What I Know About the Major Religion in the World

As we know, Christian is the major religion in the world. I am Christian, especially Catholic, but it doesn't mean that I know everything about Christian, I still have to study about it. But I will write what I know about this religion. It believes that Jesus is the Son of God who sent to the earth to sacrifice the people. He was crucified to atone for man's sins. Christian also believe the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This doesn't mean there are 3 gods, but the existence of a unitary whole of 3 elements. Christian celebrates Christmas, the birthday of Jesus. It celebrate every 25th of December.I don't know why in 25, but my father said, it came from the tradition of a country. Christmas is identical with Santa Claus who come and handed out gifts for good children. Besides Christmas, the Christians also celebrate Easter. It begin in Wednesday, tus 0 days before Easter, with giving ash on the forehead, the symbol of repentance. Then, the Christian do fasting, abstinence, and confess their sins during 40 days to holy week. The holy week begin with Palm Sunday to remember the coming of Jesus to Jerusalem, then in Holy Thursday there's mass to remember the last service of Jesus, then in Friday the Christian remember the last supper, because after that, Jesus become crucified by His own people. And the last celebrating is His resurrection in Sunday. If Christmas identically with Santa Claus, so Easter identically with the Easter bunny. When I was 10, me and my friend celebrated  Easter and we have to find the eggs that the committee has hide. It was fun. The last, the Christian especially Catholic has their leader, The Pope Benedictus XVI.

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It's Time to Being Positive

Nobody's perfect. In the same people there are bad side and good side. Sometime, people being a very kind man/woman to others, and maybe the next day he/ she becomes an evil. The good news, everybody really know about their good side, but the bad news, sometimes they don't realize about their bad side. That people always think that they are the better than others. Don't we realize that we did like that sometime? We thought that we are the best. We don't care or don't want to know (exactly) about the kindness of others. Let's prove it. Take two sheets of paper, make the title in each paper: my bad and my good. Write down as same as the title for 5 minutes. Then, check it, which more? My good. Then, do the same but it intended for another person. Then check again. I think the bad will be more. Why do it happen? Because we always think that nobody better than us (myself), and the others always have some flaws. But it doesn't happen all the time. Sometime, if somebody made a mistake to us, we will judge he/ she same mistake he/ she did. We forgive he/ she but didn't forget the mistake.
So, how to get a better understanding of what people like? By always realize that nobody's perfect in the world, so do us. everybody have bad side and good side, accept the advantaged and shortcomings of others. If we understand and then reflect on to become a better person, we will make a better world.


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Let's Sing Together!!!

Indonesia has a lot of famous songs. Traditional, pop, jazz, and else. I prefer to listen pop than the other. But sometimes, I listen to traditional songs, especially when my choir has to sing that song in one event. So, let me tell all of you about one of Indonesia famous song, especially traditional song. This song is North Sumatra's traditional song, titled "Butet". Butet is a nick name for a girl in Medan. So, sometimes, my mother call me butet too, because my mother come from Sidempuan, about 6 hours from Medan.
This song is tell about a wife who left by her husband because her husband call by war. Because that condition her husband had to guerrilla, hiding from the invaders. Both of them (the wife and her daughter) took a long time to get a news about their lovely head of household..
That woman pray to God to keep her husband safe and back home immediately and hope that when her daughter grow up she can become a member of red cross then she can help other who became victims of that war. I remember, when my mother sing this song, she will cry, because this song remind her about my grandmother who had passed away. This is a famous song not only in Medan, but also in Indonesia.


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