I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I am still in the middle of it. This habit annoyed first my Mom, then my friends, and finally even my own daughter.
我有一个换习惯就是看书看到一半，就翻到最后看结局。我的妈妈、我的朋友与连我的女儿都非常不喜欢我如此。
Often my impatience wouldn't be confined just to the books I read but also to what they were reading as well. Finally one day my daughter told me in exasperation, "Dad please just read a book one page at a time like everyone else!"
我是个急性子，不光我一个人念书如此，我还管着其他人念书。最后我的女儿爆发了，“父亲，你能否像人家念书一样，每次就读一页！”
At times I haven't limited this bad habit to just books either. I have also tried to skip ahead in my own life and figure out what to do months and even years from now instead of embracing each day as God intended.
我的急性子不止在念书这个方面。在日常我也时不时的会如此。想要了解将来几个月甚至几年要干什么，而不是像上天推崇的那样享受当下。
I knew that the book of my life wasn't done yet and that I had many pages left to go. Still, that didn't sTOP me from trying to write the ending half-way through.
我了解自己生活的这本书没结束，还有不少页没读。然而，我还会臆想结局。
Time and again, I would foolishly jump ahead and try to solve every conceivable problem before it happened so I could reach that storybook happily ever after ending.
有时我一直愚蠢地想象着书中的结局，杞人忧天般的考虑着还没有发生的问题，我一直能非常高兴的自动带入书中情节，不管书中结局如何。
Life, however, doesn't work like that. God loves to surprise us, and you never know what new problem, change, or opportunity each new day will bring.
然而生活不是如此。上天喜欢给大家惊喜。每一天你都不会了解自己会遇上那些问题，改变或者机会。
Recently when I found myself returning to that bad habit of rushing ahead and living in the future again, I found His truth coming from the lips of a special soul who gently told me I needed to "live one day at a time."
近期我发现这个心浮气躁、活在将来的不好的习惯又开始作祟。这个时候我隐隐的感觉到有个神秘的灵魂对我悄声说着“活在当下”。
When I heard those words I smiled, turned the book of my life back to the right page, and thanked God for today.
当我听到这类话，我会心地笑了。感谢上天让我领悟到怎么样将生活之书翻到正确的页码。
There is no skipping ahead in the book of life. Each of us has to live it one page and one day at a time. Each of us has to have faith in God to help us to write it line by line and moment by moment. Each of us has to trust that our Heavenly Father will bring our story to its perfect end.
生活不可能像看书跳过开头就到看到结尾一样。生活一天一天度过，书也要一页一页读。大家要深信上天会帮大家书写生活，一行又一行，记录大家的一刻又一刻。最后大家会在上天的引导之下将生活画上完美的句号。
（翻译：林浔鸥）
