4 months

Well, this is just plain weird. I literally feel like I JUST wrote about my 3 months being spent at Cape point. Each month has consistently gone faster than the previous one. I now only have a month and a half left here-crazy!

It's been much more "wintery" here, meaning rainy days and chilly nights. Last Thursday, I woke up to rainy morning and simply thought "Lord, thank you for this season in my life where I'm not too busy and can stay in bed on a rainy day and not feel bad about it!" This last Saturday, however, the sun came out, which was very convenient because everyone who works\volunteers at the clinic at Jubilee had planned to climb Table Mountain! There was about 13 of us, and it was a rocky incline. We did it though, and enjoyed a feast of a picnic at the top! It was quite chilly up there actually. Half the group took the cable-car down, but the more hardcore of us climbed back down, which proved to be much more intense than the way up. Our legs were all shaking by the time we got done! Afterwards we took our tired selves to the City Centre for coffee :)

This was one of those things that I had wanted to do while I was here, and tried to be patient for an opportunity to come up with friends. As I was hiking, I was so struck by the fact that it would have been absolutely miserable if I had climbed back in January and February, in the middle of summer. I was so thankful that we were doing this on a mild sunny day, with friends I had been with for awhile rather than a group of random students I didn't know. So much better than I originally thought; He knows what He's doing :)

Yesterday Stacey and I went to The Bay Church, about a half hour away, which is another NewFrontiers church. It was a plant from Jubilee in 1993, and is now about the same size, and multiracial as well. I really enjoyed it; thought about how crazy it was that I was connected to all these people and a church I didn't even know of because of NewFrontiers. There was an incredible span of young and old there, and they were really sensitive to where the Spirit was leading the message; the worship ended up being so long the pastor had to condense his message to the remaining 15 minutes, and didn't seem bothered by it at all! I thought that was really neat.

So today was 4 months. It was a gorgeous day, and I spent it at a beach along the Indian coast with 3 other girls. We got lunch there and just enjoyed the sun. I looked around, soaking it in, realizing it may be my last time getting over to that side, depending on how weather is my last bit here. I took many "mental" snapshots.

I have grown so much in these 4 months. I had made peace about the fact that most of how I'd grown I wouldn't see until I was back home, but I feel like in these last few weeks I am starting to see some fruit in my life a little bit. I'm really looking forward to enjoying this next month and a half, and I'm starting to get really excited about coming home as well! I feel like God is beginning to show me some things about my time here that is going to shape my future. I don't know what all it is yet, but it's exciting to me. That's another blog post though :)

Ok, well this is where I say "On to month 5"--my last full month here, ah!