I love Pentecost and will always remember my Confirmation in the Anglican Church when I was 11 years of age. I was really rather young; most of the others were one or two years older than I was but there I was being confirmed. I was being confirmed by my school year - I was in Grade 7. I was always too young for everything it appeared so now I am very happy to be old like everyone else my age! But Pentecost was about a gift; a gift of the Holy Spirit. God has given us many things - the world we live in, His son Jesus Christ and now the Holy Spirit. We are reminded every year that this gift is given to us at our Confirmation as we take on the responsibilities of adulthood. Except at 11 I wasn't an adult far from it but it was a wondrous happening when the Bishop placed his hands on my head and the newness of life filled me at that moment. The Service of Confirmation is quite beautiful when one takes on the commitments of our godparents and becomes one's own person. No idea why I felt this so deeply at the time but it led to a life direction I never lost; following the word of God and His commandments. Thank you God for another beautiful Pentecost.
Working through the matches and discovered I can move between siblings with the Living DNA system of search but will do not do it excessively at the moment as I am liking working my way through the list of matches (genetic distance) and observing the frequency of particular grandparent results in each sibling. I would miss that if I try to do anything too different. My brother least like me continues to be primarily Pincombe in these matches outnumbering the others 2 to 1 for the most part. Interesting really how one receives the DNA from one's parents. I must work out his percentage of Pincombe in his 23 chromosomes. Interesting though that he received intact the Buller 23rd chromosome from our mother just as she received it from her mother who blended Cheatle with the likely Taylor/Roberts chromosome. This Buller chromosome is very interesting as a singleton and includes the Cheatle from my grandmother's grandmother as well as the Brockhouse/Lea family. This solid line of ancestry back into Leicestershire is most interesting actually. I will continue with searching out the matches today. I have acquired 72 new matches thus far that will have to be placed into my database from my Living DNA extractions. I have assigned all of the matches to one of six categories (sometimes a match does have two categories as I can not separate them out at this moment in time).
The smoke continues into today. Tea drank and solitaire games played. Breakfast next but first yoga.
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