My Mild Goth Personality Revealed

Celebrations

Thursday 9 August was a public holiday: Woman’s Day. My housemate Fritz, with a little suggestion from another housemate (Cat, her former housemate’s cooked for her), made us breakfast. I had a nice breakfast of eggs and bacon that Fritz got up to make before I left for a hike.




The Sunday after I abandoned my car in Swellendam, I woke up with that “pit of despair” feeling in my stomach and then when I read through a devotional book that I have, it spoke directly to me (My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers) and I wanted to share that with you:

The Theology of Rest August 12
“You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” – Matthew 8:26
When we are in fear we can do nothing less than pray to God, but Our Lord has a right to expect that those who name His Name should have an understanding confidence in Him. God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis they are the reliable ones. Our trust is in God up to a certain point, then we go back to the elementary panic prayers of those who do not know God. We get to our wits’ end, showing that we have not the slightest confidence in Him and His government of the world; He seems to be asleep, and we see nothing but breakers ahead.

“O you of little faith!” What a pang must have shot through the disciples – ‘Missed it again!’ And what a pang will go through us when we suddenly realize that we might have produced downright joy in the heart of Jesus by remaining absolutely confident in Him, no mater what was ahead.

There are stages in life when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him, the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence of Him.
We have been talking a great deal about sanctification – what is it all going to amount to? It should work out into rest in God which means oneness with God, a oneness which will make us not only blameless in His sight, but a deep joy to Him.

Prefer pictures of me or Vuyo?

My housemate Cat playing with Vuyo. She holds him to keep him from coming to me. I think there might be some jealousy issues. :)
Vuyo being chased.
We had a team-building social Friday afternoon. One program had rented drums for a workshop and so we had some drumming, dancing and musical chairs. For musical chairs we were supposed to work together and ensure that everyone had their feet on the chairs. On the last chair, we sat on the floor and lifted our feet up.
Fritz in his 90's outfit.

A view to the north of Cape Town

Random Scenes of What I See

A bridge at Kalk Bay
View of Table Bay and the City from above Rhodes Memorial.
Every once in a while I see people with horsedrawn trailers and have been wanting to capture a picture for you. This one was while we were driving, so didn't get the whole view, but it was alongside a major multi-lane road. I have even seen horses near my old house. Sometimes they will have most of the body of a car on the trailer.
A kilometer sign on the way to Swellendam.

Spice Girls invade Newlands

Dancing to some Spice Girls
What dress-up party is complete without a couple cross-dressers. :)
The after picture, apparently a lot of time and effort was put into the outfit in the previous picture, including hair straightening.

Stuart, borrowed his sister's coat. The question is whether it is more concerning to wear someone's clothes for a time period party or that Stuart can fit into his sister's clothes.

This past Wednesday night the young adults at Christ's Church had a Spice Girls/90's party. Spice Girls will be stopping in Cape Town for their reunion tour. So here are some pictures of that night. The best I could pull from my closet was goth. I'll try to dig up a picture of that to share, it was pretty mild though. :)

The Storminess of Winter

More photographs of my afternoon in Kalk Bay.

My First Job Application Overseas

Work has been hectic crazy now. We are trying to fit in all the workshops for the year in one month. So on Tuesday co-facilitated two workshops with teachers and then a parent workshop in the evening, plus negotiating transportation without a car for those things. Another few weeks of that craziness and then two months left in my internship. I am in the process of setting up individual counseling at one of the schools and am excited about gaining that experience.

I also just submitted my CV for the disaster relief management position at The Trauma Centre. A bit of a long shot because I am still finishing up my internship and don’t know a second South African language, but I do know something about coordinating programs and crisis management.