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Myanmar represents a complete departure from any destination I've ever photographed before. It is a cultural destination, and traveling around the country with two local photographers for nearly three weeks, we were fully immersed.
Low-light portrait of praying novice monk, Maing Thauk, Lake Inle, Shan State, Myanmar.
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“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
*God bless my mom.
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A new tribute painting of the Patron Saint of Cancer Sufferers, Saint Peregrine by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
Saint Peregrine is also the Patron Saint of AIDS and other illnesses as well as Cancer - so may all those who meditate upon the image, created and infused with prayers, receive light, hope, protection and ultimate healing relief. Peace.
The artist - a Catholic convert since 2011 - often gets, through prayer, what he feels a 'Divine Push' to paint such Christian tributes and felt directed to paint Saint Peregrine, with prayers for healing, light and hope for those suffering cancer in his life - and worldwide.
He had a deep feeling the day of painting - 21 February - was a significant date; and later, after painting, realised it was the day in 1935 that Jesus had appeared to the Polish nun, Sister ( since 2000, Saint) Faustina, requesting she seek an artist and have a painting made depicting His Divine Mercy.
Stephen B. Whatley has painted several Divine Mercy images over the years; some of which were exhibited in his 2013 exhibition 'Paintings From Prayer' at London's Westminster Cathedral. There is a permanent walkway of his series of 30 paintings for the Tower of London, outside Tower Hill Station, London.
Peregrine Laziosi (Italy, c.1260-1345) experienced a miracle of healing in his own life, at 60, when a cancerous growth in his leg threatened amputation. The night before the amputation he spent praying before a fresco of The Crucifixion and later in a sleep state felt Jesus descend from The Cross to touch his leg. The next day the doctors found no trace of the cancer and he was pronounced cured; word spreading quickly of the power of Trust in the Lord.
The National Shrine of Saint Peregrine is at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago, Illinois, USA
This new painting took, alongside prayers, inspiration from a classic prayer card, acquired in New York in 2015.
Oil on canvas
30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
Power outages have been frequent throughout our city, but I am sure they extend much farther than our neck of the woods. Posting these shots before losing power again. Lots of ice falling off power lines and light posts today. Lots of downed branches and even fires resulting on some falling on electrical transformers and such. And winter isn't even here!
This place is hell to me
With the devil in my bed
And the devil in this bottle
And the devil in my head
I’ll meet you in heaven again
If you wear that dress again
(i’ll have one more drink, my friend)
Where my heart is kept on ice
And prayers burst into flames
Prayers on fire
nick cave
Everyone of us has or will travel this road.
When the wind kicks up, the road will be covered with snow, creating one of the loneliest feeling there is. You have no idea where the edge of the road ends and where that dangerous ditch begins, as you hope to use those telephone line poles as a reference.
And when, as in this image, dusk is approaching and you know the night will be pitch black and the poles themselves will disappear from sight. Your headlights only extend as far as the blowing snow in front of you, and then the prayers begin.
You glimpse an occasional light of a farmhouse, and realize that you know how future interstellar space travelers will feel - exactly as you do now, with a loneliness only tempered by distant lights to turn to in search of a helping hand in case something really goes bad.
At times, as if a prayer is answered, an angel appears in front of you in the form of a driver familiar with the twists and turns of the road and whose auto's tail lights guide you, and you breathe another prayer of thanks as you follow those lights.
And so this journey is ending with a prayer, a prayer that when in your darkest hour that angel is sent to provide guidance, and that you are given the wisdom and strength to seek those lights, those people who can really help.
And prayers for June and Angie Royer and family on their journey.
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Location :
Manjuyod Sand bar,
Negros Oriental, Philippines
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In the light of of the tragedy and loss of lives in Paris, believers around the world are advocating / interceding
for Paris to the most High God. Yet how sad the unbelieving continually defiant to acknowledge Him in the midst of adversity to tell the world God is not relevant to lives of Parisians. As qoute and qoute from one French cartoonist :
"Friends from the whole world, thank you for # pray for Paris, but we don't need more religion.
Our faith goes to music! Kisses! Life! Champagne and joy! #ParisIsAboutLife," from Joannsfar posted to Instagram after Friday night's terrors assault.
Although she used the word "religion" and Parisians don't need religion, which understandably implying the concept of God isn't needed anymore in their lives.
Perhaps they haven't known this, that "We can't live by bread alone ...."
Christians should humbly reconcile and pardon the cartoonist because she hasn't seen the glory of God as we have seen, experienced and realized. We can only hope the views of this cartoonist doesn't represent the rest of the people of Paris.
However, are we surprised of this type of conviction invading the hearts of so many people today, growing cold and leaving their Christian heritage all together .
The Bible speaks in 1 Timothy 4:1
"Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons."
Are these what we are seeing today ?
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Prayers do have power, . I said this because myself have witnessed the power of God many, many times which intervenes and put things just right on my path. Prayers work of those who believe , having the faith, and relationship with God. Existing in a Godless life is a life without divine protection and living such life should be truly scary.
I wonder why people take life so easy without God . Life can be easily snapped away without warning and into eternity we go . Although many scientific advocates tried to prove we just end up as dirt after the elixir of life faded away . But God has given people revelations through personal experiences of NDE's / OBE's , that hell and heaven / paradise do exit .
Hell is place of containment under the earth . It's without air, without water and everything . It's a place where man has lost it all into eternity and a place of total separation from God . Although many unbelieving would dislike this statement but that's how the scripture warns us.
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I have several testimonies of victory in the Lord I haven't shared here as it's hard to share every detail of it. One happened lately which rocked me to the core . I was left deeply anxious , truly shaken. What left in me was the only hope for God to take me to the rescue. I went into deep intercession and spiritual warfare as I knew it's an enemy attack ( Ephesians 6: 12 ) . Praise God, He is always there for me . I would say what had happened was a miracle and God's protection with a doubt . A protection no one can take away unless God allows it. God is an awesome living God . My experiences were surely aren't coincidences .
Top view of Namaz From Baitul Mukaram Moshjid,Bangladesh. I took this Jumma Namaz photo from Baitul Mukarram, national mosque of Bangladesh.
Around 40,000 people can pray together.In special Occasions it exceed 1 lakh.
Jumu'ah (in standard Arabic jum`ah; Arabic: صلاة الجمعة ṣalāt al-jum`ah, "Friday prayer") is a congregational prayer (ṣalāt) that Muslims hold every Friday, just after noon in the place of dhuhr. Muslims pray ordinarily five times each day according to the sun's sky path regardless of clock time.[ It is mentioned in the Qurʾān as:
O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday (the Day of Assembly, yawm al-jumʿah), hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business (and traffic): That is best for you if ye but knew!
And when the Prayer is finished, then may ye disperse through the land, and seek of the Bounty of Allah: and celebrate the Praises of Allah often (and without stint): that ye may prosper.
—Qur'an, sura 62 (Al-Jumua), āyāt 9-10
The jumuʿah prayer is half the ẓuhr (dhuhr) prayer, for convenience, preceded by a khuṭbah (a sermon as a technical replacement of the two reduced rakaʿāt of the ordinary ẓuhr (dhuhr) prayer), and followed by a congregational prayer, led by the imām. In most cases the khaṭīb also serves as the imam. Attendance is strictly incumbent upon all adult males who are legal residents of the locality
The muezzin (muʾadhdhin) makes the call to prayer, called the adhan, usually 15–20 minutes prior to the start of Jum'ah. When the khaṭīb takes his place on the minbar, a second adhan is made. The khaṭīb is supposed to deliver two sermons, stopping and sitting briefly between them. In practice, the first sermon is longer and contains most of the content. The second sermon is very brief and concludes with a dua, after which the muezzin calls the iqāmah. This signals the start of the main two rak'at prayer of Jumu'ah.
The communal prayers have higher compliance of worshippers, as compared to the non-communal ritual prayers. In Turkey for example, the ritual prayers are performed regularly by 44%, whereas Friday prayers were regularly attended by 56% (25% responded that they sometimes attended and 19% that they never did).
From hadith:
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "On every Friday the angels take their stand at every gate of the mosques to write the names of the people chronologically (i.e. according to the time of their arrival for the Friday prayer) and when the Imam sits (on the pulpit) they fold up their scrolls and get ready to listen to the sermon."
—Collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj an-Naysaburi relates that the Islamic prophet Muhammad used to read Surah 87 (Al-Ala) and Surah 88, (Al-Ghashiya), in Eid Prayers and also in Friday prayers. If one of the festivals fell on a Friday, the Prophet would have made sure to read these two Surahs in the prayers.
A suspended prayer. In Man Mo temple, the city, Hong-Kong island. Once I crossed Victoria’s bay, I walked along the skyscrapers of the City. After some errand, I stumbled upon Man Mo temple. Right in the middle of the city, on the bottom of the tall buildings, it felt like it was in a remote location.
Man twirling a beautiful silver prayer wheel with one hand and fingering prayer beads with the other at the Gustor festival, Spituk Gompa, Leh, Ladakh. The prayer wheel contains a long circular scroll twined around the centre containing prayers/mantras. Each revolution of the prayer wheel is as meritorious as reading the inscription aloud as many times as it is written on the scroll. The mantra Om Mane Padme Hum is frequently chanted at the same time the wheel is twirled. A shadow of the ornate monastery roof line appears on the wall.
01/02/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
The visit to the Tiger’s Nest takes a full day. On average, it takes between four and five hours to do the round trip hike, plus one more hour to visit the monastery.
Taktsang Palphug Goemba (Tiger's Nest):
Thank you for the world so sweet,
Thank you for the food we eat,
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you dad and mum for everything.
For BOKEH group
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for KAROLINA´s 365 project
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imjingak
Imjingak (Hangul: 임진각; Hanja: 臨津閣), and sometimes in English called the Imjingak "resort", is a park located on the banks of the Imjin River in the city of Paju, South Korea. The park has many statues and monuments regarding the Korean War. There is also a restaurant, an observation deck, a pool in the shape of the Korean peninsula, and even a small amusement park.
The park was built to console those from both sides who are unable to return to their hometowns, friends and families because of the division of Korea.
Imjingak is where the "Freedom Bridge" lies. The Freedom Bridge crosses the Imjin river. It is a former railroad bridge which was used by repatriated POWs/soldiers returning from the North. It is more famous, however, and until 1998 was the only point of egress in the western sector other than Liberty Bridge (which was controlled by the South Korean Army) onto the DMZ, and the only direct link to Camp Greaves, Liberty Bell, and Panmunjom. This is not to be confused with the "bridge of freedom" which is merely an access bridge to the main span that allowed the one way southbound traffic to pass by while northbound traffic stood waiting its turn to cross; it now crosses a stream adjacent to the Imjin river and connects with the North-South railway.