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几年前，我乘公共汽车去了距离肯尼亚内罗毕几小时车程的一个小村庄。在旅途中，当我向窗外望时，我看到一只鸵鸟在公共汽车旁疯狂地奔跑。它的长脖子和鼓鼓的眼睛在它那奇怪的大身体前面显得很突出，它拍打着巨大的、毛茸茸的翅膀，细腿使劲地蹬着，在热带大草原上飞奔而过，踢起一团团灰尘。我忍不住大笑起来，多么奇怪又滑稽的生物啊！

尽管鸵鸟很古怪，但它们在神的造物中仍有一席之地。虽然神没有赋予它们智慧理性和判断力，但祂确实有可能使它们的奔跑速度超过马匹和骑手，甚至在非洲的公路上可能超过行驶的公共汽车！也许神创造了这样一个有趣的生物，是要告诉我们，有时生活中发生的事情太过奇怪了，以至于我们不得不摇头感叹说：“祢不可能编造这些东西！”我们的生活往往是如此复杂，以至于我们无法轻易解释，有时甚至令我们哑口无言。

然而，即使是奇怪的无以言表的事情，在生活中也有它们各自的位置。就像那只极其快乐的飞奔的鸵鸟一样，在神的智慧下，一切都恰到好处。

Some years ago, I took a bus to a small village a few hours outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Partway through the trip, as I was looking out the window, I saw an ostrich running wildly alongside the bus. Its long neck and bulging eyes stuck out in front of its oddly large body, and it flapped its enormous, fluffy wings while its skinny legs pumped furiously, kicking up clouds of dust as it scurried across the savanna. I couldn't keep from laughing! What a strange and hilarious creature!

But as outlandish as ostriches are, they still have their place in creation. Although God didn't endow them with wisdom or good sense, he did see fit to make it possible for them to outpace horses and riders—and even transit buses on African highways! Perhaps God created such a funny creature for times when things that happen in life are just so strange that we have to shake our heads and say, "You can't make this stuff up!" Our lives are often so complex in ways that we can't explain, and sometimes we are left speechless.

Still, even strange and inexplicable things have their place in life. And like the wildly joyful ostrich, somehow everything fits together, in God's wisdom.