Morning Prayer

A message accompanied by beautiful sun rise

Do you know why most Chinese light up joss sticks when doing a simple prayer?

One that I know is to communicate with God, as the message you want to tell in you heart will be brought to the heavens through the slowly-burning joss sticks.

This is what my grandma will do every morning, offering three joss sticks and do a simply prayer.

A simple offering which in my generation, many would neglect to do. Maybe we are loosing our roots, or just that we don’t have strong religious thinking in our veins.

How would you communicate with God? Do you always do it?

Bless us, heaven…

Heaven, bless us all

This is a picture of a mini altar used by the Chinese in Malaysia, so that they can offer joss sticks as a symbol of prayers to god.

Most of us wish for blessings from heavens, ranging from good health and longevity, to wealth and success in work. Isn’t that simple? Some only pray to god when they have trouble in their lives, some don’t even believe in god, and some, would even sacrifice themselves for god. No matter what our believes are, we all hope for one thing, peace and prosperity; and to do good so that we can bring warmth and kindness to all people around us.

The older generations would always wish for blessings from high above, for a simple life; as long as their family and themselves are safe and healthy all the time. What do you wish for the most?