Fishy Going's On

Yesterday was a lazy day. I needed to do some thinking and pondering, so took some time out. With all the recent goings on, I have so much information coming my way that I need to digest it. I'd also began to get a bit concerned with some things that I had noticed about myself, and just general observations. Anyhow, I did what I normally do - stew about it for a while, put on a brave face whilst internalising it, then when it begins to get too much only then do I finally take it to God and talk to Him Who Knows All Things Anyhow!

The afternoon rushed by as I did some study, some reading and had a power nap. I was going to a home group of one of the Newfrontiers churches here in Cape Town, so beautified myself for that. Interestingly, they were watching the film 'One Night With The King' which is about the story of Esther from the Old Testament. It has some well known actors in it including Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole and John Rhys-Davies. It also stars Luke Goss of Bros fame. You know, Bros from the 80s. Bros of boy band twins fame. Bros of 'we kinda look like a younger version of Right Said Fred.' Bros of theme tune 'When Will I Be Famous' fame. Judging from Mr Goss' performance, the question isn't 'when will I be famous' but more 'how on earth am I be famous?'

The scenery is stunning in the film, and the costumes really capture the pomp and glory of how I imagine the Persian Empire was. Shame that the acting is so wooden, it seems like I'm staring at a Homeware furniture display. Unfortunately, the insistence of the director to play a loud and dramatic orchestral score isn't quite loud enough to drown out the actors insistence to shout their lines in a manly, 'warrior-like' way. Yes, even Queen Esther.

Apart from that, its a pleasant film about love and... stuff.

After the film, we prayed together for different pastoral needs of people in the group. This turned into a time of prophetic encouragements for many of us, with different people sharing. Funnily enough, two people in the group had words for me - the first word confirmed something that had been said to me in Johannesburg, and the second word basically was everything I prayed during my talk with God earlier in the day - but with God answering me! It was a great time for us all.

I met some great people that evening, including a Greek couple who have invited me to their summer house early next week that overlooks a bay that is a breeding and meeting ground for whales! And I was invited to a formal dinner and dance this weekend as well by someone, although I am at a conference so I cannot attend, alas.

On the way home I popped into McDonald's to grab a snack and ended up talking to the manager. It turned out he is an evangelist at a local Pentecostal church, so invited me to some of his meetings that he is leading! And he also had a word for me, right outside McDonald's Cape Town drive-through!

Anyway, today I've been to Cape Town Aquarium which had a combination of creatures from both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean's. I've taken millions of photo's, which the links are as follows for you non-Facebook philistines:

Fish

Fish 2

Turtles

Sharks

Birds

Other Marine stuff

You can see from the photos it was incredible. We went for a late lunch, and I enjoyed Kingklip (which is a fish) covered in lemon and parsley butter, on a bed of minted mash. It was beautiful. I topped it off with an ice-cream - one scoop of honeycomb, one scoop of turkish delight flavour on a cone. Never have I felt so elated and content with my life. Ah, small things for small minds...

I'm out for dinner tonight with a couple of friends I've met here, who are going to cook me curry! They own the Mini Cooper sports convertible I wrote about earlier than we drove around the coastal mountain roads when I first got here. Food seems to play a big part here....
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