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Personal Reflective Essay: A Personal Journey Experience

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A personal journey experience of the formative process that I would like to share in this paper it’s an important experience that made me grow within about knowing ‘God is with me all the time’ and He really ‘knows me from within’ even my thought. And it changed whole my life. This process happened 18 years ago when I was a novice, but it is fresh even now. It’s on about my 4 months exposure of second year novice that made me ‘rupture’ from a close and weak person become who am I, today.
In 1999, January to April, I was alone gone to the north of Thailand, Chiang Rai for my exposure, living with tribal people on the mountain. There, it looks like another country; people in that area, they have their own language not Thai surely I couldn’t speak or even understand. They eat any kind of …show more content…

After that I was very happy and had a new perspective on the old environment. I open myself to all experiences and all difficulties that came to me. My mind opened to learn to eat their food, just do not let me know what kind of animal that they cook and little by little I discover their food are really delicious even a water soup. I practiced speaking their language with little children. Experience the cold atmosphere with pleasure; I pictured myself stayed in Europe.
Then I can see their beauty; the group of people who live together in simplicity, but full of happiness; adults and children play games together, laughter cover over the hill.
This experience God was my formator. He changed my hearts. He didn’t only change my heart, but He changed whole my life too. “Suddenly, the sun was shining over the area that I stood with the voice from within me ‘I’m with you, do not be afraid’”.
This experience God was my formator. He changed my hearts. He didn’t only change my heart, but He changed whole my life too. …“Suddenly, the sun shining over the area that I stood with the voice from within me ‘I’m with you, do not be

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