Finished reading the book “In Praise of our Post Office” by Fiona Craig

Not long ago I was thinking how good it is that the north of New Zealand, where I live, is not known to have a history of earthquakes.

So it was a real surprise to read in the book “In Praise of Our Post Office” by Fiona Craig about the earthquake of 1963 in Whangaroa, not far from Kaitaia, where I live now.

I am living in New Zealand since the end of 1979!

“HAPPINESS IS AN INSIDE JOB”

When I read today about being happy and well-being in the book called “God’s way of Reconciliation” (Studies in Ephesians 2) by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, I did not only remember all the things I have read about the subject happiness and the subject Wellbeing, but also all the things I have written already about the two subjects.

Please write happy or happiness and well-being or wellbeing into the Search box and read the posts already on this blog!

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says that we are dependent upon God and that our well-being depends on our realisation of that. Only God is self-existent, we are dependent beings and we are only happy when we are in correspondence with God and when we are obedient to God.

I have actually experienced that!

THE CROSS

“For love

Song of Songs 8:6-7

Intr.:

is

1.  as strong as death,

2.  its jealousy unyielding as the grave.

3.  It burns like blazing fire,

4.  like a mighty flame.

5.  Many waters cannot quench love;

6.  rivers cannot wash it away.

7.  If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”

End:

“Work hard and do good!” was written on the blackboard.

The blackboard was standing in front of a shop on one end of the main street in Kaikohe. I saw it yesterday while attending a funeral. (It is about a little bit more than an hour from Kaitaia to Kaikohe by car.)

We have also a Bakehouse Cafe in KAITAIA

About on the other end of the main street is the Kaikohe Bakehouse Cafe and this is what I read in the newspaper about the Cafe before going to Kaikohe for the funeral:

The Bakels competition is nationwide and a baker of Kaikohe Bakehouse Cafe won a silver award in the pie contest. The name of the baker is Sam Jamba and he is from Thailand.

We used to work in Thailand as missionaries feeding the people with spiritual food and now the Thais are coming to New Zealand and feeding us with food for our bodies.

When I came back from the funeral I read the article called “Kaikohe baker goes silver in pie contest” in the paper again really thoroughly and this time I noticed also that it says there that the baker worked quite hard to win the contest.

And yes, while in Kaikohe yesterday, I did not only have a big cup of coffee at the Kaikohe Bakehouse Cafe, but also one of those  silver award pies.

Reading the quote

“By forgetting the past and

by throwing myself into other interests,

I forget to worry,” 

by Jack Dempsey, reminded me again that the BIBLE says, 

“Don’t worry about anything;

Sunflower

instead,

pray about everything.

Tell God what you need, and

thank him for all he has done.”

– Philippians 4:6 (NLT)