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"In all our technology, we have lost touch with the earth, our heaters and air conditioners robbing us of the drama of seasons, our cars keeping our feet from pacing the land, our concrete and our shoes and our carpet delivering us from the feel of unprocessed earth. We live on top of the created world , I think to my self, not in it ." Don Miller, Through Painted Dessert. Living in Jakarta, where you find traffic jam and air pollution, tall buildings side by side with the slums, it becomes really hard for you to appreciate beauty. What is beauty? In metropolitan it goes as far as fake eyelashes, high heels, expensive dresses, name brand purses and... photoshop! But when you look at the skies, the moon and the stars, the beaches, the sunset, the mountains and its splendor... they doesn't move you, for our perception of beauty is distorted. We are locked up in our houses with air conditioners, in our cars and in our expensive shoes. How many of us have forgotten how's ...

Two weeks ago, me and my family went to one of the most beautiful island in Indonesia, called Bali. It's so beautiful, the beaches, the weather and the people. I fall in love once again with that island... and we as a family had a great time together, talking and laughing and eating and diving! And when I went back home, I always want to go back to that island... why? because there, I don't have to worry about a thing... we eat, laugh and live. Sometimes, I thought... man, reality sucks! Why can't we live in a dream land? I've heard once, Don Miller says, "Reality is like fine wine... little children won't like it." I started to realize how easy it is to slip away and forget God for a moment. How easy it is to forget the cross that each of us need to bear and be rich and happy. It's not that we cannot enjoy life, but this place is not our final rest.. we will not enter his rest, until he call us home or until he returns. Every day, each of us is facing...