Who Gave More?

 Today, I would like to talk about a conversation I once had with a person I went to church with. This person was always complaining about how much the leadership expected them to give... they were on a church board. These people are now in heaven so it is the perfect time to tell this story.

I, Elfrieda, was responsible for a family of five, every day, all day long, seven days a week. 

The person who would phone me to complain about how much they were giving... time, money, food, special event fundraisers... had grown children who were on their own and their health was good and they were doing quite well. Let's call these people 'couple.'

Let's call Elfrieda 'family.'

So, I explained giving this  way...

If couple gives 10% of their income in a month and, just as a example, let's say their income is $5,000.00 per month... 'Couple' has $4,500.00 to live on for month. (2 people)

If 'family' gives 10% of their income in a month and, just as a example, let's say their income is $2,200.00 per month... they have $1950.00 left to live on for the month. (5 people)

                    Who gave more?

In the next few posts I will address things like health, safety, and what makes it possible to earn a living and what makes it impossible to earn a living.

Who's with Who?

 Still haven't seen my children and grandchildren...

I called Alan yesterday to see if he could find out where my children are. Sometimes you have to go to a common connection... someone who knew us as a 'family.' This becomes important as people lose their phones. I could still reach Alan, yesterday, and I hope that continues.

So, I, Elfrieda, have always been a 'Winnipeg' person... over 40 years in Winnipeg before moving to Dauphin. My three sons were born in Winnipeg and two of them lived at 90 Forest Cove Drive their entire lives, until they got married. My oldest was two years old when my brother built that house for me. I was, definitely, the person who worked with my brother to find the perfect little plan for the next 29 years.

I believe, Jordan, my youngest son, has been very badly harmed by people I don't know. It is possible that the people who have harmed him are known to Dave and Janet Dueck of Kleefeld, Manitoba... 22 Aspen Bay. I would have these people questioned as to the whereabouts of my children, Scott, Tyler, and Jordan. I do not trust Dave and Janet nor the people who are associated with them. They are having a lot of trouble with their daughter Stacy because she is the most rebellious of their children... she's the youngest. Tim is the oldest and Brett is the middle child of this David Roy Dueck, who is the brother of Elmer John Dueck, two of nine children in the Dueck family. 

Ironically, my sister Sara, is married to a David Roy Dueck, who is not at all related to the David Roy Dueck of the nine child family who moved from Winnipeg to Kleefeld when Dave decided his Red River Insurance job would be a placement job he could work from almost anywhere in Manitoba. These families are not related to each other. My sister's husband only has one sister who used to work for the Winnipeg Police Department for over 25 years, answering 911 calls.

I will continue to give information, on this blog, because it is the only way for people to keep track of what is going on.

I will never go to Kleefeld. I am going to make sure my children are not kidnapped there either. 

I have really tried to reach Scott, my oldest son. He was baptized by Alan, whom I contacted yesterday. I don't know if Denny and Janet Chau are still in a close relationship with Alan but Janet Chau was the person who held the towel for Scott as he came out of the baptismal tank. I have a photo of that. Janet worked for IBM for many years but I think she is retired. The last place I was in their company was likely Ashdown. 

Jordan was baptized by a man from his group when he attended a church, in a school, in Charleswood. A very young Falk might have been the leader there, at Oasis? I have photos of his baptism.

I am not sure if Tyler is, yet, baptized. 

So, I am still wanting to visit with my sons, Scott, Tyler, and Jordan, on a regular basis. I hope Alan can make some arrangements regarding this. 

My sister Sara said she has not seen my children in person. I called her last week. My sister Eva certainly doesn't want to go to Eden as her husband often threatens. Eden is not a good place for anyone I know. 

I will update as soon as I receive more information. Please continue to pray about this situation.

   

The Keep

This morning I was thinking about a keep, which I thought was a castle or a home dwelling. Where I made my mistake, in trying to keep my keep... both times... was, that, I didn't get a lawyer. 

They say that, during siege warfare, the keep is the safest place to be. So, I will tell you, my keep that I was forced to sell, in 2014, was, definitely, my safest keep I ever owned.

Every terrible rental I lived in, after that, was not safe. 

Yesterday, my sister informed me that three of my brothers have sold their keep and don't, currently, have a keep. I think she still does.

I used to have a friend, many years ago, who did not have children, yet, she had a lot of impossible advice for the younger generation. Crazy things he and she would say, like... why don't you make five thousand dollar a month payments to clear a little debt. I looked at Crazy and thought... where in the world do you think people are going to find that kind of money to clear away debt?

Anybody who sets up that kind of payment schedule is Crazy. After thinking about this insanity for two seconds, I thought, this is not what it seems. I think this person, who has set this up is, literally, setting up someone for failure. So, the next question I ask, after this, is, why would a person want someone to fail... if they say they've helped this person?

The first thing that came to mind was this... they are waiting to see this person fail so they can steal all of their assets. Who else thinks this is probably what is going on?

Secondly, if these 'high living' people imagine they can make others find such exorbitant amounts of money, maybe they, themselves, don't have what they want in order to live in a 'high society.' What if some of that is going to 'unknown' people and not to the person who is trying to pay down debt? Who else thinks this? 

My suggestion is this. Get all the paperwork of the purchases... trace it back to the original date of purchases and see what went wrong.  

P & B?

Rumours are circulating that Scott, Tyler, and Jordan have very bad uncles... D, in particular. 

Now, D used to work for a insurance company but, recently, he didn't want to insure Scott when D tried to put Scott's leg into the letter P. If D has mental illness and has resorted to violence, we need to address these issues, forthwith. 

Then, we heard a terrible rumour that they were going to try to put someones' body into the letter B. Well, D's son is not going to appreciate that reputation slur. 

That would be tantamount to Jekyll transforming into Hyde to go sit in church somewhere. The Hyde personality is actually the physical and mental manifestation of his own misdeeds because Jekyll and Hyde are the same person, a very dark and sinister problem, indeed.

So, any real doctor will have x- rays and notes about a persons' injuries. 

I encourage people to make reports about any incidents that have resulted in a broken arm, or ankle... I am so tired of hearing about assaults on my children.

So, if you want to put P & B together, go buy peanut butter.

We're all tired of this terrible game you have created to make it seem like you are normal.

Try going to church for confessions.

Getting Away?

 Have you ever met people who think they are... getting away with it? 

What is it?

I am waiting to see my sons, Scott, Jordan, and Tyler. My dear grandsons are also on my 'waiting to hear from' list.

I once heard of a people who thought they could manipulate and lie and then take over peoples' bank accounts and steal their livelihoods, without impunity. I am grateful we live in a country where this has never been successful. 

I dropped off a quilt, on Saturday, and I heard a crazy person say... people cut it up and threw it in the garbage. Does anyone believe that?

It had a navy blue cotton sheet backing and the front was navy and white, with three large rectangular squares going across, starting at the top. It had diamond shapes sewed into the squares, here and there and I heard my grandson just loved it. 

I actually made it for my son but I think he allowed his son to have it because he really liked it. That's what people do who love their children, isn't it?

So, once again, I called a pastor and my sons' wife and my sons, yesterday. I only call a pastor when I am greatly alarmed at something that has never happened before.

My oldest sons' phone won't take anymore messages. The mailbox is full. He has always been the most dedicated person when it comes to carrying out things in his life. So, I was so alarmed and afraid that he has been hurt because what other reason can there be for this? I am hoping my phones are working properly.   

Living in Reality

I put a new page on Pinterest on Friday... The Orchard Walk El Dueck

It's my old book, published at the end of 2012 but I put 2013 as the publication year as the printer was unsure of their ability to 'get it out by Christmas.'

It was definitely me, who put pictures of my work on Pinterest but, what I'm confused about is this... is Pinterest, Canada located in Ontario? Secondly, I had a lot of problems with Pinterest that night. I pinned 19 pictures and then another 20 or more but the system switched my pins to a 'painting, decorating' board and I couldn't get out of that board so I suppose they have glitches too.

So, I made the long journey to Winnipeg yesterday and I dropped off one of my novels. 

My goal was to see my sons and grandsons but nobody was home. By August, I start getting winter ready. I worry about the cold. I try on capes with hoods. I think about my 'work supplies' and make sure I have enough to get through six long months of winter projects. Since moving so far away from Winnipeg, I make a habit of dropping off blankets and pillows to ward off the winter chill. I tried mailing one and I think it was only successful once and then packages came back, unopened, with RTS (return to sender) on them so I knew that wasn't a good way of trying to get something to my children.

I heard a man suggest that my blog was not helpful for psychology and I would, definitely, differ in my opinion of that. 

Most people don't realize that psychology is just... problem solving... mostly relational issues and, for many, behavioural issues. 

Many years ago I spent way too much time with a particular woman who talked and talked and talked about her family and I started feeling like I was her psychologist... because I was doing all the listening. Then one day she started telling people she had written my novel and that's when I knew I would really recommend she go see a psychologist who would, hopefully, help her with her delusion.

If anyone thinks that writing a historical fiction novel is easy or fast... it is a long researched project that, for me, took over three years to complete. When writing anything historical you check and cross- check and re- check information to see which facts match or line up enough to be considered factual. When my dearly deceased read my novel, he corrected me on a fact that he was familiar with, personally, because of his knowledge of the job. So, my novel maintains a living presence within my day to day to work. 

I make blankets, a very creative demonstration of work mentioned within my novel.

So, let's live in the world of reality, at least to acknowledging your own work.   

 

Entitled Heritage?

 The brothers I was mentioning yesterday and my brothers would likely differ in their definition of the word 'heritage,' and this is why.

The brothers I mentioned yesterday had a heritage of violence. This definition of 'inherited circumstances, a heritage of violence' I found in 3 of one of my dictionaries. The father beat the living hell out of his wife and then his children. So, a person could say that they had negative balance characters, as they grew up, and as they grew to adulthood, and then, as they entered the workforce and were required to deal with other people and get along with others.

So, imagine a scale. You can't pick your heritage, as in parents. That is never a choice. You are born into the family as the natural world produces. 

I was born into Guenter family. My father and mother did not beat us and my father never beat his wife, therefore, things were a little easier for us, growing up. We didn't have to fear the nights, the days, the evenings, the end of work days, nor the weekends. Our greatest fear was never getting a day off from working. 

The bad heritage family was Dueck. I actually only experienced the mother behave badly once in over 25 years. 

So, her son explained what life was like, for him, every day, as he fought the demons of violence. He said there was a good spirit on one shoulder and a bad spirit on the other shoulder and every day they would fight to see who would win. He said it was very exhausting. 

Now, let's imagine that this son, or any son or daughter, wants to overcome bad family repute. 

What would be required?

First, you have to be able to prove that you're not like the old man. In Biblical terms, the old man is the unregenerated or unreformed person. The world is full of these types of people. People who are the problem. 

These people of lesser heritage must desire to be the solution and then character build themselves into the best of society. This is a very difficult task but it is necessary.

The problem with people who refuse to be the authentic home church is that it is too easy to fake being good when in a public place. We must treat people with love, kindness, patient self- control (forbearance), peacefulness, and goodness in our homes first. Putting on a suit and sitting in the back row of Sunday morning church and tithing unto the Mosaic law can be a very old and harsh example of church gone bad if that individual is a violent ruler in the home. I am not sure if Peter thought he could subvert the spirit of the law by fulfilling a church law legality. If he thought that would bring him the respect of the church laity, he surely did miss the whole core of the gospel message.

Our heritage was more civilized. Oh, we were required to work. We were loved. We were driven to church to learn and sing in a very refined choir status metronome timing. We inherited a builder mentality. For no other foundation can anyone lay... was the solid rock on which we stood.

I raised my children in this manner and I certainly hope and pray they are safe and secure within the heritage that I was raised. We always had enough to eat. We always had enough of everything to learn and access to vehicles before we had money of our own to buy them. We were proud of  our accomplishments, in a humble way, because we were always encouraged to progress.

I thank God for my heritage and I hope my children feel the same. 

So, if you want to be entitled to your heritage, you must give your children a just claim or right to it. If you train up a child in the way he should go, then they are entitled to the teaching, and learning, of the precepts that you laid forth as you raised them. These precepts become our heritage as we live by them.

To entitle something, a book, is to give it a name. Did you know you can't, legally, give a book, that you write, a name that is already published? You have to do all that research before you can, legally, publish a book. Only then, are you entitled to the title.