Good morning! We have a chilly 60° here. Everything is soggy at this point.
I have to find a new cat food for Miss Bosley. Anyone have suggestions? I will check with the vet’s office to see what they recommend. I am sure that Mumsee will include field mice in her recommendation 🙂
So, I was reading in Matthew 24 this morning. Verse 29 has always puzzled me. I know God will roll up the heavens at the end but where do stars go when they fall? Then I thought of the night sky and all the space debris we have put up there, that look like stars. I wonder if all of that will plummet into the atmosphere and burn or come to earth.
For Michelle when she checks in: I once took a bus trip, and the driver had been a POW in Nam. His wife took this trip, too, and we ate at the same table at times. None of us brought up the past, however.
Janice – Cats can eat almost anything. But most commercial cat foods are so full of unnatural ingredients, like most human foods anymore, that it causes health issues. Find a cat food that has mostly, if not all, natural ingredients.
Kathleena – I find that most of the Vietnam vets do not want to remember the horrors they experienced. And I don’t think very many other combat vets will talk about it either.
War veterans: we have met both kinds. We had a ww2 vet who used to laugh and joke and tell the stories at all the schools, of his experience at Omaha Beach, being turned from a mechanic to a medic in an instant. Having to make decisions of whom to try to save and whom to leave writhing in pain because their guts were poured out. His experiences of having worship services with other soldiers.
Another never said anything about his service but his license plate indicated a Purple Heart. He did mention he came to the Lord through it and it changed his and his wife’s lives. Both non believers when he went in.
A third talked about his experience on Okinawa but did not like the first guy’s light hearted attitude. I did not think it lighthearted but did think they were in different places of healing.
It’s a novel about a Navy wife who takes her 10-year-old daughter home to Berkeley while her husband deploys on an air craft carrier circa 1967. For a long deployment like that, the military would move women anywhere they wanted to go for a year. Our heroine chose home to her parents, not realizing what was going on at Cal.
Husband is shot down and spends the next six years in the Hanoi Hilton. Heroine and daughter, confront all sorts of issues until he returns home, including becoming Christians at a Black church in Oakland.
I don’t know if any of you have read my unpublished Navy wife novel, Getting to Theo’s Wedding, but this is a prequel.
Given the state of publishing these days, I’m reviewing past projects and preparing to self-publish.
I do have a compilation book coming out later this year, self-published with four accomplished writers and attached to the Women Worth Knowing podcast.
I’m also helping the Nakada family possibly write a biography of Juji Nakada, the DL Moody of Japan and one of the founders of the Oriental Missionary Society.
Nakada is controversial because of later statements he made about the Jews and Japan. Not sure, therefore, if I want to write a full bio–though the family (who are uniformly WONDERFUL), would love me to do so.
OMS, not so sure.
Plus family projects and lots more travel.
Interesting times, as always.
Anyway, if anyone would like to read and comment on Getting to Theo’s Wedding, I’m happy to share.
I found a video I had never seen about the hero dog, Casper, who lives around the corner from our street, maybe even in back of our neighbor’s across the street.
All of those options are clearly possible, we are dealing with God after all. I was just thinking of all the space junk we have put up in the past sixty years and how many folk think they are looking at stars when they are just seeing trash or satellites. God, of course, knows the difference.
Well, the constellations are a lot further away than the junk. But, though God does mention the Pleiades and Orion by name, I suspect it was people who named them. Just a bunch of stars that looked like something to somebody! Now we have enough space junk in geosynchronous orbit, we could probably name a few more.
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Good morning! We have a chilly 60° here. Everything is soggy at this point.
I have to find a new cat food for Miss Bosley. Anyone have suggestions? I will check with the vet’s office to see what they recommend. I am sure that Mumsee will include field mice in her recommendation 🙂
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Janice, well, you know what they say: eat the weeds!
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So, I was reading in Matthew 24 this morning. Verse 29 has always puzzled me. I know God will roll up the heavens at the end but where do stars go when they fall? Then I thought of the night sky and all the space debris we have put up there, that look like stars. I wonder if all of that will plummet into the atmosphere and burn or come to earth.
mumsee
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I always have so many questions about logistics, too, mumsee. How surprised we will be, no doubt.
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For Michelle when she checks in: I once took a bus trip, and the driver had been a POW in Nam. His wife took this trip, too, and we ate at the same table at times. None of us brought up the past, however.
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Janice – Cats can eat almost anything. But most commercial cat foods are so full of unnatural ingredients, like most human foods anymore, that it causes health issues. Find a cat food that has mostly, if not all, natural ingredients.
Kathleena – I find that most of the Vietnam vets do not want to remember the horrors they experienced. And I don’t think very many other combat vets will talk about it either.
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War veterans: we have met both kinds. We had a ww2 vet who used to laugh and joke and tell the stories at all the schools, of his experience at Omaha Beach, being turned from a mechanic to a medic in an instant. Having to make decisions of whom to try to save and whom to leave writhing in pain because their guts were poured out. His experiences of having worship services with other soldiers.
Another never said anything about his service but his license plate indicated a Purple Heart. He did mention he came to the Lord through it and it changed his and his wife’s lives. Both non believers when he went in.
A third talked about his experience on Okinawa but did not like the first guy’s light hearted attitude. I did not think it lighthearted but did think they were in different places of healing.
mumsee
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It’s a novel about a Navy wife who takes her 10-year-old daughter home to Berkeley while her husband deploys on an air craft carrier circa 1967. For a long deployment like that, the military would move women anywhere they wanted to go for a year. Our heroine chose home to her parents, not realizing what was going on at Cal.
Husband is shot down and spends the next six years in the Hanoi Hilton. Heroine and daughter, confront all sorts of issues until he returns home, including becoming Christians at a Black church in Oakland.
I don’t know if any of you have read my unpublished Navy wife novel, Getting to Theo’s Wedding, but this is a prequel.
Given the state of publishing these days, I’m reviewing past projects and preparing to self-publish.
I do have a compilation book coming out later this year, self-published with four accomplished writers and attached to the Women Worth Knowing podcast.
I’m also helping the Nakada family possibly write a biography of Juji Nakada, the DL Moody of Japan and one of the founders of the Oriental Missionary Society.
I’ve written about him several times, starting here: https://www.michelleule.com/2021/03/09/juji-nakada/
Nakada is controversial because of later statements he made about the Jews and Japan. Not sure, therefore, if I want to write a full bio–though the family (who are uniformly WONDERFUL), would love me to do so.
OMS, not so sure.
Plus family projects and lots more travel.
Interesting times, as always.
Anyway, if anyone would like to read and comment on Getting to Theo’s Wedding, I’m happy to share.
Just send me an email. I’d welcome some feedback.
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I found a video I had never seen about the hero dog, Casper, who lives around the corner from our street, maybe even in back of our neighbor’s across the street.
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Mumsee, thinking on the passage in Matthew that you mentioned and wondering:
• Could God have been saying the stars fall because that is the way it will appear to people, and those words are easily understood by even children?
• Maybe the stars get sucked into a black hole that appears south of where the Earth is held in place in the heavens?
• Maybe it is beyond our understanding and we shall know in eternity if He deems it important for us to know.
Have you gained any understanding more than you had before you pondered over it?
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All of those options are clearly possible, we are dealing with God after all. I was just thinking of all the space junk we have put up in the past sixty years and how many folk think they are looking at stars when they are just seeing trash or satellites. God, of course, knows the difference.
mumsee
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Interesting thoughts, Mumsee. All the man made junk up there has never changed a constellation!
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Well, the constellations are a lot further away than the junk. But, though God does mention the Pleiades and Orion by name, I suspect it was people who named them. Just a bunch of stars that looked like something to somebody! Now we have enough space junk in geosynchronous orbit, we could probably name a few more.
mumsee
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