“God sets the lonely in families,” we read in the book called Psalms.

From a sermon I heard many, many years ago I remember that the preacher said that we start off  alone. When we get married, we become two. Then the children are being born and it does not matter how many children we have, all of them leave the home eventually. We are two again. Then the husband or the wife dies and there is only one person left.

“LONELINESS”

“Tens of thousands of older New Zealanders are very, very lonely,” it says on the card I picked up today at the local Age Concern office.

A lady from Age Concern Napier “says social isolation – or lack of community connection – is the single most serious issue facing older people.” (RISE: Issue 26 – March 2014)

On the card from the local Age Concern office it says also, “We’re here to help when it feels like nobody cares.”

I don’t need to tell you that a home, a family, consists of a Father, a Mother and children.

But I want to tell you that there is also a church family.

Whether I want to or not, but I am one of the “older people”, but I belong to a church family. I am not only not  lacking community connection, but I am also connected to the Living God. I am born again.

Please read this promise from the THE BOOK OF BOOKS:

“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.

The Lord cares!

Celebrate INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

8 March

International Women’s Day is all about recognizing. We recognize the progress of women’s rights.

Recognizing things is very important.

I have a book  by Eugene Price  in my library about women. In the book she recognizes the “mysterious influence” women have “over the lives their lives touch.”

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, we recognize the progress of women’s rights. There are rights socially. There are rights economically. There are rights when it comes to political matters.

In her book WOMAN TO WOMAN Eugene Price recognizes that “God created into woman  particular power to influence.”

She writes:

“Women scar hearts and souls. God did not give us this power to influence without reason. But it is certain that He gave it to us. Not to use as Eve used hers over Adam. This was the very moment sin entered into the world and infected all human nature. And we are being unrealistic and hiding behind the long touted and utterly false ‘weak little women’ theory when we refuse to admit that sin entered the world through a woman; when we  refuse to admit that  it invaded the human race through the influence of a woman.”

And please remember that a woman is writing this.

I still remember that I picked up the book WOMAN TO WOMAN by Eugene Price second hand many years ago in Orewa on  my way from Auckland to Kaikohe.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are operating a stall at the market here in Kaitaia on Saturday.

That’s where I picked up yesterday the latest issues of the two publications of the Society:

THE WATCHTOWER & AWAKE!

I am interested in the Printing of Each Issue.

THE WATCHTOWER

Printing Each Issue:

45,944,000 in 213 languages – March 1, 2014

AWAKE!

Printing Each Issue:

44,748,000 in 99 Languages – March 2014

I am also reminded again to read the book THIRTY YEARS A WATCH TOWER SLAVE by W. J. Schnell.

The Confessions of a Converted Jehovah’s Witness.

I like this flower

“I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the Lord, your God.” – Numbers 15:41

“The pages of yesterday cannot be revised, but the pages of tomorrow are blank and you hold the pen. Make it an inspiring story.” – Melchor Lim

“East West College of Intercultural Studies”

Craters of the Moon, TAUPO / NZ

Picture / Steven

“Take care of your memories. For you cannot relive them.” – Bob Dylan