Honiara Woman's Daybook

Just for today... Monday, July 29

 

 

Outside my window...a beautiful view of the ocean.  We are back in our favorite SITAG house right in the middle of our little campus.

 

From the learning rooms...the kids are still on school break this week, enjoying their grandmother

 

From the kitchen...the Choate Bed and Breakfast is trying to take good care of our guest, so tonight it's beef fajitas with peach cobbler (my Mama's recipe) for dessert.  When we're in town, we have so many more options for our meals!

 

One of my favorite things...listening to people pray in their heart language.  Saturday night, several us joined with a YWAM team here in Honiara for a potluck and sharing about our ministries. 

 

These two lovely servants kept waving the flies away from the food while everyone went through the line.

The gathering was quite mulitcultural, people from Australia, Fiji, the Philippines, Samoa, the United States, and the Solomon Islands.  I was in the kitchen watching dishes after the meal while others were speaking.  All of the sudden, my ear picked up a language I didn't understand, and I realized that one of the men was praying.  The sound was so sweet.

 

 

 

Pondering these words..."Growth in holiness, then, is not a matter of personal discipline plus God's work.  It is a matter of dependent discipline of recognizing that we are dependent on God to enable us to do what we are responsible to do.  Then it is recognition that even when we have performed our duties, we must still look to Him to produce the growth."  ~Jerry Bridges

 

A heart of thankfulness...for my mama.  She didn't know she would be helping me label cleaning supplies for the SITAG supply closet.  And later this week, I'm going to drag her over to the Educational Resource Center to stamp and card some new books.  Having her around has meant lots of extra laughter in our house, too!

 

 

A few plans for the rest of the week...today we've got to get my mom's flights rearranged in the airline saga with Fiji Airline, Solomon Airline, and Air Niugini, and we also have to take Benjamin to the new eye doctor in Honiara.  Saturday night, he ducked and hit the corner of a table square between his eyes.  We think his glasses saved him a broken nose, but his glasses snapped in half.  We're also hoping to go visit the Solomon Islands National Museum's exhibit on "Blackbirding" since we were in the village on National Museum Day when the exhibit opened.

 

On my bookshelf..."Give Me This Mountain and He Gave Us a Valley" a two-part autobiography by Dr. Helen Roseveare

A peek into my corner of the world...Olivia loves animals, especially dogs and horses.  While we were in Marulaon, we thought Kira, this sweet old dog, would have to be put to sleep because she's not been doing well.  Olivia was happy to have another chance to get some snuggles.