Here is a story: Jesus falls asleep in a boat. There is a wild storm, and his friends, who are fishermen, are sure they will die. They wake Jesus up. ( sometimes you need to talk strongly to Jesus)
He stands up in a tossing boat and says, ” Where is your faith?”
No, first He “rebukes the wind and the raging water, and they stop, and it is calm.”
Luke 8: 22- 25 ( Sandy’s summary. An impressive story followed by another story where Jesus heals the demoniacs.)
23:45 lights on the shore. We are parked with others who seem to all be asleep.A wonderful sighting, a sailing boat moored, and the passengers learning to sail. Google says so much about this busy little ship.
A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power will ever be.
Aubrey de Selincourt 1894 – 1962 English writer, classical scholar and a keen sailor.
Early this morning , looking out at the homes of Odda. The forest greens are light and dark following the folds of the mountains. I hope that yellow tree doesn’t spread too much into the mountains. I believe it is laburnum. Keep the mountains natural, no rhododendrons either, please.
A journey of interesting roads all well kept awaits us. It is raining now and then.
Here is an experience in words almost like a delema drama. Tunnel distances are approximate as there were 11km ,9km, 4km, and so on!
Drive through a lit tunnel 11km through a mountain then immediately feel lifted up above the world, a fjord ( I use the word generally) deep water, high sides of mountains, then abruptly back in a tunnel. Then there is a tunnel with a roundabout in and we take the wrong tunnel so into the rocksided world we go, knowing its wrong, but with no way out till we hit the light and find an intersection or road off this narrow way. The only way back is to go into the dark again and take the right tunnel.
We did it! Back on the narrowest road, politely shared.
Tunnel…bridge……back into a tunnel…Then, much later on a wrong choice in a tunnel at a round aboutBack out in the rain how reassuring the mountains are.
We didn’t stop much today, but here are some thoughts about sailing :
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card , but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope ( I always miss Pope’s Meadow).
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Ami Ayalon
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
