A very hospitable acquaintance (a friend of my daughter, with a very similar philosophy of life etc), offered to pick us up from the airport at Launceston and take us to Poatina, where we were booked in for the night - and he did it! Thanks Craig Townsend!
The next morning we slept in a bit and then joined others from the Poatina town-ship in a time of prayer and focus on the top of the hill overlooking the town. There we met with Ian & Jill I'anson,
they read & led us in resonding to this passage from the Christian scriptures:
“Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:14-16 MSG) a beatiful time of reflection.
we had to move some glass art from one of the logs.
The building at the back contains a kiln for glass blowing & is an Art Space, that is about to harbour a week-long conference next week called "Faith and the Arts". Someone may have had s drink ftom this bottle, but they left it feeling a bit flat.
Then after breaky, we had to buy a few things from the shop
, pay for accommodation, and then Rowan offered for us to join the community morning tea at 10. When we finally got going Rohan dropped us at the top near Mount Blackwood at 12.
Here we are, above, with the tail end of Rohan's Laser. He dropped us up to the spot where Anne had picked us up from last January. (and then took the photo for us) Thanks Rohan.
Some shots from our walk today..
second last photo: Grego coming down the trail;
last photo the top of a pretty big cave...
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