Turkiye 3

I saw another angel fly in the middle of the sky, and this angel had the Everlasting Gospel to preach to us living on the Earth. It was for every

Nation

Family

Language speaker

Everyone.

And this is what the angel said:

” Fear God

Give Him glory

For the hour of judgement is come:

and worship Him that made

heaven,

earth,

and

the fountains of waters.”

Revelations 14: 6-7 (Partly Sandy’s wording)

What is the Everlasting Gospel ?

For by grace are you saved through faith: and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God: not of works, incase people start boasting .

For we are made by Him,

created in Jesus to do good works,

which God arranged for us to do.

Ephesians 2: 8-9 (Sandy’s understanding)

Travelling as we have this year has naturally let us notice things that seem similar. Here is an example: I have noticed that ruins often have a ‘signature flower’, and the ruins of Seleukeia/ Lybre had their autumn one. Drimia ( maritima / numidica/ attissima/pancration)

This plant had only its inflorescence of about 1m. No leaves were present. It was growing in a rocky area and was a joy to see where so much beauty had been destroyed by fire. I found out that the bulb can be 20 cm wide and weigh 1kg. The leaves usually ten are each up to 1m long, dark green and leathery. They all die away by autumn, and that is why we saw a tall, narrow raceme of flowers.

Then, on another day, travelling, we were introduced to a plant cultivated rather than wild the banana tree.

I was surprised to learn that this is a perennial herb not a tree and that leaf stalks ( as seen on the left in my photo ) grow straight up from the soil and new leaves emerge from the center. The fuchsia colour of the large flowers against the long fronded green leaves was a graceful site with the old plants left on the ground to feed the soil.

As these plantations were on our way to the Dimcay River,which flows from the Taurus Mountains to the sea, 8km east of Alanya, we were soon able to swim in the cold clear water of this river.

Here are some thoughts about cold water.

If you tiptoe into cold water, you’re missing out on the rush of plunging in head first.

Rumours are like ligtening on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold water of fact.

Simon Elkeles Stephen Leigh

This post has travelled as we travelled a week ago. We are home as I write about our experience in Turkiye .

Sandy 🙂