Verse of the Day Hallelujah! You who serve GOD, praise GOD! Just to speak his name is praise! Just to remember GOD is a blessing— now and tomorrow and always. From east to west, from dawn to dusk, keep lifting all your praises to GOD! Psalm 113:3 MSG
With a recording of over 520 different species of birds throughout the iSimangaliso wetland park, this is truly a bird watchers paradise. uMkhuze game reserve offers 420 of the 526 types of bird species across the park. Wetland parks are renowned for their bird diversity, attracting hundreds of birds each day, uMkhuze is no different, with a wide variety of birds such as storks, flamingo and the only known pelican nesting grounds in South Africa. Check out Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game reserve for big five animal tourist attractions!
Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, “GOD has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me”? Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening? GOD doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon GOD get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind. Isaiah 40:31 MSG
Burdens . . . Bad? Count it all joy, my brothers—James 1:2-4 This age regards the burdens of struggle/hardship/pain as simply bad, to be avoided at all cost—the loss of a job, loss of a career, loss of financial stability, loss of an image, loss of a marriage. So we medicate, distract, deny—anything to make them go away. And, when we just can’t, we direct our frustration toward God: “Where are you?” “How could you allow this?” But . . . what if . . . these burdens are actually good things? Constructive things? What if they have a purpose? What if they’re not random things, but parts of a program to make us more mature, more focused, more rugged, more fruitful? Jesus taught that God prunes “every branch that does bear fruit,” so that “it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2). And, indeed, most men will concede that—while they’ve certainly not enjoyed the struggle/hardship/pain of the past—they do like the people they’ve become as a result. They prefer their post-burden selves to the men they were before. Maybe we’ve got this upside down. Maybe we need to think differently about struggle/hardship/pain? Maybe the words of James aren’t so crazy? “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (James 1:2-4). Okay, so what do we do? Are you going through something tough, right now? If not, enjoy this time. If you are, recognize the pain. Talk about it with trusted friends. But don’t try to escape it. Let it do its work. And, trust that it will not last forever. Trust that, after a little while, it’ll go away and you’ll emerge a better version of you.
Turtle Tours – iSimangaliso Wetland Park If you are planning a trip to Sodwana Bay during the months November through to March, be sure to find out about this exciting activity. Every year from early November mommy Leather Back and Loggerhead turtles come to lay and nest their eggs. She will will lay between 80 -100 eggs in a single nest. After that it can take up to 70 days for the babies to hatch. Meaning hatching time can start anywhere between January and March. After that the baby turtles will have to make their tedious journey back the ocean, battling ghost crabs, jackals, etc. The Wetland Park have been working to conserve and help the turtle population grow again for almost 50 years as most of us know most Turtle species are endangered, due to habitat loss and by accident been caught in fisher nets.
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