The Lord is my Shepherd

Some words of encouragement for the tough times...

Psalm 23:
The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need.
He lets me rest in green meadows;
He leads me beside peaceful streams.
He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honour to His name.
Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid,
for You are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.
You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies.
you honour me by anointing my head with oil.
My cup overflows with blessings.
Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me
all the days of my life,
and I will live in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalm 3 says:

Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! 

Many are they who rise up against me.

Many are they who say of me, 

"There is no help for him in God." Selah

But You, oh Lord, are a shield for me,

My glory and the One who lifts up my head.

I cried to the Lord with my voice

And He heard me from His holy hill.

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What I'm realising is that God is SO ultimately sovereign and victorious, that He calls us to love our enemies. He loves them, He seeks to show them mercy and kindness.. And He wants us to be like Him, at the ultimate cost. Oh what a glorious opportunity it is to be called to share in His sufferings...

Glory to God on high, the Lord of hosts, King of all kings and Lord of all lords..

relaxed, ready for the next half of the year!

Just returned from an incredible weekend away at Magalies - went to mountain sanctuary park. I hope to definitely be returning there soon! (Next time with grounding for my sleeping bag). Seeing the stars display their array of beauty at night made me stand in awe of our Creator as well as feel quite small and insignificant at the same time.

I've also forgiven the baboon that took the meat we cooked Sat night (it was going to be our lunch on Sunday).. That took a lot, as I wanted to hunt him down with a paintball gun (I could have - I had mine with!) But then I thought he might have more friends and I don't have that many paint balls..

Swimming in the river was icy and awesome - it was a bittersweet experience, and wow, the trails were great.. I'm glad we didn't bump into one of the many snakes that inhabit the region, I think they all hibernating actually.

So yeah, I'm ready for the rest of the year - a bit late, but I'm amped now to get back into the trenches.

Today's gonna be good..

I have my reasons:

1. I got this blogger interface to work again. It was having trouble under the old editor.
2. I have FINALLY gotten MWeb to do what we asked them to do. 

• I first informed them of our intention to transfer on the 7th of June. 
• I requested a cancellation of my client's account on the 23rd of June.
• After some back and forth, we got the document we needed to cancel, and my client sent it through on the 27th June.
• No word from MWeb.
• I followed up.
• We get a request from MWeb on the 5th of July, asking what we want to do with this domain.
• I, as the technical contact on this account, reply, and ask them to urgently open the domain for transfer.
• This gets ignored.
• We follow up.
• It gets ignored.
• I post my frustration on Twitter, and a friendly MWeb person assures me they will look into this. 6 July this is.
• He escalates the issue.
• Nothing happens.
• 8 July I follow up, he escalates it again.
• Nothing happens.
• 9 July, I call Mweb Customer support. The lady on the phone assures me that this will get sorted this day, she will SMS me when this is done.
• Nothing happens.
• Today, I call MWeb again, speak to a friendly guy called JP who puts up with my rant. Once I feel better I give the account details and he looks into it. Finds out that it is still not up for transfer. He does what he can and actually sorts it out, for which I'm grateful. I then explain that MWeb owe my client an apology for taking so long. He comes back with something about a mail being sent to my client about what to do with the domain. I said I answered that. He said, she needed to.
• So, transfer has been sent through, and I'm waiting to see if it goes through, I expect it will.

I have some advice for anyone dealing with MWeb:

• If you want anything done, plan for it - they take 24 hours to get back to you with an automated reply.
• If you want to cancel an account, plan to do it - I recommend 2 months in advance, start telling them and trying to cancel.
• Add the MWeb Twitter guy - while not much happened, he did give me hope, and hope is powerful when dealing with Mweb.
• Oh, and instead of getting a technical person to help you, learn the stuff your self. Or send ALL correspondence from the account holder's account, as the account holder; else it's pretty much not valid.

I think that's all... today's going to be a good day! Back to coding Ruby, my favourite language :)

Something by Tozer..

I just read this.. I love the way Tozer puts it. "And all that He is and all that He's done is for us and all who share the common salvation. With full consciousness of our own demerit we may yet take our place in the love of God, and the poorest and weakest of us may without offense claim for ourselves all the riches of the Godhead in mercy given. I have every right to claim all for myself, knowing that an infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children." By AW Tozer, the pursuit of man.

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