As I sit here writing, the wind is howling past my back door. It’s so loud I can barely hear people’s voices on my cell phone. As spring comes to the Cape, so do the winds.  Yesterday, as I was walking to a meeting, I had my reading glasses hanging on the front of my shirt. The wind came howling around a building suddenly lifting them off like a pickpocket. They end up landing in the middle of the road and I had to stop traffic just to keep my glasses from being run over! One kind soul stopped his car allowing me to retrieve my glasses and live for another day.

From there I went to Wembley Square near where I’m staying to meet with Ann Gibson an ex-pat Zimbabwean who I had never met before today. We were introduced by a mutual friend and had the most marvelous time getting acquainted. It was one of those time stands still moments when you finally look at your watch and 2 hours have passed!  Ann is from Mutare on the eastern Zimbabwe border near Mozambique. She is passionate about her country and believes that God is up to something significant there. I about fell out of my chair when she uttered these words “God has raised you up for such a time as this.” Just a few days earlier my wife Elizabeth had written me to say that those very same words had come to her and I needed to prepare myself. It was all very sobering. As a result of our time, she is calling her network of Zimbabweans here in Cape Town to a meeting and asked me to share my story with them. I will need lots of grace as I will be rushing in from a morning meeting and on my way to a very important afternoon meeting. In my weakness, I will need God to be stronger than ever.

This evening Marcus & Laura picked me up for ice cream! A year ago Laura had won 2 free tickets for shakes at this trendy restaurant here in town. Tonight was the last possible night she could redeem them. Funny thing…though she only won 2 tickets, they sent her 3. I guess I won too!!!