Wednesday
Dreams can be crazy. You know what’s on your mind through your dreams. Well I do anyway. I’ve been dreaming these weird dreams of being forced onto public transport where no one cares that there is social distancing and we are crammed in like sardines! Then there was a dream where someone came to tell me they were very concerned about the house we are building because they thought the front left side of it was unsafe. I tried to convince them it was fine and told them to come with me to see, only I couldn’t find the house!😂 Happily by the end of that dream, I had found it and was able to show them that the house was on piles. I could have shown them this, a steel rod surrounded by concrete that goes about 10 metres into the ground and there are 13 of them on the property altogether.
How far we have come!
Today has been another productive day for Mike who doesn’t stop. More work in the garage. He washed one of the cars and changed the oil. Then he put ingredients into the bread maker and it spewed out a lemon cake.
It was very good.
I worked for 7 hours. By this afternoon, I was in desperate need of exercise, so I put my running shoes on and ran 100 times around the grass in the back garden…on the paving…
It got my heart rate up. At the end, Mike asked me what I was going to do next and suggested I get the outside broom and sweep the leaves on the top patio. It was a good idea. It kept me exercising. By the end it looked so much better. Probably swept up three years of leaves…
I need to cut the daisy bush back.
It’s a strange time. My work life goes on unaltered but the reality that was ours just a few weeks ago is now over. There’s a neighbour who is using our car port and he bought over some cash to say thank you. Mike said it really wasn’t necessary but he insisted, so Mike took the envelope by its corner, came inside, gingerly took out the money and disinfected it. Now it’s sitting drying on the window sill. Three short months ago, as the clock struck midnight, I stood at the window of a River Boat on the Nile wondering what 2020 would hold. Only the Lord knew that 92 days later, more than 1/3 of the world would be in lock-down.
It is a great comfort to us that we have a more permanent destination than this fragile world. There was a life BC (Before Corona) and there will be life AC. This too will pass, but if we all survive it, death has to come to us another way. I’m grateful, so grateful, that there is a life after that one as well.
Stats today…
We in SA have only gone up 27 cases, but I have been listening to the news and they say it’s a false sense of security. They are rolling out a massive testing scheme and this may reveal the true infection rate.
We can only pray.
Luke 22:32
I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.
Keep the faith.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
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