Long long ago, a circle missed one piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole（完整的）, so it went around looking for its 1piece. But because it was 2 and therefore could roll only very slowly, it 3 the flowers along the way. It 4with the worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but 5of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and 6searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted 7. It incorporated (把……并入) the missing piece into itself and began to roll. 8it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, 9fast to notice the flowers or talk to the worms. After it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it 10 ， left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
The 11 of the story, I suggest, is that in some strange 12 we are more whole when we are missing something. In some way，the man who has 13 is a poor man. He will never know what it 14 like to nourish (滋养) his soul with the dream of something15. When we accept that 16 is part of being human and when we can continue rolling 17 life and appreciate it, we will have 18 wholeness that others can only desire(渴望), which, I believe, is 19 God asks of us — not “Be perfect”， not “Don't even make a mistake”, 20“Be whole”．
Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn't always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.
The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don't keep them, since they're not in the warehouse business. And by law, the y cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.
So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store's shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.
Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.
The store's own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.
The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions（获得物） have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.
Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.
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Great fathers in the animal world
Hardhead catfish
Although the father hardhead catfish doesn't get pregnant(怀孕的) himself，he does put up to 48 of his fertilized eggs(受精卵) in his mouth and carries them with him for 60 days.This means he can't eat until the eggs hatch(孵化)．It can take two months or longer，meaning that the dads have to live off their own body fat for that long.
Emperor penguin
The emperor penguin lives in the coldest place on Earth.After the mother penguin lays her egg，it's the father's job to keep it warm.The father balances the egg on his feet and often stays close to other fathers for warmth until their chicks hatch.He stays like this for months without a meal.Only after the mother returns does the father get to head to sea for a good meal.
Namaqua sandgrouse
Namaqua sandgrouse live in Africa's southern deserts (沙漠)．Since the young chicks cannot make it to water，the dad has to bring it to them，flying up to 50 miles a day to the nearest watering hole.He puts his b o dy in water every morning and his feathers (羽毛) take in the water.He then returns and the chicks can drink the water straight from his feathers.
Greater hornbill owl
Most mother birds are smaller than the fathers.Well，for greater hornbill owls，this isn't true.Mothers are the ones who guard their “houses” after they're built.This leaves the father to spend all his time feeding three to five hungry mouths，one of which may be larger than him.He can sometimes spend the entire night catching small animals to feed his family without eating something himself.
