Lockdown 206

Lockdown Day 206 - 18 October 2020

Yesterday, hubby and I were blessed by a couple of friends with a belated and birthday lunch, complete with a cake and flowers! In the really hot heat wave central South Africa is currently experiencing, the wind atop Naval Hill was welcome and the cool gin made the the heat disappear. We were once again reminded of the value of people in our own world we move and live in. Of the blessing of the goodness and richness of joy they bring to this Lockdown life in particular. 

Today, after yesterday's 38°C, we saw the thermometer climb once again to 38. With a mean cloud cover by nightfall, no cooling down is expected. This is when I am so thankful for our matchbox that has a little aircon in our room. Continuous heat like this makes for a tired me at night, and can I look forward to sleeping in a cool room. 

What does not help, are rowdy neighours not keeping to curfew regulations. These people are not in the matchboxes adjacent to ours, there is a road and empty property between us. So they are not nearby. 

This means they are really really loud if we are woken up by the noise they make. Our Estate rules state no disturbance to neigbours allowed after 23h00. Also curfew demands everyone in their own homes by 12 midnight. 

We fell asleep with the noise in our ears somewhere around 23h00 thinking they will stop after 12. You know that feeling when you sleep but you still hear the noise on and off. The first time we were really awake was at 02h00. 

We called security, who went to tell them to stop. But they just got louder after that, and we couldn't sleep at all. At 04h00 the screaming was the last straw and we called security again who went and forced them to stop and the guests to leave the premises. 

What gets me is their lack of respect and consideration for their fellow man, and the self righteous way they go about displaying it. What stark contrast to the people I know and love and call my friends. 

Such is life: for every good choice there is a bad choice too. For every right also a wrong. And the attitude with which we approach  everything makes for blessing or adversity. The choice is ours. 

Tonight I pray that God will never allow me to become so important in my own eyes that I become blind for the silent witness of my own self-degradation. That He would instead inhabit me with His fullness so I can be a loud witness to His abounding grace and unending peace. 

"Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you."

Ephesians 3:20 TPT

God's got this.