Can you imagine this little shed like house occupied by a native Orang Asli with 4 kids sleeping and cooking here without any bathroom facilities? His pay is only less than RM300 a month?
Can you imagine this is where the contrast is on this lush green tea highlands of Cameron? I cannot imagine that barely 2 weeks after we left, a fairly major landslide occurred on this mountain area in early August 2011 , killing about 7 orang asli.
I can only imagine that one of the reasons was due to the massive land development projects presently undertaken for more commercial and residential houses.
CONTRAST of lives - On this mountain, my heart raced with a extra heartbeat upon visiting the Orang Asli home, my first encounter. I cannot imagine the absence of the basic bathroom. That those who lived there had to walk a fair distance to ease themselves - be it rain or shine.
Why Lord? Why, I asked as I cannot imagine what my eyes had seen.
In the midst of remembering this recent trip, the mountains and the valleys, the sky and the waterfall, the greeneries and awesome variety of flowers, this song "I can only imagine" and Ps 34:5-6 summarised it all:
"Your love O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.
How precious is your unfailing love!
Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house, you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light"
Post Reflections of
My little personal retreat in Cameron Highlands:
I am indeed reminded of the Lord's Love, Faithfulness, Righteousness and Justice. He is indeed the preserver of both man and beast. One can be an established Englishman staying in a beautiful Tudor house or another can be one of the lowliest of the indigenous tribes on earth - both can indeed find refuge in the shadow of His wings. It is not their house they or we feast in but in the Lord's house. Luke 12:14: "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth" How true indeed, high or low man,not measured in accordance of their status or wealth, the Lord loves them all.
John 4:14 says 'but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life"
Amen. For indeed with you is the fountain of life, in your light we see light!
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