Good morning Daniel,
It has been several days since your last post, in which you were describing the intense circumstances in which you are now undergoing. The images (news) that we are seeing daily show the extent of this horror. I am praying that you are safe along with all of your friends.
Brother Daniel, have you been able to remain safe at home or have you been forced to move? How are you fairing today?
I realize that much must be going on at the moment, but I would just like to be reassured of your well- being... There is no need for a long reply, just "I'm safe", is all I want to hear.
Keeping you in my prayers,
With love in Christ,
mary
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TUESDAY-September 2/15, 2020: Holy Martyrs Mamas of Caesarea, in Cappadocia and his parents, Theodotus and Rufina:
To all:
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork!"
"How marvelous are Thy works, O Lord, there is no word sufficient to hymn Thy wonders! Thou art the God Who worketh wonders!
ALLELUIA!
By the mercies of God, so far, this forest and my abode here: Our Saviour's Place, has not been burned.
However, I am not 100% out of danger yet. Winds may bring it to me.
All is in God's hands, as usual.
Very heavy & thick toxic smoke fills the air for many many miles.
A number of the scattered regional fires here in Oregon, and Washington, and California, etc. are still burning and in some places, spreading, and not yet 'contained'.
A few thousands of firefighters, a growing number from outside Oregon, from other states and including from Canada, battle the fires, night and day. More are arriving each day. Some soldiers of the National Guard are among them. Where possible, local volunteer people & organizations and businesses try to help & to feed them.
Many volunteer rescuers of the many many various endangered animals (livestock and pets) are busy saving the animals and sheltering and caring and feeding and nursing them. Wild animals are simply escaping as they are able or are getting burned to death-many are dying.
Some human evacuees are finding refuge with relatives or friends who are far from the fires, or simply living in their cars or trucks or in temporary shelters set up in or by churches or by the Red Cross or other charitable organizations, or by simply many many volunteer individual caring folks...who take the stranded people into their homes, in areas where it is considered fire-safe.
However, by God's Hands: until drenching autumn rains begin (predicted to begin perhaps 'at the end of this week', GOD WILLING!), these huge and widespread forest and wild fires, will not be all or 100% put out.
Currently, because of the unbelievable thick smoke, (which covers many hundreds of miles) aerial dropping of water or fire-retardants has been impossible, because it has not been safe for helicopters or planes to fly in such smoke.
For some fire zones, when the firefighters come back in, they find the homes and barns still intact and untouched by the flames.
Some people though warned to evacuate, stayed in their homes, many to care for their animals, and have remained untouched by the fires.
Others, -their bodies have not yet been found in the ashes.
However in other locales, whole towns have been wiped out and burned to the ground and with not one building left. Every dry rainless summer here in the Northwest USA, we all fear dry-season summer forest fires-that is normal for us here.
But when such fires occur, normally, it is mainly a result of 'dry lightening strikes', or careless tourists leaving camp fires burning, or other accidental human causes.
This year, however, we in Oregon, have had zero dry lightening strikes, plus some demented deranged souls or drug controlled criminals who have started some of these fires or who have been caught-in-the-act attempting to start forest fires. If such ones are caught doing such things in rural Oregon, the well-armed and used to protecting themselves, locals may make sure, on the spot, that they never do such crimes again.
Rural Oregonians are not like the passive/impotent city Democrat-pro-Leftist 'liberal' politicians, who now condone AND DEFEND the anarchist rioters, looters/thieves, murderers and arsonists whom theyprotect & allow to freely run amuck, ordering the police to stand aside.
In my personal observation: at least some of these fires, LIKELY, have been started by some of the current insane drugged leftist nihilist-anarchists (the vast majority of whom are not 'blacks', but deranged white leftist youths, who are rioting and looting and starting fires & shooting people, in some of our major cities such as in Portland, Seattle, and even in near to me, Eugene, Oregon, etc.
They …funded and guided by foreign anti-American forces, want to overthrow our American democracy, or if they can't succeed in that goalyet, then to at least destroy us physically....and start a race-war.
They dream of a mythical "Socialist-Marxist Utopia", SUCH AS...North Korea!-?
I say: If that is what they want, then let them go there, (even charter planes to take them there, for free, so we in America can be free of them all), or take them to the other communist run impoverished and non-free nations, (where not obeying the police means that you get shot dead on the spot) and then, perhaps, they will experience for themselves, that godless & anti-human COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK! It never has worked anywhere it has seized any society....and tortured and starved to death, & otherwise murdered many millions....as in Russia and Ukraine and elsewhere.
Our current deluded mindless idiot-anarchist-Marxists here, know NO HISTORY!
"Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it!"
It makes the common people hopeless and miserable and constantly under the guns of the police and military forces of the communist government, and lacking even in basic human necessities-even food, and WITH ZERO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT OR SPEECH!
Rather than to create, a Marxist promised, 'heaven-on-earth' instead Communism creates a DREARY hell-on-earth, where the vast majority of the depressed population is perennially impoverished and enslaved, & depressed & HOPELESS! & ruled by a small super rich ruling class at the top. The ruling class of all communist dictatorships are among THE RICHEST MOST PRIVILEDGED PEOPLE ON EARTH!
I remember a placard of a brave anticommunist Russian protestor, some years ago: (in original Russian wording):
"I would rather ...be dead!,..... in a 'Capitalist-Hell', than alive!, ….in a 'Socialist Workers Paradise'!"
So, by the mercies of God and the prayers of fellow believers, Daniel still lives.
And though now slowed & delayed by this pandemic/governmental related chaos, plus now this fire-threat interference, my livability project continues to try to make this place more habitable, one step at a time, though now slowly.
But new unexpected material & labor costs have arisen, due to obstacles caused by these interfering social/natural crises. This is quite frustrating to me.
An underground water line & a 220 current electric line has been installed to this building, plus some other improvements, but it all is moving ahead very very slowly, as winter cold & rains approach.
My profound thanks to my very few but much appreciated donors to this project, and to all my well-wishers. Your continued prayers I ask. May God return to you all, His mercies for your mercy to me.
"In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He answered me!"
ALLELUIA!
Retired Reader Daniel Everiss, (who, will be 77 this No. 3, US Presidential Election Day!)
-in fire-ravaged western Oregon, USA
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