6th Day on Patmos

As our time here is drawing to an end it feels really sad. The first part of the group is actually leaving the hotel in the next 15 min. Its been the most amazing time of rejuvenation for me, I’ve just really appreciated getting away from the craziness of life and just taking a break and focusing on the Lord.
As I drive the group back and forth in between the places we need to be in I invariable spend part of the trip on my own, where I usually sing my heart out (as I have no radio to keep me company). One of the songs which I keep singing over and over again is an Icelandic favorite of mine which goes like this:
Ég vil dvelja í skugga vængja þinna
Trúfesti þitt er skjöldur minn
Ég vil finna þann frið er færir þú
Nóttin nálgast en ég mun ekki hræðast
er ég dvel í skugga vængja þinna.

:,:Í skugga, í skugga, í skugga vængja þinna:,:

Which means

I want to dwell the shadow of your wings
Your steadfastness is my shield
I want to feel that peace You bring
Night will come but I shall feel no fear
for I dwell in the shadow of Your wings

:,:In the shadow, in the shadow, in the shadow of Your wings:,:

As I’ve been here it really feels like I’ve been dwelling in the Lord’s shadow. Being rejuvenated by His presence in my life and digging deeper into who He is. I really am not ready for this to end but as I look forward I can’t wait to start tackling all the things He has for me in the next few months. He has been preparing me for something and I can’t wait to find out what that is.

UNBELIEVABLE!!! OK I’m picking up from where I left off about an hour and a half ago. So I took the four people that needed to take the ferry tonight, Bill - who needs to catch a flight on Friday morning, Helen, Sarah and Andre - all of which have business to attend to in Athens. We get down to the port in good time, it’s a quarter to two and the ferry was supposed to leave at ten past, we’re 25 min early at this point. So we unload the car and get comfortable inside it in the heat. Helen is out for a walk at this point talking to people. All of a sudden she comes up to the car and announces the news - the ferry that is coming now, at 2:10, is from Blue Star Ferries and is going to Rhodes while the ferry that we are waiting for is G.A. Ferries to Athens at precisely the same time. OK this is odd and slightly worrying. So I get out of the car and start investigating. Helen comes with me and ends up going to the port police with the tickets. Yes, there is no ferries going tonight to Athens! Excuse me? We have tickets here that prove that there is a ferry going to Athens at 2:10. You’re tickets are wrong. I’m sorry, did I miss something, how can tickets be wrong? Have you ever bought an airplane ticket and it be wrong? So a long story cut a little shorter, we reloaded the car up with all the luggage and I drove everybody back up to the hotel. I simply cannot believe that this happened! I have never heard of this happening to anybody I know, absolutely unbelievable! So hopefully tomorrow the ferry that was promised to us will leave on time and arrive on time in Athens because Bill will only have maximum 4 hours, and that is cutting his check-in time by an hour, to get to the airport.

Well I wasn’t ready for the group to be split up and to go home and so for this whole experience to end, well I got my wish!

Absolutely inconceivable!