Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not

Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure.
- Bill Scheel (Starbucks customer from London, Ontario)

I read a lot of quotes. I agree with a lot of them. I don't really agree with the beginning of the quote but I do agree with the latter part. If we eff our lives up without anyone's help, we have to look into ourselves and find in us the ability to fix it too.

Thirty delegates. Thats more than we expected.

A few months ago when i arrived in Brunei, I was invited by my beloved Bishop to attend World Youth Day Sydney08. To be honest, my first initial reaction was,"Ok, thats great, but can I afford it?" Each delegate pays their own way, and in order to ease the financial burden, we did a lot of fund raising. And in the process, we all got to know each other spectacularly well.

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to go to a World Youth Day. And now that I can, well, as a small gift to myself, spiritually especially as it is a pilgrimage NOT a sight seeing tour, materially, because its the first major trip I ever bought for myself (uni excursions and travels dont count haha), mentally, because I need the time away from work, physically, because I neeed a new experience, emotionally, because I need a break from my connections, and overall, just because I would like to experience a pilgrimage. Australia is not new to me, but this spiritual journey will be.

wydbrunei08.blogspot.com has captured our journey thus far, and will be capturing it from tmrw onwards.

I invite you all readers to join us in praying for our pilgrimage and I hope you have fun visiting the blog.