လါယနူၤအါရံၤ ၂၉, ၂၀၂၁
လၢယပါပါအချီၣ်ဆှါဃ့အပူၤ
တၢ်ဖ:ဖျိလံာ်စီဆှံလၢတနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤအဂီၢ် – ယိၤဘး ၁၁, ယိၤဘး ၁၂, ယိၤဘး ၁၃, ယိၤဘး ၁၄,
မးသဲ ၂ဝ:၁-၁၉, စံ:ထီၣ်ပတြၢၤ ၁၇:၆-၁၂
‘‘အံ:က့ၤကွၢ်က့ၤယၤဒ်ပမဲာ်ပှၤဖိအသိ:တက့ၢ်. လၢနဒံ:ဆ့အကဒုပူၤန့ၣ်ပာ်တဒၢယၤ, လၢပှၤတတီတလိၤလၢအမၤအၢယၤ, ယသ:သမူအဒုၣ်အဒါလၢအလဲၤဝ:တရံ:ယၤန့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.’’
စံ:ထီၣ်ပတြၢၤ ၁ရ:၈-၉
‘တါပူၤတါပူၤ…တီၤတီၤ…တူၤတူၤတူၤ’ နၢ်ဟူဘၣ်ကျိတဖၣ်အသီၣ်ထီၣ်လီၤ. ဒူဖိသဝီဖိတဖၣ်ဃ့ၢ်ဝဲလၢသဝီချၢ ဒီးဒ်ဖိသၣ်အသိးတဘျီဃီ ယကနိးကစုာ်, ပျံၤတၢ်ဖုးတၢ်ဒီးမၤတသ့တၢ်နီတမံၤဘၣ်. ယနီနီကၠူနၢ်တခီပုထီၣ်ယပုၢ် ဆံးဖိ, ဒၢနုာ်ဟုသးလၢအအိၣ်တ့ၢ်ထဲခံသလီးဖိ, လၢအကဖီအီၣ်ဟါတၢ်အီၣ်အဂီၢ် လၢထၢၣ်ဖိအပူၤ, ဒီးလၢတၢ်ပစုၢ် ပတ့ၤအပူၤန့ၣ် မၤဝဲချ့ချ့ဒ်သိးသုးမီၤစိရိၤသုတထံၣ်ပှၤတဂ့ၤအဂီၢ်လီၤ. အဝဲဟ့ၣ်လီၤယၤဟုသးဒီးထူထီၣ်ဝဲယပါပါ အချီၣ်ဆှါဖိလၢပဒါအီၤဖဲပဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိမံအခါဝံၤ, မၢယလဲၤအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢချီၣ်ဆှါဃ့ ထူအပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. အဝဲတခီ ပုထီၣ်ယပုၢ်ဒီး ဃ့ၢ်အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ်အဂၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်မၤအသးအံၤကမ့ၢ်ဖဲ ၁၉၈၉ တၢ်စူၤအခါ, ဒီးယမိၢ် ယပၢ်တအိၣ်လၢဟံၣ်နီတဂၤဘၣ်. အဝဲသ့ၣ်လဲၤကျီနီၣ်လၢခုးပူၤအဆၢကတီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. လၢစှၤမံးနံးအတီၢ်ပူၤ, သုးမီၤစိရိၣ်အသုးဟဲထီၣ်မၤဟးဂီၤကွံာ်ပတြဲၤလၢဟံၣ်ပူၤ, ဟးဃုကမူၣ်ခွဲးခွးတၢ်ဝးဝး လၢယကပၤဒီး ဟံးန့ၢ် တၢ်ဖိတၢ်လံၤတဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဒ်ဖိသၣ်ဖိအသိး ယကနိးကစုာ်, ပျံၤတၢ်ဖုးတၢ်, မၤသီၣ်ကလုၢ်တဘူၣ်ဘၣ်. သ့ၣ်နီၣ်ထီၣ်ဘၣ်က့ၤမိမိအတၢ်သိၣ်လိပှၤလၢ, ကစၢ်ယွၤမ့ၢ်ပတၢ်မၤစၢၤ, အဃိလၢဖိသၣ်အသနၢၣ် ယစံးသ့ဝဲဒၣ် ‘‘ကစၢ်ဧၢမၤစၢၤယၤ…ကစၢ်ဧၢမၤစၢၤယၤ’’ လၢယသးပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်လၢအဝဲသ့ၣ်လီကီဝဲတဖၣ် ဟံးန့ၢ်ဝဲခဲလၢာ်ဝံၤ ဃ့ၢ်လီၤလၢဟံၣ်ပူၤဒီးက့ၤက့ၤဝဲဆူအဝဲသ့ၣ်အလီၢ်အိၣ်လီၤဆိးန့ၣ်လီၤ. ကစၢ်ယွၤအဘျုးအဖှိၣ်အဃိ, အဝဲသ့ၣ် တထံၣ်ယၤဘၣ်. ယမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢယပါပါအချီၣ်ဆှါဃ့အထူအပူၤဘၣ်ဆၣ်, မ့တမ့ၢ်လၢကစၢ်ယွၤပာ်ခူသူၣ်ယၤ လၢအဒံးဆ့အကဒုပူၤဘၣ်န့ၣ်, သုးမီၤစိရိၣ်ကထံၣ်န့ၢ်ယၤဒီးမၤသံကွံာ်ယၤဖဲန့ၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲယဆိကမိၣ်ထီၣ်က့ၤ တၢ်မၤအသးလၢယလဲၤခီဖျိအံၤန့ၣ်, ယမၤလိန့ၢ်က့ၤစ့ၢ်ကီးတၢ်လၢ ယမိမိမ့ၢ်ပှၤလၢအဟ့ၣ်တၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါ လၢပဝဲ ဖိလံၤတဖၣ် လၢကသ့ၣ်ညါနာ်ကစၢ်ယွၤအဃိ, ကဲထီၣ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤဖဲပဘၣ်တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲတဘျီလၢ်လၢ်အခါ လၢတၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါယွၤအဃိန့ၣ်လီၤ. စံးဘျုးကစၢ်ယွၤလၢအစုစီဆှံကဟုကယာ်ယၤအဃိ, ယမူဒီးမၤလၤကပီၤ ဘၣ်အီၤတုၤအခဲအံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ.
တၢ်ဒုးဘၣ်ထွဲက့ၤလံာ်စီဆှံဒီးပတၢ်အိၣ်မူ
လၢကျဲမနုၤပကမၤစၢၤဖိသၣ်ဆံးသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ဒ်သိးကသ့ၣ်ညါဝဲလၢယွၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤအလီၢ် ဖဲအကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲအခါလဲၣ်.
တၢ်ထုကဖၣ်
ကစၢ်သးဘိယွၤဧၢ, ဖိဆံးဖိတဖၣ်အိၣ်အါမးလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်အံၤလၢအတသ့ၣ်ညါလၢနမၤစၢၤအဝဲသ့ၣ်သ့ဘၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲအဝဲသ့ၣ်ဘၣ်ကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်ဘၣ်ဒီးတၢ်မၤပျံၤမၤဖုးအခါ, လိၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါလၢနမ့ၢ်ပှၤမၤစၢၤအီၤသ့န့ၣ်လီၤ. မ်နသးစီဆှံအိးဟိထီၣ်ကျဲလၢအဝဲသ့ၣ်ကသ့ၣ်ညါလၢနမ့ၢ်တၢ်မၤစၢၤအလီၢ်တက့ၢ်. လၢခရံာ်အမံၤယဃ့နၤလီၤ. အၤမ့ၣ်.
သရၣ်ဒီးကထၢၣ်အဲၣ်ဒံၣ်မူ
ကဲၤစါရံၤကညီခရံာ်ဖိတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်
ကရဲရဲးပ့း, မံၣ်ၡံၤကဲၣ်န်ကီၢ်စဲၣ်
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January 29, 2021
IN MY FATHER’S BAMBOO MAT
Bible in A Year: Job 11, Job 12, Job 13, Job 14; Matthew 20:1-19;
Psalm 17:6-12
“Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.”
Psalm 17:8-9 WEB
Bratatat…Bang! Bang! Bang! The sounds of guns firing filled the air. Villagers ran out of the village. As a small child, I was trembling with fears. I felt utterly helpless. My sister, Juna, threw my younger brother on her back and put the two cups of rice in a bag that we were planning to cook for supper. In a rush, she scrambled to avoid being seen by the tyrannous soldiers. She frantically handed me the rice and a rolled-up bamboo mat that my father weaved and we slept on at night. She said, “Hide in the roll of that bamboo mat!” With the baby on her back, she ran to hide somewhere. It was a rainy day in 1989. My parents were not home; they went to the farms to remove the weeds. In a few minutes, the tyrannous soldiers destroyed the door and ravaged the entire house. They searched for whatever they could take, only a few inches away from the mat roll in which I was hiding. As a child, I was shaking with terrors, but dared not make a sound. I remembered my mother’s teaching, God is our help. As a little boy, all I could silently mutter in my mind was, “God, help me…God, help me.” After taking what they could, they left to return to their post. They did not see me because of God’s grace. I could hide as much as I wanted in my father’s bamboo mat, but had it not been for the shadow of God’s wings that kept me hidden from the wicked, the tyrranous soldiers would have caught and killed me. When reflecting on that experience, I learned that my mother’s instruction for her children to know and believe in God is the ultimate source of help every time we face trouble. I thank God for His loving care for I am alive and I get to praise Him since then until now.
Reflection
In what ways can we help small children to know God is their help in the midst of trouble?
Prayer
Dear God, there are so many children on earth who do not know God is their help. When they face trouble and fear, they need to know You are their help. May your Holy Spirit open the way for them to know help is found in You. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.
Pastor Dr. Eddy Moo
Caesarea Karen Christian Church
Grand Rapid, Michigan