Neale：
When you say that a prayer is a statement of what is so, are you saying that God does nothing; that everything which happens after a prayer is a result of the prayer’s action?
你說祈禱只是對『已然存在』的聲明，那麼你的意思是，神什麼都不做？ 所有發生的事情，都是祈禱本身運作的結果？
God：
If you believe that God is some omnipotent being who hears all prayers, says “yes” to some, “no” to others, and “maybe, but not now” to the rest, you are mistaken. By what rule of thumb would God decide?
If you believe that God is the creator and decider of all things in your life, you are mistaken.
如果你以為神 萬能到會包辦所有事情，聆聽所有祈禱，對某些人說『好』，對另一些人說『不』， 然後對其餘的人說『也許可以，但不是現在』，那你就錯了。 這樣，神究竟根據什麼標準來做決定的呢？
如果你認為神是你生命中一切的創造者和決定者，那你就錯了。
God is the observer, not the creator. And God stands ready to assist you in living your life, but not in the way you might expect.
It is not God’s function to create, or uncreate, the circumstances or conditions of your life.
God created you, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest, through the power God has given you.
God created the process of life and life itself as you know it. Yet God gave you free choice, to do with life as you will.
In this sense, your will for you is God’s will for you.
神是觀察者，不是創造者。 神隨時準備好協助你過生活，但不是以你可能期待的那種。
創造或消除你人生的環境和條件，並不是神的職責。
神按照祂的 本質(愛、智慧、創造力...等,非外貌) 創造了人。 而你用神賦予你的力量，創造其它一切。
神創造了你所認識的生命的過程以及其本身。 然而，神也給了你自由選擇權，讓你可以照自己的意願去生活。
由此可知，你的意願 就是神的意願。
You are living your life the way you are living your life, and I have no preference in the matter. This is the grand illusion in which you have engaged: that God cares one way or the other what you do. I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear.
你正以你想要的方式生活，而我對此沒有任何偏好。 你們有個嚴重的幻想：以為神會在意你們所做的每件事。 這對你來說可能很難接受，但我確實不在乎你們做什麼。
Yet do you care what your children do when you send them out to play? Is it a matter of consequence to you whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or pretend? No, it is not, because you know they are perfectly safe. You have placed them in an environment which you consider friendly and very okay. Of course, you will always hope that they do not hurt themselves. And if they do, you will be right there to help them, heal them, allow them to feel safe again, to be happy again, to go and play again another day.
But whether they choose hide and seek or pretend will not matter to you the next day, either. You will tell them, of course, which games are dangerous to play. But you cannot stop your children from doing dangerous things. Not always. Not forever. Not in every moment from now until death. It is the wise parent who knows this.
試想一下，當你讓孩子們出去玩時，你會在意他們做什麼嗎？ 他們想玩捉迷藏、鬼抓人或是扮家家酒，對你來說重要嗎？ 不重要，因為你知道他們非常安全。 你讓他們去的地方，是你認為友善且安全的環境。 當然，你總是希望他們不會傷害到自己。 如果真的發生了，你會立刻去幫助他們、照顧他們，讓他們重新感到安全、快樂，改天還能繼續玩。
但到了第二天，他們是選擇捉迷藏或是扮家家酒，你也不會在意。 你當然會告訴他們哪些遊戲是危險的，但你無法阻止他們去做危險的事情。 然而，你到離開人世之前，都無法永遠、無時無刻地看著他們。 明智的父母都明白這一點。
Yet the parent never stops caring about the outcome. It is this dichotomy—not caring deeply about the process, but caring deeply about the result— that comes close to describing the dichotomy of God.
Yet God, in a sense, does not even care about the outcome. Not the ultimate outcome. This is because the ultimate outcome is assured.
然而，父母從未停止關心 結果。 像這種二分法 ——「不深究過程，但非常重視結果」—— 就非常接近對神二分法的描述。
然而，從某種意義上來說，神甚至不在乎結果。 連終極結果也不在乎。 因為終極結果早已受到保障。
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二分法： 不是指”非黑即白”，它是指兩方既矛盾又互相依存的意思。 文裡的例子就是你非常不關心，同時你也非常的關心，我認為是愛的平衡，不控制也不冷漠。
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總結：
依據神給的例子，也許神在表達的正是——我們都很安全，無論我們想玩什麼遊戲。 但我猜想還有後續，不然為何要＂協助＂人呢？
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