One thing that I have come to realise this past week is that we are just a small ship in God's big ocean. Time and again we have found ourselves in situations where we just have no control over our circumstances or the decisions that other people are making.
Here in Barbados, the Cruise Ships are king and they rule the waves and the port. After them come the container ships, the grain ships and other cargo ships. Then somewhere, a long way down the list, comes Logos Hope.
We may be God's navy but here in Barbados this week, it has been hard to understand why some things have been happening the way they have.
So we spent 8 days at anchor and then the past 2 days moving around different berths, trying to juggle loading water, fuel, book containers, technical container, off load sewage etc.
We still can't get into the berth where the public will be able to come onboard the ship. We have even tried to take books off the ship to sell onshore, but have not been able to do that either.
We are all having to learn lessons about trusting God and what we can and can't do in our own strength.
One good piece of news was that yesterday we were able to come into a berth and get off the ship. This meant many of us were able to take a day off and go to the beach.
We went with our friends, the Muller family, to a bay where we hoped to be able to see turtles.
I was told to look for the tourist boats, who feed the turtles. Sure enough 3 of the came into the bay and there were around 100 people in the water looking for turtles.
We swam out to the boats and soon actually got to see and swim with 3 turtles. It was an amazing experience, despite all the other people around. Sadly Heather and Kara weren't there but for Liam and I it was a great experience.
So now we hope and pray that tomorrow we can load our books, vans and everything else and at some point in the next couple of days be able to go back to the flour mill berth and open to the public. On Monday we sail for St Lucia for a week.
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