Coretan Kehidupan

Since a month ago, I've been reading a book entitled A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works as a part of my daily quiet time. This morning I discovered an insightful writing on love in marriage from the book. I'd like to share it to you in my blog. If the old fairy-tale ending "They lived happily ever after" is taken to mean "They felt for the next fifty year exactly as they felt the day before they were married," then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense--love as distinct from "being love"--is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced b...

Ketika bergelut dengan tumpukan buku demi menyelesaikan tesis (yang tenggatnya makin dekat) saya menemukan kutipan midrash (tafsiran atau kotbah rabi Yahudi) mengenai penciptaan Adam. Ketika dibaca, masuk akal, menarik, dan lucunya juga! Jadi, saya mau bagikan kepada para pembaca blog ini! Ada komentar? God created man not until the last day of creation. Why did He not create him on the first day? In order that later on no mouths can be found which spread the rumor that God did not create the world alone; that Adam had helped him. He also created him as the last in order that man not be arrogant. God said to him: “Do not forget that even the least living being, even the worm was created before you!” It would have been within God’s potentiality to create more people at once. Why did he create Adam by himself? If God had created more human beings at once, then the descendants of later generations would have boasted, “my father was nobler than yours.” Therefore God created only one human ...