I was up for sunrise(see pic), then snuck back to bed. We slept in till 7:15 then had brekkie, packed up our tents & camper trailer and left Yanakie Caravan Park. Katrina dropped us where we finished yesterday, about 7 km south of Fish Creek and we walked, through lush grazing countryside (see pic) into Fish Creek where we met Katrina for morning tea at about 11:20am then she walked with us for a couple of km up the Great Southern Rail Trail. We saw a koals clearly snoozing in a gum tree overhead (but without throwing stones at it couldn't get it to show on the ohoto (see pic), then Grego & I walked on towards Stony Creek. We found sn enormous wombat hole (see pic), and loved wslking in the seclusion, out of the wind and traffic (see pic) with only occasional walkers/riders passing. We made it to 1 km short of Stony Creek. Katrina met us where the dirt road came near the old railway line which we were wslking on, and then that we headed off to Leongatha Caravan Park where we are now, setup for the night, about to have some sausages, and try for an early night and an early start tomorrow to see if we can make it to the northern end of the Great Southern Rail Trail tomorrow and then have a day off on Sunday.Grego & I walked and talked together on the way to Fish Creek in the morning and covered the first "half" of "Mark 5" (actually the last story-let of chaper 4 & all of chapter 5) - taking in the storylet (s) we were about to tell (by listenimg to someone read it, or reading it ourselves), then telling it to the other(s) in our own words, before we got to Fish Creek; and we finished off Mark 5 on the Great Southern Rail Trail when Katrina had gone. Then had our hour of solitude & stopped for lunch, and got going again to make it to Stony Creek in time, by about 4:15pm.Today brought us 4 stories of impossible situations where Jesus is finally brought into them at the end of people's tethers, when they've done all they can & have not been able to handle it. Firstly there was the disciples about to drown doing a job for Jesus, (the last story-let of chapter 4) and then the man imprisoned in his body by a legion of demons, & finally the stories of 2 "daughters" [- one with 12 yr suffering and disgrace, & one with 12 years of promise & priviledge cut off] Once we'd finished ch 5, we had some time thinking of those 4 situations considering whether any of them are similar situations to what we have ecperienced. Grego could think of two of them that were similar to him, I thought of the first one - a time I felt like one of the disciples doing the job Jesus sent them to do (to go to the other side of Lake) and then it looks like they're about to drown and he is asleep. Initially there was a slowness to get him involved until the very end, because they are trying to handle it themselves, but when they can't, they end blaming him for the problem they were in. His response was "Do you still have no faith?" A friend (Brad) has reminded me of how good that made him feel - Apostles of Jesus had no faith by that time! It made me think I'm often like that. I wondered "How can I be less like that?" - I want to get Jesus involved earlier rather than later! I also realised how much God the father wanted the disciples to see something of Jesus, to learn something of their place in God's world - as they watched him speak to the wind and waves "Brother Wind" and "Sisters Waves" we named them, taking our impetus from the last story-let of chapter 3 (where Jesus said those who do God's will, -who actually act on it - were his brother and sister and mother. Then yesterday we heard this story at the end of chapter 4 (a mob of stories on God's will, and God's reign, and what it's like). Then there's this little scenario at the end of ch 4, with the wind and waves immediately doing what Jesus commands them (in God's name).
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