A Great Weekend
1/05/07 - 2nd Day - After Breakfast. Two days of sunshine and relative warmth (60's) has really helped dry up the ground, and we look forward to a productive week of work. The fellas will be working today with Logan Ante helping to pour the footers for his new house, so I will be on my own. I have to run into town today to get some measurements on some windows and to pick up some things for us to start working on Josie's cabin tomorrow. We hope to have her cabin pretty well framed up tomorrow, if the Lord wills.
We had a great/quiet Sabbath, and the Lord's Day was quite nice as well. On the Sabbath we rested and I read in a book entitled "The First Frontier" by R.V. Coleman. I highly recommend it to those of you who want to know more about history. I have read more detailed accounts of individual elements of the founding and peopling of America, but for a wide overview of the first colonists, this is probably one of the best. Most interesting is a point that we already knew. Once the colonists allowed Roman Catholics and the colony of Maryland to exist in the new world, the dreams and aspirations, and the promise of a land given to God lovers where they could worship God out from under the thumb of tyranny, was over. Interesting to read that the Catholic colonists stowed three Jesuits on their first ship over, and how they gave lip-service to free worship and tolerance, just long enough for them to get their minions in the halls of power. It was there, in Mary-land, on a hill called "Rome" hill, where the federal government and the worshipers of the Goddess "Libertas" (Persephone) would grow, their tentacles reaching into the whole world for the Pope of Rome. The Christian colonists had been planted in good, but dangerous ground, between the Catholic Spaniard in Florida, and the Catholic Frenchman in Canada. But the Beast did not crush them between these two jaws. He, instead, planted his leaven in the midst of them, in Mary-land - pretending to be one of them, and deceitfully destroying the project from the inside. That is something from which we can learn.
Some mistakes are permanent... at least as long as the world lasts.
On the Sabbath evening, we had a very nice Q&A session with the whole community present. The bulk of our talks focused on the Puritan view of the importance of order and obedience, and how we put things (like family, friends, neighbors) in our hearts (emotions) and therefore we will disobey God rather than offend a friend. This lead to a discussion based on a book that Danielle is reading called "The Puritan Family", about the purpose of things, and how God created everything to be used and treated according to its purpose, and how we put things in our heart, that God has put "under our feet", creating disorder and rebellion. The Puritans used alcohol, tobacco, comfortable beds, etc., but they did so for the glory of God. They loved their families and trained them up, but for the glory of God. They were primarily interested in God's glory and not in these things for their own sake. This is why they were willing to see their rebellious wives pilloried, or their children whipped publicly for disobedience. This is why blasphemy was punished (after the second offense) by the tongue being drilled through with an awl (like a knitting needle), and banishment into the wilderness. They were concerned about God punishing the whole community if they failed to punish rebellion. They kept things in the proper perspective, and did not worship the creation over the Creator.
Slightly different perspective than that of modernist fools who worship their wives and "kids", and who treat their dogs like people.
On the Lord's Day we had a great time singing, then we had our fellowship meal of smoked Turkey, baked beans, mashed potatoes, salad, and cornbread... and some deserts of course.
Y'all have a great day!
Michael Bunker
We had a great/quiet Sabbath, and the Lord's Day was quite nice as well. On the Sabbath we rested and I read in a book entitled "The First Frontier" by R.V. Coleman. I highly recommend it to those of you who want to know more about history. I have read more detailed accounts of individual elements of the founding and peopling of America, but for a wide overview of the first colonists, this is probably one of the best. Most interesting is a point that we already knew. Once the colonists allowed Roman Catholics and the colony of Maryland to exist in the new world, the dreams and aspirations, and the promise of a land given to God lovers where they could worship God out from under the thumb of tyranny, was over. Interesting to read that the Catholic colonists stowed three Jesuits on their first ship over, and how they gave lip-service to free worship and tolerance, just long enough for them to get their minions in the halls of power. It was there, in Mary-land, on a hill called "Rome" hill, where the federal government and the worshipers of the Goddess "Libertas" (Persephone) would grow, their tentacles reaching into the whole world for the Pope of Rome. The Christian colonists had been planted in good, but dangerous ground, between the Catholic Spaniard in Florida, and the Catholic Frenchman in Canada. But the Beast did not crush them between these two jaws. He, instead, planted his leaven in the midst of them, in Mary-land - pretending to be one of them, and deceitfully destroying the project from the inside. That is something from which we can learn.
Some mistakes are permanent... at least as long as the world lasts.
On the Sabbath evening, we had a very nice Q&A session with the whole community present. The bulk of our talks focused on the Puritan view of the importance of order and obedience, and how we put things (like family, friends, neighbors) in our hearts (emotions) and therefore we will disobey God rather than offend a friend. This lead to a discussion based on a book that Danielle is reading called "The Puritan Family", about the purpose of things, and how God created everything to be used and treated according to its purpose, and how we put things in our heart, that God has put "under our feet", creating disorder and rebellion. The Puritans used alcohol, tobacco, comfortable beds, etc., but they did so for the glory of God. They loved their families and trained them up, but for the glory of God. They were primarily interested in God's glory and not in these things for their own sake. This is why they were willing to see their rebellious wives pilloried, or their children whipped publicly for disobedience. This is why blasphemy was punished (after the second offense) by the tongue being drilled through with an awl (like a knitting needle), and banishment into the wilderness. They were concerned about God punishing the whole community if they failed to punish rebellion. They kept things in the proper perspective, and did not worship the creation over the Creator.
Slightly different perspective than that of modernist fools who worship their wives and "kids", and who treat their dogs like people.
On the Lord's Day we had a great time singing, then we had our fellowship meal of smoked Turkey, baked beans, mashed potatoes, salad, and cornbread... and some deserts of course.
Y'all have a great day!
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 2/05/2007 04:25:00 AM
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