Day two cleaning

Another busy cleaning day and  the air quality is 59 which has come down nicely but still better to be inside for a lot of the day. The big overstuffed chair is in the garage and going out to the garbage this week. We took it apart as the back comes off making it possible for us to manage it which is great. I think the chair was purchased in 1977 along with a new couch. We hosted the Bible Study at Edward's Church and he wanted to have a nice set of furniture for that. Since he was paying for it I was fine with that after all he had this image of himself being like his father (he was treasurer and I have forgotten the term for people who help to manage things (in the Anglican Church they are wardens)) and being involved in his Church and bringing his children to church (and his wife and I was quite willing although I am Anglican not United Church). My maternal grandmother, uncle and aunt were United Church and I used to go to Church with them when I stayed to look after my grandmother (since I was about ten years of age) when they went away for a few days (my mother was raised United Church but became Anglican in her teen years). We would go and take care of the store but his clerks did manage a lot of that and then they generally came back Saturday late afternoon and I had Sunday with all of them before I went back home again. It was lovely actually. It was a small Bible Study group initially but eventually every chair that we possessed was in use and I mostly was sitting on the stairs. Edward loved it for sure. He only left his Church here in Orleans because he felt somewhat lost after his brother died in 1996 and his mother was very unwell (his father had died when he was just two years of age). We went to Dominion Chalmers at that time for a few years all because of a Bulletin Notice in the United Church we attended mentioned that the minister there (an excellent well known academic religious scholar who taught at St Paul University actually) was starting a series that he knew I would just love to be present at and the first service the minister sought him out and they chatted and Edward just found that that was what he needed desperately at that time. He found my religious interpretation of most things to be far too catholic and deep as he said. But he was raised United Church with all of those very protestant views and discovering his ancestry (descended from Roger Williams (founder of the Baptist Church of America)) and many many other dissenters which I have listed many times in my blogs) I was really not surprised at his thoughts towards catholicism. I did teach my children their catechism and the fundamentals of my Anglican religion but they did attend Sunday School in the United Church. But by the late 1990s our children were involved in their own happy busy lives and did not often go to Church with us so moving on to Dominion Chalmers which was supposed to be just for the period of the lectures but ended up being several years until that minister retired. We then moved to my Anglican Church as he loved their Choir music when we attended a Concert one day there and we went quite steadily to Church until Edward took ill in 2011 and then we became infrequent going just once a month so that I could put my collection in and when I discovered PAR that was it; we hardly attended after that. I would just read and celebrate the Morning Prayer going maybe a few times a year. Funny in retrospect as I would not miss attending the services online week after week now but it was a different time and I followed my vows made at our marriage very strictly being supportive first and foremost of my husband. My going to my Church was not something he wanted to do as regularly as we had and we spent his retirement years after the pacemaker was inserted pretty much just doing the things he wanted to do. I was still somewhat in this idea of mine that I would not live a long time but the years keep passing and here I am nearly 80 years of age. I never expected it; I had been extremely ill after the birth of our first child (lost a great deal of blood at that time) and Edward was working (Postdoc in Chemical Engineering) and taking his Masters in Library Science at the time so not home a lot and my recovery was definitely slow mostly because I had to do everything the way I wanted - washing the diapers and hanging all the clothes out to dry on the line outside, taking care of the baby all by myself and working in our big garden with Edward. Life did crash but here I am following the wise words of the doctors who took care of me at the time of my breakdown - the words most used were "rest and eat." Probably the two greatest care words in the English language!

I digress, I have been thinking and praying for the children of Gaza as I have these past couple of years but also I pray for the children of Israel (they have been victims of the Palestinians since I was a child). Whatever do they have to look forward to either of them. Hamas wants the total annihilation of the Jewish people (it is their manifesto) and they have come up  with this method of making it happen they think. They just keep sacrificing people - first it is the Palestinians and then they will move to Lebanon and do the same to the Lebanese people if they let them. Probably the Yemen people will be after that. Iran is dedicated to the elimination of the Jewish people all over the world. They could prove otherwise than their stated goal by simply getting out of Gaza and letting those people relearn how to properly live without hate - the other Arab nations could help them by setting up proper schools. But will it happen in time to save the people of Gaza.  They are truly disgusting Satanic people and they show it every day. 

So cleaning the main floor and the basement today and I am behind today; did not eat my breakfast until 9:00 even though I was up at 6:00. But now time to get to work. This new computer is very nice but I have a lot to set up to make it work for me but lots of time to do that. I needed a break from all of that thinking. 

God bless the world and all the people in it (may the Satanists be gone from our world all they do is cause death and destruction). I do not think Satanic individuals really rate as people any more. Their hate consumes them and they are incapable of being human.