Love

A HUMUNGOUSLY big monster of a ship pulled in next to us this morning! It is a cruise ship with terrible gaudy colours and an enormous glass walled bubble protruding from it's side...It is 13 decks high, and has big eyes painted across the bow, and an aweful mouth that traces down both sides of the ship in bright red playschool colours. It sure makes me appriciate my "little" baby...she is so beautiful despite her rust patches and dents and dust and needle guns!

But I gotta say, I'm pretty excited to see all the hundreds of people this ship has bought in! So many opportunities for new friends! They've almost overtaken our little quey-side town already...

I met a lovely old German man this morning. My friend and I bought him a hotdog and sat with him on the street attempting to communicate through sign language and teeny bits of German! He had a few missing fingers and teeth, and sat huddled up against the wall with a little black dog tucked inside his jacket. The cool thing was, when I gave him food, the first thing he did was feed a little bit to his dog. I love that those who have nothing, are often so generous with what they do have. I'd love to be more like that. Then he offered my friend and I a smoke each. I was really touched. This seems such "real" love. It brought him so much joy to be able to share, (even though we turned down his generous offer.) Eventually, we managed to communicate that he is invited to "Open Ship" on Friday night. I think maybe he has been before, because he seemed to know all about it. Dunno if he knows Jesus yet. But I hope he will soon!!

Thanks for praying for me! I love you...