Why Elephants Eye

Looking back at my first blog, when we lived in Porterville. The mountain which overlooks the town is called Olifantskop (elephant head).  If you are there in winter, walking across the farmland just beyond town around midday ... look up to the range of foothills hiding the Groot Winterhoek mountains.

Why Elephant's Eye? where the header was taken on the 18th July 2010.

I lift my eyes to the quiet hills

Psalm 121

I lift my eyes to the quiet hills,

In the press of a busy day;

As green hills stand in a dusty land,

So god is my strength and stay.

Olifantskop in July 2009

I lift my eyes to the quiet hills,

To a calm that is mine to share;

Secure and still in the Father’s will,

And kept by the Father’s care.

Olifantskop in July 2009

I lift my eyes to the quiet hills,

With a prayer as I turn to sleep;

By day, by night, through dark and light,

My Shepherd will guard his sheep.

Olifantskop in July 2010

I lift my eyes to the quiet hills,

And my heart to the Father’s throne;

In all my ways, to the end of days,

The Lord will preserve his own.

Timothy Dudley-Smith

(Copyright 1968)

Walking with my sister through the farmlands beyond the town, and again with the Ungardener, I remembered why we chose to come and live in Porterville.