Dear Youngman:

Greetings.  I was outside just finishing up a bog for some cattails,
pickerell, and arrowhead plants that I just dug up from a local lake when
I thought about you.

Years ago, I could not explain it, but I told you to look for your
manhood.  I asked questions like could you swim, etc.  I also suggested
that you delve into Genesis 1:1-2:7 to orient you to all things and ground
your classroom studies.

I do not know how far you got.  You sent me an awesome list of things you
learned about manhood from the scriptures.  Your experiments in "the five"
are critical because if you are still in the dependent mentality you can
only preach a gospel from that standpoint.

Prophecy is not dead.  I may or may not have mentioned this before, but in
this house, we are in the midst of an open vision.  You've touched it, but
only tangentally at certain points.

Concerning Genesis 1:1-2:7, I don't know if I ever explained how that came
to mean something to us.  Here is the long and short of it.

*In Revelation 1 it says there is a blessing for those that hear the
prophecy of Revelation.
*In Revelation 22 it says there is a bless for those that keep the sayings
of the prophecy of Revelation.
*I wanted to be blessed so I looked for a prophecy that I could keep.  I
came across Revelation 14 where it says to worship him that made heaven,
earth, seas, and fountains.  I interpreted that as worship God as
Creator...

So I turned to Genesis 1 where we learn how God created the heaven and the
earth.  I read it to my 37-month old every Saturday for a year thinking it
was a good thing for her to know.  I think that I forgot the blessing I
was looking for--

BUT GOD DIDN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The "Genesis Factor" has exploded every single subject I examine,
including Foreign Language.  There have been times when I felt the whole
creation to small.  One day, I remember feeling claustrophobic.  I've also felt 
like I was running to the sun and then over
to the moon--although I labored with every stride, I had plenty of strength, power and energy to go wherever I wanted to.

Revelation 1, 22, and 14 set the wheels in motion for the Genesis Factor. 
When I didn't know exactly what to do, I kept telling my sister-in-law I
didn't know what we were to do, but what we were doing was what we were
supposed to be doing...

we were seeking out our womanhood.

Something is wrong with every single American--including you and me.  When
we take the gospel in this incomplete, self-deceived, dependent, helpless
form, we come from a stance of being of higher spiritual standing and
people will take on our ways when we need to actually be learning
something from them.  American missionaries have taken American ways all
over the world and many converts are reeling from the effects.  Americans go in where
the spirit is moving and they take their money and tracts and opinions and
pharmaceuticals and step right over the survivalist, humble, kind,
culture that was in place

AND MAKE THOSE PEOPLE JUST LIKE THEM with their fashions, hairdoos, music,
etc.

Your manhood, separation from the world, prayer, fasting.

In this country, the night is coming when no man can work.  People are
getting fired for mentioning God or rejecting "sensitivity training". 
People are getting sued for not servicing sodomites.  Now is the time to

BE NORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Learn about the Native American, the colonist, and the pioneer--people that knew how
to live off of this land.  Learn about the apprenticeship and the way that people once
did things.  One result of our American History studies was that we became
freedom lovers.  Hannah could bring the house down with her rendition of Patrick Henry's,
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech.  Farmers could make their own bullets.  Americans were known as a resourceful, sturdy, wise, independent, inventive, adaptable people.
Any look back will tell you that.  Go back and be a man.  That is what
people need

A MAN.

I've found that a girl in a dress is a missionary in her own right.  One
man told me years ago, with tears in his eyes, "Having seen you and your
daughter, I know that there is hope in the world."  I had not preached to
him.  Many people are very surprised just by seeing us when all that we
are doing is minding our business.  "I watched the two of you on the hill
in your dresses."  One little girl looked at us and said to her mother,
"Can I wear a dress?"  One man said, "I saw her (Hannah) in the
veterinarian's office getting information.  I am in the education system
and I cannot believe that she could do that!"  The man who said it to my
husband (he had sent my daughter into the office to get information) was
stunned.

I keep my mouth shut and mind my business--I know that I am infected and
that I have ground to make up.  Somebody on craigslist.org was giving away
free pond plants.  I immediately thought of Days 1 & 3, the deep.  A water
feature for the yard.  The woman told me the name of the plants and told their habits
and what is native.  They even threw in a few dozen tadpoles.  From one
incident, many things have occurred.  I'd like to perhaps one day farm my
own catfish.  How easy would that be.

Manhood.  The Genesis Factor.

I sold all my dining room furniture and turned it into a sitting room, an
exquisite room.  One wall is lined with bookshelves I moved from the
basement.  It is all arranged based on Genesis 1:1-2:7.  Choice books on
each day are on the shelves.  On the other wall a low set of shelves, on
top of which is a full sized replica of The Authorized Version and a few
other items related to the scriptures (including a framed Gutenberg
replica) and Bible history.

Goodbye for now,

Mephibosheth