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.