Earthquakes in Venezuela

 Prayers for the souls of the people who lost their lives in the earthquakes in Venezuela. Prayers for those injured and those still trapped in the wreckage. God be with them. 

I continued reading Exodus and completed to the end of Chapter 20. Chapter 20 contains the Ten Commandments. God gave to the Israelites many many laws that they must follow all the days of their lives and to teach them to their children and so that has been done by the peoples that He rescued from slavery under the Egyptians. It is an interesting thought that the Israelites had begun their lives in Egypt as free people who came because of Joseph, son of Jacob, who had been sold into slavery by his older brothers and then managed to become a great man in Egypt and save that country from starvation. Indeed Egypt prospered greatly because of Joseph and his plan to save grains for the period of seven years when no crops would grow that followed seven years of plenty as he managed the storage of the grains to sell to the world. But a wonderful relationship turned sour over four hundred years later and God decided that it was time for the Israelites to return to the Promised Land where Jacob was buried and the bones of Joseph were carried with the Israelites to be buried with his people. God was showing the peoples of the world that only He was God, the Creator God who had given them this world to live in. The trials through which the Israelites lived on the way to the Promised Land are recorded in the chapters that will follow. It was not an easy march. 

It has been a wonderful walk through time reading the Bible. I am glad I decided to re-read from the beginning chapter by chapter. I do have a Concordance  of the Bible which I can use if I begin to wonder the thoughts of others as I read. But the sense in my brain is that I just want to read the words once again from beginning to end. These words have traveled through time and history first by word of mouth and then written down by scribes and recopied through many years by scribes and then printed as the Gutenberg Bible in the 1600s. That was the way of life as I learned from my grandfather in particular who passed on to me the stories of his family that had been passed to him. He told me of a family that was ancient to the lands where he lived near Andover until he moved to his older brother's house in the late 1890s to begin work as a blacksmith for the Railway. His brother also worked for the Railway as a Guard. I have no idea what that was actually; a blacksmith I understand. He married a few years later and my father their only child was born at Eastleigh. But the stories he told me and repeated time and again were always the same; no changes. That was how the stories passed from generation to generation for many many centuries. It was his story saying that the peoples of England were descendant of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel that very much stuck with me through the years. Those stories are ahead of me as I read through the Bible and it is a while since I have read the entire Bible cover to cover. 

Yesterday I gardened pulling weeds left and right. Edward would not recognize his gardens now sadly but I was never a gardener for sure and my daughter is limited in how much she can help me with that because of allergies. She spends most of her summer in doors working on her projects. That was true even when she was a child. Her time outside was always limited. 

 Received a demand for money by email to protect me from a very evil person presumably who said that he/she/whomever would claim that I visited porn sites. It was interesting that the email right before it was from The Ottawa Hospital which reminded me that I had donated last year and hoped that I would do that again which I will. The amount of money was so similar but the satanic letter that I received from the evil person just the opposite of the letter that I received from the Ottawa Hospital which told of their desire to make hospital care even better here in the Ottawa region. It is a pity that evil people like that live in our world. I marked it as spam and deleted it. Evil swirls around us at all times. Hopefully marking it that way as spam takes it somewhere that AI or a person searches and finds that evil person and puts them away somewhere that they do a decent day's work!  I would never waste money that way; how ignorant some people are really. These sites abuse children which is really disgusting and I think people are children right up to their early thirties! The gift of policing is to entirely eliminate these sites which take up space in our world and get rid of the evil people who create them.  Data centres would certainly make it easier to track them down and destroy them!

Good idea of the Prime Minister to call for donations to repair and upgrade 24 Sussex Drive. I think it would make a great Museum of Canadian political history myself but leave that up to the people. The Museums in Ottawa are first rate and we visited them many many times through the years. Prime Minister Carney is a very interesting politician. He has lived a full life working in a number of places and brings so much knowledge to the table. I do not believe in career politicians. I am not convinced they serve Canada best as they are Ivory Tower Politicians who have never worked outside of the political life. Particularly those who choose to attack rather than support and work with people who need help. The House of Commons is now on summer recess and the opportunity it there for politicians to seek out methods of working particularly with people who need jobs helping them to rework their lives to get jobs. This actually works by the way helping people that way as I was involved with a program at my Anglican Church in the 80s (after I was no longer a volunteer secretary at my husband's United Church) as I used to attend both Churches on Sunday. A lot of people lost jobs during the recession in the 1980s and helping them work on their CVs and potential interviews was very helpful to them. A number of us did do that. 

Today is technically a working day and we will see how much I accomplish. I spend a lot of hours on the computer for sure as I am at this point of producing a genealogical chart of the Blake family of Andover. It seems clear cut actually and will contain comments where I have thoughts on the direction but I would  like to discover Blake at Andover between 1300 and the mid 1400s. We will see what I find. 

Tea all drank, solitaire puzzles are next.