Jesus, You and Me

Just talk to him
Like you’d talk to yourself.
Just laugh with him
Like you’d laugh with your best friend.
Just listen to him,
Like you’d listen to your Mother or Father

Jesus was no different than you and I.
Ok, maybe he was better at most things,
But his Dad did create the world… so he had
all the secrets to the things you and I struggle with, haha.
But I bet Jesus couldn’t play football like Messi, or compose music like Mozart.
I bet he couldn’t run 100m in 9.58 seconds like Bolt or invent an iPad like Steve Jobs. 

BUT, He probably had more self-control than you and I and I would
guess that he was way more disciplined than you and I.

Neither did he fear life or death
Or love or pain.
When faced by the divergence of a path,
he was calm and confident.
…unlike you and I.

The moral of all this is….I have no idea.
Just talk to him

(:This one is for Ruth and for all from Taizé :)
Happy Christmas

Jenga – The Game Of Life

SLAVES
‘We could sit around and talk for days
'bout all the things that we would change
But we never thought…we never thought that we were slaves’ kano

Slaves to the world, slaves to life, slaves to ourselves!

MAADNESS
We’re crazy, mad people living our lives away.
Wake up, eat, drink, work, study, eat, work, talk, eat, sleep.
Dead.

LIFE
Puppets on a string…insignificant?

JENGA
Downfall is inevitable

Your move

_Life is Alive with Such a Dream_

Many people are amazed at how much they dream, Dreams play an important role in life, Dream helps us in daily life, Day by day, You can doing that, doing this, and many things However big or small your dream, it will comes true and works. 

 Your personalities are exposed when you have a dream, Fears and desires showed up with, Because you reaching in it,

Infact we take time to aware,
Becoming aware what is being good now and later,
Becoming aware that you are in a dream,
and surely you can take control of the experience,

 When something is changing you, your dream becoming real, Dreaming is good in our life, we don’t realize it sometimes, Our life is alive because we have such a dream..

 Jesus tells in the Bible; “do not worry about your life, You will receive life in you”. I can say too, do not worry about your dreams, it comes true or not, 

Just trust in God, do your life with such of dream, And let Him works in you.

And Man Created God In His Own Image

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

’And man created God in his own image’

A little twisted eh? A little true eh?
I think we’ve done it over, a whole new culture.
We’re like puppets on a string… not knowing a single thing.

God is who we wish him to be, from heaven or hell, for good or for bad.
We have the unshakeable power to use or abuse God in any manner we wish.

’Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure’

Dream More While You Are Awake

Dream more while you are awake.
And I don’t mean that in the sense of day-dreaming :)
Dream and believe in what you dream of.
This Short Film is incredibly powerful and intelligent.
The Kiwi had a dream, and even though it was a dream that appeared impossible, he found away around the obvious obstacles and challenges that lay ahead of him.
He just took the road less travelled.
If you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat…he got out of the boat! 

Through hard work and steadfast faith in what we want…we can have.
Some things are worth the time and effort, others are not, so choose wisely.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

_Hearts beating_

In the begining,
Something strange in me
Something come up and grow up
Come up and grow up by itself
Seems someone examines me
Testing me, force me to act something
Imagine, if you pass a place that full of tigers,
What would you do?
Surely.. hearts beating
Beating so fast…
Hopefully you need something or someone to be there
Am i right?

In the end..
i don’t know when
but we was starting
Starting the challenges, find lot of bad situations, kind of waves
And kind of examinations in life.

Then…
Give up or stand up will be the answers
We choose.. and we decide pass trough we called ‘faith’.
Ups and down are normal and will be always in life
Little by little…
The beating of this heart slowly will understand
Soon after it seems like teaching ourself to believe in Him.
i see heart beats with God.

....No Title.....

How long have i been trying,

to have this distance to bear

How often have i been dying,

not to touch your hair

And everytime you're feeling down

i want to show how much i care

instead i nail myself to the ground

and do nothing but stare

and everytime i have to speak

i have to choose my words so hard

for i know the thing you seek

is not here in my heart

...

dear dearest, i'm sorry

i'm in the middle of nowhere

if i can measure probability

i'll know my place and stay there

if we know who we are

we'll know what we can have

but i can't yet go that far

for i don't even know myself

(R_Surbakti)

God's Shadow

getty images

Religion is like a shadow to the world.
It follows us wherever we go and just will not go away.
Sometimes it takes the lead, sometimes it follows behind.
Other times it just walks by your side.
Its shape may be large or small, depending on where you are in life.
You can compare God to the sun if you like, but one thing is for sure,
you can't hide from the effects of God.
Embrace him as your own.

True Reflections

When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see??
When you look deep into your own eyes, penetrating to the depths of your soul…what do you feel??

Penetrate deep, and read yourself! Turn your pages slowly, and carefully.
We as human beings need to be…we need to be more truthful with ourselves.
I am writing this for myself, but I want to share this with you because I know that each and every one of you also have your own little secrets.

When you look into that mirror…what do you see?
Do you see a sheep or a shepherd? A truth or a falsity?

Being honest with ourselves is never easy. It’s a handicap that won’t ever go away. The thought of being a lesser person than what we like to believe will hurt us.

Look into your mirror and peel away the lies that distort the real picture.
Look to the depths of your being and tell yourself that you can be all that you want to be.
Your greatest motivator is yourself, and being face to face with yourself is no different to being face to face with another person.
MT said ‘The eyes are like the windows to the soul’, and through your own eyes you can speak with the depths of your soul.
Do you think God blessed us with these eyes in order to see all around us,
yet not ourselves?




Look to the depths of your being and tell yourself that you can be all that you want to be.
Don’t be afraid.

’I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me’
Philippians 4:13

SMILE

smile. sonrisa. sourire.  mosoly. senyum. glimlach. meangadh. 미소. 笑顔. lächeln. smil. मुस्कान. sorriso. улыбка. tabasamu. посмішка. leende. חיוך. 微笑. zâmbet.
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE



LOVE TO SMILE

Light Up

Light a candle tonight.
Let its flame burn high and proud.
Let its light shine bright through the night.
Let yourself be taken away with its peace and calm.
Lay your intentions before it, but most of all, lay yourself before it.
Allow it to rekindle your dwindling flame.
Allow it to free your mind.

Minta Tolong

Berbagi dari sebuah program tv, tepatnya acara “Minta Tolong” di chanel RCTI sore ini. Beberapa dari teman-teman mungkin sudah tahu dengan acara ini. Setiap kali ada waktu, aku sempatkan untuk bisa nonton. Seperti biasa, seseorang yang sudah ditentukan oleh pihak RCTI untuk berperan sebagai seseorang yang sangat butuh pertolongan.

Sore ini dengan pengaturan kerjasama sedemikian dari pihak RCTI dengan seorang perepmpuan setengah baya yang cacat kakinya, sehingga ia harus menggunakan sepasang tongkat untuk mampu berjalan. Bagian tugasnya adalah menemukan seseorang yang mau “menolong” dengan ikhlas, menolong dengan sepenuh hati dan spontan memang punya keinginan menolong. Misi kecil ini pun ia mulai dengan beberapa buah koran di tangannya yang hendak ia tukarkan dengan sebuah selimut untuk anaknya dirumah. Dengan bermodalkan koran-koran itu ia memberanikan dan optimis, nanti akan ada seseorang yang menolongnya. Ia bertanya kesana kemari, basa basi kesana kemari, dan meminta tolong kepada beberapa orang yang sudah banyak jumlahnya, tetapi ternyata belum juga ditemukan seseorang yang sungguh-sungguh ingin menolong. Singkat cerita sampailah ibu ini kepada seorang bapak penjual koran, yang juga adalah seorang yang cacat. Obrolan keduanya pun tercipta sebegitu rupa dan mulai ibu ini menyatakan keinginannya untuk sebuah pertolongan dari si bapak. S

eiring waktu, entah mengapa rasa dan keinginan untuk memberi pertolongan pun ada di dalam diri si bapak ini. Rasa mau menolong yang saya yakini datang dari dalam hatinya yang terdalam. Spontan dan alami. Bisa dibilang menolong baginya menjadi porsi penting di dalam hidupnya. Hari itu, ternyata dialah orang terakhir yang mau menolong si ibu ini. Koran-koran itu pun akhirnya ia terima dari ibu itu dan menukarnya dengan sebuah selimut. Pada zaman ini sulit dan langka memang menemukan seseorang yang ikhlas menolong dari hati. Seiring pengalaman saya hidup, entah mengapa yang namanya menolong orang lain menjadi sebuah kelemahan bagi kebanyakan orang. Yang paling menyentuh saya dari program ini, ketika seorang cacat menolong seorang yang keberadaanya sama dengan dirinya yaitu juga cacat. Mungkin banyak kita jumpai di dalam realita, si cacat menolong si cacat, si buta menolong si buta, dll. Tentu tidak kalah juga kita temui si normal menolong si cacat, tapi kok rasanya masih banyak orang normal yang cuek, asyik dengan diri sendiri dan terlalu nyaman atau memang yang namanya menolong menjadi tidak penting dalam hidupnya.

Karena sudah terlalu disibukkan dengan hal lain. Entahlah, ini hanya perasaan-perasaan saya saja. Tapi saya yakin si bapak ini akan menolong siapa pun, bagaimana pun keadaanya jika memang rasa menolong yang spontan dan alami itu sudah melekat dalam dirinya. Dan saya yakin setiap kita juga akan melakukan hal yang sama dengan bapak ini jika memang rasa menolong yang spontan dan alami ini ada di dalam diri kita.

/Ruth Pandia (Yogya, 26-10-10)

Tuhan berkati.. :-)



Who Is Your Shadow?

What am I without my shadow?
Would I be half the person I am today?
Would I feel empty, like I’ve lost a part of who I am?
Only my shadow has walked every step of this journey with me.
Only my shadow knows where I’ve been and where I’m going.

Our greatest aspiration in life should be to live more like our very own shadows.
humble, loving, caring, strong, trustworthy, honest,
The ultimate life companion through good and bad, joy and despair, life and death.
Our very own shadow is just the everyday reminder of the person we want to be.
Our better half!

Flying High

You know we’re flying high,
Yes
I got you flying high

It’s now or never,
So fly towards the sky,
higher than life,
because in time we’ll only die!

Hakuna Matata,
It’s a way of life, so lay back, hold tight!
The Lord is my shepherd,
No worries, only sky, Everest high!

Like a rocket, we will rock it,
No past, no future,
Come with me now,
I’ll get you flying high.

It’s now or never.
So fly towards the sky,
higher than life,
because in time we’ll only die.

Fragile (By_Sting)

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one

Drying in the colour of the evening sun

Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away

But something in our minds will always stay

Perhaps this final act was meant

To clinch a lifetime's argument

That nothing comes from violence

and nothing ever could

For all those born beneath an angry star

Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall

Like tears from a star

Like tears from a star

On and on the rain will say

How fragile we are

How fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall

Like tears from a star

Like tears from a star

On and on the rain will say

How fragile we are, How fragile we are

How fragile we are, How fragile we are

Being Sensitive To Care

In difficulties of others, sadness and sorrow, Who really cares? myself? maybe,

what do i care about? I have a treasure, i have much time, i have things to share. In short way i can say i have the opportunity to care but too much theory in me. Too much discourse. Each place in this universe you will meet many people like this.

What i can say, many people really want to do many things for those people who suffer, weak. But it stagnants in their theory. It may also happen in your place, your country, on campus, at school. Those people do not need your theory of things. But they do need care, love and be with them in any situation, be with them as who you are. You have a lot of things that you can be distributed but stopped in your theory. Stopped because a lot of talk about this and that.

Few days ago i met a guy who came to our evacuated place in Warak village. He was coming as a volunteer with his group from his university. He played games, dances and funny things with all children. Just in few minutes he brings a good atmospher for those children. He looks very simple. Sure i see he lives as it is and just share. Not much to say. He did not give a lot of theory and discourse to do something beautiful.

He only gives what he had available to share. He shared which is beautiful in God and make people happy. Yes he was the person who actually cares. In Indonesia, we need more young people like him. Brave, simple and He totally inspired me. Caring does not mean difficult. Does not mean you have to prepare this things and that things. Do it simple and as it is, with what you have and you want to share. Its more than enough.

"Creator God we live in your world, in the midst of your people. Give us the courage to live according to your way. A world in which your reign holds people together in truth, love and sharing what we have as Yours".

Without Him...

What if there really was no God?
What if we were actually alone, here on this planet, lost in the darkness.
What if our destiny and faith belonged entirely to us and was wholly dependent on our actions.

Scary, eh? For some reason I don't think we have the capacity to live this life without God.
I prefer the idea of having a shepherd to help guide me, and to guide us.
Without Him, I'm sure we'd just find ourselves stuck in a thorny bush, unable to free ourselves.
Without Him, I'm sure we'd see darkness at the end of the tunnel, not light.
Without Him, I'm sure we'd see just how much we need Him.

Free Minds

‘Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere’.
Albert Einstein

It’s clever isn’t it? It kind of makes you stop and think.
What gets in the way of our ambitions and goals is ourselves.
Our own narrow minded thoughts. Our own logic telling us what to do, and generally telling us what society wants us to do.
Society lacks imagination.
That frustrates me.
Society lacks freedom.
That frustrates me.

In many ways I see imagination as a factor of freedom. It’s like a release from the world.
It’s an identity that takes you places that no other can go.
It’s like…hmm….it’s like the world is yours’.
Which it is!

I think Einstein's quote should be the sub-title of this blog. It relates pretty good to the idea of ‘Free Minds’, don’t you think?

Trust Yourself?

Have you ever tried walking 10 paces with your eyes shut tight?
I have and it's amazing how difficult a task it is. Not on a wide open grassy plane, but on a normal town footpath, when you've got a free run ahead of you. Why it's so difficult I have no idea, maybe it's just a lack of trust in oneself.
Of course it's very possible, and I've done it many times, but not without much uncertainty.
Do you trust yourself?
Try it! Close your eyes and walk 10 paces the next time your on a town path.

In My Heartbeat

Many of us live our lives searching for truth.
Searching for answers and reason.

As a result I find myself getting lost in this search.
The truth is there for all to see. The truth, I believe, is in you and is in me.
The truth is our long, rocky road home.
It’s in our times of loving, and in times of struggling,
in times of worship and times of friendship,
in times of happiness and times of sadness.

In each-other we find truth.
In each-other we find the meaning of life.

Can you feel my heartbeat? Can you feel your heartbeat?
In the beat of my heart lies the beat to my life,
the beat to my meaning, the beat to my truth.

love.

‘love. truthful. sincere. honest. undiluted. unpolluted. love.
Love, straight from the heart, without any ulterior motive at the
back of your mind, when you have to deal with your fellow neighbour.’
Nneka

When God Goes Missing (To the tune of 'When Love Takes Over')

When God goes missing....yeahhh

-e-yeahhh....you know you can't deny,
when God goes missing yeahhh-e-yeahh...it happens all the time!

Fuck, does it happen all the time!!

Right now life sucks! That's the plain, simple fact of my life.
But that's ok...shit happens!

If I could draw a graph of my life it would go something like this:

There's nothing strange about that...right?
Life is somewhat like a rollercoaster in terms of our emotional state.
Considering I just drew that graph in the Paint program, and it took all of 30 seconds...it may not be so accurate! It lacks more happiness...but you get the idea.

What I've also noticed is that my happiness lows happen to coincide with times that God's gone missing...of my own fault of course...not his!

Clearly it's a problem easily resolved...right??

Pain Is Inevitable...Suffering Is Optional

There's an obvious lesson in these words for all of us.
It's inevitable that we will hurt throughout our lives. Fact.
By keeping this thought that 'suffering is optional' in our minds,
then perhaps we can begin to accept pain...maybe even expect pain.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could bring ourselves to take our 'pain' with a pinch of salt and just get on with life rather than to sit around thinking about how bad we hurt?

I'll be the first one to admit it's easier said than done!

Simple, Random Lines That I Think All The Time

No more looking back!

Here we fucking go again - the story of life – rising just to fall – or falling just to rise!

Everything’s out of time, and I don’t know which way’s upside down!

What more do I need (or even want sometimes) other than bread, water, happiness and love.

I’m pissed off and frustrated…time for my P’s & Q’s…I’m going for a walk!

You Are Not ‘Normal’

Have any of you heard of Remi Gaillard?
He’s a French man that has figured out life better than most.
This is kind of a continuation of the ‘Fuck It’ theme.

Break free of the chains that tag you as being ‘normal’!
YOU’RE NOT NORMAL
You’re different, weird, crazy, unique.
YOU’RE FREE…YOU’RE YOU

Trying to be ‘normal’ in the eyes of society is probably the
greatest mistake we make in our lives.

F**k It

 

Fuck it…sometimes I think that’s the only way!
Our lives are so full of little annoyances, frustrations, difficulties, problems!
Fuck it…I don’t care.

If something bad happens… fuck it, it’s not the end of the world.

If I do something stupid, if I’m stressed and under pressure, if I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders…fuck it, life’s too short and valuable to be worrying about these little things.

If I’m worried about finances or school, work or relationships…fuck it, what happens happens, and I probably can’t do much to change it, so why bother worrying about it!

Life’s too valuable to be blotching it with worry!

Take it easy, relax, let go…even when things are pretty shitty!

I Was Stabbed By Satan

‘It is said that Satan stabs a child at birth as an introduction to pain, you know, welcome to the world, right?’
K’Naan

Why do I think so much about fear and pain?
It’s like a darkness that is slowly creeping into the depths of my life.
It intrigues me…attracts me…becomes me.

I have come to see pain as a part of my life, just as love is a part of my life.
I have come to see fear as a part of my life, just as hope is a part of my life.

The content of this blog is slowly being narrowed down to one or the other. I’m struggling to write about anything else, to even concentrate on anything else.

I’m sorry if it’s becoming boring and repetitive.

I was stabbed by Satan…definite…I know I was.
So were you…definite…I know you were.

Perhaps phrasing it as ‘I was stabbed by Satan’ is a little scary…

 

Still scared…I thought not! :)

Satan is nothing more than the side effect of freedom.
If it wasn’t Adam and Eve, it would have been you and me!

Evaluating Life…

http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/d.html#m0   Click to enlarge

Reading all these facts and adding up all these deaths I was left with a couple of questions.

Do we value life enough for what it is? With all this simple death…probably not! Where is our respect for our greatest God given gift.
OR
Do we value life too much? With all this simple death…probably! If death is so simple and frequent why value or lives so highly…it could so easily be us next! Perhaps even, by not valuing our lives so much we can free ourselves to do what we really want.
 

“ Strange evolution when people have come to believe that we are its greatest collusion, when really we’re just a collection of cells overrating ourselves” Dave Matthews

2010…A Year Of Disaster And Pain

Music of Sarah Bareilles, pictures from various Googlers!

-2010-
It’s only September!

When I put this video together I said to myself
'We're Fucked'.

But really we're not...it's just a challenge we must face together with nothing more than
hearts full of love.

‘Life Is Beautiful’

Logging onto facebook today, I saw a comment from a friend of mine.
Very simply, it read ‘Life is Beautiful’.

Is life really as beautiful as we think it is?
Is it fair that in Pakistan, 20million are suffering unimaginable pain, 24hours, 7days a week.
Ireland has a population of 4 million people…4 million people will probably die before this year is out!

’Life is beautiful’??

Pray for these people,
Hurt for these people,
Cry for these people,
Don’t be afraid to shed a tear for these people…give them all your love.

Stand by them with all your heart and soul…perhaps then life can become more beautiful for everyone.

That's My King - Dr. S.M. Lockridge

I take no credit for any part of this video.

I can’t really write anything here that would do you any good…not after that.

Dr. S.M. Lockridge has actually turned Jesus into a superhero for me…something like Batman, Spiderman, Robocop or something like that!

But this time it’s real…it’s truth.

Watch this video over and over again until the message that Jesus is King and that Jesus loves you even in the face of death, becomes engraved in your heart and mind.

A Troubled Me

Stop…just stop.
Close your eyes and then close your mind.
Now slowly start thinking, thinking about life.
Life…Life…Life…LIFE!
What the fuck is life? What is it??
What am I doing here…what is my life doing here?
What are all our lives doing here??

I’m struggling and it’s troubling me.
Slowly I feel myself being pulled towards greater inner trouble.
It’s hurting and frustrating me, like a beast fighting towards my soul.
It’s starting to feel as much a part of me as night is to day.
It’s beat slowly matching that of my hearts… a pulse of its own.
The dark side to my life…as much a mystery to me as it is to you.

Voices in my head are telling me to do something.
My heart and my soul are telling me to do something.
I’m being told to do something beautiful. Something beautiful for God.
To show love, to bring joy, to bring a smile to the faces of those most in need.

Sometimes the only answer I can see to darkness is to give whatever light I may have…to stop thinking of myself so much. The greatest times in my life have been at times of self-giving, times of forgetting myself.
I have confused my mind by saying I must do something beautiful for God. It sounds like such a weight, such a burden.
To love, to care, to be kind, to listen…to smile.
It’s all something beautiful for God.

Death...It's So Very Alive!

Do you like this picture?
I love it.
It's a dead picture yet so very alive.
It hides nothing but tells us everything.

Death may catch me by the throat and throw me to the ground.
It may take from me everything......but in a funny way..... it takes nothing at all.

We are the seeds of life...seeds of love, if you like.
Our love suffers not from famine or drought...but takes strength.

When my mind grows old and my body wears thin,
My soul will laugh at my human weakness, and cry,"Awake my soul...freedom at last"

Fear not death, for love never dies!

Satan vs God

Life is one large battle...in fact, it's a WAR.
It's a war of ENDLESS battles...one after another they line up.
Allow yourself to transcend above the battlefield to see more clearly.
To see more clearly your enemy, to see more clearly yourself.
Wait a second...to see my enemy...or to see myself??
Yes...your enemy, yourself...same thing.

" It is better to conquer yourself than to win
a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons,
by heaven or hell."
Buddha

Live Life As It's Meant To Be

Is there anything out there that survives without its other half?

Man without woman?
Friend without foe?
Love without hate?
Hope without fear?
Joy without despair?
Strength without pain?
Life without death?

The sooner we accept the darker side, the brighter it will become.

Hand In Hand, We Move Forth

Hand in hand, we move forth,
Spirit as one, we fight pain,
Body as one, we embrace,
Heart as one, we show love,
Love as one, we do all things.

Forest of Silence

Wondering through the forest, i searched for meaning.
Meaning to life and all that was happening.
Going back to the fast, i tended to forget.
Losing what i wanted, something i know regret.

"Continue walking!", my heart kept saying.
"Don't stop here!", my mind kept praying.

I looked far a way, i found none arround.

"Oh look for the light!", my heart screamt loud.

I searched in vain, a way, a ray of light.
None did i find, not even a bread to bite.
The day more a way, with troubles a plenty.
I lost my sight, all of if any.
Darkness surrounded and with it the fear, hungry and thirsty.
I broke into fears.
The past i came to bury, in this forest of silence.

Now i wonder, where were my senses?
Noises did i hear, the trees did i fear.
Santity had i destroyed, which to them was dear.

A guest it sure was, to bury my worrying past.
In the forest of silence, i doubted i would last.

Close were they coming, they wanted me out.
"Wake up, wake up". I could hear a shout.
I opened my eyes, my heart had stopped screaming.
I was lying on my bed, i was just dreaming.
I looked at my watch, it was quarter past nine.

The sun was blagins yet, nothing seemed fine.
"Where was i? What had just happened?" i thought and though.
All the more lightened. To bury my past, i had gone, into the forest of silence.

I had left my present, to wonder in no presence.
Taught was i, a lesson to not forget.

Leave back your past, treasure your present!

The Balance Of Life

Today I have felt myself sink to an unusual low.
I have felt pain creep from my heart to my soul.
Today fear has taken over and left me feeling very alone.

The fact that I spent time thinking about fear yesterday is just a coincidence. I woke up this morning to the news that 4 people had just been killed in a car accident. A 15 year old boy, his 17 year old brother, his 15 year old girlfriend, and a 19 year old friend. Why this particular accident has affected me I don't really know. Accidents like this are happening all the time. Perhaps because it happened just outside the town I'm currently in, or maybe it was just the frame of mind that I was in at the particular time.

All I know is that today I have been hit by a tonne of bricks.

Does my life have any value? Is it worth all the pain that this world puts us through? What difference does one life make?

Today I have felt how much my life lies in the balance. How the world controls me in so many ways. It decides what side of the scales the weight goes on. Good or evil. Both sides have two edges. Hurt and be hurt. If you continue to hurt someone you continue to hurt yourself. More and more until it takes over you. Equally, give and receive. Love and be loved.

Whoever reads this I know is someone dear and close to me. To me you are priceless and nothing could ever replace you.
No matter how difficult life may feel at times, how pointless and painful it may feel, don't ever forget that you mean more than words can describe. You are a masterpiece through the eyes of the world.

What Is Fear?

What is fear?
Well that's a tough question to answer!
Fear is our greatest enemy. It's the Devil at work.
Fear will rip us apart and shit on us if it gets the chance.
Think for a moment...what are you afraid of?
It's almost impossible to think of something concrete, yet it's there! That is the beauty of fear. It's there yet we don't know where. A bit like God really. That's why it's impossible to lose fear. Fear will always be a part of us. Perhaps it's the only way God can keep us under control. He knows we will never be stronger than our greatest fears.
If that is the case, then what more can I say?
I do believe we can make an effort to weaken our fears, simply by strengthening ourselves. Coming closer to our fears and understanding our fears. Get to know them. It sounds stupid but try it. By realising and accepting your fears you'll feel a knot in your chest slowly loosen.
But it will not go away!

Ps: I think sharing your fear will also help, whether with God or with friends...it will help!

A Free Minds Video

Music - Mumford and Sons, Pictures - Me/Unknown

A Battle With Frustration

Sometimes I feel like pulling my hair out in frustration.
Frustration at the world, and what happens all around us.
At all the evil and bad that happens, most of it without a cause or valid reason.

Frustration at seeing so much injustice in the world.
Seeing so many people struggle through their lives, turning corners only to face death once more. An endless battle for freedom and justice.
Why them and not me? Why so much pain and no joy?

My greatest frustration is myself.
My inability to move, and to do as I believe.
This frustration toys with me, like a cat and mouse.
It is a frustration that must be released before it grows stronger than my will itself.

Open Your Eyes

 

       

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God Is Not Hiding

Life is simple.
Difficulties and problems are usually of our own making.
Our own ignorance and weakness.
Our own selfishness and betrayal of truth and simplicity.

Many of us search for God, for love and for a meaning to life.
God is simple, therefore to love is simple.
Many people spend there lives searching for God, questioning his existence and his love for us. They search for God in books and search for God in the words of others.

Have you ever misplaced something and spent hours searching for it? Eventually you find it, and it so happens to be in the most obvious place. Maybe even the place that it belongs…where it should be.

GOD IS LIKE THAT

We search everywhere but the most obvious places, the most simple places.
God is not hiding from us.
Look at the nature of the world, the stars in the sky, the mountains standing tall, the flowing rivers, the life of the oceans.
Think about the love of your family and friends.
Think and reach to the depths of your soul. Free your spirit and mind.

Open your eyes…see the simplicity and openness of God.

GOD IS NOT HIDING

Natural Love

Love
It comes from your heart. Truthful, sincere love, straight from your heart.
There is nothing greater, nothing more powerful.

We must be more self-less, to give and receive this love.
We must awaken ourselves to the false love that we too often show.
Love of the mind.
Love because you know it’s the right thing to do, but love without value.
Polluted love. Awake yourself to this…then remove yourself of this pollution.

Empty yourself, free yourself….then FILL yourself!
Fill yourself with unwavering love, non-judgemental love, love without thought.
Let love flow from your heart, naturally.

Hold On To What You Believe

"I want to be an engineer... but I can't because I didn't get enough points in my exams.
So instead I'll be an accountant."

What the hell?? To me, this makes no sense whatsoever.
If your dream is to do one thing, but something gets in the way, something relatively minor, are you just going to allow it to change the direction of your life?
Would you let that happen to yourself?

In Ireland, I see this happening all the time.
And I'm sure the same happens no matter where you go. It's not just in school, it will happen throughout life. As you learn more and more about yourself, you'll find yourself wanting something different from life, something more from life. Don't be afraid to leave what you have behind and follow your heart to greater fulfillment!

...Hold on to what you believe...

I Am Weak!

What is it that stands in our way?
There are so many changes we must make.
You must change, I must change, the world must change.
WHAT is stopping us?? Is it ourselves??

So often I plan and have amazing ideas. Putting these ideas and thoughts into action is never as easy as it seems it should be. Why? I just cannot put my finger on what exactly stops me.
Is it fear? Laziness? Uncertainty?
At times like this I understand how weak I am. And accepting that I am weak is never easy. I have great self-respect and pride in who I am. There is, however, always a time when I have to stop and tell myself ‘SHIT, I am so weak’.

When you do that, you’ll feel a weight lift off your shoulders. A new beginning.
You’ll understand, ‘Yes, I am weak, but through Christ I will gain strength,
endless strength’

Simple Love...Can Save A Life

I'm sitting here fat and sober. Staring at me is a man of skin and bone. I cannot see his face...hidden by overgrown hair and beard...as though he's too afraid to look at the world, to face it's severity and harshness again.
He wants no more of it.
Beside him rests his hope and helping hand...a friend wanting to ease his pain. Quenching his thirst and feeding his hunger. That is all that can be done...it's too late now. But at least for these last few days, this man can see and feel the beauty and love that life has to offer.

I wrote that after sitting opposite a man clearly dying, skin and bone...his hand torn apart...maggots falling out. He was sitting at the entrance to the home of Mother Teresa in Calcutta. An MC Sister was sitting with him, feeding him before he left for one of the hospices. That same man is still alive and healty, although missing two hands. I was sure he would die within hours. All I can think of is that the love of the sisters, and the love of the volunteers in the hospice, helped him to pull through.

It takes so little to change a persons day...a smile, or a gesture of simple love.
You and I must show more often the beauty and love that life has to offer.

One For All

You and I belong to this world.
You and I belong to a religion that says to do something good.
We are not divided...we are connected in every way.

No exceptions.

Recognize God In Every Situation

God is good. He is good when I feel happy, when I succeed in my life, when I am healthy. God is good when everything in our life is going well. God is good when we laugh. I can say God is good in my times of happiness.
Now how about another situation, like a bad situation? A bad situation like when we feel sad, upset, weak, sick and a complete failure. Some people said, God's goodness is just our happy situation.
I disagree with those statements. We can learn something important about the bad situations in our life. We need to learn that God is good all the time. There is a reason if it feels like God is letting us down through sadness, pain, failure.
Let us start to understand God is good in any situation throughout our lives. God wants us to learn from every situation in life, good or bad. God wants us to find His kindness in every situation of life.

Who is Jesus To You?

Why do you believe in Jesus?
Who is Jesus to you?

Please Call Me

God asks everyone this question :

Why are you angry with me? What have I done to you? I have called you many times. I called you by your name. Please call me, I miss you.

Will we call Him back?

You are not alone my friend

Happiness Is To Be Shared

Our goal is to find happiness for ourselves.
Then to share it.
To bring life and joy to everyone we meet.

Stay In Silence

Silence asks me to think of anything. It asks me to speak with myself within me. There are many feelings in my silence. Anger, sadness...darkness. In silence I can find light...confidence. That is the result of silence. Make yourself some time for silence.

Believe To Achieve

Set yourself a goal today!
Be ambitious. Trust in yourself.
Believe and you will Achieve

A Brave Young Girl

On 21 July 2010, before the midday prayer in Taize began, I saw a child who wanted to enter the Brother’s area...but the hedge was already closed. She looked sad and almost cried when a guy asked her to sit in another area because she was late. But suddenly, she shocked me with her action. She climbed over the hedge. And then she sat there. I think, she just wanted to be her self at the time and to be free. She is a brave young girl.

Song Of My Heart

This is a song of my heart :

"I praise You my Lord. Give me today an ear to listen to your voice. Set a guard over my mouth, pour me each time with your joy. Teach me everyday to speak love, joy and peace".

It is not just a song, but it's more than a song. It is also an instrument, a desire and a confidence of mine. It is not a song of Taize. This song leads me every morning to start my life. To enjoy the new gift of God everyday. I know He stays in my heart, therefore He puts this song in my heart. When I sing this song, it stays with me during my day. It leads me to fill, to enjoy, and to live my day with great energy and momentum. No matter how happy or sad a day I am having, it is always great and sweet for me.

I Know Nothing

”Any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn damn thing at all”
~K’Naan~

I know nothing.
I don’t know where I come from, I don’t know where I’m going.
I don’t know what will happen when I die, I don’t know when I will die.
I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, I don’t know what will happen tonight.
I know nothing about the future.
I don’t know my friends very well, I don’t know myself very well.
I DO know that I know nothing.
I know that I can only live now, and know only what is happening now.

Music...A Source of Freedom

More and more I've been listening to music for more than just enjoyment. I listen to my music believing it's a source of freedom from the world...and opportunity to get away from the hectic lifestyle that most of us live. Moreover, it's a source of inspiration and strength for me, where the lyrics of so many songs talk to my heart and soul, sometimes helping me to become a better person, a more thoughtful person, more ambitious person and more confident person. Everyone listens to music, I hope it's as influential for you as it is for me!

Our Power Lies Within!

What is your greatest ambition? What is it that drives you to keep going everyday, through the good and the bad?
Too often I meet people that are sleeping their lives away. They talk of their greatest ambitions and goals in life…but that’s it. They talk about it. Nothing more.
It’s continuously on the back of mind…’LIFE IS SHORT’.
The reality is that waking up to life is going to hurt. Leaving our comforts and finding fulfilment will hurt.
We must find our strength in our pain, our hope in our fear!

Watch this video…don’t leave it for another day…watch it now. Please.

The thought of it pushes me close to tears and send shivers down my spine. It sets my heart racing.
Our power and drive lies deep within us…don’t ever question that…it’s there!

"I CAN do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."

Philippians 4:13

Time Means Nothing

The whole concept of time is something I’ve thought about a lot! It’s a funny topic. To think how time moves fast, it moves slow yet it always moves at the same speed. It all depends on what we do with it! So really we actually have the power to make time, slow time and speed up time.

Time means nothing...life goes on!

The next time I see you, whether that's 10 days or 10 years, we'll ask ourselves, where did the time go to?

I hope you can say it went towards something wonderful and fulfilling.

Mother Teresa's Calcutta... to John Legend

Be A Kid Again

Being with kids, I think, can change completely the way we look at life. They see through the problems
that we place in front of ourselves. Problems and differences that aren't really problems or differences.
It's just our stupidity and ignorance. Ahhh, I wish I could be a child again :)

An Example To All

Today I watched as the joy poured forth from the hearts of my friends and their fellow countrymen. With smiles etched on their faces, they brought an energy to a group of people clearly in need of it. Through song and dance they brought to us a venomous love.
Now let us share with others, what has been shared with us.

Why? Why Me?

Why exactly has God blessed me with the most beautiful people.
I have always been surrounded with hearts
overflowing with love.

This number of people is never-ending.
The fact that it is never-ending excites me.
How many more wonderful people does God have in store for me?

How?

In Taizé I meet complete strangers and spend just 1 week with them.

I feel as though they know me and I know them better than people I've known all my life.

How is it I feel so much closer to them ??

Trust In Yourself

Why do we let others change the way we think, act, and live our lives?
Where is our self-respect, self-belief and self-understanding?

God created me to be nobody else but me. He created me to think crazy things, to act foolishly, to care and love for those around me, to eat lots of food, to be good at sports, to suck at maths, to grow tall, to like reading the news, to annoy my sisters, although not all the time :)

God created me to be nothing more than the best that I can be...not what others want me to be!

Please, whoever reads this, think about this for today. Try to understand that you are a unique beautiful person and there is no other like you! For that reason, be the best YOU can be, because nobody else can take on that responsibility. Use the gift of life God's given you!

Trust in yourself. Push beyond your limits and discover what you can achieve.
What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger.

It's All Yours!

Nothing can wipe away our freedom...the source of which is deep within our soul.
Nothing will take it from you...nobody will take it from you..so use it!
Without the first step there can be no second.

Why so negative?

The fact that we must reassure ourselves that 'War is not inevitable',
leads me to believe that we are all stuck in a negative state of mind.
Our minds are locked up...short on freedom.
Why not say 'Unity and Peace is inevitable'. I feel we must first free our own minds
in order to free those around us.

The Lost Soul

The lost soul wanders through the throng of people,
deaf and blind to the world around him. He looks
through tired eyes and walks his tired body. Tired
from the pain and the stresses of life. Tired from having
nothing to do, tired from being shouted at, and turned
away. Tired from being acknowledged as nothing more
than a pest and a nobody.
Finding a dark isolated corner, he rolls his best friend
between his fingers, places it between his lips, puffs
and lets go. Finally a place of comfort where the world
wont find him!

Believe

I am strong,
I am fearless.
I can take any pain.
My sufferings will not hold me back. My struggles
will strengthen me. I can rise as others fall.
I am not afraid.
When I feel down and out, you will pick me up. I will in
turn raise those around me to new levels.
I will reach for the stars,
knowing that you are with me.
I am not afraid,
I am not alone,
Be with me.