A promise

Lamentations 3:22-23 "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

Farmers

Last Friday, we pretended to be farmers. We put on our best farmer outfits and went to look at all kinds of interesting things:

(Handy that Rashelle can now take photo's- now we can prove we go places together)

 

We had an absolute ball: sheep dog competitions, flower exhibitions, sheep shearing competitions, lots of animals, and enough machines to keep the boys happy.

 

 Can you imagine mowing your lawn with that?

 

Part of the joy was the road there and back:

 

Rolling hills

of Canola fields (we think:))

 

And on the way back, we took a quick picture of ourselves at the southern most point of Africa:

And found this mission station:

 OK, so maybe someone else found it before us.

 

This is one of the mission stations of the Morovian Church. They functions like little independant countries. Very interesting.





Harry Potter, not really

The botanical gardens close to our town, is called Harold Potter. As you can imagine, it is easy to confuse the names. We went to walk there two weeks ago. So, just to convince you of the amount of flower pictures we indeed have, here are some more:

 

The children are really starting to enjoy the trips into nature more and more. This time they walked almost all of the way without whinning to be carried. Pure bliss.

 

They were really tired afterwards:

 

But it is the beautiful things in life are always worth the effort:

 

The Bible says we should believe like children. There is so much we can learn from them, at least I can. Like how to live life to the full.

 

Flowers

If anyone were to open our computer, they would find a whole big flower garden. Carl loves taking pictures of flowers. Here is a beauty he took as we were walking on Monday:

 

 

It might be because it's easier to get a flower to sit still than all 5 Paalmannetjies:

Gran

My gran recently passed at the ripe age of 95. At first my throat closed, and then I realized that she is now free and probably able to hear the music for the first time in a long time- the Heavenly music praising her Saviour. Nothing is holding her back, she is where she's meant to be.

We met as family to celebrate her life. And looking at the photo now:

I realize that none of these people would have even existed, if not for my gran. (Wait, only my mom). And listening to the stories of what my gran meant to people, I realized that sometimes our footprints on people's heart, go deeper than we think.

Maybe I should tread more careful...

Africa?

If you were thinking of coming to visit to escape to a nice warm Africa, think again. Twice in the last two weeks, this has been the view from our home:

And then we like to do this:

Hide!

I truly do not know who thought of global warming, but they were not living in Gordon's Bay, or the rest of South Africa for that matter. There are parts that have seen snow for the first time for as long as anyone can remember.

I've said it and I'll say it again. We are living in end times- even nature feels the change.

We have also been seeing a lot of political struggles in South Africa of late. Yesterday 38 people were shot down while protesting- armed, not armed, who knows?

Our answer lies in God alone. Please pray with us for safety and peace to reign- true Peace.

Four months and going strong

Little Simon is growing fast. He was sick a lot the last while, but we thank God that he is better now, and doing very well.

I just realize again, what a blessing babies are. So innocent! Yesterday a friend from church was here. She works in the poorer area where our church is very active, and she says the thing that she can not convince the people of is that children are a blessing and not just another burden and mouth to feed.