My plan today is to organize the Somerby Chapter so that I include what really needs to be there but try to minimize the size. I have a huge amount of material that could go into this chapter but the mistake he make for whatever reason is relatively small but quickly picked up by genealogists who wrote about it in various American genealogical journals.
The Third Sunday of Easter and we continue thinking about the Risen Christ and the promise of God but fundamentally we also need to be thinking about the Two New Commandments that God sent to us and were told to us by His Son Jesus Christ. To love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to love our neighbour as ourself. Of all the words in the Bible I always think these are the most meaningful and the most powerful for humankind to follow. Following these commandments would bring us to that uplifted plain of peace and the prosperity for all that can come with it. Prosperity is only possible though if people lose their greed; greed is the worst along with envy and jealousy and they keep the world from becoming the perfect place that it could be. I am 80 now and the world ahead of me is much shorter than the world that I have lived through. I was born into a world that had been ripped apart by yet another World War. The names of the youth of Canada lost in those wars written on the walls all over this country (the ages of those young people barely into their twenties and even younger and older). They were lost forever but never forgotten. The torch they passed to us was their last gift that we would find a way to bring peace to our world so that all will prosper but the worst fault continues to be greed. To have the opinion that you are better and that you deserve more because you are better needs to pass from this world as we are all born alike into this world and we all depart from this world in that same state. How we live those lives is very very important and one needs to remember the Great Sins of the world that Satan created and we continue to display which creates huge poverty for many and wealth for a few. God be with us as we learn to live the Two Commandments that He sent to us with His Son Jesus Christ.
I keep remembering the deer that were outside in the yard whilst I was watching the dogs, the cats and the fish. The older dog jumped down from an ice hill when she slipped and started to limp a few days before the end of my retreat. She is still recovering although I have not seen her again since I was looking after her a month ago now. The two dogs are perfectly bonded and cousins actually. They are so perfect and I was so sad that she slipped on that ice hill but she saved herself from what would have been a worse fall. Just a quick turn and a jump and she was on her feet. She was more careful after that staying away from the ice hills once she recovered enough. But even with her sore leg she would run and run. Dogs are amazing. But the deer were fascinating. At first nervous because I was new and they knew it but gradually they would stay for a longer and longer time. The dogs and I watched them out the window. They were so beautiful. What a gift to be able to see them.
Must get the clothes washing done and then it will be time for Church. Another beautiful Sunday in God's World. The flood watches are up for the Ottawa River but hopefully all will pass and all that moisture was so needed in the ground but it is now saturated and soon ready to plant as the season of growth begins once again.
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