Monday
Dear Elsie
Today was the day I prayed a lot for my friend Deborah vZ who had a (benign) brain tumour removed. The surgery was long and slow. She went into theatre just after 8am. By 4pm, the surgeon sent news that 85% of the tumour had been removed, but he was going very slowly due to the tumour’s position. We’ve just heard the op is done and Debs is in ICU. Everything went well. Such a long surgery. She’s been very much on my mind and in my prayers. So good to see this update on our Whatsapp group…
We are so grateful.
The sun rose over a very flat False Bay. I haven’t posted a sunrise photo for a while.
We went to the beach – the water was as mild as it was yesterday. There were lots of people enjoying it. Now that we are confident there are no great white sharks, there are a lot more swimmers swimming back and forth to the barrel.
The lovely flat sea, scattered clouds and blue skies with sunshine. At the same time, what you can’t see is a fresh north wind. Rain was forecast and just after lunch, suddenly, the sun was gone, along with the warmth – it felt like someone had turned the aircon to very very cold.
While I worked, for most of the time, I also had David’s live stream going. He did very well, given that he started around 10am and finished at about 3pm. Tomorrow, he will do it all again. It was a tense game at times. The Chess world championships are being played between a young 18 year old Indian, Gukesh Dommaraju and China’s Ding Liren (who is the reigning world champion). All of India wants Gukesh to win – all of China wants Ding! Today, Ding took the game (winning $200k). There is much more to come (14 games max). I think with Gukesh being the underdog we are hoping he will win. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. 11am SA time, 5pm in Singapore.
I had a solid day’s work.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
It’s not about now – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂