Love

by Mother Teresa

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be exraordinary
What we need is to love without getting tired
Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strenght lies

LIFE TIME

29 Oktober 2010 - Rina Conny

Time flies fast.
Autumn comes take summer's throne,
reigns there until winter take over then.
One comes filling a heart with love,
one goes bring it away.
Suddenly, find loneliness in a crowd.
Is this-is-a-life, a real life ?

A beginning start after a season past,
and soon will be an end when a new season takes its part.
Suddenly, feeling old in a new season
Is forever just a word, never act as a fact ?

On Children - Tentang Anak

by Kahlil Gibran

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said :

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your childrenas living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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Dan seorang perempuan yang sedang mendekap bayi di dadanya berkata, "Bicaralah kepada kami mengenai anak-anak."

Dan dia berkata:

Anak-anakmu bukanlah anak-anakmu.
Mereka adalah putra putri Sang Hidup yang merindukan dirinya sendiri,
Mereka datang melaluimu tetapi bukan darimu,
Dan walaupun mereka tinggal bersamamu, mereka bukanlah milikmu.

Kau dapat memberikan kasih-sayangmu tetapi tidak pikiranmu,
Karena mereka mempunyai pemikiran sendiri.
Kau dapat memberikan rumah untuk raganya tetapi tidak untuk jiwanya,
Karena jiwa mereka menghuni rumah masa depan,
yang tak dapat kau kunjungi, bahkan tak juga dalam mimpi-mimpimu.

Kau dapat berupaya keras untuk menjadi seperti mereka,
tetapi jangan mencoba membuat mereka sepertimu,
Karena kehidupan tidak berjalan ke belakang juga tak tinggal di masa lalu.

Kau adalah busur dari mana anak-anakmu melesat ke depan sebagai anak panah hidup.
Sang pemanah melihat sasaran di atas jalur di tengah keabadian,
dan DIA meliukkanmu dengan kekuatanNYA
sehingga anak panahNYA dapat melesat dengan cepat dan jauh.
Biarkanlah liukkanmu di tangan sang pemanah menjadi keceriaan;
Seperti DIA pun mengasihi anak panah yang terbang,
demikian juga DIA mengasihi busur yang mantap.

TODAY - by Unknown

Today is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it …
or use it for good.
But what I do today is important because
I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes,
This day will be gone forever.
Leaving in its place

Something that I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain and not loss,
Good and not evil,
Success and not failure,
In order that I shall not regret
The price that I have paid for it.

– Unknown


(terjemahan bebasku)....

Hari ini adalah awal hari baru
Tuhan berikanku hari ini
Untuk kugunakan seturut kehendakku
Bisa saja kusia-siakan,
Atau kupakai untuk hal yang berguna
Tapi yang kulakukan hari ini sangat penting,
Sebab aku menukar sehari hidupku untuknya.

Ketika esok menjelang
Hari ini akan berlalu selamanya
Pergi tinggalkan tempatnya

Sesuatu yang tlah kutukar untuknya
Ku ingin melaba bukan merugi
Baik dan bukan buruk
Sukses bukan gagal
Dan karenanya aku takkan menyesal
Untuk harga yang sudah kubayar

Master Piece

A Song by Sandi Patty

Before you had a name or open up your eyes
Or any one could recognize your face
You were being formed so delicate inside
Secluded in God’s safe and hidden place

With your little tiny hand and little tiny feet
And little eyes that shimmer like a pearl
He breathe in you a song and to make it all complete
He brought the masterpiece into the world

You are a Masterpiece a new creation he has formed
And you’re as soft and fresh as a snowy winter morn
And I’m so glad that God has given you to me
Little lamb of God, you are a Masterpiece.

And now you’re growing up, your life’s a miracle
Every time I look at you I stand in owe
Because I see in you a reflection of me
And you’ll always be my little lamb from God

And as your life goes on each day, how I pray that you will see
Just how much your life has meant to me
And I’m so proud of you, what else is there to say
Just be the masterpiece
He created you to be.
You are a Masterpiece a new creation he has formed
And you’re as soft and fresh as a snowy winter morn
And I’m so glad that God has given you to me
Little lamb of God, you are a Masterpiece.
You are a Masterpiece.

The Lord is My Shepherd - Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

terjemahan bhs Indonesia ...

TUHAN adalah gembalaku, takkan kekurangan aku.

Ia membaringkan aku di padang yang berumput hijau,

Ia membimbing aku ke air yang tenang;
Ia menyegarkan jiwaku.

Ia menuntun aku di jalan yang benar oleh karena nama-Nya.

Sekalipun aku berjalan dalam lembah kekelaman,

aku tidak takut bahaya, sebab Engkau besertaku;

gada-Mu dan tongkat-Mu, itulah yang menghibur aku.

Engkau menyediakan hidangan bagiku, di hadapan lawanku;

Engkau mengurapi kepalaku dengan minyak;

pialaku penuh melimpah.

Kebajikan dan kemurahan belaka akan mengikuti aku, seumur hidupku;

dan aku akan diam dalam rumah TUHAN sepanjang masa.

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND - a song

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND"
Alpha Sigma Omega 1962 Theme Song

No man is an island,
no man stands alone
Each man’s joy is joy to me,
each man’s grief is my own

We need one another,
so I will defend
each man as my bröthär,
each man as my friend

I saw the people gather,
I heard the music starts
The song that they were singing
is ringing in my heart

No man is an island, no man stands alone
Each man’s joy is joy to me, each man’s grief is my own
We need one another, so I will defend
each man as my bröthär, each man as my friend.

Lagu ini lagu yang dulu diajarkan oleh pastor Michael Hutabarat, guru agama SMPku dulu.
Karena lagu ini, aku mulai terbuka mata dan memandang ke depan

from Habakuk Prayer - Bible

Habakuk 3 : 17 - 19

From Bible - Basic English

For though the fig-tree has no flowers,
and there is no fruit on the vine,
and work on the olive comes to nothing,
and the fields give no food;
and the flock is cut off from its resting-place,
and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation

The Lord God is my strength,
and he makes my feet like roes’ feet, guiding me on my high places.
For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.
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Dari Alkitab Bahasa Indonesia

Sekalipun pohon ara tidak berbunga,
pohon anggur tidak berbuah,
hasil pohon zaitun mengecewakan,
sekalipun ladang-ladang tidak menghasilkan bahan makanan,
kambing domba terhalau dari kurungan,
dan tidak ada lembu sapi dalam kandang,

namun aku akan bersorak-sorak di dalam TUHAN, beria-ria di dalam Allah yang menyelamatkan aku.

ALLAH Tuhanku itu kekuatanku:
Ia membuat kakiku seperti kaki rusa, Ia membiarkan aku berjejak di bukit-bukitku.
(Untuk pemimpin biduan. Dengan permainan kecapi).

Children Learn What They Live - by Dorothy Law Nolte

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and others.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Build Me a Son, O Lord - by Douglas MacArthur

Build me a son, O Lord,
who will be strong enough to know when he is weak,
and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid;
one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat,
and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be;
a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort,
but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge.
Here let him learn to stand up in the storm;
here let him learn compassion for those who fail.

Build me a son whose heart will be clean,
whose goal will be high;
a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men;
one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep;
one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor,
so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.
Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness,
the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.”


**A prayer from one General Douglas MacArthur to the Heavenly Father over his son.