My amazing trip

Yep, this is quite a life I live.

Just corrected myself that it’s not the life I lead but I live coz I ditched the driver’s seat when I put my all in God’s hands.

I for one know God’s mercy and faithfulness in one’s life.

He’s always good to me.

At times I don’t see it there and then that what’s happening is for my good

But I thank God that my vision is not blinkered such that I don’t realise that yesterday’s complaint was lack of knowledge on my part.

I made a trip to Jo’burg a weekend ago and it was quite interesting

I had no hassles in anything at all

This is one trip I just decided to make and didn’t plan for it

One of those things you wake up and decide to do

I had counted on going with a cousin who knows the city but I had to make the trip on my own

I couldn’t cancel as that was the only day I managed to squeeze out of my boss

He called it special leave! A day off!

This was just being whimsical of me .I needed some time away from home is the truth

I digress

So on my own I ventured to do a bit of shopping

I got a friend of a friend of my cousin to show me around

It was God who worked for me on this trip

The guy who was meant to be my guide had to work that Saturday all of a sudden and he sent his cousin

You can imagine how I felt when he told me that

Here’s someone being asked to be a guide for the day by someone who’d been asked the same a day ago

What if this guy is just coming becoz he’s been forced by this guy coz he feels he shouldn’t let me down

You can imagine what was going thru my mind as I waited for the guy.

We’d talked on the phone but I just thought that my desires were a bit out of line considering I wanted to go back the same day and I still hadn’t decided what I’d come to shop for

Long story short, my guide was marvellous

Actually, his name is Marvellous and that’s what he was

We went round town in the shortest possible time and were still on talking terms when we parted

I say this coz here’s a guy who’s meant to take a female around to do some shopping and he still has to be gentleman enough to help with carrying packages and answering questions like “what do you think of this? will this fit me? how will this look on me?”

I was aware that the bus station or buses back home had changed but I had no idea to where, neither did he

So we went to the old one where there was chaos and we tried a second one.

We got there whilst people were being checked in as the bus was meant to have left at 2pm and it was 2:05

I managed to get a seat and was home bound by 2:30

The trip back was uneventful except that the bus was flying and I made a point that I was not going to board the same bus ever again coz the hospitality was worse than that on the bus there

I was home by 7:30am having been dropped off at 6am

That was a record trip in terms of time and I felt that I had slept on the bus and so I proceeded to attend the Sunday service

Little did I know that my body would rule the day and I dozed part of the service only to wake up when there was singing. I did get the gist of the sermon thoughJ

Why I call this my amazing trip is becoz of how God led me along the right paths and kept me safe

The Monday morning after the trip I was told that there was an accident on the route I’d travelled the Sunday morning and six people died

God kept me from that and I am thankful

I look forward to making another trip next month

As always I’ll say my prayers all the way long.

Living

"I like living.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,
but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

- Agatha Christie

My fancy of the moment

I’ve just had one of those crazy ideas I sometimes entertain
And this has got me this far
I think I’ll do a blog for prose/verse/poetry
It’ll be totally unstructured and will be straight from my mind
Whatever mood I’m in at the moment, is what’ll reflect in that blog
It can be feelings, opinion, emotion, whatever…….
I think this be the electronic version of my little book of poetry
Why would I want to change
Simple and rational for me-
On paper I’m bound to shred or burn words that I feel I ought not to have written down
As an electronic file- well….
I just want to do it so…….here goes
Tomorrow I’ll go thru the motions
Actually I’m doing this now
The past weekend we just went crazy as a family as normally do
And somehow that’s inspired the name of the blog
It’s in my native language and loosely translated it means ‘look at your child’
Loosely coz my word combinations in my language can mean almost anything you want at that time
This is what I want now
So go look at this crazy whim of mine

My word!

How I’ve been so quiet
And also even the blogs I follow seem to be following the trend
There’s just some silence that’s prevailing
It could be becoz most people are caught up doing something
Or they just don’t know how to put to paper what’s happening in their lives
Whatever the case, I hope that something just goes back where it was all along
I’ve been busy working and that’s not satisfying at all
All it’s doing is wearing me out
Actually it’s causing me not to have time to put pen to paper and do what I love to do
Write my mind
I love doing that
As restricting as that may seem to many I actually love it that way
While it may seem to put permanency to what you write
It gives me the chance to see what it is that I am thinking
Looking at it I can actually stand back and ask myself “is this what you truly believe?”
It goes without saying that I obviously love the fact that I can save and edit whatever I’ve written
But this isn’t the norm actually
I like to keep first thoughts as they are
Unhampered by new ideas
Bringing to the fore what I may otherwise have not said
It’s just simple and fresh as it is
I like to call it “unedited thoughts”
Yes!
That’s why I love to write
To just lay it on paper
I can bare out my soul without wondering what if
I can rant and rave without wishing I hadn’t said that
I can retract better on paper than in word
A word somehow just goes and no matter how you try to undo things
The first word somehow just doesn’t come back
I can have many drafts of the final post
But that’s not what I love about this
What I love about this is that I can just ramble about something
And not necessarily retract it, but write again about it in another post and so life goes……….