Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada day, land of my birth and the home in my heart, I will always love Canada to the depth of my soul. The daily Bible Reading again caught my thoughts first thing this morning. The reading from  Colossians 3: 1-17 but the part that most remains with me after reading:

Each one of you is part of the body of Christ, and you were chosen to live together in peace. So let the peace that comes from Christ control your thoughts. And be grateful. Let the message about Christ completely fill your lives, while you use all your wisdom to teach and instruct each other. With thankful hearts, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. Whatever you say or do should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks to God the Father because of him.

These words were written two thousand years ago in a world that was different and yet so very alike our own. The words were directed at a small group of people in actual fact but read by the millions as the years have passed. Greed and Hate still dominate in this world and must be gone for us to have peace. As the centuries have passed the Christian religion developed in some areas of the world; in other areas it was Islam and still others different ideas dominated but always with the love of the Creator in mind it does appear as we read the ancient signs left by peoples and the stories passed down in the different areas of the world. 

 To Canada, land of the free and our desire is that it always should be. The land of the First Peoples and we are grateful to them for accepting us to live in the lands of their forebearers. May we ever live together loving the country of Canada (Turtle Island to the First Peoples) and forever embrace their love of the land and take it to ourselves - to protect and nurture this land the Creator has given to us.  The land is what is important; we must care for it and cultivate it and protect it. 

Yesterday cleaning of the top floor completed and today it is the main floor and the basement. Like the birds in the air we clean the space around us to make living easier and simpler.  

 I completed the fourth siblings matching extracting and started into the fifth sibling's matches. No surprises as we continue to have as our best match outside of our family circle a young man in New Zealand. His large match is a result of endogamy in the Knight lines that we both carry as we share Ellis Knight and his wife Eleanor (Knight) Knight (my 3x great grandparents) and John Blake and his wife Ann (Farmer) Blake (my 2x great grandparents). The path is an interesting one for sure but it is his shared matches that point the way it would appear. His wife first wrote to me more than ten years ago now but the actual individual that is the father of this young man remains as likely rather than absolute. Life can be strange. With my father an only child ( these matches are on the paternal side) and my grandfather coming to Canada in 1913 with his wife and my father and none of them ever returning to England the relationship had to be sought elsewhere and endogamy rules the waves one might say. Where it occurs surprises in length follow. 

So today more cleaning and more extracting as I work my way towards the project of re-phasing my grandparents using this new data from Living DNA along with the file of Known matches with 2nd, 3rd and fourth cousins although principally 2nd and 3rd cousins. I do know there are a couple of inconsistencies that I keep track of to perhaps solve with this new set of data. Time will tell.

 I look forward to shovels in the ground to build pipelines and ports to deliver the oil to the world, our industries bought up/closed by free trade once again developing and flourishing. We are a different country from the 1960s when the Auto Pact was first signed and then in the 1980s when Free Trade began; we are nearly twice as large and we are like a new country on this day of our birth as the Dominion of Canada now stretching from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean surrounded on all three sides by the oceans of the world. God Bless Canada. Forever free.