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Mark’s mom, Marlene, with her sister-in-law Yvonne, just before leaving South Africa tonight, at the end of her holiday. She spent the last few days with Dale and Yvonne in Joeys, before setting out from Oliver Tambo International Airport, for her new life in merry England. We guess that Dale snapped the photo, as it arrived earlier tonight as an MMS. Clever these Chinese. Mom gets to us on Friday.
This is a picture I took about 30 minutes ago, of the view from our bedroom window.
It is spring here in Johannesburg, and as I woke up around 5.30am (typical for me on a day when I could sleep in!) I saw the light from behind the much appreciated pecan nut tree.
The darker clump near the top right of the tree is one of those plants that attaches itself to a tree and just lives there. Has been there all the time we have lived in the house.
A hail storm on a hot summer’s day, 2nd January 2005, in Johannesburg (well, Roodepoort really).
Sunday 2 January 2005 – you would expect a hot summer day in Johannesburg, and it was, around 27 degrees Celsius by noon. We were enjoying a braai with friends under the shade of our large pecan nut tree. Quite suddenly the refreshing breeze became strong gusts, the sky went dark quickly and we rushed all the barbeque stuff inside as it started to rain, then hail. The hail became a thundering noise, shredding leaves off trees and plants, filling up gutters, and covering the lawn so thickly that when it was all over our humid summer’s day had become a temporary winter wonderland! We made ’snow’ balls out of pellets of hail about the size of peas, and even managed an angel in the snow … well ice really. 18 hours later our gutters still have ice in them (just a little but it is there) and our poor garden is a real mess of finely chopped leaves over everything!
Prayer walking – something I once thought quite ‘faddish‘ and a passing phase, but recently our church has been active in prayer walking, and we’ve begun to understand the value of simply walking around the suburbs which surround the church, and praying for the people who live in the houses and apartments. It has opened doors (sometimes literally) and allowed us to encourage people, but also gain deeper appreciation for the importance of the church being genuinely connected to the people we live amongst to serve for Christ.
The article in this link I found whilst looking for help on how to do prayer walking. It has some good ideas and advice.
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