2-14pm
It’s an early blog. A rainy day. I’m outside on the patio enjoying the intermittent showers…debating about going inside and curling up in my bed!
It is tough getting back to normal, half wishing the boat trip could have been a day or two longer! For us three nights was not enough. For David it was! I think if I were to do a longer cruise, I would have to have a project – write something or knit or embroider something. I think I would have to achieve more than resting and eating! It was way too decadent!
Anyway, the show went off well this morning. I did quite a bit of work after it and then went shopping. As I was driving through Muizenberg, a road sign caught my eye and took me back more than 30 years to my childhood. When I look at this photo, it’s amazing what I see…
The road name speaks of colonial days. The “no thoroughfare” sign speaks of ‘don’t go there.’ Ultimately though, the Cross prevails!
When I got home, Sally had made banana bread…
It was really yummy!
Granny & Sally also finished the Pemberley puzzle. We had become seriously becalmed in the middle of the water and the sky. Sally’s “fresh feet” were exactly what was needed…
Tonight I’m making butternut soup…AGAIN. It’s my favourite! It always tastes good. My family love it, so if it makes ongoing appearances on this blog throughout the year, just live with it okay??!!
I’ve been thinking about thinking! It all begins in the mind.
Proverbs 23: 7 says: “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he..” (American KJV). Barnes’ Notes on the Bible of this says: Thinketh – The Hebrew verb is found here only, and probably means, “as he is all along in his heart, so is he (at last) in act.”
You can hide a lot in your heart … from others. But not from God. He sees it all. 1 John 3:20 For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.
If God is greater than our hearts, which He is, and He is in our hearts “God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us” (Romans 5:5), then we can tap into His power, and all the fruit of His Holy Spirit and change our way of thinking so that we are more like Him. Then we will have more love, more joy, more peace, more patience, more kindness, more goodness, more gentleness, more faithfulness & more self-control. We can expect great things, because He will do “immeasurably more than we ask or imagine according to His power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).
The future can only look rosy!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂