he became real to me like he had never been.

他變得對我來說是真實的，就像從未有過一樣。

now I began to know him in a way that I'd never known him before.

現在我開始用一種從未有過的方式認識他。

He became a healer and a redeemer and a dispenser of hope.

他成為一位醫治者、救贖者和希望的賜予者。

The most tragic days of my life were strangely becoming the most transformational days of my life.

我人生中最悲慘的日子，卻奇妙地變成了我人生中最具轉變性的日子。

發生在我身上的事，我絕不希望。

But what was happening to me, I would never trade.

但發生在我身上的事，我絕不願交換。

I started to realize that, at least for me, to the degree that a man is broken, he can experience wholeness, or the degree a man understands pain, he can feel real joy.

我開始體會到，至少對我而言，一個人破碎的程度，就能體驗到完整；或者一個人對痛苦的理解程度，就能感受到真正的喜樂。

For the first time, I really believe I understood the brevity of life.

我第一次真的相信，我明白了生命的短暫。

My children and I, in a healing process, tried to get out of ourselves.

我的孩子們和我，在一個療癒的過程中，試著走出自我。

I took my kids to Haiti and worked in an orphanage.

我帶著孩子們去了海地，在一個孤兒院工作。

I went to Mexico and built homes for the impoverished.

我去了墨西哥，為貧困的人們蓋房子。

I went to Uganda and South Sudan and worked in a refugee camp and built a home for trafficked girls.

我去了烏幹達和南蘇丹，在一個難民營工作，並為被販賣的女孩們蓋了房子。

I worked in the inner city at an at-risk youth program for kids and ultimately got involved in education reform and public policy around education, working with those underserved kids.

我在一個市中心的高風險青少年計畫裡工作，最終投身於教育改革和公共政策，為那些資源匱乏的孩子們服務。

I worked in a prison reentry program and a prison ministry, mentoring men coming out of prison, got involved in criminal justice reform.

我參與了獄所重返社會計畫和監獄事工，輔導出獄的男士們，並投入刑事司法改革。

This path of actually getting involved in public policy is what made me run for governor of Tennessee in the first place.

這段實際參與公共政策的歷程，才是我當初競選田納西州州長的原因。

I met and married the most remarkable woman in the world.

我遇到了世界上最棒的女人，並和她結了婚。

The story of my life was again filled with pages of certainty and a belief in God's goodness that was forged not only in prosperity, but

我的人生故事再次充滿了確信的篇章，以及對上帝良善的信念，這信念不僅在順境中鍛鍊而成，

As governor, I've had the opportunity to experience things as a more purposeful and meaningful person than I ever was before.

身為州長，我獲得了機會，讓我能以比以往更有目標、更有意義的人生來體驗事物。

I've had the opportunity to experience things that might never have otherwise.

我有機會體驗到那些原本可能永遠不會遇到的事。

The miracle of an adoption ceremony for a foster child through our Department of Children's Services, or in a tragic flood that we had in Tennessee, being on the site, praying with a family who just lost their home, everything, including their father.

透過我們兒童服務部門為寄養兒童舉辦的領養儀式，或是我們在田納西州經歷的災難性洪水，我在現場與一個剛失去家園、失去一切、包括父親的家庭一同祈禱。

The moments that I have had, that and many other, have been incredible privilege and honor for me.

我所經歷的這些時刻，以及許多其他時刻，對我來說都是無比的榮幸和殊榮。

As governor, I've had the opportunity to grant pardons to deserving individuals.

身為州長，我有機會對值得的人給予赦免。

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