Yes, there is this huge mass of water that has to go to sea and, yes, it has to go through Bangkok. So Bangkok will flood. Many parts already are but where I live and work the waters still have not arrived. This maintains the ongoing sense of expectation of something awful will happen but as all along the questions remain. These are the basic questions of when and how. The ultimate question still remains, even if unreal - will it happen to me? Beyond the experienced sense of dire expectation, one lives in the midst of ultimate unknowing about what one is about to face.
All this helps to create an eerie Bangkok. A city of 12 million is about to go under and people just wonder and feel a sense of panic or insecurity. That is my Bangkok at the moment.
The stories are different elsewhere. Some are just tragic. What matters is that they are all real stories, coming out of people's lives in the midst of adversity. Together the form the one story that will be the Thai floods of 2011.
I am John Murray, an Australian, Catholic priest of the Order of St Augustine. I live and work in Thailand and have been here since October 2005. I have many stories from my life journey and would simply like to share some of them. So hope you enjoy and go away sometime with a smile or a helpful little insight.
We gather
to give thanks for my 25 years.
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