Beautiful beautiful can I mention beautiful family and friends of Manitoba...
You know how to show this long lost prodigal daughter one unbelievably good welcome home time!
Could I have received any more down home lovin?! Nope. One million long over due hugs and laughs and encouragements and breakfasts have been stored up deep deep down in my heart to tide me over for another year. I wont start naming specific names of you blessed people who made my visit filled with unending gratitude to my Father at the end of this five weeks, or I will miss someone.
But Ive got to say I got to meet my new niece! Call Randy and Joyce for details!
My tank is full. Thankyou.
So back in SA I am.
Ive got a serious case of the 'jetleg'...been eating granola for kicks around 3 am this last two nights as there isn't much else happening around our little corner of Muizenberg. Loving the daylights out of my nephews...Thomas bday hotdog party for my first supper for Vincent! Mike's already fixing my phone and Marie-Eves cooking me up a storm to make sure I keep up the few happy home pounds my mom put on me, spoiling me rotten from one kitchen to the next!
The safehouse has been flying along, with 5 residents coming through, one remaining at this point. My collegues as fabulous as ever, happy with my return and easing me in, reminding me that Im not 'taking' on the huge burden of all the work again, its far beyond me, we just need to be faithful in doing our best by the days end and leave the rest in our ever so capable Fathers hand. Rad!
Back to my parka, triple layered blankets at night, and the essential cupa tea several times a day. They say spring is springing...Im saying where? I'm dreaming of my Manitoba 30 degree summer bliss and saying 'see ya' to the bit of tan I was attempting to save.
My roommates have left a million welcome home little cards stashed in my socks and chalkboard notes and fresh flowers on the coffee table, blessed beyond belief. There was also gunna be chocolate but...didn't end up surviving apparently there was a great crisis in which is was desperately needed...!
So then, off to the races, as my dad says, I go, with our God gone on before and behind me theres no telling what adventures He's ever got up his sleeve for any of us, hard or easy, we know no hand is more trustworthy to help us walk and run through it...leaning on our Beloved more fully and whole on the other side. He is no ordinary God and only has unimaginable things in mind when it come to his extraordinary kids! That's YOU AND ME! I saw phenomenal things He is up to and caverns of hearts He is blowing anew through there at home and am thrilled to be watching what he does this year in your lives from this side of the sea!
Lets expect greatness...thats WHO HE IS!
Please listen to Bethel's "Songs from the Loft" "This is what you do"...betcha can't eat (listen) just one (once)...
Be joyful
in hope,
patient in affliction, faithful
in prayer. (Rom 12:12)
Love, Charlene
