Jesus,
Help me be perfect
as you are perfect.*
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Footnote:
*Matthew 5:48 New International Version (NIV)
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Jesus,
Help me be perfect
as you are perfect.*
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Footnote:
*Matthew 5:48 New International Version (NIV)
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Source: Xinhua | 2017-01-11 16:29:58 | Editor: Lu Hui
BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — China’s State Council Information Office on Wednesday issued a white paper on China’s policies on Asia-Pacific security cooperation.
Following is the full text:
China’s Policies on Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation
The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China January 2017
First Edition 2017
Jesus,
My food is to do your will
and to finish your work.*
May your will for me be fulfilled.**
Amen.
ChannelNewsAsia Posted 24 Jan 2017 04:49

A Chinese navy formation, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning (C), during military drills in the South China Sea on Jan 2, 2017. (AFP Photo)
WASHINGTON: The White House warned China on Monday (Jan 23) that the United States will defend “international interests” in the South China Sea and that trade must be a “two-way street.”
Jesus,
We are your servants.
You entrust your wealth to us.*
Help us gain it more.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Footnote:
* Matthew 25: 14-30 The parable of the bags of gold
Jesus,
You are the life.
You are beautiful.
So life is beautiful.
You are the love.
You are beautiful.
So love is beautiful. Continue reading Prayer 55

JAPAN TIMES -AP, Jan 18, 2017
BEIJING – China’s top judge has drawn criticism from legal professionals after he dismissed the concept of judicial independence as an “erroneous Western ideal,” a statement seemingly aimed at emphasizing the ruling Communist Party’s ultimate control over all areas of public life.
Jesus,
Who am I among the people whom you bless in The sermon on the mount?
The poor in spirit?
Those who mourn, the meek…?
Who am I among the eight kinds of people? Continue reading Prayer 54
COMMENTARY
December 8, 2006
© Vu-Duc Vuong
In this season of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, who counts upward of two billion followers around the world today, it may be sobering to look at religions from a more humanist perspective: it is humans who create gods out of the necessity to believe in something higher, more lasting and more powerful than their short lifespan.
ASIA PACIFIC – JAN. 17, 2017
Continue reading the main story

Dasho Karma Ura, shown in Thimphu in September, has for more than two decades developed and fine-tuned Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness indicator. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times
THIMPHU, Bhutan — As a downpour settled into a thick fog outside, Dasho Karma Ura let his eyes flicker at the ceiling of a wood-paneled conference room and began expounding on the nature of happiness.
Jesus,
As a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it produces many seeds,
let my old person dies
and my new person be born again
in you.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
“Development” underway in Phu Quoc’s northwest. Photo by VnExpress/Calvin Godfrey
By Dien Luong December 26, 2016 | 02:00 am GMT+7
Critics warn the casinos could prove a risky gambit.
e.vnexpress.net_Phu Quoc Island’s long pursuit of a casino may finally pay off.
Since at least 2007, shifting rumors about the casino’s location and investors cast a pall of uncertainty over whether and where the Mekong Delta’s most popular tourist destination would have a casino.
Boston Globe – JULY 30, 2012

Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson’s project is aiding efforts to spot unexploded bombs that still endanger civilians. MEG MCKINNEY FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
By Bryan Bender GLOBE STAFF
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Six years ago it seemed a zany idea when Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson, 45, a bespectacled Minnesota native with an outsized gee-whiz quality even by military standards, began a rather unusual hobby: documenting a century of US air power — bomb by bomb.
Jesus,
Please take the plank out of my own eye.
I want to see my brothers and sisters clearly.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH