Yes! I'm back from an 18-day trip to Myanmar! It was a soul-enriching trip in many ways. In time to come, I expect to be posting some reflective entries based on my visit there. Photographs of my trip shall be posted in the photo section soon (I'll post up a link once they're up).

A very Blessed New Year to all of you!

A brand new year ahead. This year, as it has been with all other years in human history, more babies will be born and more people will die. It is a paradox that from the day we are born, we start dying.

Who knows what this year will bring? Our future is in the hands of the Lord, and only he knows how he will lead us through the various challenges we're confronted with in the coming year.

Of course, for some, the future is a non-existent entity, and hence there is no future to be known (**cheeky grin**). I'm too ignorant to be sufficiently sure if the future is a knowable entity. But whatever the arguments may be, if there was a future to be known, he'd know it. And for me, it's enough for me to know that only he knows if there was a future to be known – this tongue-twisting reality is enough for me to entrust the future into his hands.

There is no more appropriate way to begin a year than with a prayer. The next several entries shall consist of reflective prayers based on the prayer the Lord Jesus taught his disciples. Then perhaps after that I'll post up some introspective reflections I had during my moments of solitude throughout the trip in Myanmar.

And so I pray...