Sunday Blessings - Hand Me Another Brick

Neh 2:18
Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work].

Neh 2:20

Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: ...

The building work is progressing.

The men piled the bricks near the building site.

Below you can see another man breaking the bricks into small pieces to

line the foundation.

This work is done by hand, as we don 't have machines.

And he is doing it with a hammer.

Today with the church collection money we bought a dhurmut an iron

instrument to break stones and level the ground.

I will photograph it and show it to you.

This is the trench for the foundation


Tomorrow we are hiring two bricklayers or masons and six workmen
to raise the raise wall.
We have already bought the cement and sand to make the concrete.

Please pray for me. Tomorrow I have a busy morning.
House-work, Bank and a court hearing.

There is high security at the District Court (pictured on the left) due to bomb threats.They are frisking people etc.

Our city has had several bomb scares which turned out to be hoaxes.I got a text message from the Police cautioning against rumours and unidentified objects lying around.

A little while ago we heard on the news that there has been an explosion in Kolkata (Calcutta) some people have died.

A few nights ago the police caught a suspicious foreign national

(neighbouring country) with no papers or identification prowling around outside our train staion.

Only the Lord can keep us secure

The Lord is my strength

and my shield

my heart trusts in Him.

Psalm 28;7

Birthday + Eclipse

Thank you so much Prem, Terry and dear Pilgrim Pals for greetings on your blogs.I 'd like to thank all my dear Angel friends for your greetings.

This is the Day that the Lord has made "I"will rejoice and be glad in it.

Had a good day with my Mom. But it was coloured by 2 eclipses.
For several hours had no electricity.and every time I turned on the computer the lights vent out.
Good part - In the evening had a church cottage prayer meeting in a church member 's home and our Pastor prayed for me.
Then we had our partial solar eclipse.

I tried to capture it on camera

but couldn 't as I don 't have a filter.

I did this to Mama 's consternation

as she thought I 'd die or something trying to photograph a dangerous thing like an eclipse.(She had a medical concern)

But I thought it would be a good thing to die on your birthday

so that people wont have to remember 2 dates.LOL

They were showing live telecasts of the eclipse on various TV Channels.And the Hindi language channels had hosts of astrologers, visemen and pundits advising people hao to ward off the ill effects of the eclipse and how to appease the planets and gods.

They were like the wisemen of Egypt and Persia.

There vere phone -ins and forums -

Our hope and trust is in the Lord - the creator of the heavenly bodies.The movement of these created objects do not govern our lives.

Our lives are in the hands of our Creator God.

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Our project work is moving along.
Yesterday a group of unruly gang-like boys from a neighbouring area tried to disrupt the work.Our men reprimanded them and they threatened them in return.

They came back later and tried to break parts of the vall and disgustingly they defecated on the path leading to the building site to make us mad.

Clearly the devil 's instruments, trying to disrupt the building work like what happened in Nehemiah 's day.

We are recycling old bricks to keep the costs low.

These men are carrying the bricks to the work area.

Tedious job.

These lovely

lilies blooming out of season.

But they don 't last very long.

Reminds us that if God takes care of the lilies which last for a short time, how much more vwll He take care of us who are made to last

for eternity.