Worth Remembering, Worth Celebrating - Life is WOW.

I always place my photos using medium size but this photo deserves to be big.  This is not because of me but because of who is with me and what this represents.  You see this photo was taken 30 years ago on the occasion of my ordination which I am remembering this Sunday.  It was an event, a celebration, a commitment in my life that belonged very much to my parents who are here pictured with me at the time.

They are now dead and perfectly okay with God.  I am thankful to God for that.  More importantly, I am ever thankful for them as they were good and kind people who loved me and simply did the best they could by me.  They could do no more.  So why be anything else but thankful?  It is the very least they deserve to be remembered with kindness and thanks.  .

30 years!  Amazing!  One third of that time has been spent here in Bangkok.  Absolutely amazing that I have spent so long in one place as that is not my style but that is how life turned out.  I didn't plan it this way.  I couldn't have planned it.  I just found my little corner along my way in the strangest of places - Bangkok.

My journey so far could not have been planned by me as it would have been impossible for me to do so and handle it all in any style.  After so much questioning and challenging, to finally find such fulfilment in a Bangkok, which is such a crazy place, tells me that God surely is an integral partner in the journey.  How else could all that has happened in my life be?

And I have shared this journey with such great people, absolute classics - good and kind people like my mum and dad.  I am very gifted by God and I am most thankful.  What more can I say or do I need to say?  Keep the journey going.  As I shared last Sunday at Mass, life is a WOW event.  We just might not appreciate how WOW it truly is.