Tuesday 25 November 2008

Silence

on my 11th weeks in Taize, i'm in silence for one week. it's a usual program in Taize that every people who come to Taize can take this silence program, either they who stay for one week or stay longer. usually for people who stay longer (permanents) take their silence week on their last week. but for me, i want my last 2 weeks for preparing my departure and saying goodbye to all my friends. so i take a silence week on my 10th weeks of my three months staying in the hill.

Br. Andras, my contact brother already give me some briefs about how to spend a week in silence. he said, just consider urself as a children, who always joyful and respect anything that u see. don't think too much , don't write too much. just bless the Lord. so it's important to who spend a week in silence to take a long walk, to enjoy the nature. so that's what i'm gonna do on my silence week.

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every morning on 10 o'clock we have bible introduction in Le Puits (the silence house) with brother. and for this first day of silence, the brother gave us some briefs how to spend this week in silence. he just said that silence week is like take a holiday with God. it's like how u take ur holiday with ur family. so it's important to take some distance from other people.
today i don't take a walk cause i'm quite tired. so i just take an afternoon sleep.
and from bible introduction in the morning, i make a note:
rejoice joyfully!

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today i take a long walk, to Cormatin. it takes one hour to go there and one hour to go back. at Cormatin, i visit the Roman Church there, pray, and take some photos.
from the bible introduction, i make a note:
forgive & love each other.






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today i take a very long walk to Malay, a village after Cormatin. it takes one hour and a half to go there. on the way i met a Romanian guy who wants to go to the post office in Cormatin but he doesn't know the direction. i help him. but the problem is he can't speak English. he just speak Romanian (of course) and French. which i can't speak French much. so while we walking, we speak each other through body language and some words in English and French.
arrived in Malay, i visited a Roman Church there. there's nobody, it's really quiet, and like other Roman church, it's surround by a lot of tomb. that perfect situation makes me quite scare. but i entered the church, pray, and take some photos.
from the bible introduction, i make a note:
God already forgiven us. so why not we forgive each other?

from my long walk, i make a note:

there's no human's creation can purely documentate God's creation.

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today i decided to go to Flagy, via TGV rail. just 45 minutes a walk. and the Roman Church is beautiful.
from the bible introduction, i make some notes:
rejoice!
do not be afraid!
here I am, servant of God. Oh let it be with me according to Your word...



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today i really tired and i can't feel my leg. so i've decided to take some sleep in the afternoon.
from the bible introduction i make a note:
pour out your complain to God.


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saturday is the day for workshop. so i don't take a walk because i don't know where to go. so i attended the workshop of Chile, Kenya, and China. and that's a wonderful workshop!
from the bible introduction, i make a note:
stay in Me and I will stay in you

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at the breakfast, we have a sharing between the silence boys. and that's a wonderful sharing. i share about my thought of this silence week. i said,
this week it's like my three months in Taize. silence week it's like take some distance from the world, and have some times with the Creator. that's exactly what i feel about my three months of staying in Taize.