It looks like Winter is trying to get here... or maybe Fall... in Oregon, it is all about the rain.
Today is not a great day, but I want to get back into my posting pattern for this blog. I have been working on my daily planning sheet and working toward posting on my other blogs, mostly associated with Working Together, so things are getting figured out. There is never enough time, and sometimes not enough energy, for everything... we just keep moving forward the best we can. :-)
I was able to grocery shop on Sunday, so a lot of "food prep" has been happening. I need to find a better (SMALL) refrigerator... this one is freezing food, so that is an issue... when it is food that can't be frozen for later. Food is MONEY... lots of money... for my budget.
I have FOUR weeks to go with this batch of food, and only a small reserve of funds in my budget for more fresh supplies. I keep trying to find a good way to buy fresh produce... and make it last. :-) I am trying to see how long melons will last right now. I have a watermelon, a honeydew, and a cantaloupe, in various stages of ripeness. I ate one watermelon already, and it was very ripe... and good. If I can make them last at one per week, that will be great. I have no idea how to tell if a honeydew melon is ripe, but the cantaloupe has a ways to go.
Avocados are a challenge. I know they grow in California, but I don't know if they have a particular season yet. I am trying to figure out how to buy "in season" foods and avoid commercial processes. Figuring out what grows locally is another goal to help with that seasonal issue.
One of my avocado seeds is growing... so I need to decide when to bring it in or how to protect it from the squirrels and the winter and whatever else kills avocado seeds trying to grow into a tree. :-) In my entire life, I have only had ONE avocado seed grow into a starting tree... this will be the second. The first one met an untimely death... and I grieved for it. I hope this one will make it through.
I have been ill today, so there isn't much to share with you.
I heard part of a program with Mathew Hagee as I was checking channels earlier, at the end of watching some news to see what was going on. It was a repeat program about the dominoes falling in the End Times. It reminded me again how hard it is going to be for people who have put their faith in what is called "the Rapture" to keep them from suffering what is ahead for the world. I only caught the end of the presentation, with the unveiling of the Rapture event in their popular theology. The idea is that GOD is going to save His People from suffering the Tribulation, and He is going to do it with the Rapture.
I sometimes catch different views of this perspective on Christian programs. The "Left Behind" series kind of made it a gospel of its own. One idea that keeps getting repeated is that the church will not be in the world when the Tribulation horrors happen... so making the "Rapture" the way GOD does that is easy to believe. I see the Rapture as the final moments of all existence as we know it, when Christ comes for judgment... way at the end of all these Tribulation sufferings. When I heard the explanation about the church not being here, I understood why it took off as a way to make death by the Antichrist a non-subject. I see the Mark of the Beast and death by the Antichrist as the way we are removed from this life.
It is a complicated mess in the church... all the divided denominations have to declare their own ideas of what they believe is the right answer. Then everyone gets "firmly planted" in that viewpoint and nothing else is allowed in the conversation. This is how humans work, how organizations work, how causes are created and maintained... any of them. These divisions are why I hoped to create my "40 Days in the Wilderness" event every summer... to get the discussions going... to make people decide for themselves, hear all the sides of the arguments, and try to make us ONE BODY in Christ.
After some time and thought, I realized this event could become the fulfillment of another prophecy about the end of all things, that everyone would hear the gospel... everyone, all over the world. Technology would make that a reality.
It's scary, but that is how GOD works... He has shared these details with us in a way that makes us have to think about the Truth, be ready to die and be judged at any moment of our lives, and to prove His authority over all we know. Prophecy, in GOD's view, is one way He establishes His credibility with Man.
When I was watching the Hagee presentation, I wished there was some way to reach all those people who think they won't have to suffer because they believe the Rapture will save them from it. I don't know how to do that, in my current circumstances, so I just keep thinking that GOD will do something to help them discover there is more than one way to see what is in the Bible.... and the Enemy is good at blinding our eyes... and there will one day be a "Great Falling Away" that might be them.
I just want them to see that, so their decision is made by better knowledge... and I want to help us to prepare for what is ahead, together. Evil will rise, good will decline... that is not going to be a fun time... I just hope to help as many as I can.
So, that is what channel-flipping has done for me today. I am now at my desk and trying to make a better plan to solve this information and protection problem.
I hope GOD provides for me and WT soon.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD find a way to make those who love Him aware of the different interpretations there are about the Rapture, the Tribulation, the End Times, and the Antichrist. Amen.
10 September, 2018
06 September, 2018
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Here I am... up again after going to bed earlier... wandering around with nothing to do, but not able to sleep again. So... lucky you, I am going to try to post something here. :-)
I did a lot of my yardwork challenge the past few days... and it takes a toll on my body... I end up just wanting to go to bed and not caring what is happening in the world. :-) But then I remember my lists.
I discovered a property in Texas today... I guess T Boone Pickens is selling a magnificent piece of land. Only 250 million dollars. I think I will go ahead and write a check! haha. It's in east Texas. I went through Texas one time on my faith trip, along the Dallas-Fort Worth trail. East Texas was the green side I think... well, one of the sides of Texas was like desert and the other was greenish. It was quite an experience.
I recognize the name, but don't know what made him famous. The land materials said it was the oil industry. It also had information about how much his childhood was part of his motivations. Life affects us, for good or for bad... but it is a burden we all carry. It seems the end of life is catching up with him.
One thing I see in the lives of the rich and famous is the need to invest their wealth. This is something I have talked to GOD about all my life, in one form or another. I think art and other collectibles are fun (at my small level, which is just trying to save the memories of my lifetime), but I would have a hard time spending millions to acquire them. I decided it would be too much for me. I eventually decided that investing in people would be better, especially for the future of Working Together.
If I had 250 million dollars to pay for the Pickens property, I would check it out and talk to the man, and then buy it if it seemed useful for WT. I think owning land, and his conservation of what he has built over his lifetime, are both essential to the future. The details are also important. It has to work for the people who will need it in the future.
I keep thinking about his lifetime effort. I would think he might want to die there. I would. I don't know why he is selling now, but I assume it has to do with the changes of age and income. None of us can take our possessions with us... no matter how wonderful they may be. We die. Someone else gets all our toys... all our dreams... all our things.
I am also filled with wondering thoughts toward GOD about WT... always. I wish I understood the purpose of all these past years. I recently heard something online that was really good to remember... the idea presented was that we can't count the dots looking ahead, we can only count the dots looking back. (I just remembered, I think it was the Steve Jobs commencement speech...) It is true, no matter how you say it.
I once looked back and talked about the pivot points we see from that perspective, how we can see that everything would have been different if we chose that other path, the other choice, the other direction. BUT, we can't know what the future will do with our choices. We only have the details of Today to go by. We all do our best, I think... at least, I hope so.
So, it's almost midnight. I better end this to beat the Thursday deadline. :-)
I hope you are making all the best choices and that they will lead you to good places and good people and good futures. If they don't, just keep trying to find the best way forward from where you are. It's all we can do... one day at a time.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD help all the good people who love Him and want to do good things for good people. Amen.
I did a lot of my yardwork challenge the past few days... and it takes a toll on my body... I end up just wanting to go to bed and not caring what is happening in the world. :-) But then I remember my lists.
I discovered a property in Texas today... I guess T Boone Pickens is selling a magnificent piece of land. Only 250 million dollars. I think I will go ahead and write a check! haha. It's in east Texas. I went through Texas one time on my faith trip, along the Dallas-Fort Worth trail. East Texas was the green side I think... well, one of the sides of Texas was like desert and the other was greenish. It was quite an experience.
I recognize the name, but don't know what made him famous. The land materials said it was the oil industry. It also had information about how much his childhood was part of his motivations. Life affects us, for good or for bad... but it is a burden we all carry. It seems the end of life is catching up with him.
One thing I see in the lives of the rich and famous is the need to invest their wealth. This is something I have talked to GOD about all my life, in one form or another. I think art and other collectibles are fun (at my small level, which is just trying to save the memories of my lifetime), but I would have a hard time spending millions to acquire them. I decided it would be too much for me. I eventually decided that investing in people would be better, especially for the future of Working Together.
If I had 250 million dollars to pay for the Pickens property, I would check it out and talk to the man, and then buy it if it seemed useful for WT. I think owning land, and his conservation of what he has built over his lifetime, are both essential to the future. The details are also important. It has to work for the people who will need it in the future.
I keep thinking about his lifetime effort. I would think he might want to die there. I would. I don't know why he is selling now, but I assume it has to do with the changes of age and income. None of us can take our possessions with us... no matter how wonderful they may be. We die. Someone else gets all our toys... all our dreams... all our things.
I am also filled with wondering thoughts toward GOD about WT... always. I wish I understood the purpose of all these past years. I recently heard something online that was really good to remember... the idea presented was that we can't count the dots looking ahead, we can only count the dots looking back. (I just remembered, I think it was the Steve Jobs commencement speech...) It is true, no matter how you say it.
I once looked back and talked about the pivot points we see from that perspective, how we can see that everything would have been different if we chose that other path, the other choice, the other direction. BUT, we can't know what the future will do with our choices. We only have the details of Today to go by. We all do our best, I think... at least, I hope so.
So, it's almost midnight. I better end this to beat the Thursday deadline. :-)
I hope you are making all the best choices and that they will lead you to good places and good people and good futures. If they don't, just keep trying to find the best way forward from where you are. It's all we can do... one day at a time.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD help all the good people who love Him and want to do good things for good people. Amen.
04 September, 2018
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
What a day...
I wrote four letters before the mailperson came to get them. Later I added another one for tomorrow's mail. Now I have three more left just to finish August's list. :-) I don't get many responses, so it doesn't seem very urgent to get them out in a serious deadline way. I call it a flexible schedule. :-) And I need to find an "insert" for my September bunch of letters.
I turned on my phone ringer (finally got it to actually work when I tried to turn on the ringer!) and now I get calls that hang up in three rings. Previously, calls would magically appear on my phone. I don't answer too many as they never leave a voicemail, so I assume they are robocalls. It has occurred to me how fake call records can be created and used in court through some of these issues. We are in such a legal bog with technology.
I think I want a landline again.
I am actually trying to budget in a senior phone with one of those emergency buttons. One of these days....
I made it out to the ivy patch around noon, after I didn't have the right tool for my curb cleaning plan... cut out vines for an hour! What a mess! More to do tomorrow, but I am MOTIVATED now. :-) -- I did go back later to check on (rake up) the debris...
In some places of the "seasonal creek" the leaves are so deep it's scary. I am trying to figure out a good way to make it safer. There is a dangerous metal spike that is failing to hold up the huge timber wall it was first place for, and it is just waiting for someone to fall and die on it. I think I will bend it into the timber just to be safe.
I am not sure about the "creek" wall part of the ivy patch... It's hard to see how much is solid rocks and how much is dirt ready to fall down. There are gaping holes in the dirt, but different pipe sections, and I am wondering about wild animals that could live in them, or be in danger by them.
Roots, some over an inch thick, are going in all kinds of directions... BIG ivy roots, I think... but not sure yet. I am just cutting off everything that is in the spaces I don't want ivy to be. I haven't even started on the street side of the patch. (so much fun..... I can hardly wait!) haha
I decided not to enter a post yesterday... things were happening and it would not have been a good one. I did work on my budget... my revisions, my payments, my plans for the month. It is always depressing.
I watched some news earlier and one of the tidbits about Brazil, in conjunction with the fire loss of their country's national museum (which would be like our Smithsonian burning down into nothing), and the average worker in Brazil only makes about 180 US dollars a month... no mention of the effects of inflation on their dollars, or any other details about their economy, was made. Recently I caught the news about (Argentina?) having such high inflation that the government decided to correct the problem itself with it's own "eraser" - going into a version of bitcoin, I think. All I really heard was the graphics about how many of their dollars it takes to buy some food... one item of food.
I guess the Democrats have come out with media bites to take the media stage with the Kavanaugh hearings... we have become a world that only cares about media bites, not the survival of our world.... It will all come back to "bite" us in time... much worse that it already is.
In a Democratic media world, finding the Truth is hard. Democratic TV news use Democratic newspaper sources as their guest authorities, as well as any other interview subjects. If they aren't totally committed to the Democratic agenda, they are very near to it. And this is presented as "unbiased" reporting.
We rely on information that only represents one view... degrades any other views, reports only bad opinions of their enemies, and controls the way we see the world. You have to have your own foundation for information, or work extremely hard to find a whole range of reporters to hear, if you even want to think about knowing the details of any ONE issue, for that day.
This is the world we live in.
We are suffering for it.
I have heard some people read multiple newspapers every day to find out what is happening in the world... I don't have time for that... or the money.
Well, that's it for today... I am still working on a plan for the topics of my blogs... this one is journal blog... my WT blogs need some content, so I am looking at how to get some good blogs posted, at least once a week. My reorganized room may help me to get closer to that. Thinking of things to write is easy, actually getting all the details for a "real" blog post is hard... and time consuming... and I need some way to keep a record of sources. I am working on those details, in the midst of all my other efforts....
I wonder if I will ever reach the point where I can hire the help I need...
I wonder.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May the world suddenly become good again... hmmm... how would that be possible... so, in that view, may GOD help all the good people to prosper and make wise decisions and help other good people and make sure evil forces do not get their resources. Amen.
And may we all be deserving of the title "good" and maybe "godly" and always "kind, compassionate, merciful, giving, loving, worthy," and everything the Bible tells us is righteous.
I hope GOD finds a way to help us.
We are so divided, so separated, so overpowered by the strength of evil.
I know we are heading toward death by the Antichrist,
but I don't want to let him win without a fight.
Maybe you can help me by joining WT and begin the process of building the things we need to survive as the times grow worse. It is the only way I can see us becoming ONE Body in Christ.
I hope you will think about it and decide that $10 is not to much to spend to begin the process of changing our world... hopefully, I will actually get the funds and be able to do what I have been planning and working toward since before WT was even created.
Thanks.
May GOD be glorified and protect us from the evil that surrounds us. Amen.
I wrote four letters before the mailperson came to get them. Later I added another one for tomorrow's mail. Now I have three more left just to finish August's list. :-) I don't get many responses, so it doesn't seem very urgent to get them out in a serious deadline way. I call it a flexible schedule. :-) And I need to find an "insert" for my September bunch of letters.
I turned on my phone ringer (finally got it to actually work when I tried to turn on the ringer!) and now I get calls that hang up in three rings. Previously, calls would magically appear on my phone. I don't answer too many as they never leave a voicemail, so I assume they are robocalls. It has occurred to me how fake call records can be created and used in court through some of these issues. We are in such a legal bog with technology.
I think I want a landline again.
I am actually trying to budget in a senior phone with one of those emergency buttons. One of these days....
I made it out to the ivy patch around noon, after I didn't have the right tool for my curb cleaning plan... cut out vines for an hour! What a mess! More to do tomorrow, but I am MOTIVATED now. :-) -- I did go back later to check on (rake up) the debris...
In some places of the "seasonal creek" the leaves are so deep it's scary. I am trying to figure out a good way to make it safer. There is a dangerous metal spike that is failing to hold up the huge timber wall it was first place for, and it is just waiting for someone to fall and die on it. I think I will bend it into the timber just to be safe.
I am not sure about the "creek" wall part of the ivy patch... It's hard to see how much is solid rocks and how much is dirt ready to fall down. There are gaping holes in the dirt, but different pipe sections, and I am wondering about wild animals that could live in them, or be in danger by them.
Roots, some over an inch thick, are going in all kinds of directions... BIG ivy roots, I think... but not sure yet. I am just cutting off everything that is in the spaces I don't want ivy to be. I haven't even started on the street side of the patch. (so much fun..... I can hardly wait!) haha
I decided not to enter a post yesterday... things were happening and it would not have been a good one. I did work on my budget... my revisions, my payments, my plans for the month. It is always depressing.
I watched some news earlier and one of the tidbits about Brazil, in conjunction with the fire loss of their country's national museum (which would be like our Smithsonian burning down into nothing), and the average worker in Brazil only makes about 180 US dollars a month... no mention of the effects of inflation on their dollars, or any other details about their economy, was made. Recently I caught the news about (Argentina?) having such high inflation that the government decided to correct the problem itself with it's own "eraser" - going into a version of bitcoin, I think. All I really heard was the graphics about how many of their dollars it takes to buy some food... one item of food.
I guess the Democrats have come out with media bites to take the media stage with the Kavanaugh hearings... we have become a world that only cares about media bites, not the survival of our world.... It will all come back to "bite" us in time... much worse that it already is.
In a Democratic media world, finding the Truth is hard. Democratic TV news use Democratic newspaper sources as their guest authorities, as well as any other interview subjects. If they aren't totally committed to the Democratic agenda, they are very near to it. And this is presented as "unbiased" reporting.
We rely on information that only represents one view... degrades any other views, reports only bad opinions of their enemies, and controls the way we see the world. You have to have your own foundation for information, or work extremely hard to find a whole range of reporters to hear, if you even want to think about knowing the details of any ONE issue, for that day.
This is the world we live in.
We are suffering for it.
I have heard some people read multiple newspapers every day to find out what is happening in the world... I don't have time for that... or the money.
Well, that's it for today... I am still working on a plan for the topics of my blogs... this one is journal blog... my WT blogs need some content, so I am looking at how to get some good blogs posted, at least once a week. My reorganized room may help me to get closer to that. Thinking of things to write is easy, actually getting all the details for a "real" blog post is hard... and time consuming... and I need some way to keep a record of sources. I am working on those details, in the midst of all my other efforts....
I wonder if I will ever reach the point where I can hire the help I need...
I wonder.
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
*
*
*
May the world suddenly become good again... hmmm... how would that be possible... so, in that view, may GOD help all the good people to prosper and make wise decisions and help other good people and make sure evil forces do not get their resources. Amen.
And may we all be deserving of the title "good" and maybe "godly" and always "kind, compassionate, merciful, giving, loving, worthy," and everything the Bible tells us is righteous.
I hope GOD finds a way to help us.
We are so divided, so separated, so overpowered by the strength of evil.
I know we are heading toward death by the Antichrist,
but I don't want to let him win without a fight.
Maybe you can help me by joining WT and begin the process of building the things we need to survive as the times grow worse. It is the only way I can see us becoming ONE Body in Christ.
I hope you will think about it and decide that $10 is not to much to spend to begin the process of changing our world... hopefully, I will actually get the funds and be able to do what I have been planning and working toward since before WT was even created.
Thanks.
May GOD be glorified and protect us from the evil that surrounds us. Amen.
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