Misalkan pada suatu hari anda sedang naik mobil, tiba- tiba di depan anda terdapat becak yg nyelonong seenaknya dan membuat anda kaget membanting stir ke kanan. Secara otomatis otak anda memerintahkan sel-sel syaraf utk mengirimkan command ke mulut anda. Automatically, anda pun berteriak,”ooo..dasar becak goblok..”. Tukang becak itu pun secara otomatis akan menjawab, tentu saja […]
Hot Chocolate
The Bridge
There was once a bridge which spanned a large river. During most of the day the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to pass thru freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times each day, a train would come along and […]
An Afternoon in the Park
There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of root beer and he started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting […]
Christian Buddha
One of master Gasan’s monks visited the university in Tokyo. When he returned, he asked the master if he had ever read the Christian Bible. “No,” Gasan replied, “Please read some of it to me.” The monk opened the Bible to the Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew, and began reading. After reading Christ’s […]
No Charge
Our little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper, and he handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on. After his mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said: For cutting the grass $5.00 […]
Maybe
Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. Maybe when the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we […]
TEORI JENDELA PECAH
Empat orang pemuda ditembak dalam kereta api bawah tanah. Si penembak yang menyerahkan diri seminggu kemudian dielu-elukan masyarakat sebagai pahlawan mereka. Goetz, si penembak itu, dijuluki tabloid-tabloid sebagai “Pengawal Kereta Bawah Tanah” dan “Malaikat Maut Bagi Penjahat”. Memang para pemuda yang ditembak itu adalah kelompok berandal pemeras yang sering melakukan kejahatan di kereta api bawah […]
How Human Beings Change
There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she’s blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He’s always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she can see everything, […]
Free to Soar
One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing in the heady atmosphere above the earth. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check. Instead […]
Not a One
Little Chad was a shy, quiet young man. One day he came home and told his mother that he’d like to make a valentine for everyone in his class. Her heart sank. She thought, “I wish he wouldn’t do that!” because she had watched the children when they walked home from school. Her Chad was […]