LOVE IS NEVER ENDED

Dear Friends

Many stories about love in this world. Love for our parents, love among friends, and love for our partner. Everyone has the love to share. So often because of problems in our daily life, we have the troubles to express our love.

Love is love Love is joy
Love is peace
Love is longsuffering
Love is kindness
Love is goodness
Love is faithfulness
Love is gentleness
Love is self-control

If we have these loves in ourselves, we will not be difficult to express our love to our beloved ones although we have problems in our daily life. When we have these loves, we will know Him, the immortal and the true love, that is Jesus.


Nova
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DO YOU SMILE LIKE A MONALISA?

Smile… smile … smile…. .Cause people love you when you smile. Smile is the universal language of friendliness. In this world, there are so many languages but the language of smile is only one, that is expressed on our face with the corners of the mouth turned up.

We can interpret the meaning of a smile is expression of amusement, happiness and joyfulness. But, till now, many people and the artists still could not predict the meaning of Monalisa smile. People say it’s a mysterious smile. Though it is still a mistery, people still want to see it because “She is smilling.”

I often see women who wear viels, covered all part of their bodies. We only can see their eyes. I just wonder how do they show their beautiful smile to other people?

Whether you smile like a Monalisa or no, at least you smile. Everyone likes to see people smile. So, make sure people can see your smile.

:- )

Nova

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GOD IS GOOD

People who lived in the past are healthier than now for they always walked barefoot. They walked not in the smooth road. We know that the nerves in our sole connect to crucial organs in our body. When we step on in the rough way or in the stones, the nerves in our sole directly connect to the organs ion our body. It is good for the work of the organs. It is like an exercise. It makes us healthier.

It is as same as what happen in our life. If everything is smooth and everything is alright. It will be hurt if someday we find the trouble. It will be hurt if someday we walk in the stones. Many stones in this life, stone of financial, stone of health, stone of job, stones of relationship, etc. So often these stones make us away from God.

We don’t understand God make the stones to our life as exercise for our faith to Him. If we have been get used to walk in stones, we will be strong in our faith to Him. Our health will be healthier than before. It’s easy to say God is God when everything is ok. Meanwhile, it is difficult to say God is Good when everything turns around from our expectation. But, we should say God is good in every seasons in our life because he keep on holding our hands to walk the stones.

Thank you Jesus for making me stronger through the stones in my life.

Habakkuk 3:17-19:

¹⁷Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

¹⁸Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁹The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Nova

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FATHER AND DAUGHTER

Father is the first man in daughter life. A figure of a father represent the figure of a man in common. The characters of a father influence his daughter emotionally.

Is there a perfect father?

There’s no perfect father because no body is perfect. There are daughters who never meet their father. There are daughters who get many wounds emotionally because of their father deed. There are daughters who doesn’t get proper attention from their father.There are daughters who have warm loving care from their father.

There’s a woman whom i ever met said,” I saw my father have an affair since i was 13 years old. My mother knows it but she can not do anything. I don’t have a good communication with my brothers. They are egoistic. And, my relationship with men always ended. Now, I only have a relationship with a woman.”

There’s a woman whom i ever met said,” My father is a member of a church choir. But, since I was a child, I saw him hurt my mother physically. I was sad and cried when I saw him hurt my mother. I had better went to club than seeing it”

There are some women who drop on drugs, free sex and prostitution. For some of them, the first thing they complain is about their fathers behavior. They questioned, ”Did you ever love me, Dad?”

Fatherless Country

There’s a mother day in Indonesia , there’s also a father day in western countries. But, there’s no father day in Indonesia . I don’t know why???

My father for me.

I don’t communicate intensively with my father, but one thing that I will always remember, that is my father advice. When I was 16 years old, my father ever said, ”You may have relationship with any man but don’t ever sleep with him before he marry you! If you break this, you are not my daughter anymore and Get out of my house!”

I know people will think that my father is too strict, so interfering, old fashioned, etc. But, I know he said that because I’m precious for him.

We can not choose in what family we will be born and we can not choose who will be our father. Is he a good man or no? Whatever our father, whatever he do, accept him whatever he is because there’s no ex – father, there are only ex- boy and ex-girl. When we never see a good father in our life, we can see Our Father. He is the Father who always care for us and he has never ended love for us.

The messages for all fathers

You will eat the fruit of your labor;
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
⁴ Yes, this will be the blessing
for the man who fears the LORD.(Psalm 128 : 2-4)

Fathers,^[a] do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. ( colossians 3:21)

Happy Fathers day!

Nova

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JUST FOR FUN

Homonym is a word with the same spelling or sound as another, but different meaning. There’s an Indonesian boy who doesn’t speak English. He only knows a few words in English, that is I’m sorry, thank you, happy, number one until ten.

One day, he got in a bus. There was a foreigner in the bus as well. This boy was not in purpose to step on the foreigner’s foot.

“Auchhh…!” responded the foreigner.

“I’m sorry, Sir,” said the boy.

“It’s ok. I’m sorry too,” replied the foreigner with smilling.

“I’m sorry there,” said the boy again.

The foreigner frowned his forehead and said “What are you sorry for?”

“I’m sorry five,” said the boy again.

This boy thought the foreigner said apology by counting the number.

(Taken from Aplaus Magazine)

Ria is a student who isn’t good at science subject. One day, her friend asked her to answer a science question. “Rudy is driving from Medan to Parapat. He left Medan at 8. am. What time will he reach Parapat if he drives at 60kph?” asked her friend.

Ria answered,” why should I think hard at what time Rudy will arrive? He has a mobile phone, doesn’t he? He can call his friends when he arrives!”

(by Nova)

One day, an English teacher were explaining about colors to his students. After he had finished explaining, he asked his students, ”Who can make a sentence using the words green, pnk and yellow?”

Rudy, the smartest student in the class quickly raised his hand and answered, ”When the yellow morning sun comes, I see a beautiful girl wearing a pink blouse walking through the green grass.”

“Excelent! Rudy, you are very good!” praised the teacher.

“Me, me, Sir,” Joko the naughtiest student in the class said while raising his hand. Then he said,” I heard the telephone ring, green… green…, then I pink it up the receiver and I ssaid, yellow, who’s speaking there?”

(Taken from C’ns magazine 2003)

ENGLISH FOR NON NATIVE SPEAKER

English is an International language. There are so many languages in this whole world. We can communicate with one another by English even though our mother tongue is not English.

English Book

My mother tongue is not English. I started to learn English when I was 13 years old. Firstly, English was very difficult to learn because it is much different from Bahasa Indonesia. But, I was curious about it so I keep on studying English. Till now, I am still studying English.

In English, the written is different from pronunciation. The world line pronounced by /laIn/ . Whereas in Bahasa Indonesia, the written is as same as the pronunciation, the world makan pronunced by /makan/. Other different is in verb.

Want – wanted – wanted === regular verb

Speak – spoke – spoken === irregular verb

The changes of verbs are depend on the tenses. Meanwhile, there’s no tenses in Bahasa Indonesia.

I got some difficulties when I read texts/books and so do the others. Most of Indonesian translate a sentence word by word at the first time they study English. Can you imagine when we translate the idiom ‘keep in with’? We translate it by word for word translation. We look up the meaning keep, then in, after that with in dictionary. The meaning becomes doesn’t make sense for one another.

There’s a question delivered to me “Nova, in your opinion, who are confused when we are speaking to westeners, we or they?”

“Of course us,” I said with no doubt.

“Wrong! Both of us are confused,” said this man.

“Why so?” I said curiously.

“We are confused because they speak fluently, and they are confused because we speak not fluent.”

I laughed to hear his explanation. Yes, I think he is right. In my opinion, the most difficult thing is to speak to the English itself. Their dialect make me in trouble to understand what they mean. Well, I have to read, hear, and practice much more than now.

Nova

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"HELP ME!"

A week ago i walked in a mall in medan. Suddenly, there's a woman drew my hand and said to me, "Excuse me, Miss. I disturb your time." I smiled and felt curious "Yes, it's ok. What's the matter?"

"Do you know WWF(not smack down)?"

"Yes, i do" i said.

She started to explain the whole thing about the global warming and WWF as she is the consultant of WWF in Medan. She wanted to spread information about the Sumatra Tiger whose the number gradually decrease because of global warming. She gave me a picture of a Sumatra tiger mother which carrying her child in her mouth and there's a sentence written in the paper which touch my heart "Help Me!"

Sumatran Tiger

God gives human the rights to control, protect, and treat this world with all things in it. But, some people are so greedy, cut down the trees in the forest illegally(illegal lodging).What for?? Of course to get MONEY. So many cases like this in Indonesia.Indonesia is endowed with some of the most extensive and biologically diverse tropical forests in the world. Now, the number of virgin forest is also getting decrease.One of the result is the very hot weather in Medan. It also influences the habitat of the tiger.Yes, if there's no forest anymore where they will live? In our house? They will be extinct.

I wore this note only to transmit information to others.

Nova (Write until you don't know what to write)

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