Today was a miracel. All went wrong with the new bakkeryshop, we lost the phonenumber off the owner, his neighbours did not know his adres our phonenr ,and this whent on for days.
We where whaiting fot them to call and vice versa. So in the confussion they gave up and made a rendezvous with new peopel. They had a appointment this noon and where whaiting in the shop. At the same time we where driving to salamanca to place a paper with or phone nr on the window so they could call us. And to everybodys suprise we all meet togheter before the appointment of the other man. It whas so funny to hear each others story. And in the end we got the contract. Oephhhhh!!!!!!!! It isnt coming over just telling it, you havent seen the struggel, the praying, hearing God it whas done and the natural saying the opposite. It whas a matter off 5 minutes and we would have lost the contract. we where full off conffusion and all ready giving up, in the car we where praying , worshiping God as allways. And the closer we got to salamanca the better we felt, littel did we know Gods suprise. HE IS GOOD to ALL. He allways care. He allways provide and if not he has better in store. Be blessed.
yves and regina
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
salamanca day out
Yesterday, we went out for the day with José, his daughter and Pepe. We had a really good time together. Pepe asked me about Regina’s health and I told him our story of her healing at the conference in Toronto three years ago. I thought I would tell it just the way it was. He was very enthusiastic, and José was too. They began telling their own stories of how they experienced God in their lives. We had a good laugh together! Again, we see the confrontation of the institutionalized church with all its different streams and the religiosity that puts people off. We heard it again from them. My Spanish and Portuguese is still not good enough for me to tell you everything they said, but I experienced an openness and freedom that was in itself a real joy. Pepe was a journalist and knows a lot. He takes us to hotels, parks, restaurants and always has a story to tell. It’s very entertaining.
Salamanca is also worth visiting. There is much more than first meets the eye. The farms and estates are very large, hundreds of hectares. Many in Spain and Portugal are neglected and forlorn. It is Regina’s dream to have a big farm, with animals and then take in several children so can live together as one big family. It would be a good place to keep the horses.
José was telling me that he knows someone who trained horses for the bullfights and he’s looking for work. He also wanted to know if I could train 5 horses in any discipline: show, dressage or long distance. I can see that happening in the future. His family has hundreds of hectares of land with cows and the horses would be just fine there. It could be fun!
Oma has decided to foster another child so that Jeffrey will have a companion who speaks Flemish. Learning Portuguese is proving to be difficult for him. He feels left out in school.
That’s all for this now. Enjoy the peace that God brings when you let life come to you and enjoy every day. God makes it a great adventure that we could never create ourselves!
Lots of love,Yves & Regina
Salamanca is also worth visiting. There is much more than first meets the eye. The farms and estates are very large, hundreds of hectares. Many in Spain and Portugal are neglected and forlorn. It is Regina’s dream to have a big farm, with animals and then take in several children so can live together as one big family. It would be a good place to keep the horses.
José was telling me that he knows someone who trained horses for the bullfights and he’s looking for work. He also wanted to know if I could train 5 horses in any discipline: show, dressage or long distance. I can see that happening in the future. His family has hundreds of hectares of land with cows and the horses would be just fine there. It could be fun!
Oma has decided to foster another child so that Jeffrey will have a companion who speaks Flemish. Learning Portuguese is proving to be difficult for him. He feels left out in school.
That’s all for this now. Enjoy the peace that God brings when you let life come to you and enjoy every day. God makes it a great adventure that we could never create ourselves!
Lots of love,Yves & Regina
Saturday, May 16, 2009
update
We’re back in Portugal and need to get back into the ‘flow’ of things.
We were tired and it took three days for us to start to have the feeling that we have processed everything.
The conference was good but difficult this year, confrontation with yourself is not always pleasant, but let’s be real with ourselves and not pretend that we can handle everything.
Tomorrow we go to Salamanca and continue negotiations concerning the bakery. Our friends fear that we have been away just a little too long and the business will already be sold. However there are so many empty places in the vicinity that we will just continue to look for another. José is taking us to see a large new shopping center in Salamanca to see if there isn’t anything there.
Everything we undertake will be blessed!! My greatest desire is yet to have a good ‘frietkot’. We can make that happen.
Meanwhile, the cherries are ripe here in Portugal and we can’t eat them fast enough… mmmm, so good!
That’s it for now,
Greetings,
Yves & Regina
We were tired and it took three days for us to start to have the feeling that we have processed everything.
The conference was good but difficult this year, confrontation with yourself is not always pleasant, but let’s be real with ourselves and not pretend that we can handle everything.
Tomorrow we go to Salamanca and continue negotiations concerning the bakery. Our friends fear that we have been away just a little too long and the business will already be sold. However there are so many empty places in the vicinity that we will just continue to look for another. José is taking us to see a large new shopping center in Salamanca to see if there isn’t anything there.
Everything we undertake will be blessed!! My greatest desire is yet to have a good ‘frietkot’. We can make that happen.
Meanwhile, the cherries are ripe here in Portugal and we can’t eat them fast enough… mmmm, so good!
That’s it for now,
Greetings,
Yves & Regina
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
