FROM THE TREASURY OF MY PAU-LE-HAAM

AKHING-ASA

ALIAN-ANEU

ALIM-A AL

ANEU-ALIAN

ANIAM-ASANG

ANNEK-TUIDAWN

ANU-APA

API-ATAL

APIL-ASAIM

ASAU-ATOM

ASIA-APHA

ATAM-ATAWM

AZONG-AHAU

AZU-ASA

AZUM-AHIAM

AZUU-ASAA

BUHLEHBAAL

BUHSUN-SALIANG

DAHLEKAH

GIMLEHTAWL

GUAMLEHMUAL

ITLEHNGAIH

KAHNA-MAUNA

KAWLLELHVAI

KHITUI-NAPTUI

KIPLEHKAWI

LEILEHHA

LEIVUI-LEITANG

LIANGLEHVAAI

LUMLEHVAWT

LUNLEHMANG

MELLEHPUAM

MITUI-NAPTUI

MUALLEHGUAM

MUALLEHTANG

NIANGLEHTAI

NIPI-PHALBI

NOPNI-DAHNI

SASIN-SALIANG

SIATNI-PHATNI

SILEHSA

SINGBUL-SUANGBUL

SINGLAM-TUILAM

SINGLEHGUA

SINGLEHSUANG

SINLELUNG

SUAKLEHSAL

SUKLEHTOU

SUNGLELAI

SUNGTA-PUTU

UMLEHBEL

ZILEHTA

ZINLEHLEENG

ZINLEHVAK

ZULEHVA

ZUMLEHHIAM

ZUNLEHEK

my life mission - part 1

My life mission

·      To know God and His will and work that out by His resurrection power

My competence

·      Encouraging individuals

·      One to one communication

·      Prayer - supplication

·      Devotion –reflecting from a passage

·      Trust-building – connecting with others and selling dreams

·      Vision building

·      Planning – as a team

·      Thinking backward from the end points

·      Seeing things from the other end – perspective from the other end

·      Reflecting

·      Analyzing

·      Seeing the good in others

·      Thinking and working along with others

My passion

·      Fellowship of like-minded people

·      Visual displays of my thoughts through use of whiteboard, line drawing

·      Being in the company of people who enjoy working with the poor and the marginalized

·      Being in the presence of people who are walking very close to the Lord

·      Talking of the good old days with older people

Things I would like to do (later half i.e. from now on to the rest of my life)

·      Meditate (to know God and the power of his resurrection….)

·      To experience the power of His resurrection in my life

·      To love and be loved by my wife, children and their children

·      To love and be loved by my extended families – my side and the in laws

·      To cultivate and maintain close communications with at least 10 persons who are or were using drugs and 10 spouses of drug users and 10 parents who children are using drugs – to meet and empathize with them, to pray for them and with them – to help them find possible solutions

·      To work with at least 2 IDU groups in order to help them – in planning and networking

·      To make planned visits to rehab centres to encourage the leaders and staff and talk to the inmates

·      To make a list of people working with the poor and marginalized and learn from them

·      To collect information and make records about the past – of my family, my village, my people

·      To recollect and keep records of my life’s journey – childhood to the current time

·      To visit or be in touch with family members of those who made unforgettable contributions in my life 

LK at HT Guest House Saturday 23/3/13 9 AM 

the beginning and end of a fateful trip - WOW

5/2/13
2:27 AM the phone ring conveying a message
2:30 AM rang back to confirm
2:35 AM booking 2 flight tickets online
2:50 AM telephoning children
3:30 AM packing
3:45 AM starting from home

then  the hurdles started
1
car started well but it went off failing then to start even with a push
a rescue car from Chris rescued us
2
misplaced an ID card - requested entry through security gate
3
no ATM to take cash in the security enclosure
we had less than 500 between us
4
lost the boarding pass  and couldn't recover
went here and there to resolve the problem
5
directed to the departure - found the boarding card there
had no ID to claim the lost boarding gate
but persuaded the staff - may be by with the help of our greying hairs
and so finally retrieved the boarding card and so boarded the plane

WOW!
8/2/13
1
on return almost hindered and held back by another mishap
2
instead off two - only one return ticket
3
the ticket cost at the booking counter was already high
so book a ticket for the next flight and rescheduled the other ticket
and finally boarded, flew and reached home the same day…. 2 hours late ,,,

WOW! WOW!

  

In loving memory of Pipi

 Thank you Lord for all of these

And many more that we could not recall today

We had prayed for her to live long

She lived 99 years - even longer than we had bargained for

We had prayed for a peaceful ending when the time comes

The end came quietly and peacefully when it was God’s timing

We had asked for the end to be of least trouble for all others

Post 2 AM on a Tuesday Feb the fifth disturbed the others the least

The end time was right for us to catch the 5:35 AM Delhi –Imphal flight

So that we reached home by 10:30 AM in time for burial service

In time for us to pay our last respect with the traditional ‘ puandum’

We gazed and gazed at her still frame as if to forever engrave it within our hearts

Hugging her coffin we grieved and cried our hearts out as we bid good bye

We knew many who silently cried in their own places, as they couldn’t be there

Almost a century back her mom gave birth to her at Tinsong missions Hq,

Her father Nengkhat was perhaps the first ordained ministered among the Paites

Her dad was remembered as ‘Khaizaliana-pa’ who had his hairs tied into a knot

And used to ‘lamder-der’ – joyfully dancing to God around the village ‘pulpit’

She was known by all who spoke in sweet memory for 2 things she was

Her long straight hairs reaching below her knees and her love for ‘cleanness’

Many in different ways fondly remembered her - especially by her own children

As a hard working mom who led and showed how to ‘learn, labour and live’

To me I would cherish the memory of her ever-smiling face and her gentle manners
I would miss most our later days nonverbal communication that were nonetheless truly sweet   

I am truly grateful to God and her for all she was to Rebecca and my older kids

Her caring hands and her warm embrace to them when it was needed the most

In retrospect, I can see God blessed her in many ways –a long life, 'successful' sons,
grand and great grand kids, a quiet peaceful end and an ideal spot for her final resting place!

langkham@gmail.com 5-9 Feb, 2013 (Delhi – Lamka - Delhi)

spic and span shined the vessels

the kitchen house
with pots and panes
and a place where one can do the washings
with just a few cane stools and a pair of round-ended tongs
that's her kingdom at least for the time till the dinner got ready

no dust, nor ash in the mud floor fireplace
even though the burning firewoods made lots of ashes
the pots and pans remained spic and span
the lady in the kitchenette  was ever cleaning them all
she couldn't do otherwise as that was her trademark!

nimble footed as a dancing bird
her agile frame earned her laurels even in her teens
she even earned a place for the cultural troupe
a 'Paite' puadum in her loins with a lady headgear in her head
she joined the Paite dancers on a tableau on an R'day in Delhi

that day she wore a simple cotton faded blue 'top'
her loincloths were made of silk in three colors
as I watched her moving around in her mom's kitchenette
no one need to tell me she was one of very 'fel' young girls of the town
as per the 'Paite' culture, the small kitchen house always seemed crowded with visiting 'guys'!


Dated Mission Road,  (L) T. Tonsing's residence in the early 70s!

remembering in Dwarka, New Delhi 12/1/13 (LK)    

The five cigarette sticks that lit a flame

Packs and packs of 'charminar' cigarettes,
Unpacked and unpacked just to be distributed;
At a wedding reception held in Mission Road,
One stick for each guest that come to grace[
Way back in a cold winter nightly Dec 62.

Every hand with a lighted cigarette,
It did lit up the night and add to that of the hurricane lamp;
I remembered the night as it was special to me,
The damsel who led the distribution of those white sticks 
Was one who became my better half a decade later.

When it was my turn she handed 5 instead of one, 
The  5 unlit sticks created a big flame in my heart since that day! 

As if to confirm the flame the 5 sticks caused,
I chanced to steal a look while other eyes were closed in prayer,
To my pleasant surprise I saw a pair of eyes looking towards my direction 
So both our eyes met and we confirmed the 'flame' within that night.

Then we joined the others in closing our eyes,
Only to yield to the temptation of sneaking another look;
Two eyes met again as if both were expecting a returned look,
Another closing of the eyes and another opening of them and the drama went on.

The visual communication with the language of the butterfly lasted so long as the prayers were,

Too busy to hear any word of the Pastor till everybody else said 'Amen'

We joined the chorus of 'Amen' but  our 'Amen' was for another 'prayer' that was special to 'us'!

Lk Dwarka Delhi 11/1/13

Southern Manipur Christians - baby steps?

Southern Manipur

What baby steps can you and I take for bringing healing to ‘our land’?

1.     To God

·      Pray for forgiveness, grace and mercy

·      Pray for the revival of His people

·      To look for the will of God in the Bible

2.     To my self

·      To love God

·      To love others as He commanded

3.     To my family

·      To strive to set up a Christian home

·      To use Christian principles and practices for every issues of life

4.     To my own community

·      To appreciate others

·      To help others within Christian values and practices

·      To welcome others as ‘Jesus’ in disguise  

5.     To my own church

·      To support my pastors and elders

·      To attend services regularly

·      To pay my tithes and offerings

6.     To my own place of work

·      To work as unto the Lord

·      To apply diligence in all matters of work

7.     To my own friends

·      Be a good and dependable friend

·      Never to take advantage of position or relationship

8.     To my own leaders

·      Be faithful

·      Be respectful

·      Be supportive