In order to live and work with God, the Israelites had to follow all the rules precisely and exactly. But most importantly they must never forget that it was God that brought them out of bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land. Every day every hour their obedience to God was under constant scrutiny and it must be perfect or they would be punished. Leviticus is a very difficult book of the Bible. Jude, the brother of Jesus Christ, although he called himself a bond slave of his brother, said that Jesus came to earth to be the Saviour of all mankind. We just had to follow the two commandments always - love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourself. Then the world would find peace; but is that my interpretation that the world would find peace. I am searching for that as I re-read the Bible.
Usually Monday is a cleaning day but we were off to deliver late birthday presents and go swimming. It was a lovely gentle day for me. Being 80 plus has given me a different perspective on life. I am gentler as a person although my hermit tendencies are even stronger. It is rare for me to ever answer the door unless I am expecting someone. I discovered it had become rare when I did actually answer it the other day rather than never. But I suspect it will go back to never again.
We also did something we do not generally do as we picked up our dinner at the grocery store. A lovely dinner of roast chicken, potatoes and salads was enjoyed by us a bit late but enjoyable none the less. Usually we prepare everything pretty much from scratch but yesterday was an exception.
Today I clean and it is the top floor and I have done a little of the preparation to get that done. I will clean the bathroom first and that is very soon after I finish my blog likely although I may play a couple of solitaire games first. There are always five of them and I do the hardest one first of all and then I have a fixed order that I follow always ending with Spider unless it is the hardest one. I love doing Spider solitaire game the best of all.
I went out first thing and watered the tomato plants and it is to be another very hot day and the flowers are now on all of the plants. We will see if they produce fruit as the land is not strong after 50 years of growing. Vegetable crops are especially hard on the land leaching out all the vitamins and minerals in the land. But this land has been allowed to be fallow for two years and perhaps it will have regained some of its strength plus we do fertilize the plants twice after planting and at planting so we will see how well the plants do.
I wrote my sister a letter and will send that off later today. I think she is quite attentive still and my father lived to be 94 years and perhaps she will also live a very long life although being bedridden was undesirable to both my father and I am sure my sister. She will try likely to walk again after two surgeries on broken hip joints (both joints). It is eight years now since we were face to face but I do not see myself traveling so far away in my 80s unless I am with my children.
The time moves onward and I must make accomplishments as the day will move on quickly and be much hotter.
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