Broad Minded

TOPENG KITA Oleh lentaria Lumban Toruan Kita adalah sekelompok muda yang terjebak dalam sandiwara Berkata lewat sajak , ketika hati membatu Bersimpati ketika hati tak peduli Ya.. semua tertawa,  bergurau, melepas kata Aku senang teman, senang melewatkan waktu bersama Tapi apa? Bukankah hanya sandiwara? Sekejap saja lalu episode berubah Aku sedih teman, sedih mendengar kisah pilu mu Tapi apa? Bukankah hanya sandiwara? Sekejap saja lalu episode berubah Aku masih bisa tertawa teman Aku bisa sedih, bisa pula merindu Tapi semua hanya sandiwara teman… Berlaku ketika kita bersama, Lalu, Ketika bayang mu berlalu Muncullah wajah asliku Muncul pula wajah aslimu Dari balik topeng kita 

Is God a Being that I Know? I have been a Christian since I was child and I lived in Christian environment. All of people around me (include my family and community) helped me to build my own understanding about God. Unfortunately the people there still defined God as a Being that they want. Everybody knew that God is love and of full of mercy, nobody taught me that God also a holy Judge. May be they were not as severe as Indiana Church, but their point of view have shaped my mind into wrong understanding about God. Having such this faith made me believe that God would fulfill all things which I asked in pray. That was way, I became same as Richard who always prayed to God and asked for His direction and helping when I face a problem. In my deepest heart I believe that God is a mighty Being, full of love and able to do everything and of course will help me and release me from a bad situation. Of course it was not wrong, if my faith stopped there, it meant I placed God as my “serva...

I Live for Him who Had Died for Me A reflection toward 2 Corinth 5: 11-21 As a Christian, I often hear some news about Christian faith who says that every person’s life is belong to God and supposed to use to glorify Him. When I hear this news, I can believe it without any question or complain. Even, I often share it to the people around me and try to make them have the same faith. Unfortunately, receive it as my own faith is easier than do it in my daily life. Because at the fact, I just use this faith as “head knowledge” without any application. Something that happen is I live for my own self. I make a decision which will bring positive impact for me without any consideration whether it is appropriate with God will or not. I also always measure something based on how big the useful for me. One of the most embarrassing things that I usually do is measuring a serve based the number of viewer which influences my courage level to serve. If there are a lot of viewers then I will ma...

I don’t Have Anything to Doubt  A reflection toward Matthew 6:25-34 Being a scholarship student in TC bring a very big happiness to me and my family. My family is happy because they should not pay my education and other need include my school fee, shelter and food as long as I am here. For me myself, I should not think about my life and work after I finish my study here, because I am sure that I will be a teacher and teach in a school under Pelita Harapan Foundation. Get a lot of mercy from God who call and bring me here doesn’t make me grate in every single time. The reason is even though foundation has provides some of my need, but I still feel that there are another things which I should worry about.  I always worry about my future, whether I will be a success men or not, whether my mother will still life until I am able to make her happy or not, whether I can survive here or not, and so on.  Of course thinking about my future is not wrong, but if worry about ...