Jesus,
Would you like to travel by our trains?
I like to travel by trains
for they go slow
so I could enjoy the scenes
and view people around me. Continue reading Prayer 38
Jesus,
Would you like to travel by our trains?
I like to travel by trains
for they go slow
so I could enjoy the scenes
and view people around me. Continue reading Prayer 38
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Addis Ababa has a surprise in store for those who haven’t visited in two years. Cutting through the heart of this booming city, where construction cranes are the most persistent feature of the skyline, is the Addis Ababa Light Rapid Transit (AALRT) network.
Jesus,
I miss you.
The cities under our plane are beautiful.
You view the scene with me
while you lift the plane up. Continue reading Prayer 37
The Guardian – Activists say British authorities are failing to identify and protect victims who have been trafficked to the UK as slaves, many of them children

Detained Vietnamese migrants who were smuggled into the UK in a van. Many arrive with debts of up to £25,000 for their passage. Photograph: Solent News/Rex/Shutterstock
Tuesday 20 December 2016 2.00 EST
Jesus,
Happy birthday to you!
I wish you everlasting happiness (though you are the source of happiness to the world 🙂 )
Recently I feel I don’t talk to you much.
I’m sorry.
Maybe you are unhappy about that. Continue reading Prayer 36
Jesus,
You know,
when you were tested in the wilderness,
I like how you said to the devil,
“Away from me, Satan!” Continue reading Prayer 35
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Jesus,
Our Father is working until now,
and you are working,
so we are also working.
Teach us how we could work with the best quality possible.
Teach us how we should wait on you so that you would be well pleased.
And work with us.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen
PTH
DEC. 20, 2016 New York Times

White-clad devotees at Dhammakaya Wat, Thailand’s largest temple, in February. The number of adherents has grown into the hundreds of thousands both in Thailand and abroad. Credit Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
PATHUM THANI, Thailand — It is a temple for a changing Thailand: clean, unadorned, high-tech and unashamed of praying for wealth.
“Sit here and get rich,” read small medallions embedded in the floor under each white plastic chair in a vast, open-sided meditation center. In his sermons, the temple’s charismatic 72-year-old leader, Phra Dhammachayo, often exhorts his adherents, “Be rich, be rich, be rich!”
Giêsu ơi,
Chúng em đang làm điều không thể.
Nhưng điều không thể với con người thì có thể với Giêsu.
Và nếu Giêsu thấy điều chúng em làm đẹp lòng Giêsu, xin ban phước cho điều đó,
biến nó thành điều có thể. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 33 – Prayer 33
YANGON: The 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday (Dec 19) offered Myanmar humanitarian assistance, stressing that aid be distributed to those affected in northern Rakhine state.
Speaking after a closed-door meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh said that “we need to help Myanmar overcome this challenge”.
Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi walk after they attended ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting on Rohingya issue in Sedona hotel at Yangon, Myanmar December 19 , 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu biết mọi sự trong vũ trụ.
Xin cho chúng em biết
vấn đề nào quan trọng nhất đối với đất nước chúng em?
Và làm sao giải quyết những vấn đề đó? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 32 – Prayer 32
ALJAREEZA – Beijing unhappy with the US “hyping up” the situation after the underwater drone was seized from South China Sea.

The USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 class oceanographic survey ship, sails in open water in this undated photo [US Navy via AP]
China’s Defence Ministry said it had been in talks with the United States about returning an underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea, but the US was not helping by “hyping up” the issue.
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu là Đấng Cứu thế,
Giêsu đến và giải thoát chúng em khỏi ách nô lệ tinh thần.
Xin ban phước cho đất nước chúng em.
Xin giúp đất nước chúng em trở thành quốc gia vĩ đại nhất thế giới.
Và xin giúp chúng em sống như những người dân của quốc gia vĩ đại nhất thế giới.
Em cám ơn Giêsu.
Amen.
PTH
26-8-2025 Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 31 – Prayer 31
Larry Colburn and My Lai villager. (Photo Credit: Chitose Suzuki/AP)
I met Larry Colburn in 1998 when he and Hugh Thompson returned to Viet Nam for the first time since the war. They met with victims of the My Lai Massacre, including survivors whose lives they helped to save during those awful hours of March 16, 1968.