The prayer series

Jesus,

You are a worker.
You create me in Your image.
I’m a worker, too.

You’re working until now.
I’m working, too.

Working heartily.
Giving myself fully to Your work.
Doing all things without grumbling or questioning.
Doing my best to present myself to you as one approved,
the worker who is created in Your image.

Amen.

PTH

The prayer series

Jesus,

Please help the Mekong Delta.

Summer is coming.
Please don’t let anyone lack clean water in this dry season.
And please protect our precious groundwater sources.

Amen.

PTH

The prayer series

Jesus,

Our country emphasizes love among people –
grandfathers, grandmothers,
father, mother, brothers, sisters,
neighbors…

Precious loves.

These loves make up the strength of our country.

Please bless us,
bless these loves,
make these loves shine upon us.

Amen.

PTH

The prayer series

Jesus,

My feeling to you is like riding a roller coaster.
Sometimes I’m on fire for you,
and sometimes I don’t feel any thing.
How can I stop this up-and-down ride?

Am I worried?
So I give these worries to you. Continue reading Prayer 380 →

The prayer series

Jesus,

You choose me and appoint me
so that I may go and bear fruit
— fruit that will last.(1)

You also say,
“I am sending you out…,
be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves”.(2)

Continue reading Prayer 379 →

The prayer series

Jesus,

I swear I’ll become a channel of your peace.
This is the way I support your dream.
This is also the way I show my filial piety to my dad, mom, grandfathers, grandmothers and ancestors.

Will we go together?
Together till the end?

I know you love me.
I love you, too, Jesus.

Amen.

PTH

The prayer series

Jesus,

A new year – a new chance.
A chance to live better.
Living closer to people.
Much closer to their feelings.
Praying for others much more.
Especially sinners, outcasts, enemies…

Thank you for giving me the new chance – the new life.

Please make me a channel of your peace in the new year.

Amen.

PTH

The prayer series

Jesus,

Please bless all families.
Wishing their old things pass away,
new and good things follow them
in New Year and forever.

May you fill all families with joy, love and peace.

Amen.

PTH

The prayer series

Jesus,

Please save homeless people,
offer them shelter and hope.

Please save street children from abuse, hunger and self-destruction.

Please save vulnerable people in our society.

Amen.

PTH