Prayer Projects

My prayer project for Myanmar was the second one I've done--the first was for Ukraine, which you can see down below. 

Burmese Catholic nun, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng, became famous in 2021 after she knelt in front of government forces and begged them to spare the protesters near her. I've added her quote around my frame: 

"You'll have to come through me. Shoot me instead of these young people." 

Myanmar is mainly Buddhist, has 54 million people, and a current civil war that started in 2021. 

It also has an estimated 100,000 trafficked people forced to work in scam centers that are overseen by crime syndicates, and that number has dramatically risen since the military coup in 2021. 

So they got prayed for too. 

I added some fruit (limes cut from an old umbrella covering), the Myanmar flag, a bowl of "noodles" (rubber bands) to represent the national dish of mohinga (fish and noodle soup), a Myanmar pangasius catfish (with whiskers that I cut from a cleaning brush and used permanent marker to blacken), a seashell, and lots of love and prayers as I listened to music from Myanmar by the Hsaing Waing Orchestra (featuring the Burmese harp) on Spotify. 

God bless them all. 

And last year I finished an embroidery project for Ukraine while listening to Ukrainian Christian worship music and praying for their country and people, that Putin's heart and mind would be changed, that peace would descend. The sunflower is the Ukrainian national flower, and then I added on some of my great-grandmother's buttons and green ribbon around it all to wrap up as a heart-present for the Ukrainian people. (Thank you to Joel for the embroidery kit.)