Steps

The steps to the porch of my grandmother's home. My mother's mom. Where Mom mainly grew up. More than a hundred years old on a farm that, longer ago than that was covered with dead soldiers in the Civil War. And before that, probably a farm for a hundred years. And before that? Absolute paradise.

And now, an abandoned, boarded up house with snakes in the cellar and a trailer park before it and a freeway behind it.

Genesis 1 - The first 4 days

I have the first 19 verses of Genesis down pat. Well, somewhat pat. I get nervous over certain words or word order. But mostly, just fine. It's verses 17 & 18 that are tricky. Verse 19 a two year old could learn in 10 minutes.  (And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.)

But owing to not feeling super confident over those two verses, I'm waiting before I start the fifth day, which begins with verse 20. An easy way to remember this is that 5 does not divide into 19 or 18 or 21, but it does go evenly into 20, 4 times in fact, and the fourth day happens right before the fifth day. So, 4 times 5 = 20 and therefore, Genesis 1:20 begins the fifth day of creation. We're about to start having action!! Day 6 sets the scene for the plot to unfold, after Day 7, which, in case you were wondering how to write a good play or novel or song or poem, etc, remember, a pause in the right spot is key.

A passel of soldiers and two lasses.

GIRLS


Ferella

Livna - Hebrew, meaning "my dew"   (information courtesy of behindthename.com)




BOYS


Bigges - name of an Ohio soldier in the war of 1812 (so, born in the 18th century).

Elnathan -  an Ohio soldier in the war of 1812

Evans - another Ohio 1812 soldier

Hyatt - a soldier from Ohio in 1812

Johnson - an Ohio soldier of the war of 1812

Kimber - a soldier of 1812 in Ohio

Zina - a soldier of the war of 1812 from Ohio

Home

 

This is the desert behind the town where I grew up.

Names of Interest

GIRLS

Achsey

Melvina

Ruey

Zelpha




BOYS

Cecilius

Isma

Levin

All in the family

I came across these interesting names all in one family as I did genealogy research tonight.

GIRLS


Narina

Sedellia

Sitnah



BOYS


Alanson

Beedy

Morrison

Neri



From another family, in this same family branch, I found these names:



GIRLS


Laodica



BOYS


Shockley

Genesis 1

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening, and the morning were the first day.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And God said, Let the waters which are under the heaven be gathered together unto one place. And let the dry land appear. And it was so.

And God called the dry land Earth and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. And God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth, and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself, after his kind. And God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.


Verse 15:

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the Day from the Night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.

Verse 16

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so.



Verse 17:

And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the Day and the lesser light to rule the Night; he made the stars also.



And that's how far I've gotten. Verse 15 I struggled with and verse 16, but now I've got tem down pat. And 17 wasn't too hard to learn. I'm ready for verse 18 now!

It's really neat the influence this has on my day and my life. For instance, as I showered last night I tried to fit the words of this chapter into a song, using the tune for How Great Thou Art (it seems to have been the inspiration, in a way, after all, for that song).