2018
Te Kukurei: E Riaon Riki te Namakin
April 2018


Te Kukurei: E Riaon Riki te Namakin

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Ti reireinaki bwa karekean te kimwareirei bon te kantaninga ibukin rikira (taraa 2 Nibwaai 2:25). Ao tera bukina ngkai n tabetai te kukurei e a manga kaangaanga rekena? E kona n ae bukina bwa tiaki ataia bwa tera raoi te kukurei … ao tera ae tiaki.

Tera te Kukurei?

Ni bebetena, te kukurei bon aron rikiraken am iango nakon te karinan are ko taneiai n nanamakinna.1 N taekana tabeua, e nanonaki n te namakin ae tikiraoi.

A mwaiti kawai aika ti kona ni karekea iai te namakin ae raoiroi—man karaoan manikangare ma raoraom, takakaro n takakaro aika kaunga, ke kanakin mwakoron te tiitikeeke—ma e aki kona n teimaan. Ti teimatoa ni waekoa ni bitaki man te waaki ni kukurei teuana nakon teuana ni kataia ni kateimatoa te namakin ae raoiroi anne. Ma iai te kukurei ae teimaan riki?

Eng—ma e kaangaanga rekena nakon are ko iangoia, ngaia anne bukina ae tiaki karekea. E tuangiira te aonaaba bwa te maiu ae uaana e riai ni kaonaki ma mwakuri aika kakukurei, bwa a riai am bong ni kaonaki ma te bebete, ao te kukurei ae aki toki. Ma te koaua e kangai, ko aki kainnanoa te kakukurei ae teimatoa bwa aonga ni maiuakina “te kukurei” (2 Nibwaai 5:27). Te kukurei ae reitinako—n aron ae ti kona n atongnga bwa te kukurei ni koaua—kanga ai aron namakinan te marurung ae teimatoa, nakon namakinan te kukurei ae korakora. Te ngarengare ao te kukurei e na mauna, ma namakinan te kukurei ni koaua bon tiaki te namakin ae kai toki—e teimaan riki. Ngkana ko namakina te kakukurei bwa e kabirirakea kukureim nakon ae ko tataneiai iai, karekean te kakukurei ni koaua ti tebo ma karakaan te taneiai bon irouna.2

Ko na bae n iangoia bwa te kukurei ae teimatoa e tangira te rikirake ae teimatoa ao te inaomata man te maraki ke man taian kataaki. Ma kamatebwai a kaotia bwa aroaro aika raraoi aki karekea te kukurei, ao aika aki raraoi aki totokoia. Irarikin anne, ibuakon koaua ake a roota kukureim, am rinerine iai mwiia tabeua aika korakora.3 Unimwaane Ulisses Soares man te Beretitentii n te Itingaun e reirei, “Te kukurei e reke man taian katei, aroaro, ao iango aika ti kona n taekin ma te mwakuri ae nako mai inanora.” Te kukurei e raka riki nakon te nano ae tamaroa ke te maiu ae kukurei—bon aron te iango ao te maiu are ti kona n tararuaia. Karinan nA kakoauaki aron ara namakin bwa a riki man aron karikara ao aron kaikawakira, ma ara rinerine a kaota aron te mwakuri ae tamaroa. Ni kauarerekeana, “te kukurei bon te rinerine are e kona ni karaoia temanna.”4

N na Kanga ni Kona Ni Kukurei?

Ngaia ae ti na kanga raoi n “rineia” bwa ti na kukurei? Tera te kawai ae raba ae aki ataaki irouia aomata ni karekean te kukurei? N aron are e kabwarabwara Unimwaane Soares, te kukurei ni koaua e tangira “te mwakuri korakora ibukin te bwai ae kakawaki riki n te maiu.” N aron naba aei, Viktor Frankl, temanna are e maiu imwiin tiringakiia Iutaia ao bon taokitan te iango, e taku bwa te kukurei bon “uaan ana anga nano temanna ae korakora riki nakon temanna.”5

Ao tera riki ae konaa ni korakora riki nakon are e a tia ni kawenea te Atua ibukira? Inanon ara kakae ibukin te kukurei, ao ti riai n aki riaon ana babaire Tamara are i Karawa. E ngae n anne, e atongaki bwa “te babaire ni kakukurei” ae iai bukina! (Aramwa 42:8, 16). E kakoauaki inanon angiin booki aika tabu bwa irakin taekan ana babaire te Atua e na uota te kukurei (taraa 2 Nibwaai 2:13; Ereman 13:38). E ngae ngke te maiu ae kororaoi e aki kona ni kamaiuiira man te maraki n nano, ma e na katauraoira bwa ti na kona n rinanon te kukurei n te maiu aei, ao ni kairiira nakon karietataakira ao te kukurei are akea tokina n te aonaaba ae na roko.

N ai aron te onimaki, te kukurei e kona ni memeere ke ni kakorakoraaki, ni kaineti ma aroarom. Ngkana ko kakabanea am tai ibukin karekean te kukurei ae kakai toki, ao kukureim “e na kakamaieieaki nako n te ang” (I-Ebeto 4:14). Ma ngkana ko teimatoa ni maiuakina te raoiroi, ao ko na karikirakea karekean te rau ao te maiu raoi are e na reitinako inanon taian kataaki. Ao ngkana ko karimoaa te onimaki imwain te kakukurei, ao ko na kunea te kukurei raoi—te aekaki ae a kona ni kuneaki irouia “naake a rairaki raoi man nanorinano n ukoukora te kukurei” (Aramwa 27:18).

Bwaai aika a na taraaki

  1. Taraa Carolyn Gregoire, “This Is Scientific Proof That Happiness Is a Choice,” HuffPost, Ritembwa 13, 2013, huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/scientific-proof-that-you_n_4384433.html.

  2. Taraa Alex Lickerman, “How to Reset Your Happiness Set Point,” Pyschology Today, Ebe. 21, 2013, psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201304/how-reset-your-happiness-set-point.

  3. Taraa Michael Mendelsohn, “Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness,” ABC News, Tian. 11, 2008, abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4115033&page=1.

  4. Carolyn Gregoire, “This Is Scientific Proof That Happiness Is a Choice.”

  5. Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1984), 17.