I'm ready to sign off.  My goal is to tie up loose ends as time and inclination
allow.

In closing up shop, I've had opportunity to reflect on your important
contributions to BiblicalScholarship.net.  Here are a few of my
meditations on this matter...

--Your reading eyes at the onset of BiblicalScholarship.net encouraged me
and impelled me to go on.

--Your questions made me think and expound and record.

--Your transformation gave me assurance that the job was done.

You have prayed for me, warned me, listened to me, been a quiet example to
me, and kept in contact with me through the years--and I appreciate all of
it.  Your first call to me came at a time when I needed it.  I am not
saying a permanent goodbye here, if you need to contact me, you know how
to do it.   These are uncertain times, but if we pray, God can give us
space to work and give us relative peace in our days.

Please copy the websites on hard drive and CD as a backup, if you can. 
Jesus-is-Lord.com is about 780MB at this time so it has to be zipped
before putting on a CD.  The Workes is resident on oldlandmarks.com, as I
recall, please do not forget it or the oldlandmarks.com website.  Please
pray for the websites that God would keep them online and cause them to
bring forth much fruit for him and our precious Saviour, Jesus.

On a gardening note, shallots are like onions and grow like garlic (garlic
is something I've had great  success with).  I think that shallots are
easy to grow indoors too. I've planted some from the healthfood store (see
Encyclopedia of Country Living).  Shallots are perennials and bulb
underground (plant high enough so that  they do not rot from moisture). 
Potatoes, onions/shallots, garlic, tomatoes, herbs, beans (green as well
as dried), sweet potatoes, greens, and herbs will make for good eating in
addition to fruit trees and other crops.  Study about the importance of
crop rotation, tilling, land rest, etc.  Enjoy the fruits of your labour
and may your soul prosper.

Mephibosheth

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> I think and hope we will get to speak again, but if not, I will see you
> when the Lord returns. May God bless you and your daughter so richly and
> protect you!!!

I hope that you will keep in contact with me.   One just never knows what
a day will bring.  I will be online this week tying up the loose ends.

> "...be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

Amen.

Mephibosheth

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> Will you be offline
> indefinitely after this week?

Of a truth, that is my intention, no more checking emails, etc.  I have
had a flurry of activity in this past year--especially since around
November 2009.  Now I feel like I am ready to stop.  It is tough to get my
motor running to even make the remaining changes to the site that I have
propped up on my improvised
cardboard easel.  I've put away a number of items that I wanted to upload.  I
think that there is now enough to help others to run.  For my part, I want
to be in my garden and working on projects, and on "my" peninsula having
picnics with my daughter and organizing my house and exploring and
everything else.

For the past few years, I've had a saying, "You have to prepare yourself
for a blessing."  I said it when the studio was in constant disarray.  We
got it together, and lo and behold, God stopped by with blessings.  Now I
want to examine other areas of the house and streamline.  God is a God of
order and he keeps his house in order.  It is no doubt that many animals
die in the woods, but how often do you see a dead one there?  They
defacate and urinate but what do the woods smell like?  Look how beautiful
the woods are at all seasons!  Fresh air sweeps through, leaves mulch and
fertilize the ground, the animals look beautiful,  not muddy and dirty. 
Things are in order.  God is a God of order.  I know what lies ahead for
us in this world, I want to look around and organize and prepare more and
more.  Meanwhile, I want to make life pleasant for my little one and my
family, where I can.

> It may be that I will come offline soon as
> well, I have complete peace when I think about that.

I'm tired of spies having access to my life.  I've gotten accustomed to
using cash for my purchases but one day had to write a check.  That caused
a problem because I had not been in the system.  I could hardly even sign
my name in cursive.  I had to wait until they could get approval.  That
pleased me.  An FBI agent told my sister-in-law that Americans use too
many credit cards and write too many checks.  Coming offline...I don't
want to give out a debit card number to a far away merchant.  I'd rather
spend dollars in my local economy.  I don't want spies reading my emails
and listening to my telephone conversations.  I just want to be to myself
and my very small circle that I CHOOSE to talk to.  I want to study to be
quiet and mind my own business which includes enjoying and teaching my
little one.

M