I found myself contemplating God in the Universe yesterday. There is so much going on in the world that I wonder sometimes if people would truly sit back and contemplate God in our lives that many problems would solve themselves. At no point in the Bible do we see God condemning women for being part of the life of a country and telling them to shroud themselves and not become educated. Sometimes it seems simple to see the wars that are happening in this frame work but are they really? The suppression of women through the ages comes and goes. But why is that? I am curious as I have now lived for approaching eighty years and can remember times when women did not have support in their endeavours simply because they were women. I can also remember times when that support was very much there. What is it that determines that; I suspect a lot of it lies with how women raise their children? Certainly God created the world to be a place where all would thrive. And the best mothers for children are those who are educated not necessarily a PhD in anything but they have done their years of schooling and can be right there beside them helping their children as they go through school so that they too achieve the best education that is possible utilizing both the system and parent support. When you are a child it doesn't really matter if you are a boy or a girl; you should have the same possibilities in your future not head towards a future where education is banned for one and you need to be shrouded in material if you are one and your ability to produce the healthiest child possible is restricted by lack of education and lack of fresh air and sun! God would not want that for half of His people.
More work on the Siderfin Companion Charting Book and I am on Page 85 but still a while to go but will do more today again. It is heavy reading for sure. But will be a valuable addition to the existing book (both will be available as a free download once completed and the licensing: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - so it is possible to use the material freely to produce another updated book whenever one feels like doing that) which is available on my website and I can move on to Blake and Pincombe which I am looking forward to for sure:
or go to
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm#SIDERFIN
and the electronic file is located at the bottom of the Siderfin section which lists my line back to John Siderfin at Loughborough around 1500 and he was my 12x great grandfather. The atDNA matches continue to collect and some are surprisingly strong given that it was my 3x great grandmother that is my connection to the Siderfin family but one of her sisters was a twin and so those matches are particularly strong for fourth cousins.
Nearly ready for Christmas and will watch the services on youtube as usual. As I come closer and closer to 80 next year I can see that my hermit tendencies will only increase. It is fun being a hermit actually and working away on my projects. I can feel, as I say in the acknowledgements to the Companion Book, my grandparents still pushing me along that road of life encouraging me in the projects that I took on. As the years passed and they went home to their ancestors it did become my parents still giving me excellent advice from afar. Marrying at 20 was very early really looking back on the 54.5 years of marriage with my husband until he passed away. Those early years though were full of lots of interesting life especially I enjoyed our long canoe trips in Northern Ontario. I will always remember one of the park rangers telling us about a drowning a couple of days earlier with a couple of people in a canoe. I asked why do you think they tipped their canoe and he said the person likely stood up in the canoe without a life jacket and couldn't swim well enough. So I said, we are not going to do that and off we went. That was an interesting lake as it sat in a rocky area with smooth walls - one would not have wanted to try to climb up those walls in some places! Wonderful portages and camping way out in the wilderness. It was fantastic.
Breakfast completed, teatime done and soon off to work.
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