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A Letter to HIV
Dear HIV,
Today is our sixth anniversary. Yes, it is already six years since the first time we introduced to each other. Every year... -
Dear Steve…I’m sorry you have to deal with crabby adam in Heaven :P~
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he is so….care-less! -______-’ *pentung2 Matthew!!!!!
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“Do you remember the sound that the door made when you closed it on me?”— Ghost by Ingrid Michaelson
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A Letter To Elisabeth; Home
Cha, ini udah mulai lagi #30HariMenulisSuratCinta kaya tahun lalu. Gue dong skarang jadi tukang pos! Dari bos dapet...
Wednesday May 16, 2012 Henri Nouwen Society Daily Mail
Making Our Deaths Gifts
How do we make our deaths gifts for others? Very often people’s lives are destroyed, harmed, or permanently wounded by the deaths of their relatives or friends. We have to do whatever we can to avoid this. When we are near death what we say to those who are close to us, whether in spoken or in written words, is very important. When we express gratitude to them, ask forgiveness for our shortcomings and offer forgiveness for theirs, and express our sincere desire that they continue their lives without remorse but remembering the graces of our lives, then our deaths can become true gifts.
- Nin: kenapa kalo anak sekolah hamil di luar nikah, yang cewek harus keluar, sedang yg cowok boleh lanjut?
- Von: karena yang cowok tidak hamil.
Freedom from Judging, Freedom for Mercy
We spend an enormous amount of energy making up our minds about other people. Not a day goes by without somebody doing or saying something that evokes in us the need to form an opinion about him or her. We hear a lot, see a lot, and know a lot. The feeling that we have to sort it all out in our minds and make judgments about it can be quite oppressive.
The desert fathers said that judging others is a heavy burden, while being judged by others is a light one. Once we can let go of our need to judge others, we will experience an immense inner freedom. Once we are free from judging, we will be also free for mercy. Let’s remember Jesus’ words: “Do not judge, and you will not be judged” (Matthew 7:1).
- Henri J. M. Nouwen
What Is Most Personal Is Most Universal
We like to make a distinction between our private and public lives and say, “Whatever I do in my private life is nobody else’s business.” But anyone trying to live a spiritual life will soon discover that the most personal is the most universal, the most hidden is the most public, and the most solitary is the most communal. What we live in the most intimate places of our beings is not just for us but for all people. That is why our inner lives are lives for others. That is why our solitude is a gift to our community, and that is why our most secret thoughts affect our common life.
Jesus says, “No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the house” (Matthew 5:14-15). The most inner light is a light for the world. Let’s not have “double lives”; let us allow what we live in private to be known in public.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Belarasa menunjukkan bahwa kita sesama manusia berbagi sisi kemanusiaan yang sama.
“Dalam wajah saudara yang tertindas, aku dapat mengenali wajahku sendiri dan pada tangan orang-orang yang tersingkir aku mengenali tanganku sendiri yang berbicara mengenai ketidakberdayaan dan kelemahan. Dagingnya adalah dagingku, darahnya adalah darahku, penderitaannya adalah penderitaanku, senyumannya adalah senyumanku. Tidak ada sesuatu pun dalam diriku yang asing baginya, tidak ada sesuatu pun dalam dirinya yang tidak kukenali. Dalam hatiku, kurasakan dambanya akan kasih, dalam jiwaku kurasakan kekejamannya. Pada matanya tercermin kerinduanku akan pengampunan dan pada kerut dahinya kulihat penolakanku. Kalau ia membunuh, aku tahu bahwa aku pun mungkin melakukannya. Kalau ia melahirkan kehidupan, aku pun tahu bahwa aku dapat mengerjakannya. Dalam lubuk jiwaku, aku sudah bertemu dengan sesamaku. Tidak ada sesuatu pun dalam dirinya yang asing bagiku baik rasa cinta maupun benci, baik kehidupan maupun kematian.”
“What do you seek?”
“Enlightment,” replied Daiju.
“You have your own treasure house. Why do you search outside?” Baso asked.
Daiju inquired: “Where is my treasure house?”
Baso answered: “What you are asking is your treasure house.”
Daiju was enlightened! Ever after he urged his friends: “Open your own treasure house and use those treasures.
Reaching Out (New York: Doubleday, 1986), 35.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
Stand together yet not too near together
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
and the oak tree and the cypress
grow not in each other’s shadow.
-Kahlil Gibran
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It is the most basic human loneliness that threatens us and is so hard to face. Too often we will do everything to avoid confrontation with the experience of being alone, and sometimes we are able to create the most ingenious devices to prevent ourselves from being reminded of this condition…
We not only bury our dead as if they were still alive, but we also bury our pains as if they were not really there.
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Proverbs 3:5
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