Thursday
Dear Elsie
You know it’s a slow day when the ‘big’ news is we changed the lounge around!
My walk this morning was to Fish Hoek to buy a few essentials. We walked past Nused to see if the beautiful round yellow-wood dining room table was still there. Too big and too round for our apartment but Mike absolutely loves it and is always hoping he may be able to use it. It was still there. It opened up the whole conversation again about our dining room table needs. The plan was for Mike to make it. Remember these marvellous pieces of wood? It’s black wood.
Mike hasn’t been able to make it because he had a rotator cuff injury, so we are left making do with wonderful (late) Aunty Wyn’s patio table, which Courage did a great job varnishing. It does warm my heart to use it, just not as a dining room table!
So there’s been debate about which table to use for Christmas. There is the option to bring up the (very big and heavy) pearwood table which David has in the cottage. Mike, now that his shoulder is improving, could put together the wood for the table top and use it for a trestle top. That’s probably what will happen.
Today I read Hebrews 12. The first verse always takes me back to when we bought the cottage, which is 10 years ago next month. I was so shocked the seller accepted our offer. When the estate agent came round for my signature I asked what happened. He recounted the story saying as he had arrived, she (the seller) said, “Polly,” (the estate agent was an ex-policeman so they called him Polly!), “we need to pray.” He told her she didn’t know what he was coming about. She said, “It must be business”. I’m not sure of the order of things, but after the prayer, there was discussion about our offer. The owner asked if we wanted to flip the house or live in it and he told her we wanted to live in it. At some stage, she took our her Bible and turned to Hebrews 12:1
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us..”
And with that, our offer was accepted.
I was stunned. There were many things going on in the background. And that’s so with life. We pray, by faith, we hope and wait but we seldom know how God is at work behind the scenes of our lives. Sometimes, we get a glimpse and we are in awe. That was one of those occasions.
It’s now about now – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂