The most beautiful place
I have mentioned before that I am leading a Starting Point group at my church. Each week we have a small assignment to do. This week we had to:
” Think about one of the most beautiful places you have ever seen… bring in a picture and be ready to explain… why it is beautiful to you.”
Now I live in Cape Town South Africa, which has got to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. Nowhere else in the world can you find a city with a skyline as impressive as that of Cape Town.
Just run a Google image search for Cape Town and get more just like that.
But to bring that to the group tomorrow would be boring as we all live in Cape Town. So…In September of 2005 I was lucky enough to go on a cruise in the Greek Islands. My sister was the ship’s doctor and she really generously paid for the whole trip.
On the cruise we visited the island of Santorini. A quick Google search will show that practically any pictures you have ever seen of the ‘typical’ blue and white Greek houses came from Santorini.
But the awesome thing for me was sailing into the ‘cauldron’. Santorini used to be a volcanic island. But a few millennia BC it blew up. and practically half the island was distributed over the eastern Mediterranean in the form of ash and rock. Apparently it blotted out the sun as far as Egypt (Can I hear someone say “the 10 plagues from the bible”, but let’s not go into that here).
A full 180% compilation just as we entered the bay.
Unfortunately the picture can’t really do justice to the feeling when you actually are there.
Sailing in there was amazing, shear cliffs all the way around. And what from a distance appeared to be snow around the edges of the crater turned out the be ‘typical’ blue and white Greek houses.
Breath taking.
Some more photos from Santorini:
Those are houses on the edge of the cliff
God really did create a beautiful earth.
Where in the world makes you draw your breath?
