Thursday, May 15, 2014

The best gift


Twenty-Four years ago,



It was a special day for me. It is a day when I was born.
I grew up, walking ups and downs.
Many things happened to me.
The worst thing is when I was a baby, I was almost kidnapped by someone.
The most beautiful thing that happened to me is to know Jesus.



When I was kid, my parents always celebrate my birthday.
Inviting everyone to come and I was feeling kinda special.
But today, I am not feeling special on my birthday.
It just a same day as all days.




I am not feeling grateful only on my birthday anymore.

Everyday, I feel great knowing God loves me, knowing He cares for me.
Giving me family which each member is so priceless.
Giving me friends not only to comfort and support but also to remind me when I did something wrong.
Giving me many experiences that I think I don't deserve to have it





Forgiving me, day by day.
Teaching me all the way.
Shape me like He wants me to be.
Never leave alone even when I feel He did.

I am feeling special everyday because I have You and I want to love You more.

I need more grace to do it and I know You will give what I need to glorify Your name.








Sunday, May 4, 2014

May: What a Friend I Have in Jesus

Counting days to my birthday. Frankly, I’m feeling so old. I do not know why.

I assume it due to heavy days I through in last 5 months. What kind of heavy days?
When you sure with all your faith to get something but in the end of the day all you have got is nothing. You feel disappointed, desperate, hating the circumstance. The fact seems destroy all faith you had once before.
That’s what I felt.

My faith seems disappeared. I tried to cover all my sadness behind my smile, my laugh. I tried to find things that can make me happy because crying didn’t help anymore. For example: Eat. My weight increased!! It makes another unexpected problem xD

I spend times hang out with new friends just to trying something different, other kind of fun, but I guess it did not work as well.

I began being a selfish person just to make my mood better, getting my happy self back, and to get the faith I used to have before.

But again… It didn’t work.

Today, my father helps me to remember what kind of faith I had once. It was on my Senior High School. It held a final examination. When everybody planned to cheat, I stand up and said, “I’ll try my best. I trust on you, God. I know you help me to pass this test.” Thank God. In that time, God helps me and I passed without any cheat. My father said he was really proud of me in that time.

In that time, God says “yes” for my request.

In this time, God says “no” for my request.

I know, now the problem is: Will I still count on Him? Will I still trust on Him?
For the last 5 months my disappointed answer was “No. Hard to believe in you anymore, God. You didn’t let me get what You put in front of my eyes. How come I still trust You?”

But today God answer me with Isaiah 55: 8-13 (NIV)

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” Declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower. And bread for the eater.
So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of field will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD’s renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.

Those words make me feel guilty and shame for feeling disappointed and I ask for forgiveness at this.

So now, if God ask me one more time if I still trust on Him, I answer: Yes, LORD.
I give Him a give in singing with my simple voice and my guitar playing (the back sound ‘woof. Woof’ is my dog’s  voice xD). Click here to listen :)


   

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Thursday, April 17, 2014

A Man

Senangnya bisa nge-blog sekarang...!! Berhubung iPhone ketinggalan di rumah (karena kemarin pulang ke Bogor dan pagi-paginya buru buru balik ke Jakarta lagi, korbannya iPhone ketinggalan), gua sempet skeptis gak kan bisa nge-blog di saat ada insipirasi seperti ini. Saat gua buka laci meja kantor gua, gua liat ada seperti ada yang 'bersinar', dan itu adalah laptop gua yang gua bawa dan simpen di kantor setelah nginep di apartmentnya Ci Patty. Dengan baterai yang tersisa 15% marilah memulai kisah ini.. *jeng-jeng*

We will never really know somebody well in days.
That's exactly right!

Jadi gua akan cerita tentang seorang teman gua yang awalnya gua pikir dia childish, jutek, nyebelin, resek! By the time we have been friend and I tell him my first impression about him and he said, "I want others to see me like that at first. Let them think I am evil inside. Well, now, you know me. What do you think? Am I that evil?"

I just can silent.

You know, today is the peak of turning my point of view about him when he said, "If you have children, it is not necessary to put them in international school. The important point is: you should teach them 'The fear of the Lord'. It is useless when someone is bright in education but lack in fear of God. What will them going to be? They will be nothing."

WOW

I think, it is very rarely I hear a boy said that things in this (sin) world. He is not a boy. He is a man.
Even someone who used to I adore never tell me a things like that (the worst is he said he never pray).

Okay, the point that I want to let you know is: never put judgement at somebody. If knowing someone needs time, why judge?

Monday, April 14, 2014

Terima kasih untuk setitik air di tanah yang kering
Untuk secercah cahaya di kegelapan
Untuk setiap senyuman dalam air mata

Terima kasih untuk menjadi teman
Untuk setiap dukungan
Setiap pelukkan

Terima kasih untuk hadir meskipun hanya sementara

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Hi, April!

Hi, April! Hi, Fellas!
I really really miss you a lot!

Aku rindu dibangunkan sinar matahari dan angin sepoi-sepoi
Aku ingin bersandar sekali lagi
Menghentikan waktu sesaat saja
Merasakan selamanya

Aku rindu dengan suara yang membangunkan aku
Fajar tiba lalu terlelap lalu menghilang

Aku rindu merasakan indahnya damai
Tenang dan bahagia

Semoga kita nanti dapat bertemu lagi
(Meskipun dengan bentuk yang berbeda)
(Jangan cepat berlalu)
(Bersinarlah selamanya)

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Forgiveness is not a foolness

Hari ini aku mendapat pelajaran berharga dari seseorang yang sudah aku anggap abang kandung aku sendiri.
Tonight I talked to him how terrible my feeling because of some people who did evil behind me when at the first time I did so many kindnesses to them.
He told me that I must keep forgiving. No matter how hurt I am. No matter what they did to me even to my family. Forgiving is the best idea.
"You only can do nothing at this. So why don't you put your burden on Jesus, throw it, enjoy your life. Do not ever lose your happiness because of somebody's behavior or you will not have any differences with them"
So forgiving is not make you a fool, but it will make you better than the person who make a fool on you.

Thank God!

alone and lonely.

Semakin tua dan dewasa, aku semakin menyadari betapa sulitnya menerima "it is what it is". Apalagi jika tidak sesuai dengan pemiki...