Friday
Today was the day…
The. last. day. of. 2021.
I remember a year ago having hope for this year. There was an air of optimism that things would be better in 2021, but to be honest, it was a struggle of a year. Emirates Air only had about 2 – 3 months of unbanned air travel in and out of this country. The school year started late due to more restrictive Covid conditions. It was harder than I thought it would be. Work-wise, I had a very good, successful year, but the devastation of the third Covid wave would be the absolute low-light of 2021. It was brutal and claimed more lives than we ever imagined. It made us realise again, how life can turn on a penny. If I take away anything from this year it would be:
Appreciate Every Day.
Give us this day our daily bread.
That should be our daily prayer.
Omicron was the unexpected new word of the year – gratefully, all those I know who got it, have had, it seems, symptoms that vary from a little sniffle to bad flu. No one I know has been hospitalised. For that we are grateful. After Delta, this appears far less fatal.
And it gives us hope for 2022. Perhaps this year the strength of Covid-19 will dwindle and life will return to normal. That’s what we hope for.
Back to this day – it was a glorious last day of 2021. This was at the beach just before 9am.
And an hour later through our lounge doors…
We made good use of the sunshine. Guests in the cottage checked out. Memory came and cleaned and I did all the laundry. The next guests arrive very shortly. They are here for a week. The guests in the Little Lookout leave on Sunday.
I filled the bird bottle this morning, putting in 3/4 cup of sugar, instead of a full cup. Hm! The birds didn’t care. The teenage sugar birds descended in droves. After a full bottle at 6am, by 12 noon, it looked like this…
And now, just after 3pm, it’s all but empty. Tomorrow morning, I’ll fill it up again but this time with half a cup of sugar, or maybe just over. Perhaps that will reduce the numbers a bit.
And so now, all that is to be said is HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hope for the future:
Lamentations 3:22-23
“Certainly the faithful love of the Lord hasn’t ended; certainly God’s compassion isn’t through! They are renewed every morning. Great is your faithfulness.”
The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂