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.


Friday, January 25, 2008

Let Me Not Run Away

Let Me Not Run Away

Dear Lord, your disciple Peter wanted to know who would betray you. You pointed to Judas but a little later also to him. Judas betrayed, Peter denied you. Judas hanged himself, Peter became the apostle whom you made the first among equals. Lord, give me faith, faith in your endless mercy, your boundless forgiveness, your unfathomable goodness.
Let me not be tempted to think that my sins are too great to be forgiven, too abominable to be touched by your mercy.
Let me never run way from you but return to you again and again, asking you to be my Lord, my Shepherd, my Stronghold, and my Refuge. Take me under your wing, O Lord, and let me know that you do not reject me as long as I keep asking you to forgive me.
Perhaps my doubt in your forgiveness is greater sin than the sins I consider too great to be forgiven.
perhaps I make myself too important, too great when I think that I cannot be embraced by you anymore. Lord, look at me, accept my prayer as you accepted Peter's prayer, and let me not run away from you in the night as Judas did.

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