11-22am
Today we are staying put at the resort…in fact, we’ll probably be doing this for the remainder of our time here. We only have about $US50 left, due to us buying a little teak table to take back. With very few credit card facilities here and me not wanting to put my bank card in a Zanzibarian ATM, we’ll relax and enjoy some rest.
Last night, the resort put on a band & we all went down to have a little look. Mike has got music flowing through his veins, so he was the first to get up and get his moves on! My moves are more worship oriented. I loved every moment of dancing in the sand on the island of Zanzibar at 11pm on a warm ‘winter’s’ night…
This was the band…
They had loads of rhythm. We stayed for about an hour and then left the youngsters to enjoy the rest of the night. We went back to our room and drifted off to sleep with the sounds of ‘doof doof’ floating through our heads! They put on some good island music “mun!”
This morning we did not need to rush. After breakfast we headed down to the boma. On my way, I took a turn in the hammock…
Aaaah, so relaxing!
The boma is a massive deck right above the beach. With the tide out, this is the view from the boma…
When the tide is in, the water laps under the boma. It’s a wonderful place to read, rest or chat with others. There are games such as scrabble & chess to play. It’s very quiet and relaxing. After a while there, I came back to our room to start doing this blog. The internet had been off for a while and it came back on, so I took advantage of the opportunity to put some stuff together…like pictures of what I see from where I am sitting. Inside the room, from my bed, where I type, this is my view….
The door on the left is the door to outside. The door on the right goes into the bathroom. The doors are both solid teak. You can see Mike’s golf clubs in the corner. He has since taken them and is on the beach chipping! It’s one big bunker practice! Looking to my left, I look out the balcony door…
On the bed are my three things to do…cross-stitch…I’m very close to finishing. I’ve got my Bible and a book to read. Of course, my netbook is on my lap and my cell phone next to it. I seldom do my blog without something to drink as I go…so my (now empty) tea cup is next to my bed. That’s the setting!
I’ve often wondered about this blog. It’s a record of my life and I have to admit, that while I appreciate others reading it, at the end of the day, I figure the discipline of it, is more for me. There are seldom days that I think ‘I wish I didn’t have the blog to do.’ The thought is more, ‘ Hmmm, what can I do for my blog today?’ The days drift by…days are slow…years are fast. Suddenly, a decade is over and you look back and wonder where it went. I have a bit of a visual log of the last 4 years of my life. My little netbook that has documented these years in daily doses, is coming to the end of it’s life. They don’t make them like this any more. In November, it turns 5. It’s time for some new technology, but I don’t think I’m going to find anything quite so robust and convenient as this…
The passing of time is well documented in the Bible. The only psalm written by Moses, and spoken on by Andy Stanley in his “Time” series, is Psalm 90. Moses, who spent 80 years of his life in the desert – then he came out of 40 yeras in the desert to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt….only to spend another 40 years in the desert. It must have been 40 long years…40 slow years…on each occasion – where the days were long but the years fast….for he says, (verse 10) “The length of our days is seventy years, or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, but they quickly pass and we pass away.”
And he prays, (verse 12)
“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
Numbering our days. Make each day a good one. Live in the present. Breath in the moments. God’s mercies are new every morning. You have Him to depend on.
Keep the smile going!
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂