Teak

It’s amazing to see how teak tree survive. In the dry season, they turn to brown, dark grey, some black because of the field burned by some irresponsible people and almost die, looks like no hope. Normally, dry season stand for six months but lately it took more than that maybe because of global warming, season became uncertainly. Can you imagine living without water? But in the rainy season they alive, they turn to green and slowly but sure they growing. Every time I pass the road and see the teak tree, I smiled. It’s the moment that I have always been fascinated by. What a life lessons! Sometimes in life we are facing some difficult and trouble but somehow we survive. I believe because of God’s grace that we can pass that situation. If God let the teak tree survive from their difficult situation, are we not much more valuable than they?

Reformation VS Halloween

Reformation Day is a religious holiday celebrated on October 31 in remembrance of the Reformation, particularly by Lutheran and some Reformed church communities.

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening"), also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows.

Tomorrow is October 31, it’s pity, on the same day the world is celebrate two different event, Reformation and Halloween, in my opinion Reformation identical with God and Halloween identical with Devil so God vs Devil. While church tries back to the right way in order to worship God, most people were choosing to celebrate the Devil. I never celebrate Halloween, why would you celebrate or make party for devil if you have God Almighty? Why don’t make party for God only?

Why I said God vs Devil? Christians feel concerned about the modern celebration of Halloween, and reject it because they feel it trivializes or celebrates paganism, the occult, or other practices and cultural phenomena deemed incompatible with their beliefs. And it happens.

God said in Exodus :

EX 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me. 

EX 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 

EX 20: 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 

EX 20:6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

See?

RED

"Love Is A Ruthless Game Unless You Play It Good And Right"

There's an old poem by Neruda that I’ve always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I’ve related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning. These are moments of newfound hope, extreme joy, intense passion, wishful thinking, and in some cases, the unthinkable letdown. And in my mind, every one of these memories looks the same to me. I see all of these moments in bright, burning, red. 

My experiences in love have taught me difficult lessons, especially my experiences with crazy love. The red relationships. The ones that went from zero to a hundred miles per hour and then hit a wall and exploded. And it was awful. And ridiculous. And desperate. And thrilling. And when the dust settled, it was something I’d never take back. because there is something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly, you jump in head first without looking. And there's something to be learned from waiting all day for a train that's never coming. And there's something to be proud of about moving on and realizing that real love shines golden like starlight, and doesn't fade or spontaneously combust. Maybe I’ll write a whole album about that kind of love if I ever find it. but this album is about the other kinds of love that I’ve recently fallen in and out of. Love that was treacherous, sad, beautiful, and tragic. but most of all, this record is about love that was red.

Above is prologue by Taylor Swift, my favorite singer. She just released an album called RED and I’m crazy in love with the album. As usually I've always became infatuated with the sound and the storytelling she wrote. RED like a birthday gift for me since it released on October. I love Red! I love October!

Brilliant

Wiiiihh lama juga absent ngeblog yach, sejak bulan Juni lalu :) sebenarnya sich ga sibuk - sibuk amat tapi rasanya muuuaaaalas banget mau update blog, padahal rencananya mau nulis tentang trip ke Eropa tapi belum terealisasi juga, maybe later but this time I just want to let you know that :

My life is brilliant. GOD works in the way that mostly I didn't expected it and it always marvelous, amazing, incredible, perfect in HIS time and it always make me overwhelmed with gratitude, speechless, teary eyes, goosebumps. Thank you LORD JESUS. I can't imagine how to live without YOU. #FAITH - EMi (6 June 2012)

Itulah yang terjadi dalam hidup saya, brilliant! What a life!

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