For the first time since my siblings were here, I managed a walk - a very very small one - 30 minutes to the sea and back - but walking slowly and with a 5 minute break sitting on the wall watching the sea. Everything is grey and green today and the breeze off the sea is refreshing, not cold. The Channel is calm, and all was quiet apart from a few valiant dogwalkers and the odd runner. Please, please, don't wear out your knees, I want to shout at them.
And there was a man with a loudspeaker practising his lines for a Sandcastle Competition - if I heard him right. Equally he could have been telling us to Mind the Gap.
The Captain left early, a metal detector at every corner, and with his packed lunch - which included an extra slice of cake for the fellow detectorist who gives us the eggs from his various flocks (hens, ducks, what have you),. We have nearly finished our Lilac Tree Farm eggs, so another batch would be timely.
He, the Captain not the Eggman, had a very frustrating day yesterday - tangles with online banking, standing orders, and a call out just before supper to a young person who was so upset by their exam results they had rushed off saying they were going to kill themselves. They had been missing all day so the SUSSAR searchers were called out and Col set off with sandwiches for his supper, but when he got there (an hour and a half later) they had been stood down. The Misper (missing person to you and me) had been found, alive and well as far as I know.
What is happening in the world? I too can remember the anguish of waiting for exam results, and the horrible feeling when they were not as expected. But I do not remember anything like this.
The Inspired Scriptures say we are living in "difficult times hard to deal with" - and that seems to be increasingly true. We need to trust in our Creator, Jehovah, with all our heart, listen to him, and follow his instructions. With that in mind we have our midweek meeting tonight, and continue our study of the amazing book of Ezekiel.
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