glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is gone! It is 2:36 PM Friday afternoon here in Western Michigan. It is 73 degrees and sunny right now. It feels like Spring this afternoon. I got up this morning around 7 o'clock AM. When I came upstairs I found Carol reading her Bible. I did all the things I do when I get up- This morning I made a pot of oatmeal for breakfast. After Carol and I had breakfast we read some more of Calvin's 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' Volume 1 and The Valley of Vision. We closed our devotional in prayer (Carol prays first and then I close with prayer). Carol left around 8:25 AM to go to her church to help fold church bulletins. I left around 9:35 AM to go volunteer at the Book Nook (our local library used books store). The store was not super busy so I mainly read, 'The Fortress of Solitude' A Novel by Jonathan Lethem. I bought two used books from the Book Nook today- 'Writings And Drawings' James Thurber [The Library of America] 'At Home with Books-How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries' Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm & Christopher Simon Sykes Carol showed up at 1 o'clock PM. As she was coming into the store I was suddenly attacked with very painful chest pains in my left side-very intense pain-Carol was concerned being a retired nurse but thankfully in a few minutes I felt better-not dying. Before coming home I did go behind the Legacy Thrift Store and dump my College Class Notes, my Seminary Class Notes, my Sermons Notes, 10 years of Adult Sunday School Notes-TONS of paper-notebooks-research-intellectual and spiritual meditations etc. . . ALL dumped into a dumpster GONE never to see the light of day-the eye of the illuminated EYE intellect Soul food gone. I did keep my Seminary Notes on 17th Century Puritan Theology, notes on a class of Christian Spirituality and a class I took on Biblical Theology/the first class I took at Reformed Theological Seminary Jackson Miss. with Dr. Meredith G. Kline TEXT 'Kingdom Prologue'. I figure in 21 years if I am not in Glory I will be 91 years old. Also I will never teach or preach the Holy Scriptures ever again-I am retired-I am out to pasture-I am waiting for the Second Coming of Christ. I am finished. Last night I mainly read late into the night from a book titled, 'Danube' travel/history by Claudio Magris Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh. Carol is HOME time 3:01 PM. I will close to wait. 3:06 p.m. - 2023-05-05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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