I was in the Santa Cruz Mountains not long ago, speaking and singing at a women's conference. We were focusing on the theme of loving others in practical ways through our gifts, and something in particular happened during one of the sessions that will remain imprinted in my memory as a beautiful illustration of this practice.

　　不久前我在圣克魯斯山脈，在一次婦女大會上有說有唱。我們關注的主題是通過送禮物等實用的方法來關愛他人。其中一個會議期間發生的一件特殊的事將成為最美的印跡永遠銘刻在我的記憶中。

　　A young Syrian woman （"Lilith"） had been invited to the conference at the last minute, and everyone seemed surprised and delighted that she'd actually come. Just a few days earlier, Lilith had fled her country and found refuge with one of the women attending the conference. As an Orthodox Christian in Syria, she and her loved ones had become targets of violent atrocities from radical terrorist groups in the country's ongoing civil war.

　　一位年輕的敘利亞女士（莉莉絲）在最后一分鐘被邀請到會議上，大家看起來都很驚訝，也很高興她真的來了。就在幾天前，莉莉絲逃離她的國家，和另外一個參加會議的女士一起尋找避難所。作為敘利亞的一名東正教教徒，她和親人們成為了這個國家正在進行的內戰中激進的恐怖組織暴行的目標。

　　Lilith had witnessed horrors no one her young age should ever see. Despite the further danger it presented, she'd decided to leave her home and her family to find safety here in America. Knowing some of her story, and seeing her sitting through the sessions at the retreat -- head covered in a scarf, face bowed toward the floor -- broke my heart.

　　莉莉絲目擊了她這個年紀的年輕人不該見到的恐怖。盡管要面臨更大的危險，但她決定離開家和家人來美國尋求安全。知道了她的一些故事，看見她會議期間有些退卻——頭上包著圍巾，臉朝著地面壓得很低——我感覺心要碎了。