8/14/25
Oh my goodness!!!  The enemy was busy messing things up at the Clarion Call!!  At first I thought it was me, that I hadn't made sure the links to my email worked or the links to other pages worked.  Since my "profession" was executive secretary I have a gift of paying attention to detail, making sure all things work together smoothly.  How could I have been so careless?

I didn't think about that as I repaired the problems.  But now, NOW I find pages with no font descriptions for type or size.  Now, I DID NOT LEAVE THINGS THAT WAY!  The pages were changed.  On some pages the spacing is all out of whack.  NO, I DIDN'T!!

The Clarion Call is an old-fashioned web site.  It was not built on a model or scheme where you fill in the blanks.  I created each page.  I created my own backgrounds and such.  When it has ugly formatting it looks like a nincompoop put it together.  People will take a peek and flee.

Wowzer!  The enemy not only messed with me to keep me away from the Clarion Call......"When the cat's away the mice will play" he moused around here while I was gone!  Yeah, a mouse that is a "roaring lion" (1Pet 5:8)!

Sheesh.  I only have over 500 pages to check.

8/13/25
My life has been changing over the last couple of years.  I have slowed way down thanks to my age and gravity.  Gravity is not my friend.  The older I get the stronger and meaner it gets.  Yeah.

My husband has been diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment.  At first I thought it was because he pretty much shut off his thinker when he retired.  Now I'm not so sure.  I am having to come up with more patience from somewhere deep down inside.  Thank God, our church (Generation Church) had a women's night and the topic was.............drum roll.............PATIENCE!  Wow!  Apply scripture to what you are working on and BOOOOOM!  There it is!
Here's a link to the video on patience.

I am back into regularly reading my Bible.  I am excited, again, about God.  I never turned my back on Him.  I continued to believe that He was in charge.  I would listen to praise music at every opportunity.  There was just some kind of barrier keeping my mind busy on other things.  I confess, one of those "other things" was video games.  I selected the games to keep my mind active.  My mother and grandmother both got dementia and I needed to keep my brain healthy.  So far, so good, but the games began to take over chunks of my day.  I'm deleting the games that took the most time.

The thing I need to do is have a dedicated time of day to spend listening to God.  So far I'm not there yet.  I'm still struggling to help my husband set up a daily schedule.  Mine has to fit in with his at the moment.

I have more unfinished projects to work on.  Sign up for the mailing list or get on the Facebook group to find out when they are done.  So, byeeeeee for now!



8/4/25
This first bloggy blog is going to be long.  There's only about 9 years to catch up on.  I'll try to reduce the bulk.

I moved to Arizona in July 2019.  We pretty well got squeezed out of our home by all the development our well-paid city council approved.  I went to city council and planning meetings to give them the truth of what the developments would do to our neighborhood.  I ended up getting hate letters from someone telling me to go kill myself.  Everything got approved in spite of how it was hurting communities.  We escaped from the city of Jurupa Valley, CA and, at the same time, escaped from what I call Commiefornia.

It was difficult to leave.  I always thought that was the last house we'd ever have.  Well..... after arriving in Apache Junction, AZ I felt like I should have lived here long long ago.

I began looking for a church.  I tried quite a few and was to the point of just settling for one.  I was visiting my son in California and went to his church, Calvary Chapel of Chino Hills.  The pastor is Jack Hibbs.  WOW!  The sermon was straight from the Bible.  It was powerful.  It was enhanced with his sense of humor.

My son's fiancé (that's something new) is Jewish.  She attended that church and was amazed to learn more about being Jewish than she ever did at Temple.  She RAN down to the altar call because she, all of a sudden, knew for sure that Jesus was her Saviour!

When I got home I prayed that God help me find a church like that one.  The next week someone posted on a local Facebook page that she just moved here and wanted to know where everyone went to church.

Two churches got the most mentions.  The next Sunday I went to one of them and..... BOOM!  The overhead screen said, "Welcome Home!"  The music was powerful and the sermon was out of the Bible enhanced by the pastor's sense of humor.

That church is Generation Church in Mesa, AZ.

Right at this moment I am recovering from my second hip replacement.  In a way that has blessed me to have some extra down time to get Clarion Call spiffed up. 

Over these last 9 years my family has been beat up by the enemy.  The enemy apparently didn't like what I was doing here at the Clarion Call and hit me hard over and over.

Well, I'm bruised but strong.  I'm 73 years old now and don't have much time left to work on this ministry.  Some day God will bring along someone to take over, or at least to keep it online.  I've been paying for the hosting and domain name to keep it available even though I wasn't hands on any more.

Well, that's enough for a start. 

I've set up a new newsletter that will let you know when something new is added here at the "new" Clarion Call.  (I just wanted to see how many times I could put "new" in that sentence.)  You can subscribe here.

The invitation is always open for you to submit something here that you feel will bless other people.  Just let me know.