Since I was a child, I have heard my parents and everyone around me talk about the great King, our beloved "Nai Luang." As I grew up, I read and watched so many stories about him, about how he had labored all through his life for the well-being of his people, about the great talents and intelligence he had and how he always used them for the good of the people. I also heard about how humble he lived. How he never throw away things after they are broken. He always got them repaired although he had plenty of money to buy new ones. He never lived luxuriously or waste money on any extravagance although he was a king. I heard about how he went through difficulties travelling to those small villages in remote area and did many things to help the people there to have better lives. I heve heard about how he stay up late at night to get the projects for his people done, how he sent urgent help right away, before anyone, to those who were hit by disasters. All through my life, the King of Thailand always did something for his people, never for himself.
I have also read his words that he tried to teach his people how to be true human being, The more I grow up, the more I could see how precious his speeches and his teachings are, and how he always be a model of what he teaches others. His simple and beautiful words always teach us to be good, to be useful for others, to be kind and generous, to live simply, to be responsible in our duties, to never give up when faced with obstacles, etc. All the things he teach us to do and to be, he could really do and he could really be. He has all those qualities within himself. My beloved King is truly one of the greatest person on earth. And I want to say it out of the bottom of my heart that I am lucky to have been born under his reign, to know what a truly great king is like and to know what is like to have loyalty for a King. And now that he passed away, I felt an urge in my heart to be loyal to my own country and to do things for the sake of others, just to honor him,,,my beloved king.
Think about it...King Bhumibol lived his life exactly the way Jesus teaches us to live.
Now I understand why on that day....God used the King of Thailand as a symbol in my dream.
Before I became a true believer, when I was just beginning to know God, I didn't understand why Jesus could die on the cross and forgive sins of others. I just simply didn't get the idea, didn't understand how it could possibly happen that way. So I prayed to God...I didn't understand the matter of Jesus dying on the cross to forgive sins...I didn't understand, dear God...can you help me to understand.
And that very night, I had this dream. I saw King Bhumibol sitting near a window. He looked out the window and was so sad to see his people being plagued with so many diseases, so he decided to receive the diseases of his people onto his own body. I saw the King's body covered with terrible wound and scars and in my dream I understood that he want to receive that pain because he loves his people so much.
When I woke up, I understood right away, that this symbolic dream is the answer to my prayer. This is how God explains to me the matter of Jesus dying on the cross to forgive our sins.
And God uses King Bhumibol as the symbol of Jesus in my dream...because he's truly the greatest King.
Rest in Peace...my beloved King. Although I'm so sad that our country has lost you but I'm also glad that you are in Heaven now, after all the labor, after all the pain...
I promise that the little light that I have in this simple lowly heart, I will try to make it shine...for others and for this land.
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