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We gather
to give thanks for my 25 years.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Greetings while on pilgrimage

Guess who went to meet the Pope?  Yingluck Shinawatra, the Prime Minister of  Thailand, is seen here meeting Pope Francis.  She met him on September 12 while in Rome.  I guess that is her little pilgrimage and I share this as I am also having my little pilgrimage and we are both from Thailand. 

Ever since mum and dad died last year, I have known that I have needed to come home, and here I am.  Now After two weeks in Brisbane, I can name my time here as my personal pilgrimage.  

As I look at my time away so far, I see how it has naturally developed into steps or stages.  I have had my time with my family and saying Goodbye to mum and dad.  Then there is the local Church time through being at Corinda-Graceville parish at weekends.  I am now into my time with my Province and then there come the friends.  I can see how each step has been important and has been about reconnecting, healing and reconsolidating. 

I could not have planned this.  As I look at my trip home so far, I find it amazing and definitely God planned.  Like any pilgrimage, it will end and that will be with my return to Bangkok.  From there, I am not sure where this God trodden path will lead me but I am sure all this has a purpose and is life giving.  

More to follow as the pilgrimage has not ended and the journey is ongong. 

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