1 September 2018

I would love to attend this.

The people from this church are just absolutele walking and living testimonies of Christ.

It is such a privilege to have a handful of them part of our Herbalife team and they have affected my life so positively this past 2 years!!! Their examples of living Christians has intrigued me and changed me for the better.

Tremendous Respect for our amazing leader, Louise (and she is also the founder of Christian Business Women Connect, in obedience to God.) That is a quarterly meeting I don’t ever want to miss.

So devinely set up for me. I would have never survived this past year, without God as my Rock and Foundation. Also awesome Christian people from two different churches in Jbay part of our Herbalife team.

So many incredible strong of faith people who prayed for me and my family.

We are humbled by God’s Greatness!

4 September 2022

That church service….

Well, it was unforgettable!

It was 4:00 pm on a very stormy Sunday.

How do I put this in context, 1 year after my husband passed away, family relationships we’re stormy and after a traditional Sunday lunch at my mother-in-law, (a rare event that we very much miss now) I insisted to take my children in serious rain pouring down, to a foreign church at 4pm, which is normally Sunday nap time.

You got to understand where I lived then. It is possible to rain in and not get back home. After been widowed, I had a fear of driving in the rain.

My children weren’t happy at all with me. As we drove uphill I saw water running down in streams down to the river and I thought to myself, are we going to be able to come back home?

BUT GOD!!!!

I had this incredible pull in my stomach!!!!

I have no other way of describing it, but something was pulling me to this church service. A feeling in my stomach so strong, that I couldn’t disobey it.

Okay, so there we walked in, very sketchy part of town for a Sunday afternoon, with what seems to my children like very sketcy people and low and behold, one of the Cape Cross veterinarians part of the worship team.

It hurt to see him there, because he’s been in our humble diary farm manager home, for Bolla’s famous milktart hospitality, and my husband talked so highly with utmost respect of him. My children look at me blame full.

Not to mention foreign church having they’re service in the Anglican Church building, with a Jewish guest speaker part of a group that included clearly visible German people. Our little family of 3 with the girl who help me as Au Pair then, us all 4 looking very German too……

It was a surreal and unreal Holy Moment in Time. Hard to describe the feeling of grace, love and forgiveness that can overcome all past wars and differences.

Yes, the incredible story of my life!!!!

At that point, for one year, I have stood strong, put a smile on my face and didn’t cry. I had to, 2 weeks after my husband’s death, something happened that took the luxery of organically grieving away.

The pastor gave opportunity for witnesses, which was also something very foreign to us and everything felt like it was meant for me to hear.

Then a very special lady stood up, the lady thanks to who I got connected to Christian Business Women Connect and then to know about this church, through Facebook shares. Where I also had the privilege of meeting the Cape Cross veterinarian’s wife at that very special first Christian Business Women Connect meeting after my husband passed away, at Grill & Co, Humansdorp, which was very special place for me, my husband and our children. It was just surreal how devinely God set things up, part as the story of my life.

My special friend, who I am so much in debted for being a great support in my life then, suffered a serious of deaths in her family and stood up, looking at me and said to the church (very small church with very little people in, no where to hide in the crowd), she said how the way I stand strong after my husband’s death inspired her.

As she mentioned my husband’s name, at that very moment, thunder and lightning felt like it hit right upon that church building.

I bursted out in tears and started crying for the first time in a long time, since I had to start being strong. (Many witnesses to that timely thunder and lightning, I literally shook from fright and somebody mentioned it is a way how God speaks. I was thinking is God angry at me or what is the message?)

I was sitting there, hearing the thunder rumbling in the background, worried to get back home safe with my children, yet fascinated about what I am experiencing and just knew, I was supposed to be there.

We made it back home safely. Then my journey started with New Horizen Vinyard.

Here is the guest speaker’s testimony:

3 September 2018

I don’t know where to start!

I am still exhausted, mostly emotional and very teary today.

For this whole past year I couldn’t mourn my husband, as I was forced to stand strong. Still can’t let my guard down, but I hope that I have proven my own strength by now.

Short after my husband’s death, I had a dream where he said go full out Herbalife and something of what realized this past weekend, was very scary, very similar to that dream.

So, my son got hospitalized and then we had another situation and a week before this festival, we started to frantically get everything organized, whilst dealing with lots of other things.

Inbetween this all, a special lady email me something given to them a year ago, a prophetic word especially for me.

First of all, WOW!!! I could have never keep that for a year, but how spot on!

Link to whole article

I wanted to give up many times, my thoughts was, if I can’t do it perfect, than don’t do it at all.

Several times I find myself feeling exhausted and wanting to give up and quit.

Would we have missed out BIG time!

So much has happened. I don’t know where to start, how to acknowledge and recognize all!!

Our Nina- Angel!!!

If Eidie didn’t add me to Tipsy Terte,

if Marelize didn’t join Herbalife through Tracy,

If Nina didn’t attend Marelize’s party,

If Meagan didn’t show up at Nina’s party,

If Kerry didn’t work with Githe and both got Herbalife from me,

If Bolla weren’t such a big Seven’s and rugby fan,

If Bolla didn’t get me started and going with Herbalife,

If Ilse didn’t go with me to PE Herbalife BBS,

If Tracy and Daleen didn’t join our team,

I am not sure IF all this would have happened exactly like this?

I don’t know….?My husband did not believe in if’s.

“As is verbrande hout het hy altyd gesê.”

But this I know for sure. Lives are being changed.

For the better!! Mine too.

It isn’t easy. But it is just so MAGNIFICENT how God has been setting this up from before my birth!!! Before all of our births!

I am a little bit confused why some people’s journey on earth are more difficult than others, but we are in this, which feel like a continuous TransBaviaans for the rest of our lives till where we cross the final winning line.

Each in ther unique rolls.

We need to learn to function together as a unit.

Anyway, I will do propper recognition soon.

For now, I am going to have a good cry! It took a loud lightning and thunder in church to break something in me to finally start mourning my husband and walked out of free will, to his grave right in front of our house....

It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t perfect as planned, but we did it and most of all, it was a special Tribute to my late husband, to end year 1 and start year 2.

4 September 2022

Looking back, I don’t know if that event was just a huge sentimental, emotional decision and big waste of money, as I couldn’t follow up on that opportunity.

There is a lot happening now, this year, where things are happening out of my control to scratch open wounds, as I am faced with my past.

It is very painful!

I am constantly praying that I don’t get in the way of God.

I am not perfect, but I am trying to be obedient to God to the best of my ability, in my very challenging circumstances currently.

Praying that by sharing the story of my life, you, who are reading here, will be positively affected for God’s Kingdom in Heaven and on Earth now.

I am nothing and nobody special. I feel like the reject.

BUT, I cling on with everything I have, with childlike faith in God.

I don’t need to be strong or perfect, God has got me thight in His hand.

Jesus’s blood is covering me.

And so He can for you too!

Just pray and believe it. Our sins is forgiven by Jesus’s blood on the cross.

Love,

Daisy

PS:

As always, excuse the mistakes. I have OCD, but I am not a perfectionist..

Still a work in progress. (Always & Forever)

Please contact me with any advice on how to improve. :) )

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DISCLAIMER:

These are my thoughts based on the story and testimonies of my life story, to whom I give God all the glory for. I respect people of all walks of life and all religions. However, I choose to believe and stay grounded in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Thunder and lightning at church.