Wednesday
Dear Elsie
Today was a very varied day. Some people have these very varied days every day but for me they only come along once in a while. Apart from work, I went to a pre-school, I went and had my cholesterol tested and I snooped around a half built house.
I began the day by going to visit iThemba school where I met a little chap called Siphokanya. I got given a little key ring with his name on it, so I can remember to pray for him.
From there I went back to work and had a couple of meetings. Just after 12 noon, Mike was going to get a prescription filled, so I went along with him. We went to Dischem. While he was in the queue, I went to see if I could get my cholesterol checked. There was no one waiting. A couple of years ago the doctor put me on 10mg Aspavor for my cholesterol which was 8 at the time. I don’t like chemicals so I diligently cut the 10mg pills in half and have been taking 5mg. I know my cholesterol came down because about 2 months after starting on it, I checked it and it was 6. Today my nonfasting test came out at 4.9. I need to work on upping my HDL.
Mike also had his done. He’s on 20mg of lipi-something. His was 4.63.
We did a little bit of shopping but there were emails building up in my inbox, so didn’t hang around and I came home to work. Two hours later I was finished and Mike joined me on doing a 5km walk to the Glencairn look out which has the new Simon’s Town sign.
The view of Simon’s Town from behind the sign.
We returned up Hillside Rd where Werner (our builder) is working on a house and he was there with his workers wrapping up for the day. He invited us in to show us around. It was so interesting to see. The owners (from Johannesburg) bought the house for R7 million and are spending a further R4 million renovating it to accommodate a father-in-law in one unit, the other in-laws in another, a daughter in the 3rd and they are having the top unit. The one thing they will also have that we don’t is a lot of parking! 4 Garages. It was good to see. The view is lovely. The higher you go, the better it gets.
We got home to find David had arrived for dinner. We caught up with him, watched some TV and he has now left.
Time to enjoy the evening.
I’m up to the second half of Romans 8 & today apart from reading Romans 8:28, I read this:
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It’s not about now – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂