Two things I have heard

I think I mentioned before, but we are on another week long holiday. (These South Africans and their holidays...) I'm currently house sitting for a family from church, which allows me to have unlimited internet access! Woo-hoo! :) But this long holiday also gives me lots of time to myself; a good and bad thing. These are the times when I'm aware that this is not home...I don't have a supply of friends where I can always call someone to hang out. I have, however, gotten to skype with a few more people than normal; and, I've had some really encouraging talk with friends here in South Africa recently, that make things here feel more and more like family. What I'm saying is that God amazes me. I look at the friendships I have all over the world, and I am humbled. I have such loyal, faithful, encouraging, and loving friends, and there is no rhyme or reason as to why I should have them. I have felt nothing but support and strength from them, and from my new friendships here. I am overwhelmed and grateful. These scriptures surely are true...

¹¹ "One thing God has spoken, 
   two things I have heard: 
'Power belongs to you, God, 
 ¹² and with you, Lord, is unfailing love' "

                               - Ps. 62:11

⁵ "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
   is God in his holy dwelling.
⁶ God sets the lonely in families"

                                               - Ps. 68: 5-6

^29"Jesus said, 'Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, ³⁰who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.' "

                                                                  -Mark 10:29-31

My BU family

My SA family

My UJ family. 

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