Yesterday Elisabeth and I met at the bottom of the spiral stairs leading up to the footbridge over MacLeod Trail to the Stampede grounds, all at the agreed time of 9:30am! We made our way to Weadick Ville, the little oasis of cool and calm at that time of the day.

Here we panned our visit. Elisabeth to go to the line for free tickets and I to the Agricultural Centre, where I spent about an hour. It is the new venue of this year and well designed to informing the public from young to old. Well done Federal Government I say, it was informative for a city slicker like me and so many others these days.

After collecting enough brochures on Canola for my younger sister I return at about ten to eleven I to the lineup spot where I’d left Elisabeth. She was near the front, with now several hundred behind her, all waiting for the wicket to open at eleven. Once Elisabeth had her tickets we returned to Weadick Ville for a nice 5$ ice cream. It was getting busy there now for lunch and the afternoon crowd, with the temps rising. For me it was time to start my walk home, while Elisabeth went on to take in the afternoon shows.

Later in the afternoon I first made a quick grocery shopping trip and turned quickly to wtch the Brazil Germany football match. However, by that time Brazil was already hopelessly behind with five goals against them, so I made my second shopping trip and just watched the last twenty minutes of this embarrassing debacle for the Brazilians. They had to play without their captain, as well as their top player and the team just crumpled in discouragement.

Time to give Juliet a call for this aft, because Holland is on deck against Argentina and I do not want to miss that duel! It turns out that Juliet is not into watching the football match and since it will most likely go to the very end of extra time, we decided to skip our visit for today, but have one tomorrow.

Do I write some writings’ today, that it the question! But, first I will have some coffee. And, with that out of the way I continue at 10:44am.

The concept of ‘Existence Divine’ in my belief statement is now in turn for explanation. It is the fulcrum of that statement, lending content to a set of action verbs that could apply to communism, capitalism, democracy or any value system. This makes it necessary to explain what I mean by ‘Existence Divine’.

This leads to the necessity of naming Existence Divine a mystery, but which is knowable …

Existence Divine includes all there is, regardless of what we humans think of it. This means that evil as well as good are included within it, since this is part of our human experience world. But, that world is limited and bound in time, so there are ‘things’ that are included within Existence Divine that are as yet not, or may never be, part of the human experience. This leads to the necessity of naming Existence Divine a mystery, but which is knowable as we also know from our human experience, contemporarily as well as historically.

Existence Divine then, cannot be defined, but becomes known and can be known through human effort and does become known that way, but not always in way we humans would like or expect, yet at other times can be surprisingly beneficial.
In this regard, it is important to realise that we ourselves participate as humans in this mystery, we are part of it, affecting it and affected by it. It is an existence in mutuality.
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