Yesterday was a fine day with sun and high-teen temps until about 3pm, at which hour the wind picked up and the sun took refuge behind the clouds. Please note, I am just describing the weather, not complaining!

I walked to the med lab to deliver my stool specimen dated to the hour in time of its emergence! Next onto Grand and Toy’s final sale to pick up some items for Juliet, followed by a tea with John.

He had visited his mother and told me she is recovering well in a very agreeable setting in Revelstoke at reasonable cost, until such time that the skiing picks up again in November. So far, so good. As I said to John there is a Dutch saying that applies to his Mom in that she had ‘bad luck come with good luck‘, with which he totally agreed!

After that tea and visit, I hopped on the train to 7th Str to visit Juliet, where I arrived too early. Waiting, I took my repose on a wooden bench in the garden of the historic Norwegian Lutheran church at 8th and 3rd SW and studied the downtown bike lane pamphlet.

Juliet had not written much, but showed me the performance of her granddaughter from about eight years ago. A charming woman now no doubt, with a fine voice. But, Juliet had pushed too many buttons and deregulated the two remotes. Consequently a long telephone dialogue with Shaw Cable ensued, which helped fix the problem.

That made it time for our rice and lentil dinner with salad and wine! Once sufficiently suffonsified, I showed Juliet the items I’d bought her, such as paper clips, a dispenser and staples. We chatted some, send an email to her son and made a plan of action regarding the composition of her ‘story’.

I took the train home all the way to Erlton station, which is about a fifteen minute walk from my place. That makes it quite convenient, avoiding the much longer walk from downtown.

It was near eight pm when I opened the door to my abode and proceeded to markup my daily entry from the morning, post and then print it. I also emailed Jack regarding my writings of this week, as these are dealing with topics we have often discussed.

By the way, last Tuesday evening I finished reading Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ and am now awaiting the follow up volume on the same subject, but covering the period from 1492 - the expulsion from Spain - until the ‘present’.

The Jews discovered the diaspora and now they own it.

From reading this book and knowing history a bit I have come to the following conclusion regarding the Jewish people and exile or as they call it ‘diaspora’. “The Jews discovered the diaspora and now they own it.” It is just the way they live as a people the world over, but connected by the myth of the promised land, which in its reality today is one to be questioned.

Since the middle of April I have taken up the habit to print my daily entries as they show on my web pages in their final form. Reading those helps me to digest what I tried to express, re-evaluate it and also note some needed corrections in spelling and composition.

The main purpose, however is for me to reassess and ingest as it were, the thoughts and ideas that emerged in those morning writings. This rereading and assessing also enables me to lay a connection between the various entrees in a conceptual sense. This is now of importance as I am working out the idea of a ‘Framework for Human experience’.

As a case in point, based on my reading yesterday’s writing on ‘Existence Divine’ and the subset of ‘infinite good’, I now recall additional ideas in this regard and on this I want to expand. I am explaining this here in detail, as I foresee that I will now keep on with this trend of laying connections between the writings as these emerge from day today.

Upon the rereading of yesterday’s section of Existence Divine, I recalled some earlier observations. That is, my noticing that I experience the presence of god or the higher power in different ways, when I recollect teachings from childhood, youth and adulthood.

There have been times that I would return to concepts about ’the Good Shepherd’ which I was taught as a child, while at others the idea of being ’in the keep and shadow of the Almighty’ would emerge. This along with associated feelings of reassurance in both cases.

Over the last decade or so, in different situation, such images would surface in my memory and I began to notice that they related to the state of vulnerability I found myself in.

In other words, taught stories, values and images would emerge to match the state of ‘challenge’ I was facing. If the challenge was new, threatening in a way that I could not accommodated, I found myself recalling the saying of ‘I will keep you and protect you’. This saying with its reassurance would stay with me for some time.

Yet there were other times in which I could and would experience ‘god’ in a very abstract way, such as in the experience of being at one and in tune with all that exists, accompanied with feelings of peace and harmony regardless of what was going on in the world.

Over time, listening to and reading about similar experiences by others, I came to the conclusion that the ‘god image’ that we experience changes with time and situation.

It has the quality, character and value of being ‘compensatory’ of life’s situational challenge.

It has the quality, character and value of being ‘compensatory’ of life’s situational challenge. It can be comforting, but also admonishing or imperative even. The Old Testament hands down to us many a narrative that illustrate such processes in its diversity.

So, as I was recalling some of this, I made an unexpected connection with another, but similar observation and principle even. It is the one I have called TPPC, short for Time, Place, People and Circumstance, a condition I discussed earlier in my writings.

This principle pertains to the way ‘Existence Divine’ is revealed in the handed down traditions of humanity, such as our religions with their long pedigree stretching back into the times of our first related conscious experiences as narrated in world mythology.

Examples of such revelations in time, place for people and in certain circumstance, are found in the oracle records that archaeology has uncovered, as for example in oracle bones. Such ‘words of God’ are also passed on to us through oral histories that were later put down in written scriptures.

Today’s new movie ‘Noah’ reminds us again of such processes that guided early humans through the challenges they faced in their time, their place, their community and their circumstances, facing the unknown shared by humanity in the Mystery of existence.
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