Jesus,
These alleys are great.
Old, small and quiet.
This house is nice.
That house is nice too.
You know,
I like housing architecture.
Had I studied drawing hard in junior high school,
I would have been an architect student. Continue reading Prayer 602
Dear brothers and sisters,
I love áo dài. Áo dài is beautiful.
1. To me, áo dài’s beauty is in the collar, especially a high upright collar. The high upright collar helps a lady’s back straight. A straight back makes a beautiful posture. And a beautiful posture makes the lady beautiful.
Asia Foundation February 13, 2019 By Nathan Shea
The first news that militants had taken to the streets of the Islamic City of Marawi on May 23, 2017, came from Facebook. Pictures of masked men carrying assault rifles and waving the black flag of the Islamic State were swirling across social media well before Philippine and international news channels picked up the story. By the time the military and the media had begun to respond, Marawi’s residents were already streaming out of the city by the tens of thousands to seek refuge from the violence.
Dear brothers and sisters,
Who was Jesus?
Jesus was a child who was born in a manger. (Luke 2:7)
He was a carpenter when he grew up. (Mark 6:3)
Then he was a rabbi (which means teacher) (John 1:38),
the rabbi who had no place to lay his head. (Matthew 8:20)
Jesus was nothing. Continue reading Who was Jesus? (2)
Ignorance and wisdom (1)
Ignorance and wisdom (2)
Dear brothers and sisters,
The Diamond Sutra say,
“All conditioned dharmas
are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows,
like dew drops and a lightning flash:
contemplate them thus.” Continue reading Ignorance and wisdom (2)
Jesus,
It’s hard
for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.*
Why?
Perhaps because someone who is rich thinks
his wealth is real.
No, his wealth is unreal. Continue reading Prayer 601
By Bhadra Sharma and Kai Schultz
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Parbati Bogati knew what to do when her period came.
Ms. Bogati, 21, sequestered herself in an abandoned house, in keeping with a centuries-old taboo that declares menstruating women impure, officials from her area in rural western Nepal said.
As the temperature dropped below freezing on Wednesday evening, she tried to keep warm, apparently burning wood and clothing.
By the next morning, her legs were charred and she was dead.
Ignorance and wisdom (1)
Ignorance and wisdom (2)
Dear brothers and sisters,
What is a wise person?
A wise person is the person who can see wisdom everywhere. Yes, everywhere. Especially in the fool.
A wise person is the person who can see wisdom in the fools. Continue reading Ignorance and wisdom (1)
(Sonny Ross for The Washington Post)
By Philip Kennicott
Art and architecture critic January 31, 2019
The Vietnam War, which tore this country apart and forever changed its politics and culture, has never been the subject of a Smithsonian exhibition. The nation managed to build a memorial in 1982 to those who died in the war, less than a decade after the fall of Saigon, and, in 2017, Americans watched an epic 18-hour PBS documentary about the war, without any substantial political controversy. The war is included within exhibitions at the National Museum of American History, is referenced in the National Museum of African American History and Culture and served as the backdrop to an anniversary exhibition about the Vietnam memorial in 2003. But it hasn’t been the subject of specific, focused curatorial reconsideration.
Dear brothers and sisters,
A person you love can hurt you, but Love never hurts you. Love loves you. Love loves you truly.
When you don’t feel Love loves you, when a person hurts you, although the hurt is tiny, you won’t be at peace.
When you feel Love loves you, although many persons hurt you, you are at peace. Continue reading Love loves you
VnExpress By Mark A. Ashwill February 7, 2019 | 11:03 am GMT+7
An ‘other’ reflects on the ways in which he and many others feel they belong, why Vietnam is home.
I have spent over 40 percent of my adult life outside of my home country, never content with having my soul controlled by geography, to paraphrase George Santayana. I carry a U.S. passport but it doesn’t define me. I am a U.S. ex-patriot and global citizen who calls Vietnam home.
It was during my first visit to Hanoi 23 years ago this month that this country – with its tragic yet inspirational millennia-long history – cast its spell on me. After moving here in 2005, I joined a select group of expats – an estimated 100,000 of them, according to official sources – who live in the midst of 97 million Vietnamese.
Bài gốc: Prayer 377 >>
The prayer series >>
Giêsu ơi,
Em nguyện trở thành khí cụ bình an của Giêsu.
Đây là cách em hỗ trợ giấc mơ của Giêsu.
Cũng là cách em tỏ lòng hiếu thảo với ba, mẹ, ông, bà và tổ tiên.
Mình sẽ đi cùng nhau chứ?
Bên nhau đến tận cùng?
Em biết Giêsu yêu em.
Em cũng yêu bạn, Giêsu.
Amen.
PTH
I’ve started considering myself not a youngster anymore but a young-at-heart mature adult. Nonetheless, starting my adulthood, I’ve realized there are so many youngsters who keep wondering that they don’t really know what they want to do with their life. So many questions like: What major should I study in college? What kind of career I should follow in the future? What skills I need to equip myself with in order to survive in this crazy world?…
Many youngsters and students have shared with me that such unanswered questions even make them anxious, stressed, and so worried about their future. Continue reading What do you want to do with your life?
Bài gốc: Prayer 493
The prayer series
Giêsu ơi,
You là Tình Yêu (1 John 4:8).
You là Tình Yêu của em.
Tình Yêu ở quanh em.
Tình Yêu ở trong em.
Tình Yêu chính là em.
Vậy sao em lại lo về chàng,
“Liệu chàng có yêu em không?”
“Liệu chàng có thật yêu em không?”
“Liệu chàng có yêu em mãi mãi không?”
Chàng đến, chàng đi.
Nhưng Tình Yêu yêu em.
Tình Yêu yêu em thật.
Tình Yêu yêu em mãi mãi.
Tình Yêu ở quanh em.
Tình Yêu ở trong em.
Tình Yêu chính là em.
Amen.
PTH
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