The Root Philosophy, "Filosofi Akar"

   

    Root in the tree stucture is positioned in the most strategic and prime place of the whole system. Almost all parts of the tree depends their sustainability on the root : the trunk, branch, twig, leaves, and especially the fruit. Moreover, in the prcess of the growth that starts from a seed, prior to the forming of other parts of a tree, it is the root that is first formed. The same thing occurs in the growth process until the production of fruits. Root is the spearhead. Quintessence of the soil as the source of the tree's life couldn't be processed further should the root doesn't exist. If the root is nourished, then it is ascertained that the efect will determine the triumph of the upcoming process. Worse comes to worse is the death of the tree.
     From this root, a strong trunk, branch, twig, and nourished leaves that garnishes the sublime sight are born.  And the most expected thing of all are the beautiful flowers and fresh, healthy fruits. Have you ever admired the wonderful colors of blooming flowers that illuminates their beauty? Have you ever observed a tiny house with lots of trees and a variety of flowers decorating it? The impression that it offers will of course be the cool, shady and comforting atmosphere rather than the small and cramped condition of the house.
      It is the root that makes the tree stand tall and live. However, it is hidden deep down under the ground, covered from human's sight. It is compliant that all eyes are filled with the admiration of all the other parts, wether it's the solid trunk, or the delicious fruit. It is the root that works hard giving all its effort to spread in all directions and storming all the weather ; the dry ground of drought, seeking for something to feed on for the sake of the tree's sustainability. Never will it complain for being tired of scratching and digging far deep in the soil to absorb as many nutrition as possible, thus "strike" or even worse, "resign". It is okay to let it be hidden as long as it can provide the best ministry for what appears on the surface. That is the "ROOT PRINCIPAL".
      That is how God exemplifies a humble heart in carrying out ministry in the middle of this chaotic world full of disguise and hypocrisy. He wants us to always come back to the source of our blessings and remind us to whom should we carry out our responsibility in serving others to . We are HIS CREATION, it is as simple as that to believe and embrace this blessing in justifying his righteousness. Let our works grow tall, productive, ispiring, and bless others. Let our heads look down, down to earth for the appreciation and respect of God's power and authority. And let our hearts be humble, for God teaches us to do so by practicing what He had preached.

Amen

    

Quoted and translated from: http://www.geocities.ws/munawir501/artikel70.htm

(With a Christian perspective)

The Train of Life

 

 

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The  speed...constant
Controled, timed, counted
The view...assorted
Houses,skyscrapers,rivers,padi fields
The track...varies
Straights and turns
The destiny... determined







The train of life brings along colorful souls

Blissful, anticipating, enthusiast, tired, and blue,
Moving forward towards one aim
The train of ife keeps its pace
Moving forward towards the destined place
And never will it rewind nor turn back
Nevertheless, all worries are lifted
For all the weary souls had given
Trust, hopes and faith
To the one and only MACHINIST

This is my piece of work inspired from my first personal journey. A little contemplation about the journey of life in God's hands that I had while sitting in a train to Bandung. Hope this will help enlight all the weary souls out there..

-D.E.N-

A Song To The Loved Ones

This song will ever ring in my head because it gives me all the courage to cherish every single moment I share with the people I love. This song is for you guys, and this is how much you mean to me. Wherever we are, may we learn to embrace the best memories that life have given us, as a lesson for us to become a better person...TOGETHER :)

The note was taken on:

January 31, 2011 at 8:28pm

Anastasia OST - At The Beginning

We were strangers
Starting out on a journey
Never dreaming
What we'd have to go through
Now here we are
And I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you
No one told me
I was going to find you
Unexpected
What you did to my heart
When I lost hope
You were there to remind me
This is the start
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And...

Life is a road
And I want to keep going
Love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
Life is a road
Now and forever
Wonderful journey
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A piece of lyric of the song titled above, U might be familiar with  if U watched the movie,
even though it's an old song back then when we were still kids, this song always gives me a
piece of heaven when I'm down. hope you guys could enjoy it as well as I do..
Yup!!

coz' Life is a road, and I wanna keep goin', Love is a river I wanna keep flowin',
It's a road, now and foreva...WONDERFUL JOURNEY!



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NB: So guys, enjoy your life, through joy, sadness, bunch of activities, and the bla bla bla...
      " Life's too short to run through and it's too beautiful to pass-by without notice" 
- Diane-

A Father's Love

You expect the best
 But always accept

You pray relentlessly

But never too naive

You never hit                                  

But rebuke tenderly

You never repel

But greet warmly

You give me honor

It never come with a price

You exemplify wisdom,

Leadership, faith, compassion

Truth, courage and hard work

I couldn’t ask for more

I couldn’t rebel

Nothing in this world

Can ever repay

Your fatherly ways of loving

Practicing the perfect fatherhood

This I promise you

To be nothing but true

I offer you my obedient heart

And a blissful lifetime to remember

 

Happy father’s day Dad! Thanks for raising me up to be the woman I am today and for leading my life to His path. I cherish your prayers, love and support through my endeavors. My life, struggle and accomplishments are yours as they are mine. I’m still nothing, but I’ll promise you everything. I love you so..

Diane

The Thin Line Between Faith & Denial

Written on Friday, January the 25th.
Completed today

I'm writing this not to judge or lecture anyone..since this is a reflection of my own life, I just want to share a little bit about what that big "F" word means to me -with no disrespect to any beliefs..

This morning, I woke up and found the newspaper I bought a week ago lying beside my pillow with its huge, tantalizing heading that I must have missed when I first read it : 'Dirimu Terbaca dari Nama dn Kartu Tarot'. This made me shudder a little recalling my repertoire of tarot readings in the past, a dark, dark past. Well here's a story you might have to know about me and my little world. I was fascinated in magic-sorcery in particular, ghosts, aliens, and all kinda sh*t that freaks you out since I was a baby..well not that ancient, I mean that time where I grew up believing in stuff I see and hear in school and movies, in Richmond VA, America. Call us weirdos or whatever, but I'm sure that when you were kids, you'd also stick around and stay tuned till the end of the story when a dramatic know-it-all kid tells you about a boogeyman that lives in your school basement or the haunted tower in your school.Okay, that 'fascination' of mine continued till I returned to Indonesia, living my days reading Harry Potter and watching horror and basically all kinds of fiction books, comics and movies that can satisfy my thirst of the universe's mysterious beauty that lies in legends, fairy tales and the kind. I'd browse anything that are related to Salem Witch, America, Vampires..and as far as I can remember, legendary creatures- Loch Ness- for instance, wherever and whenever I had the chance. Then, in high school, things got a little extreme. One of my classmate was a magician and he had all those connections and networks with the fellows of 'my kind'..<that's a metaphor for freaks.haha!>.  He also knew that I love  all kinds of previsions. Tarot cards in particular. So he talked a lot about some fortune-teller friends of his, and a business man slash magician that sells all kinds of 'magic'. So I ordered a pack of tarot card and it was a 'special edition' said the seller. It was that special that it costs me 100.000 rupiahs-and something, that I collected from my money saving. I was happy, it was like a fancy crystal ball to an accomplished, well-known fortune-teller. I purchased a tarot-reading guidebook too for that matter. The next morning I went to school feelin like a star and showed off 'my precious' to everyone. To my excitement, I did impress my classmates and got some "ooooh..." and "woooow!"-s till a she-saint harsh my mellow in the middle of showing off my awesome 'talent'. This over-religious friend of mine was losin it and freaked the hell out me and my friends. She's like "Ya ampun..jauhin itu dari aku! Aku ga mau liat! Aku ga mau liaaaaaat!" , which simply means get that sh*t f*ckin away from me! I cursed her in my mind with the meanest words you'll ever imagine ever since for overreacting.
Now, that I'm close enough to 22, I realized that she wasn't just a she-saint. She was more than right and her reaction was totally understandable. As I grew older <and wiser, I hope> I learned that being a Christian means RELYING YOUR WHOLE LIFE IN GOD'S HANDS. The key to this? FAITH..easy to say, hard to practice. Then, on my "galau-est" days a couple weeks ago where I played The Script's song Six Degrees of Separation till it stick on my mind for days, a line within the lyric gave me the perfect flashback :

Tarot cards,
Gems and stones,
Believing all that shit is gonna heal your soul.
Well it's not,  no...

My love in predictions, horoscopes and tarot cards...WHAT WAS I LOOKING FOR?? Of course, you can see the answer in the piece of lyric above. I was searching, grasping for hope, any kind of 'assurance' that my love-life is gonna be okay, that I'll be living a pleasant life in a bright future. I was begging for healing from some kind of stupid magic, a dead thing that only existed because MAN made it and WE operate its function, not GOD almighty. But will it give the cure you're looking for? Unless the results are great, I guess everyone would end up with the same depressed feeling of disappointment. Well the thing about 'she-saint' that I really hate in the past was that she was judging me for something that I did "just for fun"...or was it? No. I cannot deny the fact that there was a time when I went to church, teach Sunday school, give advices to my friends and somehow- apart from that, I live far, far a way from God and his wisdom and trusted those beautiful man-creations instead.I have DENIED my Lord's power. I DENIED God himself. I made my father unhappy with my immature actions. There on, from the first year of college, I've never seen the cards again. I lost it because there were so much moving around in this house <and I hope it's really gone>.
I started to pray whenever I feel troubled or "galau" inside, nothing else, just praying. It's that kind of relief feeling that you get on assurance of pardon in church, a comforting feeling that you get because you have the opportunity to communicate with your God, for trusting his promises and to thank him for the FAITH you have. Most importantly I'm thankful because I'm on the RIGHT TRACK, and that everything WILL BE OKAY as long as I'm walking with HIM and stop being such an *ss to other people. Well I guess the thing that I want to share here is that you don't have to be that total clean, religious or narrow-minded person that blaspheme horoscopes, burn tarot cards and curse every single Feng Shui leaders and fortune-tellers on earth. Just to simply place the optimistic and pessimistic, futuristic thoughts in the right boxes with a little INTEGRITY. <I love that word!> Sometimes you're trapped with all those -istics running inside your brain.  This is where I learned that worrying too much won't save you unless you have a little piece of hope and optimism that gives you courage to do something. Being over confident of something wont do either unless you have a little amount of worries <of other possibilities that might as well happen> in your heart. See? It works the other way around. Integrity puts everything in the right amount, the perfect balance to keep you going forward, hold on in the most darkest an toughest moments of your life and look above to find God, the source of light and hope.

"Maintain the balance, walk with GOD and embrace His love"

-D.E.N-