A few weeks ago I head a "hell" of a week. I think it is safe to say that the week stretched into a month of hard time. Being on this side, I can tell you it is a hard time.Emotionally, I am battling but I know that God wants me to embrace this time. I know that HE is using this so I better start learning I guess. I think of that post and I still feel lile the woman , the statue ont he pic I used. Now a new month has begun...I am shaking my head...feeling a bit like Job....I could ask questions: Why?? - but he also learned in his situation, he said: blessed be the name of the Lord. Boy, I can learn from Job.
On sunday, I watched a great show on National Geographic on IBEX. First, when I heard that word Ibex ( Are you ready for some German crazyness?), I thougth: Eyebacks hehehe
Anyway, as I watched and listened I thougth of Habakkuk 3 that I had started to read. In verse 18 and 19 it reads int he NIV:
yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
As I saw those Ibex hopping from cliff to rock and rock to cliff, I thought back to the "deer", the "surefooted deer" as in New King James Verson of the same verse. Habakkuk must have thought of the IBEX. SO I watched those Ibex, those wild goats in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea.
Horns on bucks grow up to 120 cm / 48 inches long, and have 24-36 knobs on the outer curve. Those horns are hollow so when the bucks fight and smach their horns against each other, they won't get hurt. It is amazing. They will have their babies on the top of a mountain front, but then they need to climb down every day for food. Climbing down the wall of death is what fascinated me the most. Seeing those IBEX having such a sure footing really was amzing.
Ibex are of the goat family, Capra but have further developed short muscular limbs
with rubbery hooves to enable their survival on the rough, rocky mountains and stony screes they defend as their own. The males of this agile species have also developed the longest and most heavily reinforced horns, seen in mature adults, crowning them king of their mountains.
I am and stay amazed and as Habakkuk three ends in the NKJV:
19 The LORD God [a] is my strength;
He will make my feet like deer’s feet,
And He will make me walk on my high hills.
Yes, MY GOD WILL get me over this high hill , HE WILL!!
This was my first real trip to downtown Cape Town without a car. Shirley and I went last Saturday. We went on a bus. That alone was already a little adventure for me because I never sue the bus on my own here. Let me tell you that that bus "was flying" over the roads. Pretty "hectic" stuff. However, Shirley and I arrived safely at the Green Market where we spent some time looking around. I did not try to look to interested in the things people were selling. As soon as I did though, I had them ask me: "What do you want to pay for this, Ma'am? Tell me, I make it cheap".
I saw tons of stuff. We passed the area with all the take away food nick nacks and I found TUPPERWARE...so cool. There was even a stand with Christmas CDs.
After a nice coffee and some Italian pizza,we headed back.
Thank you Shirley for a great day out and about!!
