“‘Take your eyes off them for a moment and they are gone,'” said a Senior Sergeant  among other things when it comes to water safety.  “‘Them'” are the young children.

I am reading that in the article called “All hope lost for missing diver.” (The Northland Age, Tuesday, January 13, 2015)

Last Thursday coming back from Kerikeri via the east cost and passing Cable Bay we saw there a big crowd and people looking for the diver and according to the paper they are still looking.

CABLE BAY

Cable Bay is in fact our favorite spot for an outing to the beach. We take our beach chairs and sit there under the shade of a tree. No need to tell you that there are also coffee shops at the east coast.

My habit is not only to read the Bible in the morning, but also the MORNING AND EVENING Daily Readings by C. H. Spurgeon.

Spurgeon has a verse for the morning and a verse for the evening. The evening verse for tomorrow (January 14) is Matthew 14:30 “Beginning to sink, [he] cried out, Lord, save me!” It was Peter who was crying out for help.

It is the story of Peter walking on the water.

When he looked off from the Lord Jesus Christ he was almost a goner.

When we take our eyes off the young children for a moment, they are gone and when we take our eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ we are gone.

We begin to fall when we look off from the Lord Jesus Christ and look at the greatness of opposing difficulties.

CABLE BAY