A busy day

The day started with a lovely breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs, fresh french bread and butter, freshly squeezed orange juice and darjeeling tea. We then left for church in a tuctuc, 3 suitcases, 3 backpacks and 3 adults made for a bit of a squash but we made it safely.

Steve preached at the service and I shared a bible text. Rom 5:1 and my point was that when we are God’s children we are adopted into his family. When things are going well we feel secure as His child however when something doesn’t go well or we do something daft, we do not cease to be His child. In the same way that we would not cease to be the child of our earthly father just because we misbehaved. We have the same right as any child to come their father, say sorry, receive forgiveness and start again.

After church we set off across the city to an island in the middle of the Mekong river and a lovely restaurant. We ate a tasty lunch with a fantastic view of the river and another island on one side and the city of Phnom Penh on the skyline opposite. We then drover a further 2 hours north east and are now in province north east of Phnom Penh not far from the Vietnamese border. 

The Capital from the roof-top restrauant.

 

We are staying at a guest house near where we will be doing the Agenda 1 taster days. Before heading to the restaurant I watched the blood-red sun slip down behind miles of rice paddies. We had another great meal in a street café, I really do love Khmer food, it seems to have the right balance of spice and mild flavours. Now to sleep in the guest house, I have a clean room with a fan above the 2 double beds to keep me cool. I can hear grasshoppers and other insects outside my window and I am watching a lizard of some sort eating flies and mosquitoes off the bedroom wall.