Saturday January 31

I'm at sea - no really at sea. Writing a blog as the ship rolls from side to side is an interesting experience....We left Tenerife at 13.00 with banners waving and a trumpeter playing his heart out. It was quite an emotional time but also very exciting. My longest voyage before today was from Harwich to Denmark overnight. Already have been up in the bow (the front bit) with some others and watched a magnificent sunset which has it dropped below some clouds radiated beams both above and below the cloud. Who else but God could paint the sky in such a glorious way.

The sun was shining and many of us spent the afternoon in companiable times, reading, chatting and drinking tea. Gosh, it's a hard life but someone has to do it! But then it is Saturday and a day off anyway. Be that as it may I did manage to go for a short run this morning before the 8am shore leave deadline. Just to cap off a wonderful day the Starbucks cafe was opened at 7pm. Tomorrow is definitely another day and I shall be catching up with a few things - like re-stringing my guitar. Then I'll be able to make good use of the super little (or not so little) present I had from friends at church - a songbook. Thanks guys, really appreciated your generosity and I'll be using it during devos.