At the Beach

Today, when experiencing some kindness of a stranger, I forgot my social conduct completely and I am still thinking about it.

I was told to buy a carrot from the market and when I arrived there I saw beautiful carrots packed in small bags. I don’t know how many carrots were in one bag. Asking whether it was possible to buy just one or two carrots, I was told that there was no problem.

But when I was told that I could have two big carrots without paying anything for them, I was completely blown away and I think I walked away saying, “You really don’t want any payment for them?” instead of remembering my manners.

When I see the owner of the stall again, I must say, “Thank you very, very much indeed for the two big carrots!”

carrots

Noticing a big handwritten note stuck to the front window of the coffee shop I was sitting in made me leave my seat and go and read it.

It was a response to the power outage coming Sunday from 8AM – 6PM. It was also good to be reminded again of the outage.

A one page public notice in our local paper tells us about the power outage:

POWER OUTAGE

Kaitaia and surrounding Districts

Sunday 1 February 2015

8AM – 6PM

There are actually two outages and we are also told how to prepare for them.

Power

The handwritten note stuck to the window of the coffee shop – and this is now from memory – is a notice from the food manager to the dear customers and says that the shop is open as usual for business on 1 February 2015 and that the power source will be a generator.

Are you also encouraged as I am, when you read the notice stuck to the window?

I am also reminded that God possesses all power.

SCHMETTERLING

“Verzicht ist nur dann der Stein in der Magengegend, wenn das Vertrauen zum Schoepfer nicht der Schmetterling im Bauch ist.” – Jan Dobutowitch

Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache, aber ich verstehe das nicht. Sollte das jemand in Deutschland lesen und mir erklaeren, dann waere ich dankbar.

WD