I think I know how you feel. I am a lifelong yachtsman and ended up in Cape Town for 10 years with many adventures and marvellous self-sufficent yachties as company - all of us with little money, just our homes on the sea. One adventurer told me a story after he returned from a 3-year, single- handed voyage around the world.
He met a yachtsman on a mooring in a Pacific island. He had done a 360 in a storm, lost his mast, but managed to get to this island. He was exhausted and went below to rest. In the morning he found a bag with $10,000 cash in it. He carefully stowed it below and went about his work.
In the afternoon, a stranger asked to come aboard and enquired whether he had found the bag. Our sailor returned below, retrieved the bag offering it to the stranger. No, No, he said - it's for you to mend you boat. The sailor replied that he would never be able to repay it.
You don't have to my friend the stranger said, just pass it on. That, my good commentator, is the way of the sea. Good well, your faith will carry you through as I have discovered; we all find our Creator when the chips are really down and He will provide for you too.
I think I know how you feel. I am a lifelong yachtsman and ended up in Cape Town for 10 years with many adventures and marvellous self-sufficent yachties as company - all of us with little money, just our homes on the sea. One adventurer told me a story after he returned from a 3-year, single- handed voyage around the world.
He met a yachtsman on a mooring in a Pacific island. He had done a 360 in a storm, lost his mast, but managed to get to this island. He was exhausted and went below to rest. In the morning he found a bag with $10,000 cash in it. He carefully stowed it below and went about his work.
In the afternoon, a stranger asked to come aboard and enquired whether he had found the bag. Our sailor returned below, retrieved the bag offering it to the stranger. No, No, he said - it's for you to mend you boat. The sailor replied that he would never be able to repay it.
You don't have to my friend the stranger said, just pass it on. That, my good commentator, is the way of the sea. Good well, your faith will carry you through as I have discovered; we all find our Creator when the chips are really down and He will provide for you too.
Thank you Libor - God Bless:
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