Friday!
Yay! Today was the day…
We got a lovely swim in before the rain came. I didn’t take my cell phone so couldn’t take any photos. The renovation of the cat walk was supposed to finished, but there are a few spots they are still working on. To our surprise they had completely blocked it with a fence in two parts. Mike and I had to do some serious bending and squeezing through a small space or two but we got through. We chose to go home on the main road and just missed the worst of the rain. The weather forecast of 100% of rain arrived. So did a load of sand and Hard-Life to carry it up the hill which he did cheerfully. He was grateful for breaks in the rain and that it wasn’t boiling hot.
I went out at lunchtime to buy treats, because I had friends come this afternoon. I haven’t seen these friends for more than a year. When I was going to gym, I would see two of them there and the other is an old friend from CCFm days. I picked up some cupcakes. They looked like flowers in a garden.
The cupcakes came from the new cake shop on Fish Hoek Main Rd. It’s sort of opposite KFC, just next to Sharpe’s convenience store – I think it’s called Pat’s Cakes & Creations. When I went in and saw these cupcakes, I immediately asked how much they were. When the shopkeeper gave me the answer, I said, I’ll take all 8. How much did I pay per cupcake? Answer at the bottom! They were delicious. I didn’t need 8, so when I got home, on the way up the stairs, I gave one each to Courage and Hard-Life – that would have given them a bit of an energy boost.
Today I’ve had to work on something. When people say hurtful things, the imagery that someone once suggested was seeing the malice as a cricket ball being bowled to a batsman. As the batsman, I have the opportunity of addressing the ball, making a mess of it and hitting it for a 6 (retaliating) or I can let the ball go through to the keeper. Just let it go. Mike is so much better than I at doing this. Just let it go.
Grateful for having David visit and getting to spend some time with him. I’m missing Stacey but enjoying wearing the jersey she made me.
James 5:16
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga 🙂 xxx
Cost of cupcakes: R8 each!