【推荐3】George worked in a company in Washington. Once, when he bought flowers for his girlfriend, he knew the shop owner Ben.

Later, because of the crime of fraud (诈骗罪), he was going to prison for 10 years. _________ hearing this news, his girlfriend left him.

10 years were too long. George got used to a passionate life, _________ how to spend the days, long, loveless and lightless. He had no _________ in himself.

George had the first month in prison feeling _________. He almost went crazy, when someone came to see him. He had no relative in Washington, so he couldn’t _________ who would remember him. In the meeting room, he was _________: it was Ben who brought him a bunch of lowers!

Though it was _________ a bunch of flowers, this brought _________ to George’s prison life. He started reading and studying electronic science in prison.

Six years later, he was _________. He first became an employee in a computer company, and then __________ a software company of his own and __________ a career in the field. Two years later, he became a billionaire.

George went to see Ben, but learnt that Ben’s __________ had failed two years before, Ben’s family was __________ to extreme poverty, so they moved to the countryside.

George took Ben’s family back, bought him an apartment and left Ben a(n) __________ in the company. George said, “It is your bunch of flowers every year that made me __________ the love and warmth of the world, and that it gave me courage to defeat __________. No matter what I have done for you, I can’t __________ your favour for me at that time, so I want to __________ a sum of money in your name so that all the unlucky people in the world feel your great love.”

Sure enough, George then established a “Washington Ben Benevolence Foundation for Strangers”.

It is easy for everyone to love everyone with __________. A word, a smile or a bunch of flowers is enough; we won’t __________ much, but it may help others walk out of dilemma, and make our life more beautiful.

【推荐1】In 1972, I was studying in Passau, Germany. One night, I was ready to walk the two miles home. Normally, walking around a city in Germany was _______ for single women regardless of the time of night. _______ , I thought nothing of walking alone.

My _______ took me through a street with lots of cheap restaurants and pubs that served food and beer. Normally, I just walked through without difficulty. But that night, as I walked past one of the pubs, four young men _______ me. They called out a few rude words, but I _______ them and kept walking. However, they came out and started to _______ me. I turned up and down a few streets, hoping to lose them, but in vain.

After the fifth turn, I was _______ that I was in trouble and started praying, _______ , from one of the darkened yards, a huge German Shepherd (牧羊犬) rushed out. He was barking excitedly, wagging his tail, and _______ me like he’d been waiting for me to come home.

The young men spotted the dog and ________ right away. I got a sense of ________ and started walking again. Strangely, the dog followed me all the way until I got to my door.

As we ________ my door, I slowed down to pull my ________ out of my bag. The dog kept his ________ and walked right past my house without even looking at me. With a ________ heart I watched my angel disappear into the darkness.

【推荐2】Backpacking (背包旅行) through Africa, I always carried some food with me _______ I couldn’t find something to eat.

I was _______ through a local market one day when I chanced upon a jar of _______ jam. I could find tins of apple and strawberry in every corner store but this was the _______ time I had seen peach. I took it.

For the next few weeks, when I was feeling the need for a little _______, I would carefully _______ the lid and spoon a bit on to a biscuit. Mmm, delicious. I didn’t _______ it with anybody. It sat safely in my _______, taken out on only special _______.

Once cold and cloudy afternoon, while I was waiting for a local bus, it started to rain. Everybody spread out for ________ and so did I. But I was already wet through so I quickly searched through my pack for some ________ clothes.

In my hurry to ________ further discomfort. I forgot that the jar of jam was ________ in my clothing. One forceful yank (猛拉) and my ________ jar of jam crashed to the concrete ground, breaking into pieces.

I was so sad that I almost cried. And then, in the corner of my eye, I noticed an old woman in rags ________. Without hesitation, she bent down and picked up the half of the jar that still looked ________. Still ________, she stuck two fingers into the jar, scooped out the ________ jam and placed it into her toothless mouth. Carefully, like fish bones, she ________ the pieces of glass. She studied the broken container ________ she was certain that there was nothing left. Then she left.

My bus arrived shortly after and, as we drove off, I wondered if the jam would taste the same to me.

【推荐3】My two adult sons still live with me. Both of them have Autism(自闭症)and other mental disabilities. My oldest boy works at a local sheltered workshop while his younger brother suffers a(n) ________ disorder in the brain and stays home with me full time.

The other day I was walking into a restaurant ________ his finger when I noticed a teenage girl staring at my youngest son. She quickly ________ perhaps because she didn’t want to ________ us. I wasn’t mad at her. Many people have done the same thing over the years. I only wished that they could see what I see when I look at my sons and ________ that they could see behind the ________ . I have been ________ to be able to care for them, to love them, and to ________ from them all these years. I am sure that both of them come to this world to help teach us all how to love more deeply and ________ .

I have been my sons’ ________ as well as teacher in this life. As their father, I did my best to teach them how to do things with their ________ intellectual abilities. And they successfully ________ how to laugh more freely, love more openly, and have joy more easily.

When you see the mentally ________ in this world, then don’t just look with your eyes. Look with your heart. See ________ their disguise to their soul. Let the light inside them ________ your own light as well. Let the love they share help you to share your own love too. They truly are God’s angels in disguise.