Our friend has changed his mind

There is SO much controversy about wearing masks. 

We have a friend who didn't want to wear a mask. I'll call him Mike. Then for whatever reason Mike thought one day he should. So he began wearing one at work.

However, there were two people at work who didn't wear masks. Those two people also didn't know they had COVID, until they were tested later.

Mike is now in the hospital with COVID, quite sure where he got it. His doctors have asked him lots of questions, and when Mike explained that FIVE people at his work now have it, they became angry. They said his work place should be shut down. 

Mike said he use to play down COVID, thinking it wasn't that big of a deal. Now he knows it's a big deal. His doctors say yes, it's real, and it's here and it's a big deal. 

Mike says it's hard, and it's lonely. The only people he sees are ones wearing Star Wars looking costumes. We asked him today on the phone if they come in frequently to check on him. Mike answered, "Frequently is an understatement." We were relieved to know they are taking good care of him. 

He was diagnosed last Wednesday and had no symptoms. By Saturday he was quite sick. His oxygen stats were low and his left lung was only operating at 25% capacity. 

If only everyone at work were wearing a mask, our friend wouldn't be suffering so much now. 

Read the latest. Sad, because it didn't have to be this way.

Something that will help....

I wanted to share this short message from the President of our Church. 
Hard to believe he is 95, but he is. 

He always brings me such comfort.

When they talk about his daughters, keep in mind he has NINE.

A Memorable Earthquake today

So I was sitting on the couch in our family room this morning 
writing an email to my cousin, 

when suddenly I heard some rattling. 

The front door was shaking 

and then it sounded like a large animal got on our roof 

and was walking across it. At this point the front door stopped 
rattling, and the windows in the family room took over. 

I could hear Den from his office down the hall yelling to me, 
"We're having an earth quake!"

I could tell it was an earthquake and I kept waiting to feel the 

shaking, but I never did. I felt nothing.

So odd, because even small earthquakes will wake me up. 

Then about 5 minutes later both my phone and Den's, 

let out a loud alert. 

Picking it up, this what we saw:

Why was it sent out 5 minutes after the fact?
No one seems to know. 

Actually, I'd rather have the alert after the earthquake,
than before. 

Bad news is not so hard to take when it's already over. 

Juneteenth

I've thought much about my Great Great Great Grandpa Enos Lewis, this past week especially. 

When he was a young boy he use to take slaves on the run and bring them into his father's barn to sleep until he could help them on to a place of safety.

Then later on when he had his own place, he was known for having 26 slaves at a time in his home, feeding and caring for them. 

I will feel honored to meet him in the next life.

I don't usually post blogs twice, but I felt compelled to with this one......




This may just look like an old man from the 1800s to you.

Enos Lewis

1799-1889

He is my Great Great Great Grandfather Enos Lewis.

Enos' son Morgan Berney Lewis, is my Great Great Grandfather.

Morgan's daughter, Lella Lewis is my Great Grandmother.

Lella's daughter, Lella LeMaster is my Grandma.

Her daughter, Gaynor Lea Slinkard is my Mom.

Okay, you got that?

Now I want to tell you what I found out about this man Enos Lewis.

I found the info below in an old book first published in 1903.

(thanks to my sister Heidi)

From Morgan M Lewis about his Uncle Enos:

"He was one of the first to take a stand against American slavery and wielded a power that was felt both in his public speeches and through his financial aid. The writer well remembers going to his house and seeing a company of splendid looking colored fugitives, some twenty-six in number, who were being sheltered and fed. Uncle Enos never seemed so happy as when he was doing some act of kindness to his fellowmen.  

"He abhorred intemperance and profanity and was a shining star to those who might look for the light and in him could find an example that would be safe to follow.

"He loved children and nothing pleased him more than to teach them, and his lessons were of a high order. He believed in a future and a just and impartial God who never created a soul to be lost."

Enos Lewis' daughter said,

"Father's sympathies were enlisted at an early age in behalf of the poor downtrodden slave. I have hear him tell how, when they lived in Ohio, he aided the fugitives who were fleeing from bondage in quest of liberty, by hiding them in his father's barn before he could get a chance to help them on to a place of safety. On one occasion he had three or four of them secreted in the hay mow. His brother Hervy (who was then too young to share the secret, but who afterward became a strong supporter of the anti-slavery cause) went to the barn to hunt eggs and walked all around over the fugitives, but did not happen to discover them. When night came, and the family were all in bed asleep, father took his father's horses and wagon and carried his charges toward the land of freedom to a place of safety, returning to his bed in time to not be detected. He continued in that work until slavery was abolished. He was always in support to those needing help and mother always sustained him in his good words. 

So I started to wonder where Enos got his strong objections to slavery and sense of duty to his fellow man. Than as I read further I found this:

From the death notice of Enos Lewis:

"...He was an early and active opponent of slavery. His parents having left their Virginia home on account of that curse existing there, left a lasting impression on his mind that governed his whole life..."

I needed this today

Each morning on my online journal, up pops on my screen 

all the entries from past years with today's date. 

I rarely look at these past journal entries. 

Today, for some reason I did. 

I put this video in my journal on June 2, 2016, 4 years ago.

I do remember it was watching this 4 years ago,
 that inspired me to place 
pictures of Christ in nearly every room of our home. 

With all the violence out there right now, 

I needed to watch this today.