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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Still in San Quintin

It's November 23. Sunday: The Bible on CD and now worship music as we celebrate the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. How anyone can doubt a Creator God when all this magnificence surrounds us?

Michael had to turn on the generator to uses his metal cutting saws for solar panel brackets. It’s noisy (nothing like the main engine, which is a Ford Lehman diesel, marine-adapted from tractor motors), but we’re thankful to be so self-sustaining. M. has declared that he’d like to stay here a week or two—and we could if we didn’t have obligations further south.

The swell, which the GPS says is 6.53 feet, feels like a gentle roll as it slips under us. The sun flickers off a rippled sea, and the breeze is slight but cool enough to make us very comfortable. Peace settles….