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[lord-hermod]

Team Work Timelapse 🥺

[growingupmormon]

“When you live in a community of conformity you have to find creative ways to express yourself!”

Is the writer making fun of mormons or complimenting them? I’m confused and enjoying this!

[skidartsblog]

Yuvraj Singh Phone Wallpaper.

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[sting-the-scribe]

A Miser’s Paradise

Lantau.

The southern winds have no power here.

Small island utopia, home to magnificent water buffaloes and blue skies. Built on vast swathes of tussocks, it is home for the old man across the street, the dog that begs for scraps every evening. It’s home for all of us.

We grew among the trees, free from the smoke machinations of surrounding lands.

Slumbering volcanoes lie in repose along the coast, a cradle for the woodland creatures that now roam through the bushes and shrubs. Hundreds of millions of years ago, they battered and shaped the land into the near paradise it is today – an oasis in an urban world. The small scatterings of modernity have managed to peacefully coexist with its rural counterpart so far. Complacent and warm; the quintessential sun-warmed incubation of childhood.

Underneath the iridescent surface, there lies the sinister encroachment of greying skies, ones that carry both the stench of pollution and corruption. For all the time that our kind have lived in this world, species have been born and died, both noticeably and silently. Sailors could once, on any given day, glimpse white dolphins leaping through the skies. Pods that engaged in play with tourists, careening and pirouetting for joy.

But humans have not been kind.

We’ve destroyed their habitats. Denied our faults. And still claim they live, despite none being seen since. Soon, perhaps, it may be our turn. Karma does have its repercussions. In our time, the hourglass drains faster.

Gone by the multitudes, dying by the millions. We do not notice it until too late, until our ignorance has paid the price. We are but an island in a sea of skyscrapers, Atlantis against the world. A paradise soon to be lost.

I see skies choked with dark smoke one day, then fleetingly pale and devoid of anything the next. Even the acrid smell is better than staring at the emptiness of the purely colourless dome overhead.

The water buffaloes are gone, sunken into the deep bogs and fields that once grew wild until now. Presently, they lie trapped with every leaf and every blade of grass beneath a cobblestone surface.

Big Buddha is gone, razed, and in its place, corporate beasts, a thousand feet tall and twice as wide.

We question if we have the power to stop what is coming for us. Of an age dark and terrible, when all that we’ve known will be forgotten from history – as easily as slipping into quicksand.

It may be an inevitability, but we have the choice to delay it. We play deities both cruel and benevolent, after all; to the animals below us, it seems almost as if we have all the power in the world.

The lilies in the next-door garden and the coalescence of stars in the night sky that I weave my irises through at night tell me otherwise. We are merely human; susceptible to beauty and alone in the universe. It’s not too much to ask; the simple act of joining our hands to protect a single island.

I am a jaded person, but a starling on my window sill never fails to let a smile play on my lips, if only for a few moments.

I may be tired, but not enough to forget that I am angry. It is our fault, our inability to prevent the oil-slicked tide that allowed this to happen. We have caused the Sixth Extinction, a mass extermination of all we once took for granted. The next Ice Age will come, felling us by the dozens. We will retire into a cold slumber, all we’ve made taken back by the tides, until we’re as lost as the volcanoes of old. The starlings will no longer sing in their high sweet tongue- all thanks to being afraid of making a bit of noise.

We may be one island amongst millions, but this is our home- the home of your neighbours, your friends, and your families. If not for you, then raise your voice for them.

© Around DB Magazine // k.a.l // stingthescribe

[cssopher]

Heres an advertising campaign I did for YWCA Girlspace. The client wanted a new logo, poster, mascots, Facebook banner, website, everything ! This was really fun to do especially in a group. I was in charge of the logo, posters, mascots and Facebook banner. The client specifically requested diversity in all the mascots from Race to age to even height!

Again probably one of my favourite projects to work on!

[cerita-cita-blog]

Ketika Ia menegurmu dengan cara-Nya, masihkah kau bergeming?

 Ada banyak cara Allah menegur hamba-Nya. Terkadang Allah menegur seketika itu juga.

Pernahkah mengalami hal ini?

Kemarin merasa bangga dengan seragam baru yang dikenakan. Sempat terbersit, walau halus sekali, rasa sombong.

Hari ini, sebotol kecil tinta telah menumpahi rok, baju, dan jilbab seragam itu. Pakaian yang pernah jadi kebanggaan, bahkan terbersit pengen memamerkan (Astaghfirullah), seketika telah menjadi pakaian yang tak lagi indah dipandang. Tak seapik ketika awal pengen disombongkan. Setelah sombong, memulai hal tanpa menyebut asma-Nya, pada akhirnya bisa muncul teguran paling mengena. Ternyata, Allah minta lagi kenikmatan untuk mengenakan seragam yang seharusnya bisa dipakai setiap dua hari dalam sepekan.

Ketika di siang hari terlakoni perilaku yang tidak baik. Malam harinya, Allah ambil salah satu nikmat yang tiada tandingannya. Nikmat kebersamaan bersama-Nya. Nikmat bermunajat kepada-Nya, di waktu yang amat mustajab. Waktu yang ketika itu bahkan Allah turun. Seolah ingin menemani hamba-Nya yang sengaja membuka matanya untuk bertemu Rabbnya. Mengelus lembut hamba-Nya yang yang rela mengurangi waktu tidurnya, sembari berkata lirih, “Mohon ampunlah kepada-Ku, maka akan Aku ampuni kesalahanmu. Mintalah hanya kepada-Ku, maka akan Aku beri.”

Maka, siapa yang tidak sangat merugi ketika Allah ambil nikmat itu? Hamba mana yang tak bercucuran air mata ketika matanya membuka ketika fajar telah menampakkan kehadirannya? Tanda bahwa malam telah terlewati tanpa indahnya bermesra dengan Rabbnya.

Allahu Rabbi, ampuni hamba-Mu dengan segala dosa-dosa dan kekhilafannya.

Dikutip dari dakwatuna.com, Sufyan Ats-Tsauri pernah berkata, “Aku pernah terhalang (tidak bisa bangun) untuk mengerjakan shalat malam selama lima bulan disebabkan satu dosa yang telah aku lakukan.” Ditanyakan kepada beliau, “Dosa apakah itu?” Beliau menjawab, “Aku melihat seorang laki-laki yang menangis, lalu aku katakan di dalam hatiku bahwa itu dilakukannya sebagai bentuk kepura-puraan saja.”

Pun Al-Hasan pernah berkata, “Tidaklah seseorang itu meninggalkan shalat malam kecuali karena dosa yang dilakukannya. Oleh karena itu, periksalah diri kalian setiap malam ketika matahari terbenam, kemudian bertaubatlah kepada Rabb kalian, agar kalian bisa mengerjakan shalat malam.”

Sedang Syeikh Ibrahim bin Adham pernah didatangi oleh seseorang untuk meminta nasehat agar ia bisa mengerjakan shalat malam. Kemudian berkatalah beliau kepadanya, “Janganlah engkau bermaksiat kepada Allah Azza wa Jalla di siang hari, niscaya Allah akan membangunkanmu untuk bermunajat di hadapan-Nya pada malam hari. Sebab munajatmu di hadapan-Nya di malam hari merupakan kemuliaan yang paling besar, sedangkan orang yang bermaksiat tidak berhak mendapatkan kemuliaan itu.”

Seseorang berkata padaku,  “Jika tidak disibukkan dengan kegiatan bermanfaat, engkau pasti akan disibukkan dengan kegiatan yang melalaikan”.  Banyak hal-hal yang melalaikan kita dari mengingat Allah yang kemudian Allah memberikan tegurannya lewat hal-hal yang tidak kita sangka, demi apa? tak lain adalah agar kita kembali kepada-Nya. 

Adakah yang  lebih indah dari mencintai selain pada-Nya?.  Manusia seringkali lupa bahwa nikmat Allah begitu luar biasa.  Kita mencintai manusia, memuja manusia, menggilai manusia dengan begitu euforia tapi lupa bahwa Allah begitu cemburu, tapi lupa bahwa Allah begitu sangat rindu, tapi lupa bahwa Allah sangat mengharapkannya ia kembali pada-Nya.

Manusia menangis karena rasa pengkhianatan yang dialami tapi setelah sembuh lagi Allah ditinggalkan sampai pada akhirnya dititik terendah manusia begitu sangat terpuruk dan lagi lagi tempat  kembali-Nya adalah  Allah dan apa balasan Allah padanya? Allah  tetap memaafkan dan memintanya untuk selalu tak perlu mengkhawatirkan hidupnya sebab Allah akan selalu menjaganya. Begitulah cara Allah terus mengetuk hati hamba-Nya. Allah tanpa lelah, tanpa pamrih, tanpa marah, dan sangat sabar selalu menanti dan menyambut hamba-Nya dengan sangat bahagia untuk terus kembali pada-Nya.

Percayalah kawanku, Allah selalu selipkan hikmah di setiap kejadian. So, Stay Close To Anything That Reminds You Of Allah.

[growingupmormon]

“This is it! I was done for. They were bringing me to a compound to be married off and hidden forever”

Whoever wrote this movie understands but also doesn’t understand how non-mormons see them

[growingupmormon]

Noah he built an Arky arky Noah he built him an Arky Arky Glory and Shine

Hearing this song again is triggering