It stays with me that I was recently wandering around Vietnam, with my eyes wide open, being ever in awe, as I met so many kind, admirable, capable souls, who showed so much awareness of the amazing possibilities of life, despite any adversity. In My Bangkok, I was reminded of this as I encountered one of our own here, making his First Communion at Sunday mass.
I approached that simple, Sunday event with no great expectation, just a sense of how best to include this young lad on his big day. Looking back, I saw how he bravely came forward and naturally turned it all around, by showing us how to lead on his big day. He did so by spontaneously being his confident and friendly self, just like I experienced so often, with so many young people, whom I met on my travels, through Vietnam.
For me, over the past month, it has been a privilege and an opportunity to meet true world leaders who pop up in my everyday life, in the midst of the unexpected or unplanned. They are just there living their lives, doing what they need to do along the way, but they are there leading, and I am so thrilled to meet them and have them lead me along the way.
