Money

2008-06-24T05:34:00.000-07:00

MONEY for some people becomes their purpose in life.
If you have no money, you will suffer!
And it is true!

Joko Pinurbo, an Indonesian poet, writing this concern
as his work in "Kepada Uang". Here is the poem;

Joko Pinurbo
KEPADA UANG

Uang, berilah aku rumah yang murah saja,
yang cukup nyaman buat berteduh senja-senjaku,
yang jendelanya hijau menganga seperti jendela mataku.

Sabar ya, aku harus menabung dulu.
Menabung laparmu, menabung mimpimu.
Mungkin juga harus menguras cadangan sakitmu.

Uang, berilah aku ranjang yang lugu saja,
yang cukup hangat buat merawat encok-encokku,
yang kakinya lentur dan liat seperti kaki masa kecilku.

-2006-

in English approximately it says;

To The Money

Dear Money, give me just the cheap house,
which is comfort to my old ages to rest,
which greenery windows of its open just like my eyes.

Just be patient, I must collect my savings.
Saving of your hunger, saving your dream.
And may I must take all your sickness reserves out too.

Dear Money, give me just a naive bed to rest,
which warm enough to keep my rheumatics,
which it's leg as elastic and tough as my feet of youth.

Thousand years ago, Jesus cometh to us to warning about
prosperities that always in our concern. Mathew 19: 23-24
said;

"And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you,
it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

So, money or prosperity actually is only the tools to another
level or purposes in our life. Not as something that we try
hard and harder to chasing up. Just remember, money is
never taken to our graveyard.

Unfortunately, many people out there never realize that.
They always chasing up for the money with big fear inside
their heart: how can I live my life if I don't have any money?

Realize this. Any fear and worries is bad work of evil in
your life. Your worry about future becomes such a concern
that actually you can ease them and lays them in God only.

Land of Thousand Gods

Money