walter's wine bar is, well, not just a wine bar. it's basically a snazzy restaurant, with a wine bar, by the yarra river at southgate. it's a nice place and it's sentimentally special to us because it was the restaurant we went to to have a celebratory dinner on the day we found out that i was pregnant with ayesha. actually we didn't choose the place but rather it was husband's business counterpart in melbourne who picked the place to meet for dinner. in fact he sprang a surprise on us when he offered my husband a position for work right here in melbourne. honestly, if i wasn't pregnant i think we would be there today. that was 2001. we sadly turned it down quite easily as we felt we couldn't handle a pregnancy and moving to another country at the same time. God really has his wisdom in his timing. i've always wondered especially when life and work back here sucked, how it would be like if we had made the move. turns out in this trip God answered my questions. my friends who had moved here all said that it was so tough moving here and having to bring up a family (babies) without any family to help or affordable childcare. the women folk had no chance of working at all. i think that would have driven me over the balcony. also my cousin who had been here many years said that it was good that we didn't take the job cos when 9/11 hit, the i.t. industry in australia got hit bad and many lost their jobs, migrants being the first to go. and in fact that's what happened to my friend's husband.
phew, that would have been bad. so God proved his ways and thoughts higher than mine once again. finally i found myself able to close this door of "if only". no regrets.
anyway, so i decided to go have breakfast one morning at walters. i chose a seat out at their lovely balcony. look at my simple but yummy breakfast of thick cut raisin toast and an awful looking but wonderful tasting health drink called green power. it looks like grass juice but tastes like banana milk shake. no kidding.
it was a pleasant morning already.
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If one could rank the blessings that we receive from a very generous God, having no regrets has to be amongst the top 3 on the list, as it gives us freedom to trust God, seize the day, and move forward with confidence.
Wow ... I am glad I came back to re-read this post!
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