Category Archives: Memories

“You will walk( travel) safely and you will not stumble.(encounter danger). When you lie down you will not be afraid and your sleep will be sweet.”( still lovely) Proverbs 3 : 23,24 It is easy to remember our next trip as it was a treat to leave Johannesburg with all its family tensions and spendContinue reading “Memories of travelling by steam train.”

Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 Both of us were standing on the balcony with our hands on the smooth iron rail above the elaborate ballastrade.  Would we have noticed if an army of Matabele ants hadContinue reading “Continuation of being invited to tea and remembering  a visit…”

And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into His plans. Romans 8 : 28 Opposite our Famona garden was open land/veld/bush.  It was an exciting place of smell and sound. The rain on dry dirt, ant hills , bark and leavesContinue reading “Memories of being invited to tea”

To learn patience, reverence, humility and have time to pray.  So teach me. Sandy By the back door of the mission house where the fly screen banged shut and squeaked to open was our drinking water. It was harvested rain water.  Large jugs of it were brought in boiled then cooled in the fridge. TheContinue reading “Remembering different times at the mission school continued.”

For the Father ( God ) Himself loves you because you love Me ( Jesus) and have believed that I came out from God. I came from the Father ( God) into the world, and am in the world: I leave the world and go to the Father. John 17 : 27, 28 (Jesus wasContinue reading “Remembering different times at the mission school.”

“If it starts to rain wait at the end of the gravel cycle track. I will pick you up.” said Dad. The weather in summer was such that it often rained between 1pm and 4pm and after a very hot morning the clouds would gather and there would be forks of lightning and claps ofContinue reading “Memories of an angry outburst”

Know that the Lord is God, He made us and we didn’t make ourselves, we are His, like sheep in His pasture, Go to Him, thank Him and bless His name. Because his mercy lasts forever and His truth endures for all generations. Psalm 100 : 3-5 (in Sandy’s understanding) Shelly was practising the pianoContinue reading “Memories continued : More about Shelly and Dad is knocked over.”

My flesh and my heart may fail , but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73: 26 God is with you even when you are struggling, physically, emotionally, mentally. A continuation of my childhood memories I try to add to each week. While going to the sea at theContinue reading “Memories of underlying sadness”

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances ; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thessalonians 5: 16 – 18 The caravan and camping park were next to each other.  Our friends while using our “Eagle ” tent had stopped coming after their gran past away and Paul theContinue reading “A memory of friends while caravanning.”