Chit Chat.

Hello fellow friends. How you all doing? Sorry I have not written in a number of sunny days. That's because we havnt had too many sunny days lately. Apparently we are going to have a wet summer or so I have heard. Its apparently part of the weather cycle we are entering into. Now that's going to be interesting to see. The weather reports are never all that reliable anyhow so its going to be a surprise..... Yes, we will be surprised when they say 80 % rain and it hardly even drizzles and a surprise the days they say a nice clear summers day and there is a huge down pour. If you live in the far south you know not to take to much notice of what is said because you can leave home with a huge woollie jersey because of the black south easter and get into Cape Town centre and its stifling hot. Do you remember those days that there were gale force winds on the foreshore and on the front page of the newspaper in the evening there would be photos of woman hanging onto street posts to stop themselves been blown into the sea. We don't see that much anymore as more building have gone up and the wind tunnels of open spaces have become less and less,
Then there is the other side of the story after a long hot working day in town, you head to the station in central Cape Town and all the way home you build the dream of a early evening swim or walk on the beach when you get home. You can almost smell the sea and imagine the ideal setting and when you get there you are met, yes you guessed it, by gale force winds and the swim is now in the past. We used to say Fish Hoek was wrongly named and that it should have been called Windhoek.
Ok, enough chit chat or maybe I should say small talk about the weather. Enjoy tomorrow being the first day of the working week and whatever the weather, celebrate life. Life is far to short to be miserable. Till next time, keep smiling.
Rose.

Oh He loves us.

Its Friday and the start of the weekend. I love the weekend. It just feels so right to put my feet up on the couch, flip through the tv channels and with the tv chattering in the background I can flip through a magazine with a huge pot of tea on a tray and a bar of chocolate lazily been eaten as I while away the time. Saturdays are also great as there is no morning rush, no time limits just time to slowly get going and often we pop in at tje organic market to drink coffee and walk around all the stalls buying bread and cheese, olives and dips and spreads. Our three married children with their spouses and our little grand daughters also do Saturday shopping at the market so we find space at one of the bigger tables to eat sliced biltong together, chat, catch up with each other and buy the little princesses a date slice or some other treat before heading home at about 2pm. Then Sunday arrives and we go to church. Now I'm excited. I like to be early and pray at the prayer meeting asking Father to come and bless us and everyone who comes through the door and invite Holy Spirit to surprise us with the gifts and that people will be healed and changed.
As the church family arrive I get more and more chatty and I can't great people quick enough to beable to hear all the news and what God is doing in all of our lives.
A community of church families is always so interesting as we have grown together over so many years and seen little babies become teenagers and newly weds become mature parents and singles find life partners. So beautiful.
Its thrilling when new people join and become friends and always sad when others move on but in it all there is a tapestry of colour of lives being knitted together that excites me and has added to who I am in and through God and my heart responds with "Oh He loves us, Oh He loves us so"
Where would we be without the love of God.
Lionel and I will be celebrating 25yrs of ministry in May 2011 and our hearts response to God is "Oh how you have Loved us"
The way ahead is filled with great expectation. God has brought us this far and we have laughed and cried, grown and matured through trials and victories and we are the wiser and happier for all of it. So let us continue to celebrate the goodness of the love of God and our love for one another in the great family of God.

Oh how He loves us.

Till next time.
Love Rose.

Exciting times of His presence.

I remember what it was like as a child when it was days away from your birthday or Christmas or a special event and there was such an excitement in your heart and you couldn't settle down to anything constructive as your heart anticipated what was up ahead. The night before the big day was the worst, because you wanted to go to bed as early as possible and sleep so that the time would go by quickly and you would wake up and finally the event would unfold and you would be all taken up with everything and enjoy the long awaited surprises. Only when you did go to bed early you just could not sleep at all. You would toss and turn, count sheep, go backward and forward to the toilet totally frustrated that it was a longer night than ever.
I must say that I am going through such an exciting time at the moment. God is doing so much in our lives and every day is an adventure with Him. This week in particular was just so full of His grace and every meeting we did was jam packed with His presence and the supernatural atmosphere of heaven. I sometimes feel I want to burst with excitement. This is that, which He has promised us and I want to continue to be a willing volunteer in this day of His power.
Trust in the Lord my friends and lean not on your own understanding, in ALL your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your ways straight. What more can I say......He is so good and kind and gracious and He is moving us into our prophetic future. Let us listen to His voice and follow.
Love to you all.
Rose.

daily chatter and update of life.

Hello, everyone. How are you doing?
Time just tics on and we have about 10 and a half weeks to Christmas.
Now that is not even funny. There is shopping to do, cakes to bake, meals to decide on.
I'm sure most of us love the Christmas celebrations but not all the work involved.
I'm not anti all the work its more about the shopping, Oh my gosh! People, pushing
Trying to get bargains, looking for the traditional sponge cake for the making of the trifle and on and on.
So we can either get totally stressed out and even down right rude about this and even reactionary and decide "we don't do the commercial Christmas thing" or We can begin to celebrate being family and having fun.
Christmas has been reduced to a Festive Holiday and there are many people who label it as a pagan time. BUT we of
course know its about Christ. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for us so that we may have life and life in abundance. All who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus shall be saved. So let's not forget the reason for the season. Its a remembrance that Jesus was born to a virgin and came to earth as our saviour. How kind is our God. He takes our broken lives and exchanges it for a life in His Son. So while you are standing in that line waiting to pay for the food and pressies, remember goodwill and grace and kindness. May Jesus be formed in us more and more.
Love Rose.