My Trip

I will never be able to forget my first experience in a big forest, called Pal Khue Yoma. In 2007, I went there with my friends and a priest to assist the villagers' spirituality of Catholicism. Our journey was taken for three hours on foot to a village in the forest. The villagers are very simple and shameful. We were very strange for them.

They have to get water from a stream which is located at the bottom of a mountain. I saw all of their houses are built by bamboo only which is plenty in the forest. It is their nature that their village and houses are always temporary. Sometimes, Elephants come to destroy their houses. Sometimes, they have to find a better place for the better agriculture.

If we compare to our life, we are totally different. Is your house temporary? Has your house ever been destroyed? Do you have to get water from a stream? We could even say that our life are pleasingly perfect. Now, you still have many chances to analyse your life. How many good and bad thing have you done? Have you ever misused the opportunity, given by God? Count, use and share the God's grace and praise for that.

It is true that nothing happened by chance. However, never take a chance if you are not wealthy enough to receive it. Why? You will be judged one day. There are poor people who are waiting for the chance. Why we do not give our helping hand? Let them be shared because we belong to each other. We have to love one another. Those who do not know how to help and love one another are called the poorest person.