By. Sumardi

Mengapa langit tidak sebiru yang dicerita orang?

Mengapa hidup ini tidak seindah yang dikisahkan orang?

Mengapa menjadi Kristen tidak seberkati yang dituturkan orang?

Mengapa tak ada jawaban seperti yang dikira orang sebagai jawaban dariMu, Tuhan?

Satu hal yang pasti kudengar dari Tuhanku sendiri,

Dari mulut-Nya, tercipta barisan kata, dan terjahit indah-Nya tutur kata-Nya dalam sanubariku

Bahwa

Engkau telah memilihi aku, dan aku jadi milik-Mu

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to afford any other, but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her; for women have no caste or class, their beauty, grace, and charm serving them for birth or family, their natural delicacy, their instinctive elegance, their nimbleness of wit, are their only mark of rank, and put the slum girl on a level with the highest lady in the land.