Sunday and I signed up for an email to come and let me know where the Anglican Church is today and it is at St John the Evangelist Woodley in Oxford Diocese. I will join the service presently. This is the Third Sunday of Epiphany and we are approaching Ash Wednesday and Lent. But the joy of Christmas is still with us as we welcomed the Christ Child into our midst once again as an infant; He is always with us in our everyday life.
Continued reading the Pencombe book yesterday that I have already written and a few changes here and there. It will be less difficult than the Blake book as it is a much smaller surname in terms of name holders.
We also got snow; wonderful fluffy snow which means the temperature has gone up finally and we will likely receive another 10 to 15 cm apparently which is good news. We do need that snow cover to grow to a metre high to protect the land beneath it especially from the cold. But also we need the huge amount of melting water in the spring to wet the ground and slow down the forest fires for sure. Fires burn naturally in the forest and until the days of the green revolution we did let them burn if they were not threatening homes. The burning is good for the forests because some seeds only germinate in high heat and it clears away the brush which is useless for the most part as it doesn't even make good pulp. Pulp is something we produce in great quantities because we have lots of wood that is not fit to use for building but certainly fit to make pulp. But we have become once again a country that produces a lot of raw materials but because so many of our businesses have been bought out by American companies especially our manufacturing just isn't there anymore. The unfortunate part was they just wanted to close them down to sell their own products but they did discover that Canadians want it produced here and so there are a lot of American branch factories/businesses in Canada so that they do not lose 41 million customers. We are kind to those American businesses and one does hope (but it is unlikely) that that counted as well in our trade between countries. It is the oil that creates the deficit because we send a lot of it south but with our pipeline to the ocean now we can sell the surplus not shipped to our American neighbours anywhere and the First Nations are starting to talk about the Northern Pipeline that has been stalled. Two pipelines to the Ocean would be wonderful and we would sell so much oil as ours is high in bitumen which isn't found everywhere. Plus we would get full price as we give our wonderful friends and neighbours in the United States a discount on that oil.
Anyway a rest day as God commanded and we all should take a breather and think of God on this day. Again I am not very knowledgeable on the other religions of the world although I do know that Judaism, Islam and Christianity all worship the same God although on different days. This is the Christian day of Worship of our God. God bless the world.
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