License Plate that I retrieved from the road leading into the botanical gardens in Capetown. It had been run over a few times.
I am so thankful for the opportunity to go on such a trip. To see some of God's most beautiful creation in nature. To have good time with my brother and a friend - even if I was so flu-ridden and drugged up most of the time that my senses could barely appreciate it all. I wish I could have been all there so that I could have spent more evenings talking with them, but seeing the sights together was still a lot of fun. And I think it helped me, to connect with some people who really understand me, know me, and so on. It was a much-needed break from Doha, for sure. I was challenged in many ways on this trip that sacrifice and difficult circumstances are THE conduit for bringing us closer to God. Sitting in the forested area of the Kirstenbosh, reflecting over what I had just read in "Practicing the Presence of God," I felt renewed and thought that if God would have me stay in Qatar longer, that I could do that, if I would take the opportunity to draw close to him in everything. After finishing another good book I also felt that whenever God would lead me, that I should be ready to go ANYWHERE for Him! Not because I would be prepared in a physical, emotional, or even spiritual sense. But rather that those times of suffering for God is really where we draw close to him and learn to walk intimately with him, and in that sense I'm overdue for that. So even though in once sense I could maybe never be ready for some of that stuff, I welcome whatever God has for me, because it will cause me to cling to Him. More about that later...
License Plate that I retrieved from the road leading into the botanical gardens in Capetown. It had been run over a few times.
Speeding ticket I got somewhere between Jo'burg and Kruger. 300 Rand. The guy wanted me to pay him right there to save ourselves the time of following him to the station. I wasn't sure if this was a bribe, wether it was honest, or what, so I told him I didn't know about that. He said that since I didn't trust him that we had better go down to the station. I told him it wasn't about trust as much as it was just that I didn't know about the way things worked. So we made a visit to the police station.