As I watched this golden oriel search for its feed in between the spell of rain, I remembered the words of Jesus of Nazareth, '..look at the birds, they neigther sow or reap, yet their heavenly father feeds them..'.
I have wondered how the birds find their food during such a season of rain and cloud!
Anna offers some cereals for the minas in our garden, who therefore visit our courtyard everyday. As the millets get wet in our bird feeding bowl, birds do not relish that. The crows would feed from Daffney's bowl, when she is on her walk outside the kennel. The squirrels come to couple of tress where there are fruits such as papaya and mangosteen.
As I watch all these adaptations for survival I am more than surprised by the ingenious ways of these avians to overcome the odds in nature!
Yesterday, a family who visited me told about the financial challenges they are faced with. The father is a rubber tapper who has had no tapping job for over a year now as the owners of the plantations do not find it economical to tap the rubber due to low price for natural rubber. He then turned to selling fish. For three months now fishing by trawlers is prohibited as it is the breeding season for fish! So there is no regular income for the last forty days.
I discovered their reluctance to seek admission for their son in a special school,when I proposed it because the fees in the school would be a burden for them to bear!
God provides and cares, but humans under the disguise of promoting development and market economy favour the haves and not the have-nots! The rubber prices are low as the government inspite of adequate production of natural rubber in India still import rubber to keep the prices competitive!
Justice is denied to the have-nots inspite of public outcry! So the planters sell their rubber trees as fire wood or for furniture for their survival!
I wish humans and policy makers become more mindful of the have-nots! God provides, but let us become enablers!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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