My Cup Runneth Over (random readings today)

I stopped at this place, thinking it might be a day where there is a food bank and I was right. I went in to pick up things for my son and put everything that was not expired into a bag for him, and some cupcakes.

There were 6 packages of cupcakes on the table so I had the idea come to mind, to pray and do a random reading.

Maybe today is a day of peace and unity because it seemed I got something for everyone, and lot of christian stuff from England and U.S.

I didn't look and selected from the church bookshelves and decided I would pull out 6 books and then go in order of which one I turned over.

When I went in, I noticed a cup on some kind of altar thing. After I came in someone removed it. I only thought about it when I turned over my first book and it said, "thou preparest a table before me...my cup overflows..." and thought of the cup and how I had also placed a cup full of water in a "Dad" cup on the windowsill, thinking of my Dad, my family, and my son.

So I will list what I wrote down and the excerpts I got:

1. Roadside Tables by Alberta Lunger: thou preparest a table before me...my cup overflows...". 1960 by Bethany Press.
pg. 49, Chapter V. With Jesus at the table of forgiveness (in simon the pharisee's house). "Jesus must have loved the twilight hours. work was finished. There was a certain feeling of leisure in every household--children would gather round to listen to stories. All young foks were delighted when jesus came. He was ready to tell them stories. Unlike their experiences with most adults, they felt joy in his presence. They knew they were wanted. (then it goes on to speak of how we are to have the hearts of children and simon was not like a child and criticized the woman who poured expensive oil on the feet of Jesus.)

2. The Religion of Jesus and Love: the law of life--Toyohiko Kagawa. Copyright 1931. Britain and U.S. John C. Winston Co.
pg. 100-101 (preceding pages all about wonderful mothers and then on pg. 100 how a sword pierced the heart of Jesus' mother to see his suffering. 101, "Jesus was silent for awhile, and then, after taking the sour wine, he aid, "It is finished." This does not mean that everything was ended, but rather that matters were accomplished. That is, that he had walked the full length of the path that had to be covered. Nelson's words in the naval battle of Trafalgar, "Thank God I have done my duty, " are beautiful words. Should we not be grateful for Jesus' words, "It is finished, " which he said in the hour of his seeming defeat?

3. Britain In Old Photographs: the market towns of Leicestershire and Rutland by Trevor Hickman. By Sutton publishing (the man is, haha, wearing a turqoise shirt). Pg. 86, Memorial to Sir Frank Whittle, who "pioneered the design of the jet engine in 1936. I landed on a sculpture of a jet plane.
(I wrote, "some tall structure in background" and looked it up and it is the "Church of St. Mary the Virgin" where John Wycliff preached. There is a "kissing gate" but I don't know what that means. It's called "the kissing gate" and encircles this church. There is a memorial of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee nearby. All these things are from the town of Lutterworth. Also, pretty photos of a "River Swift".

4. High Is The Wall by Ruth Berry, Muhlenberg Press. (to my children, within and without the garden wall). 1955. Pg. 46, "A few days later he brought her diamond. It was much more beautiful than any of her girlfriends had been given. He had bought the best he could afford."

5. A Gown Of Spanish Lace by Janette Oke: her mother's wedding gown--so priceless, but so mysterious..."). Bethany House Publishers out of Minnesota. Pg. 167, "Don't worry, " he drawled, as though reading her mind. It's all paid for. He did not explain how he had come by the money that paid the accounts."

6. The Interpretation of the New Testament 1861-1961 by Stephan Neill. 1964, Oxford University Press. Pg. 184, (Greeks and Christians), "They are no new peole, but the ancient peole of God; since they have entered into a covenant-relationship withgod through faith, they are heirs of Abraham, god's covenant was established on the basis of faith and nothing else. It is sometimes affirmed that the original christians had not supposed themselves to be adherents of a "new" religion; and one of the changes alleged to have been introduced by the Hellenists is that of supposing themselves to be a new race, the third race as opposed to pagans and Jews. But this is an argument which will hardly hold water." (here they are just talking about the early church but it has nothing to do with "race" later, really).

This made me think about the full cup of water I had out for my Dad on the windowsill, and I didn't do any kind of ritual or anything, but it was a wish that he will have good luck and also for me, and my son, separate entirely, to have good luck. To then get a book about a cup running over was sort of interesting. I mainly had this idea of filling a cup to the top with water in a cup that said Dad, which is to represent my own Dad & Mom and family and me and the return of my son to me. I put it on the sill as a symbol of hope and good luck, that the cup may be full or with the idea of "runneth over" in a certain sense. I just found out they have a cold and I guess a lot of people in my family even in Wenatchee came down with something small (cold virus)--so far I haven't had any problem...but I'm sure the first one of the season will be coming up in a few months.

But maybe not. Hopefully, good. The Spanish lace gown is something that made me think of my mother because I think that's the kind of lace on her wedding dress, even though she wasn't spanish or anything. I didn't equate this with anything to do with my life.

I was sort of curious about the kissing gate. I looked up the town of Lutterworth and it's picturesque and has a very cool history about the church there, because supposedly Wycliff translated the very first Bible into English, from the Latin, there. Then, there's a Gideon headquarters which makes me think of Gideon Bibles. I want to find out about the "kissing gate" though.

Yikes. I went to that church site and some look like perfect hooligans. Might delete this last comment... ;)

I thought more about Ganesha as well--this story. I am still working on ideas for a book for my son but I think first I'll just send a simple card so it doesn't take as long to complete and send off.
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Today I "touched" on many religions and cultures in this church. The food was all multi-ethnic, from coucous to eastern indian curry to matza to italian to spanish to eastern europe, whey protein, generally american from west coast to new england...and then lots of pears too. and good old american cupcakes. I hope today will be a good day for everyone.
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another cat song just came on. The Cure's "cat song. tons of cat songs today. I heard "The Year of the Cat" in the bathroom this morning and then I walked into Safeway as they were playing "Stray Cat Strut" and then now it's another cat song. hahaha.

Anyway, I have to make an exit after this one, to get some work done.
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I sent an email to the Lutterworth church, asking about the kissing gate. I said I thought maybe there was some history behind that particular gate, but I don't know what and I couldn't find anything online either. Then I read how Wycliff, that there is a tale that where his ashes fell, on the way to the River Swift, there came new springs. Sort of a nice story. Waiting to hear about the gate still.
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I didn't do any wardrobe checks today, on anyone. I didn't pray at least and when guessing without any work, it's more fuzzy. I was sort of "on", sort of not. Right now I feel a bad vibe, which started at about 5:30 p.m., which is the time by which I filed something for an extension of time for a court matter, and maybe something shifted somewhere, I don't know. Things were starting to feel a little bit better for my son.

Also, something must have been better for someone out there because I went from almost no sleep and restless, sad and heavy hearted nights to sleeping like a rock. It was this timeframe where it was just horrible, and so heavy hearted, for a whole month and then worsening and then it improved just a little bit, for maybe a whole week or so, until today. Probably my son is wondering why he didn't see me after his church day.

I want my son back Mr. Barak. I think it is possible to make an Executive Decision now and then. Why not? I want my lawyers to get the records I need, too, and quit stalling, on purpose, by hoping that if I have even a stipulated continuance it will block me, for 2 years, from getting records from Canada about what happened between U.S. and Canadian officials.

This was a solid kidnapping of my child and has been a perversion of justice.

I want my son and I don't care who he is "bonded" to. The bonding argument is irrelevant when the State of Washington deliberately colluded to try to break that bond. It holds up just as well as the Cuban boy situation did, and lets not delay the return of my son until he is 7 or even further bonded to others who are not his rightful parents.

If someone from the U.S. paid attention, and was or is willing to investigate, I am able to point out all the records and evidence that is needed to clear this whole thing up very quickly.