A virtual canvas

I was in South Sudan for one week. It was a very enriching experience. So much poverty, but so much resilience on the part of the people. There, where life is simple, I saw the marvels of God's creation: birds with a variety of colors, the sky was like a never-ending canvas of God's creativity.
I admire our Sisters' simplicity and nearness to the people, sharing their fatigues and hopes.
I saw the famous Nile river (Sudan side) when we visited Mori, a small village near Juba. I felt as if I was transported back to the Philippines in its simplest rural towns. Mango trees abounded, goats and chicken running around with the children, women doing their chores, small huts made of mud.
The experience was like a crash course on how to welcome life as I met people with very little or even nothing, but with excited eyes in anticipation of life's surprises.