Hi! Greetings from rural Pahang. Yep! That’s where I am, sitting in my living room and writing down my thoughts. It is pretty lonely here without my wife, she left for KL yesterday for a night to attend to her work. It is real stressful for her and I admire her strength and consistency. Despite of the trying times, she is putting in her best effort. We are praying for God to work things out for us that she does not have to live such a stressful, among other petitions is one that God will bless us with kids. Anyway, we are trusting in Him and learning to live in His time and space. Trusting Him in our daily living. Something very simple and yet difficult to us who are so used to doing things our way and having things done our way. Please do remember us in your prayers.
Received a call from our Pastor M from Singapore just yesterday just checking on our progress after moving from KL. Am glad to hear from him and that he still reads this blog to keep in touch. I really don’t know how many people reads what I write but I continue to write as this is one way for me to keep in touch with myself. Believe it or not but it’s been 1 month living here. We moved here on 22nd June 2004 and it’s 23rd July today. Since moving here I am learning to live very differently. I am learning to slow down and live a day at a time, doing what needs to be done at my own pace or rather nature’s pace. Kinda of difficult to explain but I’ll try, by my nature’s pace I do not mean doing things slowly and without a deadline. For instance, I had been planting trees for the last two weeks, I no longer set targets on how many trees to plant but I plant as time and weather permits, when I am physically tired, I do some other task instead. Digging holes for 170 trees, shrubs and flowers isn’t for the faint hearted, I hope to finish the remaining trees by the end of August. Planting trees isn’t the difficult thing to do, it is the task of watering them daily and when you have to carry water to each and every plant from the pond then the task begins to test your patience and will. I am learning to be discipline and consistent, something alien to me in the instant world of KL. Caring for trees will go on forever, I may not even taste the fruits of my labour but those who come after me will, some trees will mature only in 7 years. We are talking about clone, bud grafted plants, not those grown from seeds. Trees grown from seeds will take a longer time to mature. Some may wonder why I bother to plant but seriously, I am doing it for the future. Someone in the distant future will be able to reap from what I sow. This is nature’s pace, unhurried but definitely moving ahead albeit slow to some of us. I was looking at the weeds next to my pond the other day and I saw some birds nesting there, they bring seeds from the fruit they eat and soon there are other plants established. This is one section I’ll be leaving out from my tree planting efforts, I am leaving this section for nature to work her pace…
My ‘Tai Koh’ visited our place on two occasions with his family the last two weeks and I enjoyed his company. He comes back from Montreal every 2-3 years and I do miss his fellowship. As the years go by I am more incline to long for the company of my brothers and sisters, we used to fight in our younger days but now I long for the times when we can sit and chat, have tea, talk nonsense, makan together. I guess it is the realization that life is just too short. We live for the good and leave the bad experiences behind. Parents aren’t going to be around forever and we aren’t going to be alive forever too, maybe good for us to pause and ponder how we spend our time…
That’s all for now! God Bless and Keep you safe! Take Care!
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