First, this “quote-of-the-month” for me:
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” — Corrie ten Boom
And this verse I wrote up and have tacked on the cork board next to my desk:
“Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” — Acts 2:28
I got a note in my email last evening that made me pretty happy: Pictures from my trip to Tasmania have been printed and should have been shipped out today! Having gone through the pictures again to get them ready for these posts, it made me that much more eager to be able to arrange the real pictures into some sort of a scrapbook one day soon.
(To see the previous posts in this series, go to Part 1 here and Part 2 here.)
One evening, we walked down to Hellyer beach. It was about a 10-minute walk, over the Detention River, up through a residential area, along the road, through some native bush, past more houses, then out onto the tidal flat itself. Around the point was the beach itself, and I loved studying the different shells there—quite different from the other beach just 15 min. west!
…and here is part two of my trip to Tasmania! I’ve shared pictures of the community multiple times since I’ve left, mostly with family, but I’m not tired of looking through them yet! Sometimes I wonder if the maxim “a picture is worth a thousand words” would be more appreciated as “a picture is worth a thousand memories”. 🙂
I stayed with two other girls in a house while I was there, and some of my “off” time was spent there. All family-oriented occasions were spent with my host family, so in many ways it felt like I was with family even though my own was across the ditch many kilometers away!
I’m sure I’ve shared this video before, but it’s something that always strikes a deep, deep chord in my heart. It’s a message I know I need to hear often. And perhaps you do today, too. Stand in His strength!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPIOkdNL-QQ
Early this year, I was incredibly blessed to have been given the chance to go with a friend, Truly, to visit some friends of hers in a little community in the northwestern corner of Tasmania. We landed on January 1st, and the next two weeks were some of the most stretching, yet most enjoyable weeks I’ve had in a while!
It’s a different feeling to know you’re walking into a situation where you’ll have to get to know a bunch of new people all at once…and then proceed to live with them for the next few weeks! For me, an introverted homebody that loves to have plenty of “me” time with little other interaction, the idea was a bit stressful. (Please tell me I’m not the only one!)
But as soon as I got there, I started to feel at home.