Our home met at Fratelli in Ferndale Village to celebrate Brenda's sixtieth birthday. Round the table from the left is Mike, Tracy, Gary, Carol (hidden behind Gary), Andy, Petra, Sandy, birthday girl Brenda, Linda and Denise with her back to the camera. We had a wonderful time with friends.
Yes this Helkom thing is becoming a pain and today I have come down with something nasty. I am not sure how I would last this coming week. But I managed to drag myself to BBC and took a photo of the sunglasses gang, Tracy and Gary.
One of our colleagues, Thembinkosi, passed away last Friday after a sudden illness. I did not know much about him as he sat on the opposite side of an open plan office and just about kept to himself. What is bugging me is that I did not know him. Discussing the memorial service this morning I raised the question “Was he a Christian?” Well it was a good question in regards to the memorial service but it is rather late to find this out. What would people ask about me one day? Does the person sitting in the same office as me know where I stand on certain issues? Do they know me? I was so exhausted by the time I got home that I just crashed. I was still feeling this heaviness when I went to home group this evening. I don’t think anyone picked my stillness up. The topic this evening was persistent prayer and I just sat there just listening and wondered how many times I just gave up. Well it is time I head for bed. Here is a much lighter photograph from this evening during tea showing Karen and Tracy.
Just 2 more days then the next long weekend starts. The weeks are flying soon it will be Christmas again and we will wonder what happened to the year. It is starting to get chilly which means winter is upon us. Here is Gary, Tracy and Glenda at Home Cell which is held at the Sims’ home most Tuesday evenings.
At home cell we started with one of Andy Stanley's series "The Sinai Code". I will give a more in-depth write up about it on my other blog "This is the BBC" soon but I leave you with this. When I was growing I was taught that in the Old Testament God's character was revealed. More than ever this is the case when God handed down His 10 rules. You get to know someone by the rules that they lay down. For example the first one states that you shall not have any other gods but me. This shows me that He is a jealous God. But the first part of the series showed me otherwise. God wasn't saying here are some rules to live by and once you get good at it then maybe we can talk about a relationship. No! He was initiating a relationship first and then giving us boundaries which to keep us safe. Well if you want more then you need to keep your eyes peeled for my soon to be written post on my other blog. While you waiting for that here is Tracy and Gary at the home cell.
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