Time is going by so quickly! I can’t afford to have a ‘bad’ day. Today I felt a bit irritable and had to force myself to smile! Fake it ’til you make it. Behave your way to success! Smile until you feel like it. It works!
You know I believe the Lord’s mercies are more than new every morning, they are new every moment! Once you put yourself into a frame of mind to be determined NOT to have this a bad day and to just start again (after the one ‘bad’ thing has happened); if you put a smile on your face and correct your negative thinking, believe it or not, the day improves. Even after a few negative things happened and I really felt I needed someone to come alongside me and say ‘it’s okay Helga, everything is going to be fine” and there was nobody to do that, the day improved by just hanging in there; keeping going, smiling, determining that this day with no serious mishaps, was not going to be a “bad” day!
And it wasn’t!
After the Wonderful Winning Worship Wednesday with-Jack-in-the-studio Rise and Shine Show, I wrapped up music for Friday and headed to the Mall to buy a kettle! A new kettle is overdue…fill it more than about 1/3 and it leaks. I also had lunch with David! 
…and shared his cheesecake…
Yum! Hey…I had just a tablespoon!
When I got home, I got stuck into selling some advertising. With CCFm broadcasting on a separate frequency to the Fish Hoek and surrounding area, we have decided to offer the businesses that fall into that area a special “special” deal. Oh wow, there was instant interest!! I made some very good contacts.
This morning, I snapped a different view from the CCFm balcony. This is looking towards Fish Hoek. The building in the middle is Muizenberg Train Station….
It was another beautiful sunrise.
I am soon going to migrate off this blog site to www.helgavan.com. Reason being is that I am running out of photo space. At the moment if you go to www.helgavan.com it forwards you to CCFm’s website. In the next few days, that will change and the Helgavan site will become a blog site similar to this one. I will still post here every day with a link to that site.
I have just googled “Blogging in the Bible” and can’t believe the number of hits that came back, mostly about all sorts of none-Christians who have decided to get stuck into the Bible and read it from a Jewish/ atheist/ Shakespearean/ secular humanist point of view (those were some of the blogs!)
I think the biggest Bible blogger must have been David. All of those Psalms covering his feelings and emotions…
Psalm 119:25 for example, David writes:
“I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.”
But most moving, was after he had had an affair with Bathsheba… Psalm 51, here are the first 4 verses of this moving heartfelt Biblical Blog…
1Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 3For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge.
God is faithful. Regardless of our sin, God awaits us, ready to hear our prayer and forgive us! Our sin is a barrier between us and God. Once removed, we have free access to God the Father. Christianity is the only religion in the world where God reaches down to us through Jesus to make a way for us to have a relationship with Him. And that’s why I’m a Christian!
In His grip and in His love
Helga xx