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Just before I started writing here the mailman dropped something into my mailbox. I went to check and there was a FAT letter from my dear friend ...(I'll call her Eva).
We used to share an apartment together way back about 3 decades ago. She was sent of the LORD! I learned to greatly appreciate her. She came from an extra large family, so learned to cook and bake very well, because they were about 10 children in that clan. I learned a lot from her and we had many good evening chats.
I had a job at Philips as a receptionist and switchboard operator, while she was taking a 2 year community college course to work with delinquent youths. That career took her to various communities and cities all around Ontario. We kept in touch, but our visits were usually short and quick.
When I would be near a community where she was working at the time, I would drop in on her and be amazed how Eva could run a large older house full of rag-a-muffin kids. She let them burn off some of their energy, but could call them to attention in a cheerful voice when she needed them to calm down.
She could not always find qualified alternate staff so often she was running these "group homes" all by herself. Yes, on a 24-7 kind of schedule! (I got tired just thinking about that!)
When I moved back to Saskatchewan in 1983 to care for my parents - I missed my many friends from London and wherever else Eva was working at that time.
Actually, once she took a break and ran a Christian bookstore in a small town for a year or two. At that time, I was renting a tall, older house in a lovely, tree-shaded street near the Thames river, and I rented out rooms to my youngest sister, and a few university student-gals.
When these gals met my friend Eva, they gave her a nick-name. They called her "Wonder Woman!"
In the decades I've been back in Saskatchewan I have not had so much direct connect with Eva. We do exchange letters sometimes and we've even had a few long phone calls to catch up on each other.
Surprise! Eva got married a few years ago, and so our contacts are fewer and further between but they do still happen.
I have an 8 item prayer list that I pray for Eva and her people every day. We had not in fact talked or written each other in a few months.
Then today at noon, I got a 6 page letter from her and now have an update on her life, and what to pray for her all the more now.
Right now my heart is brimming over with love for my dear friend Eva! What a beautiful Rose in my friendship garden of good Friends!
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Don't hold your breath for it! The rules can change quite Willy Nilly!
When I got my first job after high school, I recall Mom telling me that her first job was as a maid for a farm family that was better off than hers. She was paid $3 worth of meat per month, which her family ate up while she earned it.
Later when she reached the right age for government support for seniors she was quite pleased to get some hundreds of dollars deposited into the account that Mom and Dad had together. (I don't recall what it was, but it was quite a bit more then $3/month).
I cared for my parents for 23+ years, without a salary, but I figured by the time I reached 65 I was likely to get OAS (Old Age Security) too, from the government as Mom had. Sure enough it happened when I turned 65.
But lately I've been noticing YouTube videos that have promised seniors will get more starting this month.
I mentioned this to a friend in church last week when we were chatting in the aisle. She said her children had told her it was fake news done by A1 bots. My hopes sank - so no increase in OAS?
That deposit date is always the 3rd last day of the month, so I just checked a few minutes ago.
What? I'm getting $47.38 less than I got last month! I thought they said it would be an increase!!
During the years I cared for my parents - (also my Gr'ma for 9 months) all for no salary - I could just eat at the same table after I'd prepared the meals.
So I learned to live by faith. When I needed some stamp money, I just prayed and waited. God would provide - often within a day or two - from unusual sources. It was rather fun to see how many creative ways God had to supply my needs when they were for some cash.
Besides... I do have this sense that I will be able to earn more online, once I have learned some skills like SEO marketing and creative Funnels (series of emails).
Be grateful for government support if/when you get it, but if not, learn to trust the LORD. HE is far more generous and more reliable!.
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On Sunday evening I went to the first night of the annual end-of-July Missions conference in the town of Waldheim. That's been going on for the last 70 years.
My earliest memories are of attending when it was held in the town curling rink with a sawdust floor, a temporary lumber platform and windows that were of wood, and could be pushed outward so the overflow crowd listen to the missionary speakers through the open window-spaces.
If my younger siblings were restless, Mom would send me to out side and sit in our car to babysit them. I was ever so grateful for those opened window spaces, for if I turned down our car window I could still hear the speakers. One that stands out was the founder of the Back to the Bible Broadcast, and main speaker, from Nebraska, USA., Rev. Theodore H. Epp. (I was used to hearing him on the radio at home almost every evening of the week.)
Now for the tip part. I had only a map of Saskatoon as a city in the car. Somehow...(I still can't figure out how) I made a wrong choice of lanes, I guess, when driving north out of Saskatoon. I found myself going faster than I'd expected on a dual highway, facing into the sun. At first I thought a twin highway must have been built since I was last going to Waldheim (only 30 min. away.)
Then I began to see towns coming up that should NOT be on this route to Waldheim. Oh, if only I had put some highway maps into the car, when I got this car 2 years ago!
I saw signs I was on Highway #16, I remembered that the one straight north to Waldheim should be #12. I felt so ashamed!
Finally, I found a place where I could turn back, when I saw an exit for Dalmeny I went there, but I also stopped at a service station, and I asked to be sure if I could get over to #12. I got my directions, and did find my way to the road going north and I was about half an hour late for the start of the service, but so glad I had found my way. But, what a great help a MAP would have been!
Do stash maps in your glove-compartment. It may save you many miles out of your planned way, and a rather late arrival.
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