Beautiful swimming and mud fishing lake
This is one view of the swimming hole at Nasuli, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines. This body of water played an important part in my life. I swam in it, bathed in it, our drinking water came from it, I fished it for minnows, eels and mud fish (haloan, or snake head fish), and I caught frogs along its banks. I played in and around this beautiful little lake for many years. I love it and am homesick looking at it.
Today, I just want to make an observation. Not far from the lake, there were several water buffalo wallows. The water buffalo has no sweat glands. It is a beast of burden, ploughts, harrows and works very hard. If you want to keep your water buffalos healthy, you have to give them cooling off time. They love a nice pond or slow moving river as much as the next guy, girl or fish. On the other hand, a little depression in the ground full of water works just as well.
They lie in these wallows for several hours getting rid of all that heat they built up. They lie there contentedly chewing their cud daring you to end their respite early. In the meantime, they churn up the bottom of the pond and conduct all sorts of bodily functions in the water and move around creating a fine slurry of the water, what they produce and leave and the mud on the bottom.
You guessed it! We kids loved to emulate the water buffalo! How many hours I spent jumping in and out and swimming around these wallows. I would play in them with my friends until every fiber of our short pants, when we wore them, was completely surrounded by and infused with water buffalo wallow muck.
Our mothers screamed with frustration when we got home. “You have that beautiful clear swimming pool with crystal clean water and you go swim in that foul, disgusting muck filled with carabao (water buffalo) poop, mud and who knows what else. What is the matter with you? You filthy little urchins!”
As an older man now some 40 and more years later, I have come to the conclusion the issue was that same spiritual battle we all fight. On one hand, God has so much for us that is good and wonderful. Yet, when offerred the choice of His magnificance, you guessed right, off to the water buffalo wallows we go! He must be playing my mother’s tape so He need not keep repeating the line.
Oh for Grace to stay on the right track!
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Great illustration about the carabaw wallows and the beautiful pool at Nasuli. The illustration fits me and I’m taking it to heart. Thanks to you and thanks to the LORD!