Kuasa Kata: Menyapa

Saya pada awalnya mendesain blog ini sebagai gudang penyimpanan tulisan. Saya kemudian mengalihkan fungsinya sebagai ruang kemanusiaan. Layaknya seorang photografer, saya membingkai berbagai kehidupan manusia dalam beragam frame. Blog ini menawarkan senyuman, tetapi sekaligus air mata kehidupan.
Semoga setiap nama dan peristiwa dalam blog ini menyapa hidup pembaca. Kata yang baik memiliki kuasa untuk menyapa.

Mutiara Andalas, S.J.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Forgiveness

Forgiveness, the Cement of Community Life

"Community is not possible without the willingness to forgive one another "seventy-seven times" (see Matthew 18:22). Forgiveness is the cement of community life. Forgiveness holds us together through good and bad times, and it allows us to grow in mutual love.

But what is there to forgive or to ask forgiveness for?
As people who have hearts that long for perfect love, we have to forgive one another for not being able to give or receive that perfect love in our everyday lives. Our many needs constantly interfere with our desire to be there for the other unconditionally. Our love is always limited by spoken or unspoken conditions.
What needs to be forgiven? We need to forgive one another for not being God!"


~Henri Nouwen

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