Captain, Y.H.V.H.; First Mate Noah, AND The Ark Mutiny

Captain, Y.H.V.H.; First Mate Noah, AND

The Ark Mutiny

We hear the story from two of our friends in Miss Red Riding Wolffe's childhood, and a surprise visitor, whom they had never met before, who knows the exact, same record! But, that's quite a few pages from here, if you know what I mean, Victor!

The first to start this amazing story is our equus friend, Mr. Neigh! (Yes, 'equus' means . . . oh! you go look it up!

But, to start, Grandpa had just started to introduce Mr. Ostrich, at the end of the last book. Let's let him finish! Hold on a little, Mr. Neigh!


"Aye(Yes!), 'een I baz ter ye (even as I bow to you), yawz tournez yern baeck-syade taw mae(ya'alls turns your own back-side toward me), aiynes bloody - eil 'auzes mae taw fayr maen lyife dunn fawnysh'd wah!([approximate meaning] and it bloody well causes me to fear my own life is done finished with)! Cous - 'ng yo's twyo hyn'd hoyves loyk gnarly 'oofn due soode(Because your two hind hooves look so rough and filled with dirt), ayn a' flie'ng oop intae mae fayce(And they're about to be flying into my face)!"

With that spoken, the gentlemanly-dressed Mr. Ostriche stood to his full height, which you know if you've ever seen an ostrich, looks quite silly! With long, skinny legs that bend backwards at the knee, and a heavy, fat body, with barely enough feathers to cover it, and the strangest, longest and most snake-like neck you can hope to ever see! If that weren't strange enough, his head made all the rest of him look 'normal'!

Two huge eyes, like separately-blinking street stop lights on tow intersections, just ten feet apart, each eye seemed to look at you from a different head. Fuzzy pin feathers covering the professor's head looked like a cheap fur coat with one longer feather sticking out of the very middle of the top. The dirty gray color of the 400 pound oris' (See your dictionary) head was even less attractive than the dirty pale gray pin feathers covering his throat! And, we're not done!

When the old ostrich spoke, his beak, a dark, dirty black color, made funny creaks, as he opened and closed it. His tongue, a pale pink-colored, sharp-pointed wood-sliver-looking part, seemed almost ready to fall out! That's not all . . .

For many generations, Mr. Ostrich's ancestors had lived in Ostrichlia(Australia is the modern name given their island kingdom by humans who settled there later.), but they only spoke Ostri, the native tongue of their race. When humans overran their country, they had to learn to speak the humans' language, just to make sure all of them wouldn't be sent to ostrich feather pluckers!

Anyway, trying to speak the humans' Australian language caused Mr. Ostrich's whole face and head to bobble around, grimace and to look even more absurd! (But, we're polite to others, so we won't giggle and point . . . right? (Smile!)

Mr. Ostrich is still speaking  . . . . " . . . theane(and then), eynstaed ohh keek'n mae 'eahd baek oop thure(And then, instead of kickin' me head back up there[indicating the top of the ravine he'd just slid down]), ale's yeen bloeddy doyes ees staynde thure ayne loik ayroynd ay 'it mae wythe yoer sally gryne(all you-un does is stand there and look around at me with your sorry grin)!"

Ayin gniew aile' eyntradooce maesealf(Anyway I'll introduce myself). Eiye'm "Graynde Prea pheasore(I'm Grand Pre phaser), Docteer uff Unndeer Cees Rays' ertch(Doctor of Under Seas Research), Maeysteer Fyyne-Pheetha(Master Fyyne Pheetha)! Eyem mazzed plaez'd tae mayit ye(I am surprised and pleased to meet you), ye bloodie ale Equus(You bloody old horse)!"

Old Mr. Neigh! just stood there, ears drooping, still with his back to Professor Fyyne Pheetha, and dumbfounded. Just then Grandpa Otter said, "Did you say you're Professor Fyyne Pheetha, of Australia"

"Walle, blaw mea fawthas ooff!," exclaimed Mr. Fyyne Pheetha. "Yuh knaws 'boot mae wayth(You know about my work)?"

"Some Orca families that vacation down by Australia, told me that they met a Great Whale Pod Chief off Australia & Antartica who talked about a famous Great Gray Whale doctor who lives in Australia, and is an Ostrich! You 'do' research Great Gray Whales?"

"Kgnaw(roughly; Naw)! Eetz mae tarne tae lacke staypid(It is my turn to look stupid)! Ayie bloedie nea're draye'md ayied baye gknoen 'aye oope 'eaire(I bloody never dreamed i'd be known anywhere up here)!"

"Well! Ya ol' blabber face, you sure are!" Mr. Neigh!'s voice surprised everyone. "Who let 'you' escape from your pen?"

It seemed that Mr. Neigh! was determined to finish what his ancestors in the Ark of Safe Passage, who had been stopped by First Mate Noah, weren't allowed to do! But, Mr. Fyyne Pheetha didn't seem to notice.

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"Mr. Neigh! ! Little Riding Wolffe's sharp voice cut right into Mr. Neigh!'s next sentence, which started . . . "Your bowing to me is just a trick to catch me off . . ." But, his former passenger's sharp poke in his ribs and even sharper voice were like a razor cutting warm butter. He hung his head again!

"Excuse me," Joshua Otter's voice was a bit squeaky and timid. "But grandpa said the Orca Chief told how Dr. Fyyne Pheetha's research had saved many Great Gray Whale babies, and gave all Grays a better living. I'm really proud to meet you, Mr., I mean Doctor Fyyne Pheether!"

"Yes! I am also proud to meet you, Mr. Fyyne Pheetha!," added Grandpa Otter. "You're the first Ostrich doctor I've ever met!"

"Ayend eiyme meetie 'appie phoe mayt'n yawe(And I'm mighty happy for meeting ya'all)! Bloedie maey plahchure, mae maitees(Bloody my pleasure, me matees)!"

Mr. Neigh! looked even more miserable. Finally, he looked at Dr. Fyyne Pheether and lowered his eyes. "Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, I'm really embarrassed for my actions! I thought 'all' ostriches were like my grandfather told me they are. I didn't trust you, but I see I was wrong. Please, I am sorry.

Mr. Neigh!'s eyes focused up at Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, who's head was proudly perched on it looonnnggg neck, far above Mr. Neigh!'s lowered head and ears.

Mawlie('Mawlie(An ancient ostrich endearment for one's horse friend - no english interpretation!), aitz bloedy mae plah chure tae fawgeeve yae(aw, it's bloody my pleasure to forgive you), , he said to Mr. Neigh!, lowering his long neck, and speaking with a soft, gentle voice. "Maa eiye rayqweest yaw 'tae tale mae jees wheayte yaw greindawd bloedie toale yaw awboot Oerstraychlia, mae 'ohyme laynde(May, I request ya'all to tell me just what yer grandad bloody told ya'all about Ostrich(formal name of Ostrich Family))? Mae greindawdie awtoule mae awboot a Nuwhah's Aerack awtakh aiyn Oerstraychlias B'yea weyald ahrese boot aiyes neeva kgewn wheyt rawley deed 'ahpeen(My grandaddy a'(all) ready told me about a' Noach's Ark attack our own Ostriches by your own wild horses but I haves yet never known what really  did happen)! Wayed yae meende tawlin mae yoe gramperz stawry(Would you mind tellin' me your grandpa's story)?"

"You mean your grandpa had a story about horses and ostriches on Noah's Ark, too?" Mr. Neigh!'s face had the funniest look that Miss Red Riding Wolffe had ever seen!  Both eyes were huge, his jaw kept falling down, and the sound it made when he tried to close it while talking was like car tires going over cracks in the road; "Whack! Whack! Whack! Whack! Skip-crick!"

Sure! I guess you'd like to know what grandpa told me, and all us grandkids about you, I mean about all - er, I mean, what he said his grandpa told him about Ostriches."

"Excuse me," Grandpa Otter said, "Will this take long? We were planning to get home to Puyallup by sundown. Perhaps we should be going if this will take awhile. Since the earthquake has changed the stream so much, it will take longer to find our way. Mr. Neigh!, you might get to the seashore by just following the stream."
"Well, I'm really not sure there is enough time for Miss Riding Wolffe and I to go on to the beach, either," Mr. Neigh! said. Since I am rather lost here, may I ask you to lead us back to where I can remember where we came from? We were to meet a blue jay who is helping us find our way around these parts at the beach, but if I can return to where we last saw him, I believe he will find us there.

"Why, you are most welcome to join us," Grandpa Otter replied. I would truly enjoy hearing this fascinating story, and my grandchildren may also want to hear it."

"I would!," young Joshua Otter spoke with a happy voice. "Grandpa has told us many stories about the Flood and other Bible things. I like most of them!"

"Professor Fyyne Pheetha, you are welcome to accompany us," Mr. Neigh! turned to the ostrich. "Perhaps we can compare our separate versions of this story?"

"Oiee(Oy mee)!" exclaimed Mr. Fyyne Pheetha. "aiydaydent thteenque awboot whayette yaw bloedie wawre wawl dawin' awloon aire(I didn't think about what you bloody were all doin' along here)! 'Ayes jawst 'aid'd awt thave beach, maesawlf(I was just headed over to have that beach, myself)! Wea bloedie wawhl cawd jawst strowlh awloong awnd tawlk(We bloody well could just strole along and talk). Mawnd(Mind)?"
"Sure!," Mr. Neigh! whinnied his approval, and said, "Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe, do you want to ride, or walk?"

"Oh! May I walk next to Mr. Fyyne Pheetha? She asked. "I'd really like to hear you tell him your grandpa's story. And I like Mr. Fyyne Pheetha,," she said, smiling up at the elderly ostrich. "Is that OK?"

Dear, you may walk beside Professor Fyyne Pheetha, if he approves."
"Shaw! Yaw'll bae ah fawn leet'l wawkin pawtnaw(Sure! Ya'all' be a fine walkin' partner)!" Mr. Fyyne Pheetha smiled at Miss Riding Wolffe again. "Hawre(Here). Hauld awn taw mae wawhn(Hold on to me wing)."

"Then, we need to be on our way," Grandpa Otter said.

They all started out, a very odd-looking group of hikers - Otter Family, the old ostrich, the ancient horse, Mr. Neigh!, Miss Riding Wolffe, a playful wolf-pup, and no one had noticed yet, Mr. Blue Jay, who flew above them. Mr. Neigh started his story right away.

"My grandpa Neigh! said this story starts when Adam and his beautiful Eve were still in Eden. At the end of their relationship with Creator walking with them in the cool evenings, Eve's constant companion was a very outspoken, old ostrich. The ostrich went with her all over the very large garden, giving Eve rides back home from many places when she felt to tired to walk.

For Adam, another creature was his faithful companion. The two of them spent many long days doing the Mission Adam was given, by Creator, to work in the garden and make it a great place to live for all creatures.

But, Adam had neglected to care as much, even, for Eve. His long days of work apart from her left him little energy when he rode his horse, yes, his companion was a horse, back home, and he fell to sleep right after she fed him. The horse was not only a means for Adam to get home from far out into the garden, but it supplied strong assistance for Adam, carrying and helping to move things.

Eve's companion the ostrich, was essentially a lazy, compulsive creature, and it had a quite soft feel to its feathery plumage, which Eve enjoyed touching. It helped her focus her loneliness for Adam away from his soft, warm hands, which she simply adored, whenever he gave her time to enjoy his loving.

Her companion was also large enough to carry her, whenever she felt tired. She grew to love the big bird and spent hours in its company.

For its part, the first horse was a beautiful black stallion, with a perfect white star on its forehead. White hocks above its deep black hooves gave its appearance a regal look that stood out among its animal cousins with more subdued marking.

You would not quite think of animals having problems with jealousy, but when Adam asked Eve to join him for rides on the Black Stallion, the old ostrich missed her, and began to feel he needed to find a way to keep her with him. He began asking other creatures for advice.

Most liked the two humans Creator had placed in charge of their wonderful home, so Ostrich had to carefully form how he asked for this advice, and who he approached, so as to not give away his real intentions. He feared that if they ever found out his intentions, he would lose his status and respect, which, as a large, fairly intelligent bird, he most desired to keep.

To maintain his hidden agenda, he would first ask, "Can you tell me what Eve likes to do the best?" If the creature answered something like, "well, I don't really pay attention to what Eve likes best," he would move to the next one. A key question he used to determine if a prospective creature could help him was to ask, "Have you heard if Adam likes me to accompany him and Eve, when Adam takes Eve and the Black Stallion for walks?" If the prospect knew the answer, of course it was much too close to Adam to be trusted!

Then, one night, Mr. Ostrich saw a dark green diamond-patterned, sleek, smooth-scaled creature leading several other kinds of creatures, all shiny, smooth-scaled, whispering to each other about something. he thought, "If so quiet about what their doing, they're hiding something! It was the first time he had ever encountered any other creature practicing what he had been, in secret, for some time! Maybe these are the kind of creature I need to help me keep Eve away from 'that' horse!"

"Hey! Wait a minute!" It was Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, and he was speaking in his companions' language with perfect clarity! "Aye awm shawr yawr(I am sure your) . . ." But he was cut off by Mr. Neigh!, Miss Riding Wolffe, and Mr. Blue Jay, all at the same instant - "What??!!" they all yelled "did you say?!!"

Uh, er, awe mawn, awe dawn't sawpoose(I mean, I don't suppose) . . ." But he got no further. Now, just a minute," said Mr. Neigh! "I heard you plainly speak in our language! Now, I'm sure I should have kicked that silly smile right off your face! You have some explaining to do, Mr. Fyyne Pheetha; NOW!," he practically shouted at the plainly frightened old ostrich, who had lost all his self assurance.

Suddenly, one could almost hear the silence! We wait for to speak, Mr. Fyyne Pheetha!" Mr. Neigh!'s deep voice made the old ostrich even more uncomfortable.

Silence.

By now the odd-looking little group had stopped, even the Otter Family couldn't continue without hearing Mr. Ostriche's answer to his obvious blunder. They were standing together to one side.

Mr. Fyyne Pheetha's head was far from being held high and proud at the top of his long, straightened neck, which was drooping lower and lower. He subversively glanced about his suddenly unwanted audience. How was he to out of this?

"Well, I mean, well . . . I'm sorry, "Mr. Fyyne Pheetha's voice was very soft, almost inaudible. I was afraid of you not accepting me when I first saw you come down that path. And, the sudden earthquake that loosened you, Mr. Neigh!, also frightened me! Really, I'm lost, and I was thinking that if I spoke like you, you would not believe me! I'm sorry," he repeated.

But, the look in Mr. Neigh's angry eyes said he wasn't about to believe one word of Mr. Fyyne Pheetha!

"what's wrong with just speaking the facts, in the same manner of speaking that you normally use?," Mr. Neigh!'s voice was almost a shrill whiny, this time he spoke. "It works very well for me! And, Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, or whoever you really are, why did you pretend we did not hear you when you first slipped up on your phony foreign accent? Something just does not add up about you, my ancient enemy!"

"Well, spoke Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, not pretending a phony accent, now, "I'll just leave you now, since we're not going to get along, and I really need to find out where I am, and how to make it back to my home. I'll just be going."

Before he could turn to leave, little Miss Riding Wolffe stepped behind him, and in her most bossy little voice, said; "Now just you hold it right there! Mr. Neigh! is right! Just 'who' are you?" The look on her face, and her little, sharp teeth didn't really scare the 400 pound ostrich, but he knew the sharp hind hooves of the 2,000 pound Mr. Neigh! were much, much too close to make a run!

"OK," he said, his head and neck almost down to his large, almost feather-covered body, I'll tell you the truth. But, I warn you, it may be hard to believe!"

"Well, why don't you just tell us!" Mr. Neigh! spoke in a stern voice. "Let us at least hear it for ourselves."

The ostrich was quiet. "Yes, finally spoke, I should have known it was OK to just tell you why I'm here. I expect creatures I meet to be honest to me."

"I'm really from far to the South, where I lived after I sailed for many years after I left Australia. My uncle is the Great Gray Whale doctor. Before I left home, I helped in his laboratory many years. I thought no one would have heard of him this far from home, so I used his name because I thought I'd be respected more. I 'was,' until now.

"Well!," almost growled Mr. Neigh!," he was so angry at the ostrich's lies, "at least this story makes more sense! What is your 'real' name? You say your uncle is the 'real' Dr. Dr. Fyyne Pheetha. How is an ostrich involved in undersea research, and even more odd, helping whales?"

Ah . . . er, . . ." Mr. Fyyne Pheetha was obviously stalling. Didn't the Orca Chief tell you recently, about my Australian uncle Ostrich who is a Great Gray Whale doctor, Grandpa Otter?" Mr. Fyyne Pheetha looked at Grandpa Otter with imploring eyes, as if saying, "Help get me out of this mess!" But, the old otter had been thinking about his own need to get out of this mess, and Mr. Fyyne Pheetha's surprise question only made him more anxious!

"Well, I, er . . ." and now everyone's attention was like holes being bored into his skull, "Oh! Why, yes! They talked about ostriches," Grandpa Otter said, his voice cracking just a bit. He was not happy that he had stayed, now. "I think they said the doctor was an ostrich," he said.

"You're not sure!," Mr. Neigh! was not pleased at all now, how this entire situation was going. "Why did you tell us the doctor was an ostrich?" His look  at Grandpa Otter made the elder Otter want to run away post haste!

"Well, you see . . ., We were just floating by a pod of Orca, and I heard them talking about a doctor in Australia who had studied Great Gray Whales, and helped many heal from disease. She was talking to a sick Orca, an old chief, I gathered from her calling him "Great Father. He asked her if Australia wasn't where ostriches lived. When she said "Yes," she said she believed the doctor was one."

"What?! You didn't speak to the whales in that Orca pod?! You said . . ." But Grandpa Otter interrupted, "Yes!, er, I mean, No! I did not say a word to those whales - they 'eat' otters! We were very quiet as we drifted by that Killer Whale Pod! I only heard them talking," said a blushing Grandpa Otter! (Now, how can you tell when an otter blushes?)

Now, Mr. Neigh! was 'really' not happy! "So, our Mr. Fyyne Pheetha. Now I hear that you are very likely 'not' telling us the truth about having an uncle who is, or was, a whale doctor! I think you need very much to meet our owl police! How would you like that?"

Mr. Fyyne Pheetha was scared witless. His voice trembling, he said, "No, ah, I mean, please. I'll tell you the truth. Please, let me explain.

"Right!" Mr. Neigh! was not patient anymore. "How do you think we are going to believe anymore of your lying, Mr.  - uh - I don't even trust you to tell us your name!"

"Please. Just let me go. I won't bother you any more!" The old ostrich was very sad looking.

"Not so fast, there!" Mr. Neigh! said, his eyes burning deep holes right into the ostrich's mind. "I think that I'm seeing more than you might want to believe. Grandpa Otter, I need you to stay here, so you can give your side to the Owl Police. How about all of us sitting down here in this open place until Mr. Blue Jay gets back with our friends. Mr. Blue Jay?"

"I'm gone!" said the faithful little messenger.

It had been fairly early in the day when Red Riding Wolffe and Mr. Neigh! had started their walk to beach. Now, it was soon noon time. The little group was sitting in a grassy meadow. From far away the faint roar of ocean waves pounding the beach could be heard. Red Riding Wolffe was feeling disappointed at not being able to get to walk and play on the beach, especially since they were so close!

Grandpa Otter looked around, like he was going to sneak off! Mr. Neigh! had noticed Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, or whoever the wily old ostrich actually was, was doing the same thing. But, being a wise old stallion, he knew how to guard his captives quite well. At each time one would avert his eyes, he would stamp his hind hooves, and they would immediately sink into the skulking attitude each had begun to display when their lying was affirmed.

"Hi all! Huff - huff - hufffff." Puffed the elderly old Mr. Owl, who was local Constable, and son of the area's judge, Father Owl. His duties also involved being the Chief Investigator with the Owl Police. "What have we here?" He had flown out immediately when Mr. Blue Jay told him about the problem. About an hour had passed since the deep blue-feathered messenger had left them.

To himself, the old ostrich laughed. "so this is their police? Let this sleepy old owl just try to force me to go anywhere!" But, to the owl, he said, "I'm pleased to meet you. I think we can set this old horse and his little wolf friend straight, if you'll just help me to prove where I'm from."

But, he spoke the worst thing he could have thought of, to the wise old owl!

"No, I'm sorry, but this Mr. Neigh! is a former captain of our police department. If you think that he doesn't have a clue, then you, old ostrich, are in for a great surprise! You'd better speak very carefully, and make certain everything that you say is exactly the same as all else you say! Mr. Neigh! was the best detective we had. He taught all the current officers!"

Grandpa Otter wasn't blushing anymore! Under his fur, his face was white! He hoped the ostrich wouldn't say 'too' much! It could get him into BIG TROUBLE!

And, at that exact moment, just as Grandpa Otter was worried sick about being found out for smuggling pearls to Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, 'IT' happened! A huge crack opened right under the otters and Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, and they fell down into its depth! Then, it slammed shut with tremendous thunder! Mr. Neigh! had just walked away from the spot, toward where Miss Red Riding Wolffe was sitting beside the ancient, rotting tree stump Mr. Owl was perched on. Mr. Blue Jay was just flying back from his stopping at the Wolffe's home to tell her folks what was happening.

As things settled and quieted, the stunned little group began thinking and speaking again.
Mr. Owl had just started to say, "Now, let's hear what Grandpa Otter has to say about the Orca's talking about the famous Gray Whale doctor," but the sudden earthquake's roar made his voice sound like a faint squeak. Anyway, he jumped in the air from the stump when it shook violently from the quake. Miss Riding Wolffe also had reacted to the shaking with a sudden jump straight up into the air!

She wished she could fly, like Chief Owl and Mr. Blue Jay!

Mr. Neigh!'s reaction had been to jump and run toward the meadow, away from the noise and shaking, and his shrill whinny gave the whole event a spooky sensation to everyone. He only took a few steps before his mind had refocused on its guarding task, and as he turned back, he saw the two apparent accomplices disappear into the earth. Seeing that, his legs trembled with more fright than he'd felt from the sudden quaking! His recent mishap of the night before, with the still unknown event that caused his mad bolting just before reaching the Wolffe's little house, was very unusual for his veteran experiences with the police department.

No one had spoken for several moments. After the loud thunder of the earth ripping open, then slamming shut, the silence almost spoke. The feeling was not unlike turning a light off after leaving a room where folk had gathered, then now, had left. So empty you could sense it.

Looking around at each other, slowly their thoughts had regained focus. Too many questions; too much alarm. About an hour later, after quiet talk to reassure each survivor, Mr. Neigh! rose from where he had laid down to regain his strength, his eyes still faintly mirroring the fright he'd experienced. His legs still felt rubbery.

"Miss Riding Wolffe," he tried to speak gently, but his voice sounded squeaky, "Are you alright?"

"Oh!" cried the little wolf. "Why did the nice otter kids have to be standing there?" Then she remembered to ask her Friend, Creator. In her heart she heard the answer. It scared her, so she didn't say anything to Mr. Neigh! But the look she saw in his eyes told her that he knew Creator's answer, too. He looked terribly sad. She saw that she couldn't trust some very friendly people she met, but actually did not know anything about them.

She uncurled herself from the tight little fur ball she had rolled herself into, giving a little whimper.

"I think that you should try to get onto Mr. Neigh!'s back, and we all head for home." Mr. Owl's hooting old voice sounded OK, but its sound made Miss Riding Wolffe feel more spooky!

"If you want us to," he continued, "Mr. Blue Jay and I shall be happy to fly slowly, to stay with you. Would that help?" He had landed on the grass beside the small wolf pup after his reaction to the quake, and his wide, soft wings had covered her shaking little form, rolled up in a tight ball.

"Perhaps we can find a thick blanket of moss to cover you, our dear little friend." "Mr. Neigh!, can you help?"

"By now, Mr. Neigh! was pretty much back to himself. "I sure can!" he said with all the cheer he could muster. "I'll go find some. Be right back."

"Me too!," Mr. Blue Jays shrill 'scree! scree! voice added, and he flew from the old stump, where he'd landed after the quake. "I saw some just back a little way from here!"

Helping their little wolf-pup friend brought everyone back to a sense of 'normal' again. With all he had recently done to assist her with the recent adventures she had been on, he was very tired, but he sensed he was a vital part of her safety, so he was keen to help in any way he could.

He was sure happy his own family, back in the old tree in the meadow where the Wolffe Family lived below them, were sound and safe! But, earthquakes shake the ground for many miles . . .



When Blue Jay and Mr. Neigh! had gathered a nice bundle of the moss he had happened to notice on returning from his trip to the owl Police, they returned to find the little wolf-pup still shaking, curled in a tight little ball. They carefully laid the warm moss in a blanket over her. Soon, Miss Riding Wolffe sat up, warmed by the moss blanket, and by their love for her.

"Mr. Owl," she said in a squeaky, faint voice, "thank you for covering me with your wings. Your good heart warmed me so much."

"Why, my dear little Miss Wolf, I know that if I had just seen what you went through, and I needed your help, you would not hesitate a second to help me. How could I not give you what little I have to comfort you?" He spoke in a low, gentle voice to her.

"Do you feel like you have enough strength to ride Mr. Neigh! now?" Mr. Owl had his own precious grandchildren, and one of his favorite was a granddaughter, who was then just about the age of Miss Riding Wolffe. He thought of her, glad to know she was safe, at least he hoped so.

She tried to stand, but her legs were so wobbly that she sat down with a plop. "Well, in that case," Mr. Owl said, "I'll just share a story my grandpa told me about Noah's Ark, when I was a young Owl.

"I think it will reveal some things about the old ostrich. It is also about Mr. Neigh!'s ancestors on the Ark of Safe Passage. Would you like to hear it?"

"I would!," Mr. neigh! said, startling Miss Riding Wolffe! "

I was starting to tell the Otters and the old ostrich a story about my ancestors and the Ostrich Family on the Ark, and what happened between them, when Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, or whatever his name really was, seemed to get very angry! That's when he just forgot to speak in an Australian voice, and said a few words just like we speak."

"Oh," said Mr. Owl. "I imagine it will be interesting to see how our grandpas' stories compare. But, I won't tell you first how the Ostrich Family got themselves, well, really it was all the fault of the Father Ostrich, who got himself and his mate banished to far-away Australia - that would spoil the fun!," he said, chuckling. "Now, wouldn't that just be awful, Miss Red Riding Wolffe?" But, his little wolf-pup friend was too shivery yet to answer. She nodded her head.

"Well, you'd better hurry up and tell us the story!," Blue Jay said, "Or, it'll be too late for us to get back before night! The Sun has just a couple of hours left before the Moon takes its place. Besides, December nights here by Meadow Bay in the Puget Sound can get quite cold, very fast."

"Quite true, my handsome blue-feathered friend."

"Now, my grandpa's story about the problem between the Horse and Ostrich Families begins long before the Flood in Noah's day, and last time it was tolerated was when it reoccurred while both families were being safely carried on the Ark of Safe Passage, before it landed on dry land again, in the Ararat Mountains, Moshe' tells us.

"Indeed, it all started in the Great Garden in Eden, where Adam's work was to make the huge garden beautiful, and care for all creatures there. Before Creator had to put Adam and Eve out of the garden, there was an incident where the Ostrich Family found itself on the wrong end of Master's, and the Horse Family's respect. Just before that is where I'll start Grandpa Owl's story of  . . ."The Garden Conspiracy."



The Eden Conspiracy
A Story Told by Grandpa Owl

"After the Creation of Man, and all Earth, and creatures within Earth's life-sphere, and the Day of Celebration and Rest had come to a close, Master had examined each and every creature, and all things which He had made, making certain all was just as He had intended, He found it to be so, all was perfect."

"Now, Creator's Plan was to make a beautiful, perfect Earth and Universe, to be enjoyed forever by all living creatures, whom in turn, would care for each other, and all living creatures, and non-living creations. He handed the responsibility to oversee this great honor to Man, Adam in name ("Ish" is the Hebrew term for "Man," and Ishah, is the term for "wo-man.") Thus, with the amazing capabilities and powers that Creator had formed Ish(Man) to possess, Ish had the perfect balance of knowledge, relationship with Creator, and with Earth and its creatures, to make a truly awesome, wonderful, and unique Home for all things "Earth." The authority that Ish held over all Earth was formidable, as it only took a word from Ish to subdue any, and all other creatures, and to alter their lives to suit his, Ish's, purposes.

"Creator also desired for Ish, and Ishah, the most beautiful of all creatures Creator ever placed upon Earth, who's sole purpose was to honor and support Ish, to have complete love, and trust in Creator, and in His Plan of Life.

"But," continued the wise old owl, in whom the local community trusted with their very lives, complete love and trust for someone isn't possible, if that is all there is to give one's living to. For 'real' love, and 'real' trust, there also needs to be the ability to instead, give that love and trust to someone else. It's simply called, "choice." Without choice, love and trust really have no meaning, for who is there to measure love and trust against, if nothing else can lure those tow away from the first person, or object of them?

"We can only speculate why Creator waited till after Lucifer led a third of Heavenly beings, "Angels," to rebel against Him, but Creator knew full well that Lucifer and those spirit-beings that Lucifer led, would quickly target Ish, and his Ishah, to break away from their devotion to each other, and to Master Creator. Even as Planet Earth and its inhabitants were formed, great conflict was waiting in the wings of the universe, to begin a conflict of the spiritual scope and scape of the Entire Creation, with Ish and Ishah at its very core.

"Lucifer, once the great angel of the Light of Right, yet now the power, and the source of all things Death." Grandpa Owl's voice shook with meaning as he spoke this last. He was one of the first to tell anyone that his worst fear was that he would succumb to the wiles of this most decidedly evil, twisted, and deceiving creature, and that above all else, he feared that the death and mayhem which Lucifer was determined to bring upon ALL Ish, and the nations that Ish would eventually build, would be far, far more ugly and horrifying than the taking they had just witnessed of the old ostrich, and the entire Otter Family.

He continued, his voice subdued, and in its natural, "hooty" tones, quite unnerving. "Yes, for whatever messed up reasoning that Lucifer has deceived it spirit to believe, it, Lucifer(Spirits have no gender, therefore they do not qualify t be called 'he,' or "she."), thinks that by luring enough people and spirits to override Creator, it is possible to actually either banish Creator from His creation, or even to destroy Creator! Can you imagine such a stupid fantasy! Yet, Hebrew Scripture, set to the record by Moshe', tells us precisely that!"

"Also, before I go further, it must be stated that, had Ish and his Ishah NOT allowed the followers of Lucifer to deceive them, this story would never have been!" He looked around the now focused group, "And, even so, we each need to understand one simple truth; if Ish, and his Ishah, had not been deceived, and no one else before each of us were born, and now live upon Planet Earth, would one of us be the first one to so be deceived? And, then to bring about this story anyway?"

The silence roared in their minds.

In a moment, Mr. Owl said, "We, as creatures, were not given the capacity, nor was Ish, to know all things. In fact, Creator, according to Moshe', banished Ish and Ishah from the Great Garden in Eden, just in case they took from the other tree there, the Tree of Life, and with the fruit from the forbidden tree, the Tree of Knowledge, they would not only have His knowledge, but would have His eternal life. In not obeying His command to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge, they had joined the rebel mob of Lucifer. Should they then live eternally, with such vast knowledge, they would certainly have gained a horrible destructive hold over Creation!

He waited a moment, again. Moshe' and the Hebrew Scripture Recorders who followed, each said in their own unique way, that Creator authors both good, and evil. As our community protector of good, I have struggled to understand how Creator can author both, because I must work with all of my might to keep evil out of our community. It just seems overwhelming at times, to maintain peace and order! So, if Creator is making all this evil stuff to come our way, maybe I should just quit, and allow it all to happen.

"That is how I relate to my grandpa's story of what took place in the Great Garden. But, my take can wait.

"Creator made all: light, dark; good, evil; One prophet, or as that Hebrew term actually means, "Truth-sayer," Jeremiah, records that Creator created what is now working to destroy Creation. Lucifer is a creature, so this is true. Isaiah, another prophet, records for us in chapter 45, verse 47, much the same. He refers to calamity, but where does calamity come from, except it be from a creature?

Grandpa's story starts with all these specific moral points, so that as the events that the story records unfold, we have very clear understanding how to apply remedies to our own, personal living. That is why, I believe, that this story from my grand father is so valuable. I would hate for a day to come, when this story is forgotten, and not told over and over to each succeeding family generation. Forgetting it, I'm afraid, will be the beginning of the End of Ish's rule over Earth.

"Now," he continued after a slight pause, "you witnessed the death of several creatures whom you had just had walking beside you, today. This is a perfect time to examine this story, as it directly relates to each of us. Creator made good, and He made evil. Did He also create Death? We know He created Hate, for He is very specific that He hates certain things, such as deception. What about Death, though?" He paused a moment. "Death" is the last of those things we need to fully appreciate, before we can make this story apply to our lives to its fullest capacity."

"Hebrew Scripture recorders say it many ways, but death is a result, not a cause. We can start with the little book that the recorder whose name was not recorded in his book gave us;  "Malachi." Malachi is Hebrew for "Message - 'oracle' - the messenger could not hold back." Neat, huh?"

In this minor prophet's record, Creator tells us that He hates Divorce, or "putting apart," as one under oath to maintain a permanent relationship, whether in good or in bad situations, and even in betrayal and harm! I see some families torn by Divorce, where it is merely a difference of how to train the children, or even adultery, but Creator specifically tells us He hates Divorce! Wow! Wouldn't that have a chilling effect on those who take their Divorcing so arrogantly! To know they are being hated by Creator for their Divorcements!"

"This is exactly what Creator had told Ish, to NOT Divorce Him, by mis-applying His, Creator's, commands! Divorce causes the Divorcer to literally die, because they have broken the bond between the Life of Creator and their own spirit! Therefore, what Creator had the recorder of Malachi literally tell us, is that we immediately die if-when we commit Divorce of a vow that we took before Creator, with another creature, whether in marriage, or other spiritual bonding. We can witness this today, as those who Commit Divorce have no love left inside them, and they try to replace the lost love with all manner of spiritual, religious activities, studies, and other meaningless diversions.

"Now, and the old owl looked around his circle of rapt listeners, as we listen to grandpa's story, we can apply each event in it to these bits of knowledge from Hebrew Scripture, and then to our own living experiences."

"My grandpa would now continue, and say, "We do not know how long it was after Creation before creatures began to redirect their trust and attention to someone beside Creator. We do know that Lucifer was at least a rebel before, or right after Creation, and that Lucifer did begin to infiltrate Planet Earth with those fallen spirits that rebelled in the same evil spirit.

""Ishah, as the mate of Ish, was at one time, I would think, like a newly-wed bride in our time," my grandfather would continue." She was, as we know our women to be today, very much a creature of relationship, and her sole focus was to do exactly what Creator had purposed for her to do, to be a companion, and a wise helper to Ish. She loved doing this, if we know anything about a newly-wed woman. Her delight, indeed, her very identity was in and of and for Ish!"

"So, what happened between this happy, satisfied young bride, and when she accepted Mr. Serpent's Deception, and ate the Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good, and evil? We will explore this great puzzle, and we will see how easy it is to be deceived today, and to what fantastic degrees of effort Lucifer goes to achieve our deceptions!" At least, that's how my grandpa would say this!" Chief Owl winked his eyes, just like you think an old owl winks his eyes!

"Now, to Ish, Creator commanded, "Surely, the life you have will be lost as you obey and trust any way that causes you to disobey My Way of Living." Master made a simple test that any evil-hearted creature would fail. Master formed His Man, or "Ish" creature with a great desire to gain knowledge about everything Man was given five senses - taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell - to discover.

If Man, "Ish," had a heart of good desire, then he would simply ask Master to tell him about newly discovered things. This trust in Master to inform Man with the right amount of knowledge for anything Man was curious about is what Master desires Man to do, to honor Master in respect for Master.

But, if Man wants more knowledge about things he senses than Master will tell him, Man will seek that knowledge somewhere other than Master. So, Master's simple test for Man's loyalty is to place a tree that grows a very tempting fruit near Man, and then tell Man that if he eats this fruit to gain knowledge that Master does not want Man to have, it will cost Man's life! If Man does eat this fruit? Then it reveals that Man does not respect Master, nor does he trust Master, even with keeping the life that Master gave him, and sustains for him!

Master created an orchard in the middle of the Great Garden, where this knowledge grew on a particular tree species, and in the same orchard, or meadow, on the other side of a babbling, small brook, there were other trees, whose purpose was to supply fruit-eating creatures with food. We would think that Ish and Ishah also enjoyed the fruit from these trees, for they were aware of them, and their proximity to the Tree of Knowledge of Good, and of Evil, where His command forbade them to go, and even touch!

"Before Ishah was made from a rib from Ish, Ish was commanded, "Of the Tree of Knowledge of God, and of Evil, you will not eat; for, if you do eat, or touch, you will certainly die!"

"Now, Ish, we know, obeyed this command. For, before his eating it, Ishah took and ate it.  But, we do not have any record of the events that led Ishah to point where she was willing to resort to doing something that Ish had clearly ordered her not to do! Even though Creator had not directly informed her of His command to Ish to not eat the fruit, she very well knew of that command, for she blamed Ish for not preventing her taking it. Then she revealed that he had told her not to eat it, and Ish had added his own command to what Master had told him, "Do not even touch it!"

"What Ishah probably did not realize when she revealed that Ish added more to Master's command to simply not eat the fruit, was that Ish had been disobedient before she was. His adding something to Master's word indicated he was rather proud, and took himself more seriously than was honest to his wife. His added order to "Not touch the fruit" clearly shows that he imagined that he was superior to Ishah! So, rather than simply tell her Master's command, Ish felt he had a right, as her superior, to make up his own command to her, to prove his having a higher place than she had in relations to Master!"

"Ish's added order to Ishah also reveals another evil he did. If Ish had stayed by Ishah's side, which grandpa's story shows he did not do very much at all, he would have known whenever Ishah would have touched the forbidden fruit, and when, or if that happened, he could simply restate Master's command to not eat it. Even if Ishah did eat the fruit, Ish could still have obeyed Master's command, and not have eaten the fruit, with Ishah."

"We know Master is forgiving, and we know He gave the command only to Ish, not to Ishah, so really, it was Ish that disobeyed Master's command. Ishah, on her part, tried to be dishonest, and say that Serpent tricked her into eating the fruit, so therefore she was not to blame for her own choices! Bad move, Ishah!"

"But, there is another whole book involved in Ish's added order to Ishah, and this is where grandpa's story really comes from. See, if Ish truly loved Ishah, and attended to her as Master intended when He made Ishah for Ish, then Ish would never had needed to tell her to not touch the fruit! He would have been there by her side, to simply say something like, "Dear, Master says I am not to eat that fruit. I would feel much better if you did not touch it that way, because I feel tempted to disobey Master, and eat the fruit. Is it OK if I ask you to not touch it?"

"But, Ish, in grandpa's story, was spending long days away from Ishah, so he really did not know where, or what or how she was living, doing, and touching things and creatures in the Great Garden of Eden! Aha! Ishah's revealing that Ish added his own words to Master's command only to Ish to not eat the fruit shows all Mankind that Ish was doing the same evil thing husbands do today, and that is to neglect to give their wife their full attention, love, and time! Grandpa's story is really about his own failing grandma, as her husband, and as her faithful companion! In fact, grandpa's story is not so much about Ish and Ishah, and all the other characters that might have been a part of the events his story details, as his story is about himself!"

"In grandpa's story about these events, and later events these would end up causing, we can learn what a dilemma we humans can make for ourselves, with our fantasies! Grandpa messed up his life with grandma, and this allegory helps to reveal his actual disobedience to Master's command to care for his wife, and how not caring for her made her life miserable, and grandpa's life very hard for him to live with, as well."

"My grandpa would say, "It's pretty simple logic we have here, either keep healthy, and alive, or go eat that goofy fruit, and die! Which would you choose?" and, he then would say, "It wasn't that simple, just like today, it's not that simple!"

"Anyway, we have just witnessed a creature that refused to submit itself to Truth, and suffered the consequences. In my grandpa's story, an ancestor of this very creature, the ostrich, was also a rebel at heart, and in its contrary heart, it devised a plan to  . . well, let's just listen to grandpa, now."

"One of the first creatures in grandpa's story, which turned its love and obedience toward another creature, instead of Creator, in order to win the attention of the bride of Ish, was her close companion, a Mr. Ostrich. We can only extrapolate as to the reason that Ishah took up constant companionship, and therein trust of this Mr., Ostrich, but it may well have been because she was lonely.

"Ish, like males we observe today, loved his sweetheart very, very much, and gave her almost all his time, love, energy, fun-loving, and so many of the things a man has to make his woman a happy, contented bride. At the first"

"However, Ish had the awesome responsibility to work the Great Garden, to make it a home for the growing earth family of creatures, plants, fish, and all else. His attention slowly became less and less focused on Ishah, and more on the Great Command, to go forth, and multiply all that his hand could touch.

"Within Ish's scope of possibilities, he had the unequalled opportunity to spend merely a small part of his days with his garden tasks, and to devote the majority to His beloved Ishah. But, evidently he did not, and she had far too much inattention from Ish for him to know what she was doing, who with, and where!

"All Ishah knew, was that Ish was not beside her much any more, and Mr. Ostrich was. Mr. Ostrich also paid much attention to her, and when she had wandered too far away from their small home, she could comfortably ride on the bird's back. Unlike the horse Ish rode on all except the Day of Rest, the Seventh day of each week as Creator had commanded, the feathery back made for a comfortable, soft place to sit. Her skin loved the feel.

"For his part, Mr. Ostrich was not giving due attention to his own family. His mate was lonely for his company, and their little ones lacked his attention. No death or disease had as yet occurred in the pristine garden, but there were covert stirrings of unrest among the animals. Moshe' recorded little in regard to this unrest, except as its result, the termination of both animal and human populations in the entire Eden region, many years later. Mr. Ostrich loved the attention Ishah gave him, and even preferred her to his mate, who was unable to pick his favorite tree fruits, nor give him the attention Ish gave him, with her duties of raising their young hatchlings.

"For Ish, his greatest joy was for Ishah to go out with him, on the few occasions that he managed to persuade her, to see the fruit of his dedicated work. He had put many long days and much sweat into the now beautiful areas of the garden, where a rose garden scented the air with fragrances pleasant to the nose, and a fruit orchard with most of the many varieties of fruiting trees. Ishah was especially fond of the many fruits in it, and would spend many days there, in the company of the ostrich, who had a special palate for the taste of tree fruit.

"On Ishah's part, she usually had a delicious meal waiting for Ish when he returned from a day's labors. His tired body responded to this kindly treatment with an overwhelming need to rest after the meal, when Ishah would far rather have preferred his manly company to close our her long day of missing him intensely. As day after day unfolded to become months, and then years, Ishah's affection for her mate waned, and she gave more and more of her attention, and energy to the company of Mr. Ostrich.

To this heavy cloud forming over their relationship, Ishah's dislike for much of the tasks necessary for Ish to complete in his garden work, to her, seemed boring, and uninteresting. She much preferred the excitement she had with Mr. Ostrich, who would escort her on his back to many places where Ish and she had first been attracted to, and both, as a couple immensely enjoyed together. But, that was then, and now she only had the distant memory as she rode the ostrich to them.

"Beyond where Ish's labors had tamed the lush, but disorganized landscape, there were dark, mysterious sections, where Ishah felt a bit fearful, but where Mr. Ostrich loved to poke around, and discover new and unknown objects, and occasionally, unknown creatures. With Ishah on his back, he felt safe to explore, as all creatures bowed to her, and that gave him a sense of importance that inflated his ego.

"Managing and caring for all the creatures Ish had tamed and then given special sections of the vast garden that especially suited them, and then working to create yet more sections for other creatures, seemed a boring thing to Ishah. Her quest was to see and explore those areas beyond the tamed, to find and enjoy the excitement of new discoveries in this fantastic new creation! She could not fathom why Ish would be so content on spending day after day after day, in hard labor yet, to change the gorgeous wildness and vast assortment of surprises waiting to be discovered! Her boredom with the work of Ish began to lead her focus away from him as her spiritual guide, her protector, and her trusted companion.

"The focus of Ishah's attention had subtly changed, from Ish, to this ostrich. So subtly in fact, that she barely was aware it had changed. For Ish, his focus also had subtly been reset upon another creature, the one which helped him at all his labor, and gave him rides to and from his daily projects. It was the faithful horse, and beautiful black stallion, with a perfect white star painted on his forehead, four white stockinged legs, and shiny, coal-black hooves. An animal both large and intelligent, and strong, and responsive enough to Ish's commands, to perform feats of change to the garden Ish was unable to accomplish on his own. He grew to love and appreciate his horse companion.

"However, on those special evenings, when Creator came to spend time with both Ish and his Ishah, each would wait together, and for Ishah, it was one of her favored moments, as her beloved Ish, for the short time each special evening lasted, was by her side, and awake, and loving her for who she was. It was during the rest of her long, lonely days, and more and more, nights, that her attention for Ish was growing dim.

Because of the white star on the horse, Ish named him "Mr. Starr." On days when Ish had finished a section the day before, he would invite Ishah to ride with him on Mr. Starr to go to that section, to show his work. Ishah appreciated the attention, but it was not focused on either her, or on their relationship. so, it was usually quite disappointing to Ishah, and she began declining the request Ish made for her to visit his projects. Then on one that Ish had insisted she visit, the just completed "Hill of Remembrance," which Ish had labored for months to complete, as a memorial to Creator, and as a place where all creatures could assemble on the Day of Rest to welcome Creator into their lives, Ishah insisted that she ride on Mr. Ostrich's back, which was much softer, and his size more to her liking. Ish consented, but felt quite lonely as he rode Mr. Starr, alone.

"Ishah had given their little meadow and their house in it  the name, "Singing Grotto Meadow," for its setting, and the fact that numerous singing birds made the large tree rising above their house their home, and would sing all day. By now, with Ish gone so much, her daily companion had become the ostrich, whom she'd named "Mr. Eiderdowne," for the soft feathers of his back, that her smooth skin just loved to feel under her.

"The ostrich, for his part of this strange relationship, was becoming less and less fond of Mr. Starr, whom Ish seemed to always prefer that Ishah ride to his project sites, or to other places he infrequently visited with Ishah. Ish's preference for the horse made the ostrich jealous. After a time, he began to think of ways to keep Ishah to himself!

For Ishah, she liked how Mr. Eiderdowne showed her every consideration, encouraging her when she felt lonely, bringing fun little presents to her at unexpected moments, and showing her attention and care that she so longed to have from Ish. The ostrich was a good talker, too. She craved the company of someone to talk over her heart-things, and Ish was jut not 'there,' in that department. Then too, Mr. Eiderdowne's soft, warm feathers seemed to calm her sense of aloneness, and she very much enjoyed walking and sitting next to his warmth, and the times he took her on his back. Her heart was changing. But, she was not aware of the change.

""Mr. Eiderdowne is really my friend," she often told herself. "When I need a gentle touch, his soft feathery feel helps me to not feel so alone. When I want someone to comfort my need to talk about the things on my heart, Mr. Eiderdowne is always there, and he is so understanding." She had fallen from her devotion to Ish.

As Mr. Owl finished this last sentence, Mr. Neigh! spoke. "You know, my good friend, the story your grandfather told you is almost exactly the same as min told us!"

"Did the horses and ostriches have a fight on the Ark of Safe Passage over the serpents?"

"Why, indeed, they did!" exclaimed Mr. Owl. But, that's much later in grandpa's story. Do you suppose our grandfathers, together on the Ark, were friends like we are?"

"Well, our families have shared barns for many if not all of our existence upon earth, and we never had a falling out, that I am aware of," Mr. Neigh! said, in a pensive voice, "So, yes! Why would we not think that our ancestors actually shared the same berth aboard the Ark, and listened to each other's recounting of this story over all Time since, to their young?" Both creatures' faces showed a bit of new understanding, and appreciation for one another.

"Please go on, Mr. Owl! However, let's be on our way back, as the day is just about spent, and I'd very much prefer to get back to a long night's rest! This day has been one of the longest, most eventful, and tiring I've had in many a year!"

"Miss Riding Wolffe," Mr. Owl addressed the still sleepy-eyed wolf-child, "are you strong enough to climb up on Mr. Neigh!'s back, and ride home? I can sit right in front of you, and continue the story on the way home." He knew her parents would be very happy to see her safely back home. Also, he did not know as yet if the quake had been felt back in the little village, and if it had been, what the consequences they might find would be.

"Sure! I'm ready!," she said with a cheery smile. "Mr. Neigh!, if you stand next to that old tree stump, I can climb up easier."

Soon, with the little wolf-pup curled up in the warm, soft moss on Mr. Neigh!'s back, with the old Police Chief, Mr. Owl perched just in front of her, where both Mr. Neigh!, and Mr. Blue Jay, flying just above them, could hear his voice, Mr. Owl took up his grandpa's story again.

"Well, grandpa next said that one day the ostrich had had all he could stand of Ishah's riding with Ish on Mr. Starr's back, leaving him alone at Singing Grotto Meadow, where she has asked him to mind the house, and do a bit of cleaning, if he didn't mind. Well, as a matter of fact, he 'did' mind! Grandpa also said that often male ostriches live pretty much alone, after they mature, and if one decides to take a group of female ostriches to make a family, he has to fight the current male that the group of females have kept and protected. If he loses this fight, it may cost him his life, and end his hopes of having a family. Mr. Eiderdowne had had a family of hens, and he had instead turned his attentions on Ishah, allowing another male ostrich to take his place.

"Now, he had a rough situation,: Continued Mr. Owl, because he did not have the companionship of the females of his own kind, and the life of ease he had with Ishah had made him weak, and over-fed. he had experienced the joy of fathering, and of a loving family of hens to fend for him, so he longed to have that again.

"Since ostriches tend to respect only themselves, with Ishah's unnatural attention given him, Mr. Eiderdowne had become filled with an evil form of pride, one that made him think he was more honorable than other creatures. He thought nothing about the consequences his thoughts and acts would have for others, and himself.

"On this day, Mr. Eiderdowne decided that he just had to have all of Ishah's attention for himself, and nothing was going to stand in his way to get just that! He began to cook up a very evil idea to do just that! But, in his own reason, he could not see just how evil it was . . ."
"Now," Mr. Owl said, here is where my grandpa would say, "OK, we're off with the rest of the story!""

"Several weeks passed before the first opportunity to try out his plan came along. He'd seen the sleek, shiny-scaled creatures which walked on two long, slender legs, like Ish and the object of his passion, Ishah, but he'd not succeeded in being introduced to any of their rather closed, clannish family.

They were known in the animal parts for being some of the most daring, independent thinkers among animal residents of the Great Garden in Eden. They called themselves, "Libertarians," of the 'free thinker species.' Not all members of the many forms of their species followed the 'libertarian' mindset of this group, but most did. He had heard that they were looking for other animal species to join their group, but to do so was a secret he had to work quite hard to uncover.

What he found most attractive about them was that they hated the two humans who were placed by Creator to be the overseers for the Great Garden, as they wanted Lucifer the Angel of Illumination for that honor. While that attracted him to them, he also had to tell himself the he would just have to find a way to over-power any attempt they may make to harm the object of his desires, Ishah, if they ever carried out their hate for both her and Ish, on her. "It's worth the risk," is how he put it to himself. "I need her, and nothing is going to stand in my way!"

He also understood that these creatures despised Creator, and wanted to replace Him with Lucifer. He'd never met this "Lucifer" creature, so he dismissed the importance the creature might have, by simply not including any consideration for the consequences for having association with it. He wanted Ishah, and what else mattered?

He'd heard that this "Lucifer" had promised that all the powers it had would be immediately transferred to all who followed it, IF it was made to replace Creator as Master over Earth. For the rebel animal movement, this news inspired them like no other. They resented the fact that Creator had only given His likeness and mind to the two humans. Attributes that they felt they should also have been given.

""Whatever, Mr. Eiderdowne would say to himself, "What I need is a way to set Ishah free from Ish, to have her all to myself! This is as good as anything I've found so far, to do just that!""

"But, one couldn't be too careful. Their Creator was a master that you just did not rebel against in the open! The spirit creature the shiny-scaled rebel family, named "Serpent," were trying to replace Creator with had made a royal mess-up in its first attempt to unseat Creator over His rule of the Kingdom of Heaven, where Lucifer was the appointed leader over all Heaven. It was the plan to make a final run on Creator, now from within His Earth Creation.

When Creator announced that His Human creature would be placed just above the Angel status, Lucifer had had enough waiting. Creator had banished Lucifer from Heaven, assigning the inner, molten earth, as Lucifer's new home. Slyly entering the Earth creation, the Serpent Family's spirit of rebellion matched the evil in this angel's heart. They joined their evil minds, and the overthrow plan began to take shape.

"Animals and humans live within a physical world where five senses guide their living. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell define their existence in the most prominent part of their living, but they have a sense of the spirit realm, too, just not much of one. Over time, and even from the decline of attention to his Ishah by Ish, the spirit side of humans has been repressed, and faded into near extinction. But, it is a permanent part of the Human genome, and survives all attempt to quell it.

"As grandpa would tell us this about humans," continued Mr. Owl, we young would feel bored to death. But, as I have grown older, and I hope a little wiser, I have seen this lack of spirit awareness in Humans. I also have seen how we in the animal kingdom have had our spirit awareness limited by Creator, to never again allow the rebellion that overtook our first ancestors, and nearly caused the extinction of all life upon Earth!

"However, this fallen angle, Lucifer, was only spirit. Its interaction with the Serpent Family, and with other animal creatures, was through this spiritual union with their animal spirits, and this connection was not sensed in the physical senses of both animals and humans. To overcome this obstacle to the plan to defeat Creator upon earth, Lucifer recruited the Serpent Family to carry our the plan.

"For his plan to work, Mr. Eiderdowne needed a few hours when Ishah was away with Ish, so he could search secretly for contact with rebel members of the Serpent Family. He'd heard that they could communicate non verbally, with spirit voices that only were detectible with specially-anointed members of Lucifer's Order. They spoke a language that had no human or animal interpretation. it was so much babble and gibberish to the uninitiated.

""I've got to find a way to test anyone I speak with, to determine if they will betray me," Mr. Eiderdowne thought."" So, he figured out two questions he would ask."

"Was one of those questions, "What does Ishah like to do"," Mr. Neigh! interrupted the owl, turning his head around to wink at the old owl sitting on his back..

"Why, yes! Do you also know the other one?"

"Yes, I do! Or, at least I know the one my grandfather told me it was!," Mr. Neigh! whinnied softly. That's just about where Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, or whoever he was, lost his temper, and his disguise!," Mr. Neigh! said, "Do you know that Mr. Eiderdowne, in the Great Garden, talked to a dark green and red, diamond-patterned serpent, Mr. Owl?

"Well, I believe our grandpa's had the exact same story! Do you want to finish, my fine horse friend?"

"Oh no! I'm enjoying you telling it. I've told it to my grandchildren so many times, I get tangled in the words! Mr. Neigh! smiled a horse smile at Mr. Owl.

"My grandchildren love hearing this story so much, I have to tell it to them every time we get together for honoring Creator's saving us from serving the evil spirits!" said the owl "Are you enjoying the story, Miss Riding Wolffe?"

"Oh! Yes!" she almost sounded like her cheery self again. "Do you like Mr. Owl's story, Mr. Blue Jay?" she asked her dear blue with white-barred, and black uniform glistening in the late afternoon sunlight.

"Certainly I do! And it's just like my grandpa tells to all his grandchildren, Miss Wolffe! I'm glad that now you are able to hear it Please, Mr. Owl, go on!"

Before he could begin again, Miss Riding Wolffe sighed. "I wish my little human friends, Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel, could hear this story, too! They helped me sing to keep Mr. Neigh! and I awake on the way to Grandma's house in the high woods. That was only a few days ago, in the Big Blizzard at Christmas. It seems like such a long time ago!

"Sometime, Mr. Neigh!, could you tell this story to my friends, maybe in a book?" The look she gave Mr. Neigh! melted his already loving heart for his little friend. "OK. I shall, just for you, my little Miss Red Riding Wolffe. and, for your friends, Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel!" He grinned back at her. "OK, Mr. Owl."

"Uh, uh . . . Oh! Yes! Hey! That's great! Do share this grand story our grandfathers passed down to us with Miss Riding Wolffe's friends. It's for them, too!" He gave one of his big owl-eye winks to Miss Riding Wolffe, and patted her on the top of her furry head, between her little ears, with his wing tip. "But, I have a suggestion first! Mr. Blue Jay, if it's OK with Mr. Neigh!, why don't you sit right between his ears, instead of flying circles around us to stay in flight above Mr. Neigh!? Mr. Neigh!?"

"Do it!"

"Well, we have the two questions the wily old ostrich used to filter out who not to trust," Mr. Neigh! said. Is everyone settled?"

"Yes! Please go on!" Miss Wolffe's response echoed Mr. Blue Jay's.

"Finally, Mr. Eiderdowne found and was accepted by one of the dark green with red, diamond-patterned Serpent Family members. he had almost disclosed his plan to another one of the same colored and patterned Serpent Family people, but at the last moment, she said she was an admirer of Ishah.

"Another creature, also with a smooth, scaly skin, who was not a friend of the humans, a Mr. Alligator, responded to the second question correctly, but as they talked more, and Mr. Eiderdowne asked if he knew anything about a movement to replace the humans with someone else to manage the Great Garden, Mr. Alligator got a bit edgy, and said, "if that didn't come from Creator Himself, then that's the most stupid Idea I've every heard! Don't you remember how Creator examined all His work of Creation, and not one thing was wrong? Mark my word, Mr. Eiderdowne, if you, or any other attempts such a thing, I would fear for your life!" Mr. Eiderdowne was not pleased with that response!

"So, you want me to get Ishah to talk to one of the spirits under Lucifer?," asked the red and dark green, diamond-patterned serpent. Well, I can assure you one thing for certain, after they were defeated in their first attempt to overthrow Creator's rule in Heaven, they carefully examine and screen out any pretenders. One of their spirit kind, an Angel named Gabriel, who is a warrior angel with very powerful authority to protect the Kingdom of Heaven, had gone to Lucifer, and kindly asked for help to understand why there was a movement to overthrow Creator's rule in Heaven. Lucifer tried to explain, but then, when he led the rebel angels against Creator, Gabriel betrayed them, and Creator defeated the rebels."

"Yes, Even if I am able to set up a meeting for you, I'm sure that your loyalty will be tested, Mr. Eiderdowne."

"Yes, I understand," the ostrich returned. "But, I really do need their help to get Ishah to see how much I really do need her, and how Ish is using her as his helper slave. He really doesn't love her like I do!"

"Like I said, ostrich, I'll have to wait for a meeting of the coven of spirit witches before I can find out if they even have an interest to meet you. They give us no clue until the last moment before a meeting, so I don't even have that much to give you. Secrecy is the prime object of this action!"

"Well, be sure you tell them that I want to join their society. I think that freedom from the Creator is the only way to live. He's so wrong-headed!" He said this to impress the serpent, but he was growing fearful of what the consequences could be, if there was a rebel rising. That possibility seemed so impossible, though, and he needed to persuade Ishah to leave Ish, so he simply did not continue to think of the rebel act possibilities.

"OK, I'll wait. But, if they are willing to meet me, send word by one of Ishah's friends, but be careful to not let it out that I am meeting with a rebel spirit! it could mean major harm to me!"




"It was quite a bit later that Mr. Eiderdowne was informed that he was to meet the rebel serpent again. The red and dark green serpent friend of Ishah spoke to him one day. "Mr. Eiderdowne, I've been told to tell you that you have an answer about raising your children coming soon, from some of my serpent cousins. I'm proud of you for thinking better of your family! I was beginning to think you had no love for them at all!" she said, with a frown on her pretty red, smiling face.

"But, what do my cousin serpents know about caring for children? I've heard they're even less caring for children than you! I sure hope you know what you're doing, Mr. Eiderdowne!" Then, she walked toward the cottage Ishah shared with Ish.

"Hmmm, I wonder how the meeting went for my project,?" Mr. Eiderdowne thought. The serpent friend of Ishah had instructed him on the path he was to take into the deep, untamed woods, where he was to meet with her cousin, a serpent leader with considerable position in the rebel order, which she had no idea of, but from his investigation, he had learned. Anyway, he was now on his way to meet, at last, and he wanted more than anything else, to finally gain Ishah's attention! Nothing else mattered!

"Heavy, warm, decaying vegetation scents made his stomach feel queasy, and gave him an undefined sense of harm. The untamed section he was in was overgrown, thick with tangled vines, and quite dark and foreboding. But, the serpent had insisted that he meet here. It had intoned that its family lived someplace nearby, in the darkness of this section. They counted on the fact that it would deter most creatures from entering, and therefore make the job of maintaining secrecy easier. Keeping their disobedience hidden was priority one!

"His skin was already feeling like it was crawling with fearful things, when "Hi there!" seemed to come at him from the blackness beside the pathway! His voice was just a forced whisper, "Oh! I didn't see you!""

""Hey! Didn't mean to scare you so much!," the dark green and red, diamond-patterned serpent lied, " I have good news for you! Are you ready?" He spoke this with a voice that seemed almost like slime."

""Ready? For wha, wha . . Oh! I nearly forgot, Yes! I, I'm ready. Mr. Eiderdowne's whole body was shaking; his legs felt like water. "May I just sit down here while you tell me?, he said to the smirking serpent. I've walked a long way to get here.""

""Of course! Here's a little flower wine to ease your mind, too. The freedom angels showed us how to brew this from fruit and flowers in the garden. It rally makes your more at ease.""

"The ostrich drank the heavily drugged potion. Sure enough, his thoughts were calmed. He felt easier, less afraid. After a few moments, he spoke."

"Were they willing to help? Can I join? If they help me, how do I repay them? Did they tell you?""

""Ha! Ha! Ha! The dark green, red, and diamond-patterned serpent laughed. One question at a time!""

""First, yes, they want to evaluate you . . . in everything about you, The Creator, curse His very name, seems to know their plans much too often. They need many new members, but each new member must be carefully selected I have a plan for your acceptance that they said you must follow exactly. Do you think that you can Succeed?""

""Of course! Just let me prove myself! Whatever do, or ask, I'll do it!," Mr. Eiderdowne exclaimed. His mind, he felt, was more clear than ever before! This flower wine must be a super food for my brain! I've got to learn how to make it, he thought.

""Good! I told them that you were serious. Now, we must take the first step. Follow me!""

"Mr. Eiderdowne, even with the effect of the flower wine, felt his feathers start to stick out and give a creepy, crawly sensation again. But, he obediently followed the tall, good-looking serpent ahead of him. They seemed to be headed for the area that many ostriches lived in. Sure enough, they nearly stepped out of the jungle at the border of the main ostrich settlement. Mother and children ostriches were busy doing ostrich things. No male ostriches were in sight.

""What are we here for?" Mr. Eiderdowne's shaky voice gave his fearing heart away. He was afraid of the answer.

""Oh, just a small test for you, my friend. Relax. It's OK. In just a minute I'll tell you what you are to do. It will certainly prove your loyalty.""

"They stepped quietly through the dense, tangled undergrowth, following the border around the edge of the settlement. Soon, they stopped. "

""There! Now's your chance to prove what I know is your loyalty to the Luciferian Order, Mr. Eiderdowne! See those ostrich children over there? Bring them to me!""

""Why, er, sure. But, why?""

""Do as you are told, Mr. Eiderdowne. You'll soon see why this is a good test!""

"The tall, average male ostrich stepped out of the heavy growth, not far from the small ostrich children. "Hi Mr. Eiderdowne! Will you come play with us?!" they all cried at once."

""Shhh," he said, "Come, I've got a surprise just for you, in the jungle. Come, follow me. But, don't tell anyone! OK?" He led the three little ostrich children to the waiting serpent.

""Now, Mr. Eiderdowne. Gather up the children, and follow me. The children just stared at the serpent's bright colors, and flashy markings, their eyes wide and wondering. it was the first they had ever met this creature.

"The followed the serpent quite deep into the densely tangled jungle, the little children close by Mr. Eiderdowne. He thought, "This is nice! I've not realized how much I miss my little ones! I need to give them more of my time. I will have to bring them to where they can be with Ishah and me after this is all over.""

"In a small clearing, under a mighty jungle tree, the serpent stopped. Quickly, he grabbed the three children from Mr. Eiderdowne's side, and in a swift motion, broke all three of their necks!"

""No! No! No! Mr. Eiderdowne felt his legs begin to wobble. "Those are innocent little children! What are you doing!!??? Are you crazy?" His mind suddenly was much too clear! The pain he felt was real."

"As he watched in paralyzed silence, the blood-spattered serpent tore open their tiny bodies. Mr. Eiderdowne felt his senses begin to slip away. He was horrified."

""Now!" said the still bloody serpent, There is just one final proof you are to complete. Do it, and you're one of us!" At that, the serpent pointed behind Mr. Eiderdowne. There stood many serpents, their faces in big, ugly smiles! In the middle of them stood someone Mr. Eiderdowne didn't recognize. he looked beautiful with a glowing, bright light that seemed to shine all around. A very dark light. Was this the angel of illumination?"

"When he turned around, the serpent was holding a little heart out to the ostrich. "Here!," he commanded, "Eat this and we will know for certain that you are one of us, and you trust Lucifer, bright angel of illumination, and he shall grant you whatever you desire most!"

""But, if you refuse," his voice became deathly serious, and quiet, "we will have to keep you quiet." He motioned to ten large serpents who towered over the cowering ostrich. They moved to a tight circle, completely frightening the cowering Mr. Eiderdowne. "Here!""

"Looking around at the assembly of serpents, and the glowing spirit creature, Mr. Eiderdowne felt completely betrayed, lost. helpless. Like the end of something. he swallowed the tiny heart fast, so he wouldn't taste it. he shuddered as never before. His panicky mind screamed at him to stop. His legs 'were' water."

""Good!," the serpent cried. "Again!" The second heart slid down the ostrich gullet, seeming to burn his entire being. "Again!," the screaming, hissing voice of the serpent ordered. The last tiny, still moving heart followed the first two.




"Oh! How horrid! How awful! Miss riding Wolffe's voice sounded shrill, and angry. she was shaking from the horrible scene Mr. Owl had just described. "I understand, my little one," he said, but, it is a part of this story that we grandpas tell our little grandchildren about, to make a lasting impression on their minds just how awful it is to fall into the hands of Creator's enemy. Lucifer still wants to recruit new members into the rebel forces building to one day destroy Earth, and all living things on this wonderful planet."

""My heart always stops with the horrible pain that that wicked serpent, and actually, Lucifer the Fallen Angle of Illumination caused," Mr. Neigh! spoke in a quiet voice. "This is the hardest part of this hard story to tell."

"How could those terrible serpent even make Mr. Eiderdowne do such a thing," Miss Wolffe asked. I cannot think of any way that any creature could do that to another creature!"

"Lucifer, the Deceiver, has no conscience, my little one. Mr. Owl spoke. In my police work, I see how terrible creatures treat one another, simply because they take the spirit of rebellion given by Lucifer, and apply it to their desires. The spirit of rebellion is really the worst enemy of Life. This is why Creator had so many recorders of His Living Word tell each generation of his People they were sent to, to stay away from all forms of worship to this rebel spirit. It uses very, very subtle things to attract creatures into slavery to its terrible den of Death."

"Why didn't Creator just step in and save those little ostriches," Miss Riding Wolffe asked. "I would think He wanted to protect them. Isn't that so?"

"Yes, it is so, little, sweet lady. But, our Creator has given us the enormous responsibility to manage how we treat others. This responsibility includes, even, our ability to kill other creatures. if we do ever take the life of others with so little regard for their right to live in peace and safety, he allows that. But, our responsibility includes consequences. These consequences may not immediately be enacted, but Creator keeps a permanent record, and in His Time, He sets Justice and balance over His Creation. Our indifference to His Living Word, and to the rights and safety of fellow creatures is in His record. We all will face a time when He opens that record, and we come face to face with our own acts to harm His creation. This fact is ignored by Lucifer, an evil spirit that has no ability to think. It just has ability to selfishly demand, and use other creatures for its own gain, no matter what the harm and pain to others it creates.

"Why isn't Creator doing something now to stop this evil spirit, Lucifer?" Her face was filled with a giant look of question.

"Oh! My dear Miss Wolffe! That's the very best part of this story! But, it comes at the very end! Shall I continue?"

"Oh! Yes!"

"Then, where was I . . ."

"When Mr. Eiderdowne was able to understand his thoughts again, he found that he'd followed the group of serpents back to where he first met the dark green, red, and diamond-patterned member of their family. The light radiation creature was still with them, talking quietly with the ten, huge, mighty warlocks. They seemed to be deathly afraid of something. or someone, not present, or at least, not visible. Their fear hung over them like a dark cloud. The word "Warlock" just entered Mr. Eiderdowne's mind, from somewhere, or something he was unaware of ever having present before. something outside of him ,yet somehow inside his mind, as well.

"In fact, he was thinking thoughts he'd never had before, that he could remember - powerful thoughts about ruling over other creatures, of his being like a ruler over Ishah, as if she were his property, or someone called a 'slave,' a completely new term he'd never had before. He traced this new concept to the same inner knowledge source he was now tuned into. He sensed that he was now empowered, invincible, and a powerful enemy of Creator. He liked this new sense of power-feeling, as it replaced his once always feeling helpless, and unable to manage to make his relationships be like he wanted. Yes, something deep inside has definitely made him into a very different kind of creature."

"In a few moments, two powerful warlocks, and the glowing spirit walked over to him. "Good! I witnessed your test," the light-radiating creature said. "I must say, you were better than most who join us, with your initiation rights. I'm glad the children of ostriches are so left unattended by you ostriches! The serpents are much the same. I've taught them to even devour their own children, to increase their strength for the coming battle. Do you feel the powers of eating hearts of your children?" The leering face of this rebel spirit loomed in close to Mr. Eiderdowne, seemingly demanding an answer in the affirmative."

""Oh! Yes!, he felt he was lying still. "It's a great power that I feel!" The leering look on the rebel, fallen angel spirit's face beamed even wider. ""I'd say anything to keep this monster from doing the same harm to me,"" he thought to himself. "He was afraid that this creature had the capacity to read his thoughts, so he quickly stopped thinking." He would have fallen dead, had he realized just Who was actually reading every though he had!"

""Well, I can tell you that I know every thought my rebels have, Mr. Ostrich, so don't you try to ever fool me! He looked Mr. Eiderdowne straight in the eye. "So, don't you ever forget that! You'll never have another thought, if you cross me! You won't be alive to have one!" His voice was overwhelming, like a hissing, frightening voice that echoed and bounced all through his mind. It had the intended effect on this new victim of Lucifer's Legion of Death, The Order of Luciferian!"

""So, I hear that you want little Ishah, the pride and joy of Ish! How nice, Mr. Ostrich! Perhaps you can bring her to me, but, I can't see how your blundering mind can convince her to leave Ish, or the Creator. She loves both much too much. she knows about me from the Cursed Creator, so she refuses to accept me. or my advice to her. I've sent others to her, but she sees through their words, and refuses to join us. We need another plan, 'MY' Mr. Ostrich!""

"When the rebel angel said "MY Ostrich," the poor bird shook so much he was afraid the powerful spirit would notice, and do something bad! But, instead of indicating the shaking was noticed, the rebel angel suddenly turned to the dark green and red serpent, standing next to Mr. Eiderdowne. "Slytalker! I have a plan starting to form for you to bring our little lamb to us!" The rebel leader's voice was cruel. The ostrich thought, "How could I have gotten so tangled with these evil creatures?""

"Whoops!" he thought to himself. "I'd better not allow myself to think these things, else they will be read by this spirit!"
"The fact that the evil angel creature was not reflecting any capability to read his mind escaped the ostrich's attention. it was as if he had almost no control over his own mind! He seemed to be losing control over his thoughts."

"The rebel spirit huddled with Slytalker, and the ten warlocks, standing a short distance from him. All he heard was occasional "Yeses," and a few muffled words. He didn't dare move closer.

"Mr. Ostrich." It was the bright-light rebel angel. "You know, I forgot to introduce myself to you. I' am the Angel of Light, or Illumination.  As you can see, I shed bright light around me. it is the light of truth! But, my real name is Lucifer, meaning Illumined One! I am the true source of truth and light, for all who renounce the evil Creator!""

""What we need from you . . . er, what YOU need to do, is convince Ishah that you've found a much better way to live. You don't dare say a word about us to her! Understand me!?? We'll know the right time to speak to her about that! I believe you'll be key to our overthrowing the evil rule of the Creator!""

""What about Ish?, asked Mr. Eiderdowne. "He's very strict about their meeting with Master, I mean the evil Creator, almost every evening. Sometimes they even ask me to go along. And, 'that' horse, too! I don't see how Ishah will listen to me alone!""

""Now, now! You'll do just fine, Mr. Eiderdowne. Just be sure to follow our plan, OK?""

""Yes. I'll do just as you say, Lucifer,"" he said, his spirits picking up a bit.

""Great!. Now, just to help you remember, I've arranged for someone to tell the Creator what you've done to those poor little ostrich children! It'll help keep your thoughts clear. Mr. ostrich!"" The evil angel of light's eyes showed too much evil for Mr. Eiderdowne to look into them, with his guilty mind making him feel so much shame.



"Having abandoned his ostrich females ,and his family, Mr. Eiderdowne had taken up residence in a small, grass-roofed shelter, not far from Singing Meadow Grotto, where Ish and Ishah lived. Often he could hear them talking, laughing, and having a good time together, when they were together. His obsession for her blinded his thoughts, otherwise he would have realized just how much he was missing out on the good times Creator had designed for him and his female ostriches could enjoy together. Instead, the sounds from the two humans drove him to wanting Ishah for his own, till he was thinking jumbled, wild thoughts. Too often, he found himself losing control of his wits. "Whoa! I've got to think clearly! If I'm to take her for my own companion," he'd say to calm himself down."

"He heard the two humans in their cottage as he arrived home quite late in the afternoon, following his experiences with Slytalker and Lucifer, in the dark jungle. "Oh! Must I come home to 'that,' he moaned to himself.

"Pretty soon, the voice of Creator, softly calling the two humans, and all creatures who wanted His company, comfort, and companionship for the cool of that evening, drifted in to his tiny shelter.

""Mr. Eiderdowne! Please! Would you go with Ish and I with Master, for a walk?"" The object of his passion stood just outside his shelter doorway. "Please!" she repeated.""

""Oh, I'd love to Ishah, but my day has been so long, and I'm exhausted." he dare not reveal where, and what, and with whom he'd spent that terrible day!"
""Oh! Please! She was persistent this time. "I'd really like your company, if Ish asks Master to go and inspect his work "OK, I guess I will, But, if Master and Ish go off to examine Ish's work, I shall return here! It's just too much for me to go on another long inspection tour."

""In fact, Ishah, I'd love to let you ride on my back, if you want to return with me, if I decide to leave.

""Let's go, Ishah. We will have fun tonight!" As he happened to glance around, there was Mr. Starr! He'd heard every word! He hoped the savvy horse had not also read his mind! "From somewhere deep in his being, he felt that the faithful horse did know his schemes. That thought made him cringe. he also thought that Master had no clue of his plans. Had he only known, he'd have immediately knelt before Creator, begging for forgiveness!"

"To make his mind even more uneasy, the beautiful, black stallion gave him one of the most 'knowing' looks he'd ever experienced. He felt his face turn deep shades of red. Quickly, he moved to Ishah's side, his feathers starting give him that crawling feeling again."

"In a moment, Ishah's sweet, charming voice was happily mingled with Ish's deeper, more subdued sounds, and they went off together with Creator, to gently refresh their bond and spirits. He couldn't focus on her joy with Master, as he was driven to mad passion by Ishah's light, sweet voice. His passions flamed inside."

""Do you want to ride," he asked her. "No, not for now. I want to hear what Master and Ish talk about, tonight. Ish has been working on a very important project, an I want to hear Master's compliment for his wonderful work. Maybe later?""

"Her response didn't please the ostrich, as he was uncomfortable going along by himself. But, perhaps the two of them would return early, so he went along. "

""Perhaps you would enjoy Mr. Starr's company?" Ishah said. The two of you are such faithful companions for Ish and I. I'll call you later, my dear Mr. Eiderdowne." Then she gave him a big, sweet hug!"

"That's the 'last' thing he wanted, so he walked some ways behind the small group, happily chatting with Creator."



"In the Great Garden, the dark of night settled in around midnight, each night. The dawn of daybreak began just a few hours later, somewhere around 3 AM, each day. The crystal blue sky above shone like a brilliant cut crystal, as the sun's rays touched the surface of the ice gathered on the outer wall of the metallic helium sheath that floated as a shield far above the face of earth.

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This metallic form of helium served as a collector of solar radiation, forming an electrical charge with the surface, providing earth life with energy and vitality. Windless atmosphere, and cloudless skies gave no rain or storm, and allowed for a pleasant dew to form from the balanced moisture of the planet. The small gathering of Creator and His creatures met in this ideal setting to walk together and commune on physical and spiritual levels.

Arriving where Ish's latest project work was nearing completion, Ishah was happy to see that Creator enjoyed her Ish's work, approving it at each turn as Ish led Him over the project.

Fruit hung abundant and ripe to eat over nearly all the Great Garden, so the little group ate to content as they toured. Master, along with Ish and Mr. Starr moved ahead, leaving the rest, including Ishah and Mr. Ostrich, to a restful, leisurely pace. "Oh! Isn't this beautiful!," Ishah exclaimed as she caught sight of Ish's many talented workings. She spoke not so much to be heard, but as a delightful burst of appreciation.

"Yes, it is very beautiful," Mr. Ostriches lied. He was right beside her, and placed his soft, feathery head on her smooth shoulder. "Oh! I like when you do that!" she exclaimed. "Your soft feathers feel so cuddly!"

"Thank you! I like to make you feel cuddly," the wily ostrich said. "I've something to tell you, Ishah, my friend. I hope you like it."

Oh, yes! What do you have for me!" Her eyes seemed to dance with excitement. She loved his many pleasant surprises.

""Well," he began, "I've been thinking, it would be really nice for you and I to go meet a beautiful friend of mine. He also is a gifted thinker, and knows much about the Master, Ish, and the purpose for Creation, and this garden. He even knows about life, and something about a great tree of knowledge. He's eaten from it many times, and gets his great wisdom from it. Wouldn't you like to meet him?"

""Did you say he is wise? And he gets his wisdom from the fruit of a tree?", she asked.

"Well, I've not seen him eat from it, but he does know many things about the Master that Master has not told us, and about a place a very long way away from the Great Garden. I think you'd like to learn from him, Ishah."

""But, master told Ish about a tree of knowledge. He said we would die if we eat its fruit. You say this friend of yours eats from a tree of knowledge, gains wisdom from it, and he lives too?"

""Oh, yes! He's very much alive, Ishah!"

""Hmmmm . . ."

""Why not go see him now?"

""Well, Ish and Master expect us to be waiting for them."

""Yes, but they just started. The inspection will take hours. Let's hurry and go meet my friend. I can carry you there and back. It's not very far for you, that way. We're fortunate that Ish's work is close to the place my friend lives in."

"In Ishah's heart she felt a tinge of eerie fear. Never before had she felt this strange sensation, but she trusted Master's control over everything. She had never heard of harm, nor could she relate to the feeling. If only she could talk to Ish and Master about the feelings inside her, but Ish was always so busy with his tasks . . . Ishah also loved and trusted her faithful Mr. Eiderdowne, and had no idea that there was any harm in being with him. Besides, she wanted to please her faithful companion."

""You think we'll be back here before Master and Ish have finished?

""Sure we will!," the ostrich lied. "I know it!"

"Well, it's never a good thing to promise something in the future! Knowing the future is only something Master can do. Ishah had no reason to fear harm, and wanted to please him, so she ignored the strange feeling inside."

""Let's go!" she exclaimed. "But, we must hurry back!"

"With Ishah on his back, the ostrich took off on a fast trot toward the jungle, at an angle away from where Master and Ish were. As they went deeper into the dense, darkening jungle, the strange feeling in Ish grew.

"After a ways with the thick under story slowing Mr. Eiderdowne's speed, they entered a small clearing, under a huge tree, eerily illuminated by the twilight of the deep jungle. It was noon day. A beautiful, brightly-colored serpent was sitting on a stone, near the massive tree trunk. It stood to it feet as they approached.

""Well, I'd know you anywhere!" It's voice was smooth, and sounded to Ishah like it knew things she had never heard of. "You are more lovely than all of the words about you I've heard from all those who have met you," the wily creature said to Ishah. Yet, it spoke with a bright smile on its face. Ishah felt another strange sensation mixed with the first. She didn't like either one a bit. "I'll go tell my master you're here. He is hoping to meet you!""

"As her eyes adjusted to the dim light, Ishah began noticing a small settlement with shelters clustered among the dense vines and tall trees. Most creatures were the brightly-colored serpents, but she could make out a few other kinds of creatures moving around the compound. A great ram sheep was not far away, its huge curl of horns close around its face. Not far from it, a bull and its cow were lying chewing their cud, while their little calf romped nearby. She heard a rooster's "cock-a-doodle-do!" further back in the heavy growth."

"She was trying to make out the shapes beyond the bull and cow, when a voice behind her startled her. "Well! It's Ishah! I have heard much about you, my dear!" She turned to see a dark green and red, diamond-patterned serpent walking toward her. Mr. Eiderdowne was following. "I'm very delighted you've come! Did Mr. Eiderdowne tell you how much we all have wanted you to visit us?" His voice sounded pleasant, she thought. "But, it sounds too smooth, like it too, knows something I don't. "I must find out why these creatures haven't come to visit us in our Singing Brook Meadow home?," she thought to herself. "We've always invited all creatures to join us there."

""We have invited all creatures to come visit us," she said to the bright-colored serpent. "Haven't you heard?"

""Why, I'm afraid I haven't!" the serpent lied, his eyes eager to his sincerity to her. "I've often thought it would be great to visit you and Ish, but I wasn't sure we'd be welcome."

""That's a lie!," the ostrich thought to himself. "Every creature in the Great Garden knows there's a permanent invitation to every creature to visit our human masters! They tell everyone many times each year to come to the many gatherings they have during the year!" But, he dared make no mention of this lie, either to his new master. Mr. Slytalker, or to Ishah, who was really his true mistress, in her position as Ish's wife, who was Creator's appointed master over the Earth and all its creatures. Revealing the lie, and the liar, would cost him too much!"

"The serpent was talking when Mr. Eiderdowne's thoughts refocused on his surroundings. " . . .that part of the garden, and I'm sure Mr. Eiderdowne will be happy to take you there. Right?, Mr. Eiderdowne.""

""Wha . . Oh! Yes, Of course!," he said. "Are you going too?"

""Why, yes. Didn't you hear what I said?" The serpent's gaze was too intense. Mr. Eiderdowne looked away. "I, I was thinking about a trip Ishah took me on, once, a long time before Ish had improved the Great Garden much," he lied. "I'm sorry." Even so, he remembered Slytalker saying that he read everyone's mind, so he was filled with fear that his lie would be exposed."

""Well, I understand from Ishah, she must be back to meet Ish and Mas . . I mean, her Master, before late afternoon. We need to hurry, Mr. Eiderdowne. Don't daydream again!""

"The serpent took off at a fast walk. When Ishah had climbed onto Mr. Eiderdowne's back and they had caught up, the ostrich was puffing.

"Past more deep jungle dense vines, bushes, and small clearings where unknown creatures moved about in the twilight shadows, the serpent led them on, finally stopping in a clearing where two clusters of old trees stood on a small knoll in a beautiful meadow Ishah had never seen before. Fragrant, lovely flowers filled the warm air with their sweet, refreshing aroma. From the earth, a small spring bubbled forth, forming a small, softly-gurgling brook that divided the two groups of trees, as it made its way down the gentle slope of the meadow to the edge of the thick jungle, where it disappeared.

In the meadow's trees, several brightly-colored birds fluttered about, singing and resting in the branches caught her attention. "What a pleasant place!," she thought. Her heart was so relieved from this sudden change from the dreary, dark jungle, that the strange sensation in her heart seemed to disappear.

""This is so lovely!," she exclaimed. "Mr. Eiderdowne, did you want to show me this, and I wouldn't come before?""

""Well, yes," he lied again; "but I didn't know how to get you to come." He's do anything to have this beautiful human woman for himself! "How could I tell you how much you'd like this place, and still keep it a surprise?" He felt so guilty lying that he was beginning to think he didn't like his new, smooth way to lie at a moment's notice. It made him feel dirty, somehow. But, so long as it got him what he wanted, why not? "I think I've even fooled that dirty, murdering and lying old serpent!," he thought.

"I'm glad Serpent has brought you here, Ishah," he spoke so Slytalker could hear. He was sure the old serpent had coaxed her to come when he was not paying attention before.

""Oh! I'm not sure it was the serpent's asking to bring me here," Ishah replied. "I've wanted Ish to bring me to see the trees of knowledge for a long time. But Ish has been too busy with work. These trees are very beautiful! I think Master, Who knows everything, arranged for Serpent and you to bring me here! If' I'd known this was where you wanted to bring me, I'd have been on your back in a flash!" She spoke with a voice filled with excitement. It was what Mr. Eiderdowne loved most about Ishah. She could be such fun to be with!"

""Well, my friends," spoke the serpent, who had warned the ostrich that he dare not reveal his name, "Slytalker," to Ishah, on pain of a quick death, knowing his name would cause Ishah enough alarm to scare her away again, if Ishah's to get back in time, we've got to hurry!""

""Why?," she asked. "Aren't we going to rest in the meadow by that delightful brook? And then, return to Ish and Master?" Suddenly, the strange feeling inside felt more real than before, She realized it had not gone away, before. "This is seeming less and less a "surprise" to me!", she found herself thinking. "What's the hurry?," she asked again.

""Oh. I'm sorry, Slytalker said. "I didn't mean it 'that' way. But, I would like to show you something I found interesting about the Tree of Knowledge. Please, let me show you, if you don't mind."

"In her heart, the uneasy feeling made her skin crawl. How she wished she had insisted that Mr. Eiderdowne wait till Master and Ish returned from their inspection, before going off on this "short" adventure! She felt caught between trying to give Master and her beloved Ish room to do their business, and her needs to be cared for and have Ish's balanced attention. "Oh! For Ish's word of guidance now!"

"At the tree, Slytalker motioned to the lush fruit hanging all over the tree. "See?" The fragrant, purple fruit just beg to be enjoyed. And, just smell that wonderful fragrance!" He breathed in deeply, which Ishah couldn't help but follow the example. To her, every fruit seemed to beg for a hand to pluck it from where it hung, almost ready to drop, and be tasted, enjoying every lush, savory bite! "This is the Fruit of Knowledge," the wily serpent almost whispered to her, where she stood, almost touching his out-stretched arm. "I've eaten it many times!," he lied again, for in reality, he had not even taken the smallest bite, for the very same fear as Ishah. "With every fruit I eat, I gain great knowledge. I know more now than all other creatures, except of course, my human masters, you and Ish, Ishah." He gave her a big, warm smile, holding out his hand as if introducing her attention to the inviting fruit.

""But, but, Ish told me that Master commanded him and I that if we ever ate this fruit, or even touched it, that surely we would die! I dare not even touch it!" Her eyes were wide with alarm, and she felt her heart trying to jump out of her hard. The strange feeling was now so strong that she almost felt sick to her stomach, a feeling she never knew before!"

""Oh, 'that.'" Mr. Slytalker said. "I assure you, Ishah, I sure didn't die when I touched, and then ate the fruit! No! Instead, I've grown in my knowledge, I've become like Creator! I know good and evil now! I know so much, I'm becoming like Him!"

""What's wrong with that, Ishah? Don't you think that's what He really wants for His creatures? Is Creator so cruel He would keep us in the dark about His great creation, and about right and wrong, about life  . . . and death . . . about love? What sort of creator would deny such knowledge and power?"

""Serpent smiled at her, but she pulled back. "No!"

"What?!," he smiled slyly. He plucked an especially-inviting fruit, and took a bite. He ate the fruit as Ishah watched, horrified, confused, and wanting so much to be back safely with Ish and Master. It was the first she'd every known fear.

""Mr. Eiderdowne! Please take me back to Ish and Master, right now!" She looked at the ostrich with pleading eyes. He looked at the serpent!

""Sure, why not? But, Ishah," the wily old liar said, "I want you to carefully consider all I've said here. I'm sure that deep in your heart you know I've told you the truth about this great fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Wrong. Ask yourself why He has commanded you to not eat it. If that is really what He meant, he truly is a selfish Creator. But, if He was only testing us, to learn for ourselves what is knowledge, then we must sooner or later accept this great gift, and eat freely of it, to become like Him, masters of both good and evil!" He looked Ishah straight in the eyes.

"Ishah, when you're ready, ask my friend, Mr. Eiderdowne, to bring you back. I'm sure he'd be happy to do just that!""

"Sure would!," Mr. Eiderdowne said. "Just let me know!"

""Now, you've got to leave to get back in time," Mr. Slytalker said. "Remember my words. I'll miss you, my dear Ishah, he whispered to her as he helped her onto Mr. Eiderdowne's soft-feathered back. He waved as they left.




The Great Garden: Eden


"A mighty river rose from the waters beneath the earth, flowing through the land of Eden, into the Great Garden,. leaving the garden, it divided into four rivers, each flowing to a fourth-part of the earth. In the Great Garden of Eden, Ish made this river divert to numerous smaller streams and rivulets, each watering a section of his work in the expansive garden.

"In Master's Book of Beginnings, recorded by His servant, Moshe' the 'Genesis' details of Creation give us fairly clear terms to describe the New Earth, and its metallic helium mantel positioned above, and protecting the tiny planet from violent solar radiation, and ultraviolet rays that inhibit life upon the planet surface. Later in the inspired record of Man upon Earth, a recorder, Ezekiel, echoes this detail of the crystalline helium canopy shielding earth below.

"The deep, interstellar frigid coldth was also effectively insulated from the surface of earth, miles below. Solar heat, as long-wave infra-red energy, passed easily through, warming, but not baking the atmosphere. Ground water, as a mist, spread the incoming thermal mass, tempering it, and allowing it to dissipate evenly on the darkened side, during the nighttime.

"As the curved lens of this near-transparent canopy passed light it refracted that light to fill the entire sun-side of earth, giving a radiant glowing effect to more than the direct lighted sphere facing the Sun. Nighttime, therefore, was foreshortened, giving the fauna of Earth longer periods of protected growth than is possible in today's earth, and also covering both poles with dense vegetation, as no coldth of discernable amount could penetrate into those far reaches of today's solar path.

"The energy of bio-living creatures is vital to every cell. The dwindling energy we see in today's Earth is a specific sign that a cataclysmic event occurred in which the vitality and energy of bio-life was drastically reduced at some point. The metallic helium mantel naturally answers to the as-designed energy level of Earth's former, as-created biosphere, and its absence, now, accurately specifies the far lower energy levels on a cellular scale, diminishing all forms of Earth life.

"The ancient oceans of this New Earth were tiny, compared to the land mass, and provided a balanced reservoir of moisture for sustaining all carbon life. From whole-planet studies, we now have a picture of the enormous rate of plant and animal productivity upon this awesome planet, and from this picture we easily see why vast amounts of fossil carbon in the form of gases, oils, tars and coals cover the earth in great pools of collected, formerly-living material.

"While Creator had commanded Ish to make order in this fast-growing tangle of vegetation, and animals far larger than exist today, Ish, imbued as most, if not all male humans are, with a focused sense of 'mission' to doggedly perform a given task till it reaches a 'finished' point, at the expense of family relationships, especially that of caring for the wife, labored much too long in his assignment, neglecting his sweet partner, created especially for his companionship. Ish, having no concept of 'evil,' was entirely without means and knowledge to defend his dear, Ishah from the agenda of the Fallen Angel, Lucifer, except, that Ish had the continuing Presence and attention, IF Ish had thought, to involve his Master in his daily program of activities.

Lucifer: Fallen Star

"Fallen Angel, Lucifer had prior bouts with attempts to lure fellow creatures away from their adoration of and respect for and their obedience of Creator. His efforts had gained the attention, and allegiance of a full third of Heaven's angels! Creator, not being threatened by His rebel creatures in the slightest, merely cast all these wayward angels out of Heaven but, to give Man the choice Man must have to decide between Good, and Evil, that third of former Heaven occupants were placed within Planet Earth, and given pretty much free rein as to how they interacted with Man. Lucifer, with what we might be tempted to think is the most stupid of mindsets, decided to lure Man away from Creator, to thus pollute, and ultimately destroy Creation, and replace Creator with him - or - itself as the Supreme Authority.

"However, and this is where the 'stupid' part applies to our thoughts about Lucifer, Lucifer is completely subject to Creator, and absolutely must obey Creator, at all times! All we do know for sure, is that Creator placed a tree in Eden that He then forbade Ish and Ishah to eat from, and then, before, or after who knows?, placed Lucifer in his non-physical, unseable spirit form with Man, on this planet! What a combination!

"In the Heavenly duties Lucifer was assigned, oversight of the Angelic Host was one duty. He no doubt had, or gained savvy management practices, and knew ways to persuade Heaven's subordinate angels to do the tasks each was assigned. Now, as Fallen Angel, and experienced management leader, Lucifer finds Man to be an easy, unwitting recipient of the evil plans to take over Creation. Especially so, Ish's wife, Ishah, as she was pining for Ish to give her due time and attention, and had taken to allowing a much perverted male ostrich to make up for her loss of Ish in her daily living, and womanly requirement for loyal, respectful, covenanted male company. Mr. Eiderdowne had none of the above intentions, nor authorities. His interest in Ishah was strictly for selfish reasons.

"To effect the plan to disconnect Man from Creator, Lucifer, likely following the method(s) used to manipulate angels from their allegiance to Creator, while still in Heaven, searched for the weakest link(s) in the Creator-creature links among both Man and animal inhabitants of Earth. Moshe' records for us that the Animal link was weaker the that of Man, and among animals, the serpent was the weakest link. From Moshe's record, we can gather rather accurately that those animals could entertain pride, and the Serpent was a comely beast, and it had quite a large ego, considering itself to be superior to other animals.

"Lucifer's best friend to tear down Creator-authority is self-pride. In the case of the Serpent, that self-esteem was manifold in the creature's interactivities with man, and with other animals, taking a self-appointed placement of authority - undue, and unjustified authority - over its fellow animals. Lucifer used this purely evil self-esteem to manipulate other creatures, animals, to unite in the effort to unseat Creator, and destroy Planet Earth, ultimately.

"Whether it is plausible to extrapolate that Serpent manipulated other animals to help in Lucifer's overthrow plot, we do have Moshe's record to show us that both Man and animals had violated Creator's Commands, and He, in turn, destroyed the vast majority of both from the face of Planet Earth. The fish kingdom seems to have escaped Creator's wrath.

"That left all other animals! Birds, reptiles, all exotic animals, except for the whale, porpoise, and other sea-creatures, but from the massive turbulence upon Earth under the onslaught of cataclysmic inundations from below surface waters, to the stellar ice-turned-to-rain cascading from above the metallic helium mantel, most sea-creatures would have suffered destruction rather than safe-passage. It was also over a year that survivors had no food, so Creator would have had to provide unnatural life support for any survivors.

"From other recorders of Creator's revealed knowledge to man, we learn that Lucifer had a spectacular light emanating from itself, in some manner. It might well be that at noonday, in the near-glowing of the metallic helium canopy solar light focus, this light from Lucifer was a mere faint glow, and at night, it was far brighter than the dusk of that earth atmosphere.

"However, Creator's recorders tell us that Creator also has a light emanating from His person. But, even at noonday, His light makes the light of the Sun look like a dim moon!

"Creator has another attribute to His light. By it, all deception is uncovered. Had Ishah availed herself to dare to go and ask Creator for His direction for the proposed fruit-eating that Serpent was manipulating her to accept, His light would have easily, and immediately exposed both the Serpent, the Ostrich, and Lucifer's agenda to deceive Her, and then Ish. But, as each of us do today, Ishah had no thought to disturb Creator for His intervention in the proposed act of disobedience.

"Ah! The perfection of Human hindsight!




Ish

"For his part, Ish loved the conquest of his assignment! Being a human male, his full attention was taken with the enormous task of its accomplishment. His genes were devoid of the instinctual need for relationship that his Ishah seemed to have far too much need for. Her instinct to build relationship with Ish, and spend their time as a couple with building their home was nearly entirely ignored by Ish! His sole need was to 'obey' Master's orders to make the Great Garden an orderly, good home for his family. Ishah was a homemaker, and she would simply have to fend for herself!

"Ish had a problem that he thought was related to his assignment, In reality, Ish had a problem far larger than that, in that he did not correctly estimate his weakness, nor the immediate availability of Creator to assist him in resolving all issues he would face, including those issues Ishah would face. So, Ish simply turned a blind eye to both the tiny indicators that he faced problems with Ishah, and his own imbalanced work-life, and he was completely blindsided with the events we are about to witness. Had Ish only sensed his Right to call Upon Creator in his moment of lack . . .

"Ish's work was progressing well. Much of the East Side was now an orderly, park-like setting. Toward the West, and in the center, he had yet a large amount to do. He'd intentionally left it, as the Center was where the Trees of Knowledge and of Life were standing, rooted in the refreshing water of a small brook flowing between them. He intended to make it a very, very significant place to worship Creator in, and to finally have a resting place with his dear, patient Ishah.

"The West section was a problem. It seemed to contain the most unruly of creatures in the garden, whose unruliness had thwarted his every attempt to bring order. So, he'd neglected to stage an all-out effort to subdue the ornery creatures there, such as the Serpent Family, and the other reptilian creatures that seemed to enjoy the specific coolness of the dense jungle.

"Ish had enlisted many animals to assist with his assignments. The Beaver Family was especially helpful to clear jungle trees, and to maintain waterways to keep things green. The gentle bovine, such as buffalo, cows, and the goat-sheep families were helpful to maintain the fast growing jungle at a point where the tangle could not grow back fast enough to block access.

"The Rhinoceros Family had dug the main waterways, and the crocodiles maintained them with their activities through them.
"Giraffes, whose long necks made it possible to mow the top jungle growth stories, held a special place in the plan! Parrots, loving many seeds, ate, then planted many fruit trees, and kept them tidy with regular feasts upon the resulting fruit!

"All, except those who followed Lucifer, held active, vital roles in the eco-system of the Great Garden in Eden.



For their nefarious, rebel part, Lucifer was training those in the Forces of Evil, deep in the jungles of the West Section, to kill, war, and destroy all the other garden inhabitants! At night, they would go into the unguarded areas and steal fruit, nuts, and other foods that Ish's faithful associates were caring for, often destroying much of the orderly sections. They had only contempt for those who trusted and respected Ish and Creator.

"Lucifer had schooled them all to believe that only one obstacle stood in their way to escape the rule over them from Creator, and that was Ish! He had carefully groomed them all to believe the lie that Ish held no respect for them, and when Ish sent the huge bear family to tell them to keep out of the improved areas if they could not use them without destroying things, it merely reinforced Lucifer's deceptions!

""You must escape Ish's rule!," Lucifer would repeat over and over at the frequent gathers they attended to listen to the latest rebel plans. "If Ish will not join our great cause, then Ish will just have to be defeated!"

""Lucifer," the serpent said one day, don't we have a plan to defeat Ish? You keep telling us we need to defeat him but he just grows stronger and stronger with the other creatures, as he works with them to improve their homes in the garden. In fact, they have nice homes, but our is run down, run over, and doesn't give us enough to eat and feed our young!""

"Lucifer's angry replies were always the same, so they had given up asking this question: " Stop! If I had any care about how to stop Ish, don't you think it would have been done by now?!! In fact, that is 'NOT' your worry! It is 'mine', and you are wasting your time and breath to even talk to me about it!"

Then, one day, Serpent approached Lucifer. ""I have wonderful news! We have a way to get Ish to surrender to us! It is that silly ostrich's intention to win the attention and companionship of Ishah! We have the means now to finally render Ish helpless!" Lucifer liked what Serpent was saying about manipulating Ish with a plot to deceive and blackmail Ishah.

"What about Mr. Starr? Won't he suspect something, and go to Creator?" Lucifer was not ready, quite, to commit to the plan. "Oh, we can take care of that horse! We merely need to separate him from Ish, when we have Ishah take Ish to the forbidden tree!" Serpent seemed to have the deadly details worked out. This plan just might work!

"But, was the silly old ostrich to be trusted with the delicate job of manipulating Ishah, while not allowing her to see their real agenda?" Lucifer wanted to know. "Well, one of my kind, the pretty little serpent maid she has cleaning her house, can easily be used to guide her to us when she is sufficiently led to accept our plan as the best way to gain Ish's attention." Serpent was really on top of this!

"Yet, when Slytalker had approached his little cousin, the red serpent maid of Ishah, would have no part of his plan. She seemed to be aware of his secret agenda, even though he's been very careful to conceal it entirely from her. "No! Cousin Slytalker! If I've told you once, I've said it a dozen times - I just will not help to get my dear Ishah to go into the jungle with you! You refuse to give me a good reason for her going, and I am sure you have friends there who would be happy to harm her! I have heard about terrible things going on in the jungle, anyway! Just go away!"

"After that, a search was made for a creature willing to help bring Ishah alone, to the deep jungle, when it was time. The happy Hippos in the rivers and lowlands, with their happy kids chasing through the streams and marshes, wanted no part. Mr. Lion, King of animals, flatly refused. He'd told the messenger that if he heard even a rumor of any uprising, he and his family would scourge the jungle for every last rebel!

"The wombat! That rascally creature would surely help! But it was soon realized that even Ish held little regard for this ferocious creature! Monitor Lizard? Again, no such deal. It was sometime later that the dumbest, least likely of animals to aid their rebel cause approached Slytalker, with a request to help him gain the attention of Ishah. Mr. Eiderdowne! "Would, he had asked, "Slytalker help him take Ishah away from Ish and creator?

Careful plans were drawn up to use this unbecoming, silly-headed ostrich to wreak Creator's entire Creation!



Ishah's Dream

"Ish, having no concept of evil, for there as yet had not been any open rebellion, was worn out at the end of most every day. He loved how faithful Ishah maintained their clean, quiet little home nestled by the giant tree, in her "Singing Brook Meadow" setting. He almost always was half asleep by the time the delicious evening meal was finished, and wanted nothing more than to lie all nigh by his beloved's side, and rest.

"Ish!" Ishah screamed. Ish awoke from a deep, near-dreamless slumber, groggy from the deep sleep. "Ish!" she cried again. She clung to him with a desperate grip. "Ishah! he was alarmed by now.

""Ish! it was so terrible! The waters were rising so fast! Everyone was drowning and yelling and screaming! It was awful!"

""Ishah! What is the matter! What do you mean?" His sleep was gone now. It was the first time he'd ever experienced fright, or one who was frightened! And, here it was Ishah, his beloved with the fear! "Ishah! My darling, precious gift from Master! Why do you tremble so?!" His gentle, sure voice calmed her.

""Oh! Ish, I had a terrible dream! it was so real! In it a flood of water was rising fast over the whole garden drowning everything, and everyone! It was so awful! It woke me, and I was so afraid I just held onto you. Oh! I'm so sorry to waken you, my dear, tired Ish!"

"Dear Ishah, I don't know what you say! You are "sorry"! What, tell me, is that?

"Oh, Ish! I'm too frightened to know. It's a word that just popped into my mind, and it seemed right to describe what I feel about waking you! I had no intention to make you wake from your rest, my Ish!"

"My lovely Ishah, you can never bother me! Little did Ish realize how untrue his words felt to Ishah, as she had long so wanted to interrupt his work and ask for him to spend more time with her! "Oh! If only her beloved knew the desires of her lonely heart! If only he would come home to her, and just be with her!" His beloved was desperate for attention. She was nearing a breaking point.

""But, I do wonder about the dream," he said. We always share our dreams, and this is the first we have had one that makes us afraid. Is there something I should know? Maybe I can do something to comfort you, my dear Ishah?" His words made her cry even more. She had tried so many times to make him aware of how much she desperately needed his strong arms around her, and needed his sweet, kind attention for all her own, but, he'd just returned to his work at the earliest moment, seemingly oblivious to her deep need.

"This particular night was just days after she had visited with Slytalker and had refused his insistence to take the fruit of Knowledge. What if she had just taken the fruit, and trusted his advice that it would give her great knowledge? What if, instead of her dying, it actually gave her knowledge how to gain her beloved Ish's full love and respect? "I'll have to think about this more," she said to herself. "Maybe there is a way to gain Ish's attention!"

""Dear Ish," her voice was teary, since she didn't dare tell him the whole truth, and she felt something she'd never felt before, as if she was breaking under a heavy weight, "I've been going to the most delightful parts of the garden. They are deep in the jungle and one is in a clearing, with a grassy meadow and a little spring. It would be so wonderful for you to take a break from your work, and go with me there!" She held her trembling lips tightly shut, for fear she would cry, if he refused.

"As he did not reply, she continued; "But, there are creatures in the jungle, where it's so dark. I feel like I'm being spied on, and there's something covering me - a felling that makes me feel as if I cannot breathe." Her voice trembled.

""Oh, Maybe that's why the dream about the Great Garden being flooded? As for the jungle creatures, Ishah, Master made everything on Earth Perfect. He is pleased with His entire creation. He tells me this nearly ever time we talk . . . you've heard Him. Maybe it's the darkness?" Somehow Ish's attempt to soothe her did not help.

""Yes, my dear, lovely wife. Perhaps I need to take a break and give my best companion some good time together with me. Just the two of us! I'll make the plans, my dear! I'll do it soon!"

""Now, dear Ishah, curl up in my arms and let's go back to sleep. No more floods tonight! Sleep well, my darling."

"As he promised, Ish arranged for a few days' break from his work. He told his many animal assistants they could also take the time for rest, fun, taking extended walks with the families; anything they desired. "And, he added, the Shabbat is in the middle of this break, so we'll all meet with Master for the Day of Celebration and Rest.""

"As usual, the workers has assembled early, they loved working in their wonderful home, together, with Ish their beloved master. His announcement was almost a shock! Slapping several well-muscled backs near him, Ish added," Have a great time, my friends!"

"Ish thought his decision would please everyone. He was very, very wrong. First, he forgot to say anything about it to Master, and Ishah hadn't said anything, either. After her visit with Slytalker, she thought she knew what He would say, and she felt that heavy weight bearing down on her breast, making it very hard to even think how she would open the subject.

"How sadly wrong she was, she would discover, later. But, by then it was far too late to go back and change things." As he said this last, a tear was seen escaping from Mr. Owl's big, sad eye. He paused a moment.

"Ish was puzzled over Ishah's not telling Master about her fearful dream. Normally, she spoke to Master about every little thing she ever experienced, and her dream was definitely 'not' a small matter, he pondered her silence. Master was always patient and happy for both of His human creatures to share anything that was on their hearts. He always spoke a word of comfort, or had a kind word about anything they might have to share. He knew something was deeply troubling his precious Ishah. And, as he didn't understand her emotional side much at all, or, for that matter even her complex person, he figured he'd best wait until he knew her better, however long that may be. But, his small choice to remain silent cost him his life!




Trees in a Beautiful Meadow . . .


"On his way back to their little, comfortable home nestled against the tall tree, in Ish's beloved Singing Brook Meadow, Ish called, "Ishah! Ishah! Silence greeted him. He felt an uneasy sensation, somewhat like Ishah had tried to describe to him the night she had the frightening dream.

""ISHAH! ISHAH!"" His voice rang with loud alarm this time. He felt a new, frightening sensation. "Panic?" The word just seemed to appear from nowhere in his thoughts. Never before had he any reason to feel this way. He felt betrayed, alone."
"ISHAH! He was feeling so overwhelmed with a strange sense of fear, he could not think clearly.

""Oh! There you are!" The voice caught him by surprise. It confused him more. "Ishah said I should wait here until your get here, Ish.  She said I was to lead you to where one of my relatives waits for you in the jungle. He will lead you to where Mr. Eiderdowne and Ishah are waiting for you, Ish.""

"Ish looked at the beautifully-colored serpent girl, standing before him. "Aren't you one of Ishah's friends? I hope she's OK? Why did she leave with Mr. Eiderdowne? This was to be just the two of us! I told her I was coming home early so we could spend the whole break together. Why couldn't she wait?""

"The pretty, red serpent maid merely blinked her big eyes. She walked over to Ish, and held his one hand in both of hers. "Ish. I really do not know," she said. "I'm worried too."

"There's that word, again," Ish thought. Something has been bothering Ishah for many weeks. It all started with a trip that Mr. Eiderdowne asked her to go on with him, into the jungle. Ish, I'm really frightened for Ishah. I don't know how to handle this feeling - I've never had it before!" She lowered her head, crying.""

""Oh, my! Ish's voice broke. He was confused more. Something seemed to 'flood' over him, drowning him, somehow. "Dear friend," he said to her. "Let's sit down for a few moments. Perhaps if you share what you know with me, it will make some sense for us both. Maybe we'll feel better, too. I'm sure if Ishah is with Mr. Eiderdowne, he's taking good care of her. He's been her faithful friend for a very long time!""

""Oh! Ish! I wish I could be sure of that! I've watched Mr. Eiderdowne for weeks now, and I don't know what's going on, but I don't think it's good!""

""One day several weeks ago Mr. Eiderdowne asked me two questions that make no sense to me yet. I wish I knew what is going on with dear Ishah!"" Tears streamed down the pretty serpent's cheeks."

""What questions?," Ish asked.

""First, he asked, "What does Ishah like to do?", so I told him several things I knew she likes. But, why didn't he already know? He then wanted to know something that Ishah would like, that he could do for her to surprise her. Do you think he meant, "harm' her?" The pretty serpent's eyes were streaming with a hot stream of tears.

""No! I hope not, Ish said. speechless now, he thought, ""Harm" my precious Ishah?! What could this mean?" A new sense of anguish swept over his body like the flood his Ishah had described that night. "Did you say he asked two questions?""

""Yes, he then asked, "Does Ish like me to go with Ishah and the black stallion when they go with him, er, I mean you, Ish. That sounded so strange for Mr. Eiderdowne to ask. I told him, "Of course. You always like for him to go with Ishah and the black stallion, when you show Ishah your work, or she just wants to be with you. Why wouldn't you, Ish?""

""Well, Lately I've had some strange feelings that Ishah wasn't well when I left her and Mr. Eiderdowne. But, I never thought Mr. Eiderdowne was any problem for Ishah. Now, I see where I've been too occupied with work, and not enough with my sweet wife, my little friend. Where did you say I was to find Ishah?""

""A friend of Slytalker is waiting for you at the edge of the jungle, close to your new work site. He is to take you to Ishah, and Mr. Eiderdowne, Ish.""

""Now, I don't feel good at all!," said Ish. "Let's go!""

"They hurried to the edge of the jungle, where the relative of Slytalker waited their arrival. Ish was in no frame of mind to speak a word to any creature, and, next to Master, all creatures in the garden feared him above all else. That is, all except the followers of Lucifer. For them, they assumed that their leader had powers even above those of Creator, and had lost all respect and honor for Ish and Ishah."

"However, even the great warlock serpent, relative to Mr. Slytalker who now led them deeper into the dense undergrowth, seemed to pay Ish with respect, at least its silence seemed to portray that. Ish wished with all his heart that his faithful Mr. Starr had been there with him. His big, gentle form had become a comforting companion for Ish, and now he felt so alone."

"What Ish missed the most, however, he realized, was Master. He knew if Master was there, it all would be made OK, and he and Ishah could just go home, and be safe with each other. "Oh! Where is my poor Ishah!" He felt his heart pounding in his breast; it felt as if it would explode."

""Why have I failed my beloved Ishah, so terribly," He kept asking himself. "If only I had thought of her more!""

"Suddenly, the jungle darkness ended, and they entered the little meadow on the cleared knoll, where a spring bubbled up from the earth, and ran in a little brook, separating two groups of trees. Immediately, Ish's heart sank, he knew this place all too well. Master had commanded . . ."

"His heart seemed to burst with the realization of what he may be facing in a moment."

"In the very center of the clearing stood the majestic Tree of Life, just as Master had told then to freely eat of its beautiful fruit. However, until that very moment. Now, suddenly, Ish felt weak, as if his life was draining out. Now, he seemed to crave the life-sustaining fruit of that tree."

"But, first he must find his Ishah! Across the tiny, merry little brook, stood the beautiful Trees of Knowledge, their fruit seeming to beckon his hand to reach out and pluck off the trees, even on the pain of death, if he were to succumb to their allure.

""Is -ISHAH!"" There stood his precious, beloved bride, a lush fruit in her hand, beckoning to him! "Oh! My precious Ishah! What have you done!" His confusion, pain, and a sense of utter pain dropped him to his knees instantly. "Ish - ISHAH! My precious! . . . His heart stopped, and he could taste the death that now awaited her.  "Oh! Ishah!"

""Slowly, with the weight of a thousand earths on his form, Ish rose. Focusing on his beloved, he saw she was there all by herself, left to fend for herself by the treacherous ostrich, and the serpent, who were to be with her. Now, alone, there she sat, a pathetic sight, with no one to even care what happened to her, not even to think about how her heart must feel. he recounted in a flash all her many emotions, and how she always seemed to find comfort in his touch. He half ran, half stumbled to her side."

""Ish! It's so good you are here!" Her voice sounded hollow, and unnatural. "I was so afraid that you would not come, my husband." Her eyes seemed to search deep into his soul. "My love, I found a way to keep you near to my heart," she said, meekly. I've longed for you so much."

"Ish's whole life flashed before his mind. "But, but, but, Oh! Ishah! What have you done?""

"Unknown to Ish, the dark green and red, diamond-patterned serpent had told Ishah and Mr. Eiderdowne it was best for Ishah to meet her Ish alone. They both begged him to allow them both to wait for Ish together, but he had insisted; "It would work out best for all of them this way." His disguised agenda was to use both hapless victims of his demonic plan to end Creator's rule upon Planet Earth. What did he care about the welfare of those he used to that end?

"Somehow, Ishah felt shame and guilt, but more than all else, she needed her mate by her side, even if it meant that they would never see Master again. Perhaps, if she had really known the full terror of her choice, she would have stopped her lying right there. But, she had emotions that were far, far too much mixed, confusing, and overwhelming to have the smallest awareness of a logical solution.

""Ishah! Oh my sweet companion! What happened? You are so unhappy! What have you done, my precious gift? Ishah, oh, Ishah."

"His exuberance vaporized like the morning dew on the meadows. Where there usually would be a feeling of warmth in the day's sunlight, all he felt was a cold, clammy sensation of lostness, confusion, and utter lack of purpose to his being. Where just that morning, he'd had a vibrant, purpose-filled existence in his fulfillment of Master's command, now he was filled with a foreboding sense of shame, guilt, pain, confusion, drowning, and a weight upon his heart like a thousand cares he'd never known before.

"The 'flood' over swept Ish's whole being, again. Moments ago he was nearly overjoyed to find her, hoping against hope that he'd reached her in time to prevent his worst fears. That emotion vanished in a sheer mountain of bone-shattering pain that pulsed through his body, wave after wave. In her hand, raised to him, was  . . .'It'! From the plump, luscious purple fruit in her hand, a single, large bite was missing."

""Oh! Oh!  - Oh! My Ishah! "" The waves flooding over his soul, drowning him, kept coming. "Why?," he moaned. His whole strength fell onto the ground. he sank to his knees, again, beside her, dumbfounded. "Why!!!???" He groaned from his most inner being, weeping for the first time in his existence."

"The shame he felt inside ended something inside his soul. it's leaving was a very distinct feeling. Like something had simply snapped under all the weight of his confusion, shame, guilt, and fear."

"They sat, holding each other for along time. 'Nothing' registered in his numb mind. Finally, Ish spoke."

"My Ishah, Oh! My Ishah! What have I done to you?! Why didn't I care and love you enough to care more for you than my work??" Inside him, the confusion was turning to a dying, desperate grieving. The feeling so overwhelmed him he could speak no more."

""Ish?" Was he not dead? He thought he heard his precious wife's voice. "Ish?" It was her!"

""Oh, Ishah!? My precious one. Can you forgive me?" He wept."

"Ish?"

"Yes."

""Ish, why are you so hurt? I thought this was forbidden by master for us to eat, but I was wrong! See? It was really just as the serpent had said, I 'do' know! like Master! I 'do' see much clearer, now! Ish, Won't you take the rest of this one? it is very delicious!" His heart sank, even below the surface of the ground he sat upon."

""Good?." his voice sounded like it came from where his heart was, in the ground beneath him. Death murmured inside him. His earth stopped."

""But, Ish! It tastes so delicious! Here! Take the rest of this one! I can get another!""

"Unthinking, Ish took the offered, forbidden fruit, and put it to his lips. "Yes, it did taste good." His heart stopped again. he felt the blood drain from his face. His hands were sweaty, clammy, and cold. Suddenly, he knew evil. Like a flood, the knowledge spread quickly through his being. His mind went numb."

"Now, having joined with her, in her desperate, vain attempt to find meaning to her existence, his own life force seemed to ebb away."

"Ish died."

"Oh, Ishah!" The voice he heard from his mouth sounded hollow, like an echo in the cave by the Great River, where the large Bat Family lived. A damp, dead sound. "We must go.""

"So soon, my Ish? I really like you here, by me, my husband."

""OK, OK. I'm so tired anyway. They slept in each other's arms."

""Ish!"

""Ishah!"""

""Ish!""

""ISH!""

""What? I must be dreaming, Ish thought," his mind still groggy with dead-tired slumber.""

""Ish! Where are you?"" Then, it all struck Ish's heart like when he and Mr. Starr felled one of the gigantic trees, as they had cleared the Great Garden! "Oh!," he groaned, Master!"

""Ishah! Ishah! Wake up! It's Master calling us! Let's go hide ourselves behind that tree. maybe He'll go look somewhere else!""

"Waking from the delirious slumber she had been in, Ishah cried out." "Shhh!" Ish whispered in her ear. "Master! He's looking for us! Let's hide behind that tree. He might go look somewhere else!""

""Come! We can't let Master find us like this! We must find something to cover ourselves! Come! Here's some leaves, and a vine! We need to get ready!" As he spoke, Ish heard his voice saying things he'd never heard, or thought before. He seemed to be in a daze. What was happening? Why did he feel exposed? What did it mean to be . . . 'naked'? He seemed to be reeling from one new fear to the next, with no sense of belonging to anything. Where was his 'place'? He seemed to remember once having one . . ."

"Ish looked at himself. He 'was' naked! Then, over at Ishah. She was naked too! Where did this new sense of being 'exposed' come from? All he could think of was to find something - anything - to cover his sense of exposure. His body seemed the most obvious thing to cover."

But, as all creatures, merely putting clothing over one's body does not cover the 'exposure' that one feels after an act that disobeys a command from Creator. Their nakedness was good, and natural, just as Master had found it to be, in His survey of His Creation work. Having nothing to hide the body is the way of all creatures, no evil can alter that fact. The serpents whose bodies wore a skin of scales, were just as exposed as the ostrich, whose body was covered partly in bare skin, and a few scattered, thin feathers. No, putting an unnatural covering over his body would not cover Ish's nakedness! He still felt fully exposed, helpless to cover himself the sense of unnatural exposure."

""Fear of something he could not describe, and so much confusion that his mind could barely focus on anything, made Ish groggy and his thoughts barely made sense to him."

"On her part, Ishah found herself saying to Ish, I'm naked! What can I do to make myself not so exposed?" She started sobbing. "What have I done??! Ohhhh . . .!" Inside, Ishah's feelings were yet again a hundred times more confusing, intense, demanding her immediate attention! But, she seemed to have a new power.

"Many years later, with the experience it would provide that was so unlike the natural 'knowing' she'd been created with, Ishah would finally understand that she now had a power of 'reason,' a power which she had first experienced when she made up her own plans to get Ish to give her more of his energy, and time, by eating the forbidden fruit. She would always remember how wonderful it had been to simply 'know,' and never feel any need to 'reason' her way through things that she did not understand, and to have the constant Presence of Master, whenever she had questions beyond that."

"As she reasoned her predicament, Ishah realized that she was blaming Mr. Slytalker, and even Mr. Eiderdowne, for her taking the forbidden fruit. "Wasn't it really their fault that she had found it so tempting?""




The little group riding on Mr. Neigh!'s back, and Mr. Blue Jay, perched on his head, looked at each other in wonder. "What did you stop for?." Mr. Neigh! asked. "Your story is nearly exactly like my grandfather told it to us!

"My friends," Mr. Owl said, "I stopped because it was at this point in history that all Earth Creation died. We, everyone, lost our right to live from conception right through eternity!"

"Even worse, Master, our Creator, no longer comes to walk each evening with us. And, like Ishah dreamed, the Great Garden 'was' entirely destroyed by a whole-earth flood! It came long after she and Ish had lost their flesh lives, and were no longer part of the living upon Earth with their children. But, I think, the very saddest part is that we don't know what we're missing!"

"But I know!" It was Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe. "I 'know' what it is like to have Master come along with me! He's my best friend!" Her voice was a sweet, small-person song in the woods. "Why don't people like the Mr. Eiderdowne - ostrich in the story, and Mr. Fyyne Pheether, who got swallowed by the earthquake, 'know' Master?" she asked.

"I think I can answer that," Mr. Blue jay said. "When the serpents in the record acted like they had some hidden fear of an unseen being - Lucifer - it 'was' the fearing of  Creator that caused them to fear. They 'knew' two fears, the most evident one was of their creature-master, Lucifer, but the second fear was more repressed, and less recognized; it was the fear of Creator, for they knew they were being disobedient to Him."

"Which serpents?." Asked Miss Riding Wolffe, "There were so many."

"Remember the "warlock enforcers"? What did Mr. Owl's story say about them? I think the 'fear' they had was because they really did 'know' Master!" Mr. Blue Jay looked very sad. "I believe we creatures have deceived ourselves for many, many years, just like Ishah was starting to do in the story. We are all guilty of disobeying Master!"

"I have so many questions!" Miss Riding Wolffe exclaimed. "But, I want to hear the rest of Mr. Owl's story!"

""Oh, we could answer your questions, our dear little friend," Mr. owl said.

"Oh! NO! If it's OK, just finish the story!," she answered. "What's next?"

"Mr. Neigh!, what comes next in your grandpa's story"," asked Mr. Owl. He was enjoying the ride on the old stallion's back. Flying back would have been very hard for his old wings. This was a treat!

He felt sorry for Mr. Neigh!, though. So, he asked, "But, first my old equus friend, isn't it time for you to take a break, and let us off while you rest a bit?"

"Why!, I hadn't given it a thought!," Mr. Neigh! said. "I am getting quite tired, come to realize it, though, huffa, huff, huff" There's a grassy clearing just ahead, if I remember. How about I rest there? There's a little spring that feeds a stream, huff, huff, at the edge of the grass, too!"

"Mr. Blue Jay, you've been so good to deliver all the messages, "Mr. Owl spoke, "But, we should let Miss Wolffe's folks know she's OK, and we're just beyond half way home."

"Hey! Sure! I'm on my way. I'll meet you on the way!" And he was off.

"I sure like Mr. Blue Jay," Miss Riding Wolffe said. "He's so kind!"

"I believe he and Master must go together each day, don't you think?," Mr. Owl asked. "Do you mind if I wait to tell the rest of grandpa's story until after he is back?"

"Oh, please do wait! I don't want him to miss out!," the little red wolf pup couldn't think of having her friend miss any part of the story!

"Huff, huff, huff hu . . Me too!  - huff, huff, huffa," said Mr. Neigh! "Huffa, huffa, hi, I mean, Blue Jay seems to always find us just when we need him, Huff, huff most! - huff, huff. "He saved Me and Miss Wolffe some trouble, and grandma, huff, a lot of worry when I told miss Wolffe, huff, huff, huff, we didn't need to send Mr. Jay ahead, but then we had an accident, and, huf, huff, there was Mr. Blue Jay!- huff, huff."
""Good! We're all in agreement!" Till Blue Jay returns, let's look into what we have seen in this story so far. There's lots to think about, so far," Mr. Owl said.

"When Master made His Creation Plan, it was with exact timing and knowledge of every event, at each moment throughout the whole endurance of time. Creator is outside and superior to Time, and Creation, and therefore He is present in every moment and part of His Creation. He tells us this in the records that he gave Moshe' and other Hebrew Scripture recorders to write. In fact, He calls His record "the Living Word," for it is written upon each creature that is born. Our bodies contain His Living Word; it is designed into every cell of our flesh, and into our spirit. The Human Being even more so than we who are animal, because they not only have His Living Word in their flesh, He breathed His spiritual image into their spirit.

"As animals, we have great and wonderful design to our flesh, and we have a spiritual aspect, but Humans have a much more wonderful spiritual person. It is their eternal person. Creator made it to know Him, and when apart from His Presence, to long to be with Him. Even so, we animals seem to know and understand Creator and His Creation better than do most humans. Perhaps this is so because humans can go so much further away from Master than can we. We were not banished from the Great Garden, where Ish was responsible to us, to provide and lead us forever under the Living Presence of Creator, which, of course, Ish failed to do when he joined Ishah, and ate the forbidden fruit."

Master is present not only in all points of Time and Creation, He is also the Protector and Manager and Owner of every part. He can, and does perform individual healings and protections, at times, which show us creatures He is with us. But, He never intervenes in a way that forces us to comply with His Plan for our living. Like for Ish and Ishah, He did plan for their eternal living, as He had created each of them, in their flesh bodies. But, He allowed each to choose to reject Him, and His Plan. Otherwise, if they had no choice, or power to make a choice, what good would their love be to Him? Love is a freely given honor that creatures can choose to not give, or, to even gift it to those who have wounded and maltreated the gifter of that love.

"We see this as Creator gifted those who murdered His flesh body, with His Love, Grace, and Forgiveness. Even as they ended his flesh life by hammering large nails through the bones of His hands and feet to a tree in the form of a cross-armed post to slowly kill it as He writhed utter pain.. Yet, when we read the details of this terrible death, we find that He felt so much more pain for those who reject His Living Gift of Reconciliation, that the pain His flesh body went through was of little significance. Somehow, I believe that humans have never appreciated this, for if they did, then nothing would come between their loving each other, no matter how much each was harmed or hurt by anyone else.

"Love is so absolutely powerful, that it overcomes the most brutal harm, and instead of separation, hate, and more acts of retribution, Love returns Master's gentle, sweet, and peaceful Reconciliation to the person that caused the harm. By this act of freely-gifted Love, we know who truly follows and obeys Creator. Any other action, such as rejection, or for a married couple, Divorce, proves that the leaving spouse has no relationship with Creator, and His Love is not in their heart. By sharing Master's Love for those who harm us, we know who is a true Believer in Creator, as it is in His Love that they have proven their Love for Him.

"As grandfather's story unfolds for us, we will see how Creator's Presence was in every detail and event of every person and animal, and in the events of Earth, as He brought all creatures through the disaster and destruction that eating that forbidden fruit caused. We will discover how our own lives can be lived in a way that proclaims the Love of Creator to all the Earth, and even to all Creation, and how each creature has the gift of Love, to either respect Creator with, or to use against Him, as it is given to Evil.

"Mr. Owl went on; "My grandfather's story has a thread of hope all the way through it, just like our dear Little Miss Riding Wolffe's life has a thread of this same Living Hope running through all she does, with every part and every event she experiences. She has gifted herself to Creator, for His Honor and His Authority over her living each day, even each moment. She gives to us the wonderful gift of seeing how her life is an exciting event in itself, but always, she trusts Master to protect her, and make her a blessing, even to those who harm her. Is this not what Master desires for every one of His Creatures?

"So, it was that with the first moment of Ishah's turning away from Creator to seek another way to get Ish to give her what she needed as his spouse, that Master was there, at her side, observing. The moment she took that dreadful bite from the forbidden fruit, Master, in His eternal spirit presence, witnessed the act of disobedience, and His Being was grieved so deep we creatures cannot fathom. he knew the full damage it would have, through the thousands of human generations to follow, and the massive damage it would cause to His Planet, Earth, and who knows what else beyond Earth.

"Even the thoughts of Fallen Angel, Lucifer, are known beforehand to Creator! In the Creation Plan, Creator knew at what instant Ishah's and Ish's great disobedience would take place. He also knew that Ish's love for Ishah was greater than the love Ish had for Creator, and Ish would instantly give his life for Ishah, rather than for Creator, but, Creator also knew how He would make His Own Love for all Creation even more known by Ish's act of disobedience. He, Creator, designed Creation to reflect His Love, in the very worst of situations, even more than in the best of situations! No evil can dim Master's Love! He just shows His Love that much brighter!

Mr. Owl, one of the wisest creatures, went on; "So, we, in this little group, and our precious friends, Cynthia Joy, Melissa Joy, and Eriel, each of us has a history of relationship with our Creator, and each of us can look at our history, and, just like Creator, we can tell where we messed up in obeying Him, and where we showed His Love to those whom we felt, or were harmed by. We are like every creature He makes, able to know good, from evil."

"We know when we, just like Ishah and Ish, love another creature more than Creator."

"But, Master's Way is to Love as He loves, which is to give Him our honor first, then give His Love to those about us, especially to those who harm us! It is only by our loving those who harm us that our love and honor for Master is shown! It takes His Love to do so! Our love is much too weak to love those who harm us.

"Mr. Owl, how do we learn to love with Master's Love?," Miss Riding Wolffe asked. "I know how I love Master, but how do I love those who hurt me with His Love?" Her eyes were big, and so sincere, as she turned her head toward the old owl, he wanted to give her a big hug!

"It funny that you should ask, Miss Wolffe!" Of all of us, you love with Master's Love the best! But, for my grandfather, he wanted every listener of this story to be able to know, and apply that very thing from hearing this story! So, if you don't mind, Miss Wolffe, I will use you as the example of how to love others with Creator's Love.

"I remember the event of last year when you got into a little misunderstanding with Mrs. Weasel. She was anything but nice to you! And, she was so wrong, too! But, remember how you returned her meanness with kind thoughts and words? And, later, when you made that special treat of baked crickets for her, her favorite dessert?

"Yes! That was a fun surprise! You should have seen her face!." Miss Wolffe chuckled at the memory.

"See? That's what real Love does! It takes a bad event and turns it into a gift of Love! It takes a time of hurt and harm, and instead of allowing the natural, sinful reaction of rejection to break apart a relationship, it cements that relationship together even better than before, and makes the two creatures a whole lot better for it! How do each of us handle such harm? With Love? Or, with our natural, sinful pride?," Mr. Owl asked.

"Master's Way is love, despite all natural sense of separation Divorce, and harm, in the form of retaliation. Instead of giving harm in like, or worse kind, Love and forgiveness is returned, and the relationship is far stronger than before. If another harm comes along, then another gift of Love is given. We are creatures of habit, and many of us harm others as a habit, so true love has a tough time, but, true love always wins! Just remember this, and you will have a living filled to overflowing with love, Real Love!

"The Living Word of Creator was recorded by His Messengers in Hebrew, their native language, or at least, the language that most of them spoke. So, in the beginning of Creator's Living Word, it was known to be accurate, and faithful in every copy that was made by the Hebrew scribes, to be shared with those who desired to obey Creator, but lived far away from the main place where His Living Word records were kept.

"My grandfather was given a story about his ancestors, who lived among the ancient people where this Living Word was first recorded, and kept, in a great temple, in Y'rushalem, or City Of Peace. His ancestors lived in the stables where the donkeys who carried these records lived. Those donkeys had many interesting stories to tell, but one of their most interesting was one where those records were hunted down and destroyed by invading nations, who despised Creator, and His Living Word. But, because those invaders thought the Living Word was kept only in the Great Temple, they forgot to check the donkey's stables!

"So, today, we still have exact copies of the Living Word, kept by Creator, Who uses every one of His creatures to Keep His Living Word available to every creature who desired to obey Him! In fact, comparisons between extremely old copies discovered in remote desert caves in that land, show there is not a single word difference between current copies and the most ancient we have today!

"Mr. Neigh!'s family tradition has been to protect all the descendants of Ish and Ishah from the wily deceptions of the Ostrich Family, since their deception started wit Mr. Eiderdowne, with his deceiving Ishah to start such a terrible destruction of life and Earth. His family devotion to obey Master, and to protect from those who want to deceive and ruin Master's Creation illustrates a point we all need to know.

"In fact, during the rest of grandpa's story, Mr. Starr's horse family, Mr. Neigh!'s ancestors, work with the Family Creator appointed to save all Earth Creatures from complete destruction, to do just that, and they gave up their safety at times to save Earth's creatures, in my grandpa's story.

"In our lives, there are deceivers who will do anything to take our relationship with Creator away, and replace it with a wild chase for freedom away from Creator, and His Living Word. Even our family can do this. Even, some parents guide their children to think that they should spurn a Divorced spouse, or a family member that the parents have decided is too bad for their children, and themselves, to associate with!

"That's terrible! What mother or father would do such a thing!," exclaimed Miss Wolffe. "My parents would never do that!" Little did she know, that in later generations of her family, just that would be practiced by the wolf order. Even, to the destroying of families that they would hunt down as their food!

"Obedience," Mr. Owl continued, "Obedience is the true element that grandpa's story is all about. Mr. Eiderdowne exampled what the opposite of obedience is; Mr. Starr, what the act of obedience is all about. Ishah, in her desperation for Ish's attention, disobeyed Creator, and looked to her own heart to find a way to get what she craved, togetherness with her Ish, but she really did not love him. She merely wanted to satisfy her inner craving for his attention.

"Ish, when he put most all his time and energy into obeying Master's command to tend to the Great Garden, actually disobeyed Master's first command, which was to love Master, then to love Ishah! In the end, Ish lost both Master's Presence, and His daily communion, and Ishah's wonderful respect, and her ability to make him the most happy man ever created! He simply learned too late what he should have paid attention to first, honoring his Creator, and then, Ishah.

"In a sense, those horses who worked to save Earth creatures from destruction were messengers sent to lead Creator's beloved creatures to safety. After that rescue, Creator has kept sending His messengers, to lead us all to safety, from sure destruction by our own acts of disobedience! If this is not Love, then I have no idea what Love is!," the old owl exclaimed.

"Grandpa's story also details what willful disobedience is. Willful disobedience is a planned, determined form of hatred, or despising, for Creator. It is the theme and the entire focus of Fallen Angel, Lucifer, which evil spirit has no room for turning back to Creator, for reconciliation, forgiveness, or even stopping the efforts to overcome Creator! Lucifer works constantly to infiltrate every group that assembles to honor Creator, and introduces twisted truths to confuse, and divide, and mislead members of every body that comes together to give glory and honor to Creator! The rest of this story shows just how far and how hidden and determined Lucifer, and those who follow that evil spirit will go to deceive, betray, and ruin creature relationships with Creator!

"One messenger to the Hebrew People compared disobedience and obedience to clay. When it is first worked, clay is soft, pliable, and forms easily to most any shape. When we creatures have a soft, pliable mind and heart toward Creator, He only needs a gentle touch to form us to His Plan for our Living. But, through time, and repeated disobedience, which is like a dying to our once soft mind and heart, we become harder. It takes less and less gentle guidance on Master's part to set up back in focus to His Plan for us!

"So," Miss Riding Wolffe asked, "Is that why Ishah didn't just go and eat the fruit at the first time the serpent told her she should? Instead, her heart was still soft enough that she could resist the temptation, but later, when she finally got Ish to take a break, and give her and them, time and attention, she went back and talked to that evil Mr. Slytalker, and was so hardened against Master that she ignored His spirit presence in her heart?"

""Well, well! You sure are a bright young wolf. Miss Riding Wolffe! I wish that everyone would see, and understand why dear Ishah did not eat the fruit at the first attempt to get her to. We would all be better if we understand why we have a natural resistance to disobedience at first, but with time, and our evil power to reason why it would be OK to disobey, we wear down, or harden, our mind and heart to Creator's spirit within.! Well done, Miss Wolffe!\

"Another part of the messenger's clay illustration is that that lump of soft clay does not look up at Creator, Who is forming it, and say, "Hey! Wait a minute! I hate this form You are making me into! Now, change me into 'that' form!" No, the soft clay simply enjoys the gentle touch of Master's hands, and His true Love being gifted to it, and takes delight in Master's Presence!

"In fact, that soft clay simply trusts Creator! That's the highest compliment any creature can give Creator; Trust!

"Mr. Owl, I don't understand," Miss Wolffe said. How does trust make for the best compliment we have to give to Creator?" Her face was wrinkled into a puzzled frown.

"Perhaps I can say something to help, Mr. Owl," Mr. Neigh! said. Miss Wolffe, my ancestors who helped to lead creatures to safety simply trusted Creator to show them His Plan, and when they then followed His directions to do His Will, it was still a simple act of trust. Out of trust all else comes to be; We walk here, right now, on the way back to our home, because we first trust Creator to be directing our way, to suit His Plan for our Living. Really, it's very simple!" He whinnied a soft horse word to show he loved his little friend.

"Well, I had another answer for her," Mr. Owl said, "But yours is much better!"

"Now," Mr. Owl said, "we have a more difficult concept in grandpa's story to understand. Master's Plan for His Creation was in His thoughts before He simply gave the voice of command to make Creation appear. But, how does He account for all the things that we see as going against His Creation, such as Lucifer leading so many angels to rebel, or Ishah to accept the deceptions and eat the forbidden fruit, or for Mr. Fyyne Pheetha to come here for whatever reason, and try to fool us with his lying?"

There was silence with his listeners. Each had a thought, but waited in respect for his own thoughts.

""Well, I'm fairly certain each of us has some concept for this," He said, "but, in the story it is clear that something has to happen that brings all the destruction of Planet Earth, and all the wonderful Great Garden abandonment when Creator banished Ishah and Ish from it, to a point it all fits in, together, with Master's Plan for His Creation. Remember, He never does anything that is meant, in the end, for destruction! He is Life, and Life cannot overcome Death, if Death and Destruction remain after they have ruined Creation! Simple to say, but hard to understand!

"Yes," he continued, "Master's Plan includes problems, imperfection, destruction, and all forms of evil! Indeed! if it did not include such, what worth would His Creation be? For, if Creation merely followed a set guide that kept it from harm, then there would be no need for Master to step in and show His authority over destruction! And, if I'm any judge of creature emotions, I say that all we creatures would be living in fear that some destroying evil more powerful than Creator would come and utterly destroy us!

"Within the rest of grandpa's story, we will be seeing this concept of Creator's Will being performed, even as events and people in the story seem to be too far outside Creator's Plan for it to bring honor and respect back to him. We see Him as being way, far away, outside of our small ability to imagine how much evil He has power to overcome!

"In our own, personal living, we experience events and persons that harm us, and make us feel unsafe. Instead of share Creator's Love with the people harming us, we run away, and even say terrible things about them. In doing so, we actually are saying to Creator, "You are too small to handle my problems! Leave me alone!" And, we live out our lives in misery, fear, and disobedience, instead of gifting those who harm us with Creator's Love, His respect for them, as He made them, just the same as us, and sustains their lives, like He does ours. We, then, are living just as evil as those serpents in grandpa's story!

"Ouch! I never thought of my spurning Mr. Fyyne Pheetha in that light!, Mr. Neigh! spoke. "I'd better rethink my view of the entire Ostrich Family, in that case!"

"Now! That's exactly what I think my grandfather wanted his telling of this story over and over to do for those who really listen, and hear it, to do!," exclaimed Mr. Owl.

"We are born in the same spirit of self-will that Ish and Ishah died in. We animals, too, had this same spirit of rebellion, as it is recorded in Hebrew Scripture, that it was one of the animal kingdom that disobeyed Creator before Ishah, or Ish were deceived, and followed suit. So, all flesh, just as Creator says in Moshe's record, disobeyed Creator, and all of us, animal and human alike, must suffer the consequences. But," and Mr. Owl spoke a bit louder to make the point, "with our disobedience, Master was given the opportunity - and, yes! it 'was' His Plan! - to show even more of His Love, His Authority, and His Respect to His Creation!

"Regarding "respect," Mr. Owl said, in a deep, owly tone, I see far too much display of disrespect for those who harm us! Mr. Neigh!, with your permission, I will use you for an example, here.

"Sure, my trusted friend, I'm certain that my life is open to all, and you know all there is about me, so I fear no exposure of something I'm going to regret you sharing!" He turned his head around to look Mr. Owl, perched on his back in front of Miss Wolffe, and winked!

"OK! Enough theatrics, old friend! You've always been honest, open and trusting with me, so I feel confident you will agree to what I'm about to share!"

"Mr. Neigh!, as I was about to begin before being so rudely interrupted," and he gave Mr. Neigh! a little squeeze with the sharp talons on one foot!, "your reaction to Mr. Fyyne Pheether upon meeting him at the bottom of that slippery slide down the side of the ravine, illustrates this point! You had absolutely no respect for Mr. Fyyne Pheetha!"

"Whoa! I had never thought about my instinctual reaction to Ostriches in 'that' light!" Exclaimed Mr. Neigh! "Now that you've shared all that your grandpa taught you with this same story my grandfather shared with us, I'm beginning to appreciate the entire story more!"

"We cannot claim that we love Master, and then disobey His command to love those who harm us, and, for those who've left their spouse, but claim to love and obey Master, they are under terrible deception! They ruin their own children's homes, and destroy their own relationship with Master, and live in continual evil, fearing harm at every step! How 'lost' they are!," Mr. owl said, sadly. "I see, with the court and police work my position, and my family work is involved with, such terrible situations, where mothers and fathers commit the one unpardonable sin, and Divorce one another, ruining all hopes, and Creator-provided Right of their children for a home with both parents, living together. It also breaks Creator's heart, since He is denied the opportunity to display His power to heal and reconcile relationships, and thereby show the children of such parents His ultimate gift that is theirs, for when they experience troubles in their own marriages."

"My heart is torn to bits each time I have to provide safety support, and deliver summons to spouses who are being divorced by a mate, some even after they have grandchildren! It is just not right!," the elderly Owl said, with a grim tone to his deep, owly voice.

"Had Creator made His Creation Plan to contain no choices available to its creatures, then we should just as well be made like the trees, or, as stones. We would need to have no emotion, nor any capacity to think, or to even move! All we would really need would be for food, and water, just like a tree! I am so glad that Creator made me into a form where I can fly anytime I want, and even times I am not wanting to!, and that I can react to my daily living, and the places, creatures, and events I experience! My! What a boring life a tree has!"
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"Mr. Neigh!, what about you?"

"You know, I don't believe I've ever thought about my place in Creation like that, Mr. Owl! Thanks for gifting me with your wise concept of this life I am given, and the creature I am made to be. It's refreshing to gain such a vital perspective on my worth to Creator! Thanks!"

"Well, we do have the awesome power to choose," Mr. Owl said, returning his gaze toward Miss Wolffe, snuggled into her soft bed of warm moss. She was still a bit shaky after the events with Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, and the poor Otter Family. "Miss Wolffe, how are you, now?"

"I'm much better," she replied. "Your grandpa's story, and just sitting here with Mr. Neigh!'s neck to curl up next to, with my dear friends, is making me feel lots better."

"Dear little wolf daughter, you've been through more today than most people experience with a full lifetime. It's well now that you receive all the encouragement and comfort we can offer you." His gentle voice, still an owly tone with a hint of a grandpa's gentle, kind heart, gave her even more comfort.

"Grandpa's story also contains another practice; one that is very, very evil. It's not so openly portrayed yet, as it will become later, but it is the practice of idol worship, or simply placing one's honor and respect that is due only to Creator, to anything, or anyone else. In the story, so far, Angel Lucifer is the main idol. Those who redirected their respect and honor, and yes, trust, from Creator to Lucifer, lost their contact with Creator in doing so. Later in the story, this idolatry was widened to things like stones, and parts of trees, carved into shapes. Of course, all idol worship eventually was directed toward Angel Lucifer, but evil has a way of being applied in a million confusing ways!

"Also, this idol worship produced slavery. When we give our trust and honor , and our worship to Creator, we are always, but always, free! Not so with any idol worship! Remember how Slytalker used the fears of harm, exposure, and even death, to keep those it had converted to trust and worship it, from going to Creator with the Truth, and allowing Him to defeat the evil serpent? Lucifer does the same with every form of the idol practice! Fear, as a tool of oppression, looms over every idol worshipper, and many idol worshippers are found among those who attend Creator worship groups!

Mr. Owl paused. His audience listened to the living silence of the woods they were resting in, and to the steady breathing of Mr. Neigh!. It all seemed so peaceful, and far, far removed from both the calamity of the earlier part of the day, and the utter destruction in the story Mr. Owl passed on to them, from his ancestors.




"Do you want slavery for your living?" Mr. Owl's sharp voice cut into the short, sweet silence like a falling tree sounds, when it thuds to the ground in a quiet woods. Where would we be right now, if we were caught in the very same predicament that those poor serpents, and Mr. Eiderdowne found themselves in, when the first part of grandpa's story ended?"

Mr. Owl fell silent again


Miss Riding Wolffe looked around their little grassy clearing. It seemed that she'd seen some of this part of the woods in the morning, after she and Mr. Neigh! had started their trek toward the unknown events of this wild day. She longed to be back in the comfort of her parents' home.

"Angel Lucifer taught Mr. Slytalker well. Instead of making up a total lie to tell Ishah, Lucifer made up a twisted truth. It consisted of part of Master's command to not eat the fruit, and, in the other part, the deception being planned. So, it went like, "We know that Creator told your Ish that he dare not eat the fruit, but what Creator really meant to say was, rather than that you would die, is that you would actually lose this old life of uncertainty, like if you died to it, and then you would be born into a different life, where you become like Him, knowing good and evil. Now, doesn't that make more sense to you?", the sly, evil-minded Serpent had asked Ishah.""

"In the record Moshe' provides for us In his Hebrew, original, Genesis, chapter 3, verse 4, Slytalker added the little word, "not" to the advice that he explained to Ishah. Master, in chapter 2, verse 17, commanded Ish, "In that if you eat this fruit, you will die the death!" Slytalker's revision went; "In that day you eat the fruit, you surely will "Not" die the death!" What a contrast!
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"But," went on Mr. Owl, "what a poignant insight into the enormous deception now infiltrating our spiritual world, where many worship leaders pick and choose their religious advice, carefully eliminating, and for some, even adding things to the precious Living Word!

"What Ishah, it seems, was not aware of, and I really think that she was truly aware of this, is that adding and taking away from the message Creator gives us is an evil act in itself. But, even today, we see where Creator's Word is twisted, distorted, mal-used, and in many so-called Creator worship circles, certain parts of His Living Word are simply banished, or never mentioned, to make it appear that the phony religious practices and customs of those circles are based on the truth of Creator!" Mr. Owl shook his horned head.

"Like Mr. Slytalker, whom Creator had given the power to reason. But, instead of using his reason to resist Lucifer, he used it to worship the Fallen Angel, and thereby he amplified the evil that Lucifer practiced! How different history would have been, had the serpent used that same reason to amplify Creator's Love!"
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Just as Mr. Owl said this, Mr. Blue Jay landed on the grass right next to Miss Riding Wolffe. "Sweet little lady," he said, Your folks were very happy to know you are safe! The quake 'was' felt in the meadow, and they were concerned. I told them we would share the details of a most interesting experience we had with a Mr. Fyyne Pheetha just after that quake shook Mr. Neigh! loose from a big bush he was caught in. They send you their love, my dear friend."

"Oh! Thank you!" I was really hoping they would not be worried!," She said. "We have so much to tell them!"
"I'm glad you made it, Mr. Blue Jay. I figured the Wolffe's would be trusting for their daughter's well being, but your going to them is so much better than waiting!," Mr. Owl said. "Thank you!"

"We are discussing grandpa's story, and we just looked at how we creatures use our power to reason to do evil rather than good. We make thoughts and acts that fail to seek Creator's Plan for our well-being, but that seem to be in our own best interest. Then, when our wrong-headed reasons fail, we assume that Creator didn't see, and we act as if we had not made a mistake!" Mr. Owl had turned his big round, brown eyes nearly backward to face Mr. Blue Jay as he spoke.

"Tell me!" Mr. Blue Jay exclaimed. "I've made so many fool reasons to do things that proved wrong, I wish I had an acorn for every one! I'd never have to store another acorn there's be so many!"

"I think that's true for all of us, here," the wise old owl said. "It sure goes for me!"

"OK! I was talking about how the serpent, Mr. Slytalker, had used twisted reason to switch his respect for Creator and give it to Lucifer, like Ishah also did, and what history would be like if both had used reason with Creator in focus."
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"Yes, it is a very deep river of Truth that runs through this story," Mr. Blue Jay said in his cheery "Scree! Scree! Scrip!" voice. For myself, I see where I need to change my attitude toward some of the birds that seem to just be determined to annoy me!"

Looking to see that Mr. Neigh! looked better rested, Mr. Owl said, "We've  rested here at the grassy spot while Mr. Neigh! had a chance to rest. Mr. Jay is back, and perhaps it is a good time to be moving toward home. How does that sound to you, Mr. Neigh!?"

"Well, yes, I did rest some, and I'm better, thank you, Mr. Owl. But, my creaky old bones are telling me I need much more rest, but, I want that rest to be in my clean, dry, and warm stable! After I have a long, cool drink from the crystal-clear stream, everyone take your places on my back, you on my head!, Mr. Blue Jay, and let's go!

They set off to journey the rest of the way to the meadow with the tall tree and a small Wolffe Family cottage nestled in it, with the little brook running by. Miss Wolffe could hardly wait to tell her rabbit friend all about her adventures!



Mr. Owl took up the story discussion after everyone settled in comfortably.

"So, Instead of his twisting the Living Word, the serpent would have made the Living Word even more relevant to all Creation! Instead of giving that power to Lucifer to strengthen Lucifer's evil, Mr. Slytalker's power would have been used to block Lucifer, and maybe even to have made it too difficult for Lucifer to trick Ish and Ishah! Think of the possibilities!"
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"But, even today, Lucifer, and others who worship the evil spirit, use many of the same twisted truths to mislead and destroy those who do not first, and above all else, choose to obey Creator, and carefully study His complete, original Living Word! Instead, they blindly accept the partial truth of leaders whom they trust to guide their spiritual living, and are too lazy to research the Living Word to verify everything those spiritual guides teach. How pitiful they are!
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"Even in the study of the Original Living Word, one must be careful to keep away from those who eliminate parts, add to those they do use, and then add completely different material and alter the parts they do use! With all this manipulation, they make the Living Word appear to say what they want it to mean, which produces a cult following in the religious group that they lead. This is happening in most religious groups I see beginning to form in our time." Mr. Owl noted.

"From grandpa's story, we learned that Mr. Slytalker claimed to love Master's Living Word so much that he used it to deceive Ishah. But, did Slytalker actually love Master?"

"He sure didn't like to be around Master! When I love someone, I want to be close to them! I don't think Mr. Slytalker loved Master at all!" Miss Riding Wolffe was showing renewed spirits.
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"No, Mr. Slytalker was with his master," Mr. Owl replied, "and the master he was with hates the Master of Life. Miss Riding Wolffe, Mr. Slytalker had a family, a Mrs. Slytalker, and children. What would you do if he was your father?"

"Ouch! Mr. Owl, please pardon me if I speak out of turn here! But," said Mr. Neigh!, "isn't that question a bit too much to lay on our sweet little Miss Wolffe?"

"Why, thank you for your caring love for Miss Wolffe," Mr. Owl replied. "No, I have found Miss Wolffe possesses more spiritual maturity and knowledge than I see in almost every adult I meet. Granted, I see so many creatures who live on the wrong side of Master's Grace, but, I also see and deal with those whose intentions, if not their living, is for living according to Master's Plan for His Creation. So, yes, Miss Wolffe, I'd be most interested in your thoughts about having a father that behaved himself like Mr. Slytalker."

"Thank you, Mr. Owl." the little wolf-pup said. But, I really don't think I can speak for a real child of Mr. Slytalker, 'cause that poor child would suffer so terribly that her living would be a horrible daily struggle to love and respect her father, as Master tells all who obey, to do He even made it one of the Ten Greatest Commandments - so, I just do not have an answer that would truly say what such a child would say."

"Miss Wolffe," Mr. Blue Jay said, "I think you're words are the best anyone with that question to answer would be."

"Thank you, my dear Blue Jay," Miss Riding Wolffe said, smiling up at her dear little messenger friend., "But I'm not finished!"

"Oops! sorry!" Mr. Blue Jay quickly replied. "I'm listening!"

"Well, while I cannot possibly speak from my own experience with such a terrible father - my own dear father loves and does his best to live a gentle life that honors Master, I can say that I know that staying close to Master, and taking everything my father said to me to Master, and following Master's Living Word to honor my father, and to have the strength to face him honestly and yet not obey his demands to disobey Master is possible, and even may lead my father to turn away from following evil. How I would even learn about having such a relationship with Creator, I really do not know, because that kind of father would never tell his child about Creator. I guess that Creator would have someone else tell that child of His Living Word, so that child would have an opportunity of its own to choose whether to obey Master, or not."

"Wow! Miss Riding Wolffe, you have excelled even my trust in your wisdom!" Mr. Owl exclaimed. I could not have said it a word better!"

"Isn't that what anyone could say, if they would only take all the Original Living Word, and study it?" Miss Riding Wolffe said. "I'm no genius, but that's what Master tells us to do, in the record that Moshe', and other recorders have given us to understand the Living Way of Creator. Is that too hard for anyone to do?" Miss Wolffe's face was wearing a puzzled look, as if to say, "That's so simple to see, a dummy could see it!"

"Miss Wolffe," Mr. Owl spoke, yes, Master's Living Word is available to most creatures, and yes, it is easy to understand when we ask Him to open it to us, and we truly desire to learn all He tells us in it, because we have found that it gives us the most satisfying and rewarding way to live of all the ways we have to choose to live from, but, somehow, first we must learn, or imagine, or have someone tell us in a way that we truly understand, and then carefully go on our own to discover all the Living Word tells us to do, to live with, and be in relationship with Master, otherwise, we never really see the awesome Life that obeying Master gives us. I find that fact so sad. Every day, just like this morning with Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, and the Otter Family, I see the terrible consequences of those who, Like Mr. Slytalker, lead themselves, and their children, into and end that never can be good.

"What if Grandpa Otter, instead of following Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, had followed Master? wouldn't he, and his children be safe, with us, now?" Mr. Owl's face, with its huge, round, brown with black irises eyes, turned all the way around to look at Mr. Neigh! Who had just then turned his head around, on its long neck, to look Mr. Owl in the eyes. 

"You know my friend, Mr. Owl," Mr. Neigh! said, "I've never had such deep thinking to do, as you have guided my thoughts today. With all the events in the past few days with Miss Riding Wolffe, my entire perspective on life has taken a sharp turn. Now, with your guidance into knowing Master as you obviously know Him, I'm beginning to feel like a new colt! There's just  so much more to discover about our Creator! He's awesome!"

"Why, thank you, Mr. Neigh! Your gratitude is noted! But, it's really not my wisdom, for it all comes directly from Master's Living Word, as you well know! But, thanks, just the same!"

"My pleasure!" Mr. Neigh! replied, still looking at Mr. Owl, as his foot hit a log on the side of the path!

"Everyone tumbled off Mr. Neigh!'s back!




But, Mr. Neigh! had recovered his balance before he fell down, and soon all were back in their former position, and  . . .

"I remember my grandpa reading about anyone who adds to Master's Living Word, or, removing anything from it," Miss Riding Wolffe said, as Mr. Blue Jay settled rather uncertainly, back between Mr. Neigh!'s ears -"Please tell us BEFORE you do that again!" He'd just said to Mr. Neigh!, in a not too sweet voice!

"Yes . . .? Go on, Miss Wolffe." Mr. Owl encouraged her.

"Well, it is in the record that Mr. Moshe' gave us. He recorded it in Deuteronomy, chapter four, and verse 2, and then again in chapter 12, verse 32. The words of Master he recorded, say; "Whatever I command, you be careful to do; do not add, or, make it less." she quoted from her memory
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"That's so common a knowledge in our world, why doesn't everybody live that way?" Mr. Blue Jay asked, of no one in particular. "I mean, if most creatures know that Master made that command, then why so much trouble and confusion all over?"

"Mr. Owl, who had just finished arranging his ruffled feathers, replied, "Because we creatures are just too lazy to dig into Master's Living Word, and actually read all of it for ourselves! Instead, we attend a group service of some kind, where a small part of a different section is preached on each week, and then we spend the next six days as if we could not possibly read the rest of Master's Living Word for ourselves! That makes me angry!" he added.

""Oh." Miss Wolffe said. "That makes sense, but, it shouldn't!"

""No! It really shouldn't make sense at all!" Mr. Owl said, his hooty voice more deep, and authoritative. It really shouldn't!"

""Let me answer that, said Mr. Neigh! "I realized Mr. Fyyne Pheetha was lying, when he began to speak his phony, Australian accent after he slipped up and talked like we do. We all were right there, and still he thought we were not listening to him, and we would not catch his mistake!
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""That's why, I think, we creatures assume Master isn't watching and listening to us, so we do and speak things we'd never think of when we know He is watching! It's us who are not watching and listening to Him, - ourselves!""

"Oh! Can you finish the story now!" Miss Riding Wolffe exclaimed.

""Sure! But, Mr. Neigh! you sound very winded. We can rest again?""

""Yes, I have been getting winded pretty easily - huff, huffa, on this trip home, Said Mr. Neigh! "Huff, huff, huff  - but, we are almost home, now, -huffahuffahuff . I think I can manage to make it there - huff.""

"Good! But, in case you need a short stop before we're there, make it so, my dear friend!" Now . . ."

"Oh, yes! We left the Great Garden, and the terrible events at the end of Ish and Ishah's living there, right here, I believe . . ."

However, in our stories about Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe, it's always about here that she runs into the most crazy, unexpected events, that just seem to 'sorta' happen to her, and any of her friends that might be along! But, as those are always surprises for her, we'll just have to wait, and read on!

"Now, before I say a word of the rest of the story, we must speak to Master, and request strength for Mr. Neigh!, Mr. Owl said.

"May I," asked the little wolf pup. "Of course you may!," both Mr. Owl and Mr. Blue Jay answered together. "Go ahead," Mr. Owl said.

"Our dear Friend," she began, "Mr. Neigh! is very, very tired. He needs rest Please give him strength to get home and rest tonight, so he is well and full of health and energy in the morning. Thank you, dear Master! Oh! and please keep all of us, and our families close to you, dear Master. We love You!"

It was good for her loyal friend to hear her sweet, gentle voice, showing how much she really cared for him, and how much she trusted their Master to take care of all of them. In fact, it did all her friends good to hear their sweet little friend talk for them all to master.

"Well, I don't feel stronger," Mr. Neigh! said, "but, I'm going to trust Him to provide all the strength I need! Mr. Owl, do you want to continue? I think Listening to you helps me go on, too. It takes my thoughts off my aching muscles!"

"Should we all get off your back? Perhaps that would ease your walking?," asked Mr. Owl.

"Nope. In fact, having the warmth of Miss Wolffe and her moss blanket, plus your being on my head, Mr. Blue jay, and you telling the story makes my walk much better! The heaviest load I carry is my old body!," he answered the Owl.

"Well, I guess I'd better start. Where was I? . . ."


"When we left Ish and his Ishah, Master was calling to them. But, they had hid themselves, in guilt and shame, that they attempted to hide with putting plant leaves tied with vines, on their bodies. It was the exposure of their disobedience they were trying to hide, not their bodies, as many religious leaders wrongfully assume.
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I think those religious leaders have the very same sense of exposure of their suppressed disobedience of Creator's commands to not mislead their followers, and they tell everyone that looking on naked flesh is evil. How can it be evil? We are all born naked, but only after we disobey do we feel 'naked'! So, if we are naked with everyone else, there is no shame. It's only shameful when we have a hidden act of disobedience that we want to hide from Creator! Do you see the difference?" he asked.

"Yes! I have always wondered why humans think that it's fine for a baby to be naked with everyone, but grownups get all stupid and shame-faced when they see another naked human adult!," Miss Wolffe said. I'm just a little girl wolf-pup, but I'm glad my parents go around naked and have no shame! I wish humans would see the beauty of their naked skin, and not the ugliness of their inner disobedience, that they seem to prefer to see!," she exclaimed.

"Well, we animals and birds 'are' a little different, I guess," Mr. Owl said, with a pensive tone in his voice. "We may be born, or hatched, like Mr. Jay & I were, with no hair or feathers, but the hair and feathers we grow as adults really do not clothe us! They merely protect us from the elements, and I must say, I totally love being a very, very naked Owl! I can not imagine how my wife would look with a dress on! YUK!"

"Nor, could I ever see how my mares would have looked with horse dresses on!," Mr. Neigh! laughed. "What a ridiculous thing to even think about! Why are humans so stupid to think wearing clothes actually covers anything that is unworthy to be shared with all Creator's creatures?!!"

"Well, I think you hit the nail dead-on!, Mr. Neigh! When Ish tried to cover his sense of exposed disobedience, his first thought was naturally to hide all of himself from Creator, and so he took Ishah, and they hid in the bushes. But, seeing that would not last for long, they found leaves to cover their bodies, because, like we just discussed, they were using their reasoning to form thoughts and acts that really made no sense, and even got themselves into deeper and deeper trouble! Like, wearing clothes to hide disobedience covers the gloriously beautiful, Creator-approved body, but never touches covering the disobedience! So, reasoning to cover up one's body to hide disobedience is the most silly reason to wear clothing there is!" Mr. Owl chuckled.

Let's go on!

"My grandpa said it this way, in his story: "It's like you're a robin family member. Everybody is naked, and all robins look like, well, like 'robins'! Say you're a hatchling robin, and you are born without feathers, but of course, you're not naked, just without feathers to protect you from the weather. You look exactly like a baby robin!, and everybody is happy with your looks.
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"Then, one day a turkey family visits your house, with a baby turkey, with no feathers, either. You still are featherless, and when you look at that baby turkey, you are very different looking, but, still featherless. Mom and dad turkey, wearing no clothes, look like adult turkeys., not robins. What if the turkeys wanted to look like robins?

"Ha! Ha! Ha! I see your point! What if the robins wanted to look like elephants!," Cried Mr. Neigh! "I'd have a tough time telling who was who, with a robin dressed like an elephant, who came to visit beside a real elephant! NOT!" And he laughed like crazy!

"Well, OK, but it's kinda not exactly like that, Mr. Neigh!," Mr. Owl said. However, thanks for the good laugh! It made me feel good to laugh so hard! A robin elephant!"




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"No, actually, when Ish tried to hide his disobedience by covering his skin, he was saying to all Creation, "Look at me! I can disobey, and not be found out!" At least, that what I think he was attempting to say, when he came out of hiding, to meet Master, wearing the leaves and vines. He was trying to identify with, and look like the Serpent! he saw that that serpent was disobeying Master before he, himself disobeyed, and the serpent still lived, just like Ishah said, so, why not try to disguise himself like a serpent, and fool Master, too?"

"Whoa!" Mr. Neigh! almost screamed in a very loud horsy voice. "Wait a minute, Owl! What you're tell us is that that wily old serpent had Ish so fooled that he thought that looking like him would keep Master from seeing his disobedience?"

"Yes! Exactly! And, if Ish had been correct, guess what our life today would be like!"

"Well! I'm so thankful that we can easily see right through stupid clothing!" Mr. Neigh! said. Why don't humans understand how stupid they look, wearing silly-looking clothes just to hide their disobedience from someone who cares absolutely nothing about any creature's attempt to cover disobedience, except that doing so is also a grave mistake?" Mr. Owl had a far-away look in his eyes. His mind was seeing a Heaven where all creatures were clothed in their natural, naked glory, with the light of Truth Love, and Grace being their only covering!

"We need to go on with grandpa's story, but there is a wonderful thought I was given just now, Mr. Owl said. It is so vital to why Ish and Ishah were wrong to cover their naked bodies, I feel I must share it."

"Creator made earth to be at least as beautiful as Heaven, where Lucifer had led the evil rebellion. But, to derail Creator's Plan for Earth, Lucifer had to corrupt both it, and its creatures. He had to alter the appearance of earth to make it ugly, gnarled, and awful to look at, and the same with the creatures on earth."

"Heaven is where creatures live in their most natural, totally wonderful, and beautiful state of being, naked, absolutely shameless, and content. Lucifer despises all beauty, all contentment, all serenity. So, with the evil spirit now planted in Ish, Lucifer guided Ish to alter his beautiful state of nakedness. Ish ordered Ishah to do the same, it was not Ishah telling Ish to put a covering on! Males lead women, not the other way, for Master made it His Order for creatures."

"Ishah was misled by Mr. Slytalker the Serpent, when he fooled her into reversing the Creator-established order of Ish being Ishah's leader. If Ish realized this, and it seems like he would have, he still ignored his office of authority over Ishah as her leader, and accepted the reversal of authority she unwittingly offered him, by asking him to disobey Master's command.

"Had Ish obeyed the Knower in his heart, he would have taken Ishah's disobedience to Creator, for Master's solution. Personally, I can't think that Master would have punished Ish, had Ish just taken the problem to Him, without eating the fruit, himself. What would Master have done about Ishah's disobedience we do not know, but, we do know He is merciful, and had Ish not followed her disobedience, then her husband would have been exonerated if he had taken the matter to Master.

"I think," continued Mr. Owl, "that Ishah would have had a very stern punishment, but not one that was in any way a retribution by Master, because He is merciful and kind. Ish would have witnessed the fact that Master really did mean that death would follow if he, Ish should eat the fruit, and Ish would have been very, very careful to never eat it, and carefully train his children to stay away from it, as well."

"But, how often do we fail to follow our knower, when doing so would bring Master's solution to our relationship problems!?"

"You are so right!, Mr. Neigh! exclaimed. I guess you see so many creatures in your work whose lives would be far better, if only they first took their problems to Master before following their reasoning! No?"

"It is so," Mr. Owl said, in a quite sad owl hoot. "This is why I am so against wearing clothing! It hides nothing, costs a fortune, fools all who wear it to think they look better than Creator could make their bodies appear, and, worse, than all else, just amplifies their sense that using reason instead of knowledge is the best source of resolving problems caused by the disobedience that lies at the root of the entire problem of wearing clothing in the first place!"

"A final evil this covering the body creates is loss of distinction for male and female. We in the animal kingdom have natural differences, for most of our species, but, for humans, when clothing is worn, it has to be made to look different for each gender. And, over time, this distinction fails, because the fads of clothing change. So, rather than follow Creator's wonderful, shameless plan for male and female body differences to define gender, and still look so awesomely beautiful as human skin always looks, naked, humans suffer yet another level of disobedience for their using clothing to try to cover their other disobediences!

"Is it really so bad!? I was thinking that just wearing clothing for the first reason of false shame and guilt was bad enough! Mr. Blue Jay exclaimed. "Now, you've added a whole worse disobedience in the wearing of clothing!!" My! My!"

"Well, actually, Mr. Owl said, there is even a worse issue with wearing clothing!"

"What! All his listeners exclaimed together. "Explain that one!," Mr. Neigh! said.

"OK, but, it could get lengthy, so I'll just touch on the issue briefly. When Ish was created, Master imparted into Ish His Own nature. When Creator visited with Ish and Ishah, walking and talking with them, as a close friend, they saw no difference in any part of how Master looked, or how they looked, except for their unique, individual identities, as a family of children look different from each other."

"Now, as Ish had lost his innocence, he remembered how Master looked, and was obviously thinking and reasoning that the changes he felt inside, from his act of distrust and disobedience, had altered his outward appearance, and if he made himself, and to reinforce his weakened sense of self-worth, to also make Ishah look the same as himself, he would somehow get past Master's obvious, and dreaded questions as to what had changed so much that he and Ishah now needed to cover their absolutely beautiful, naked bodies."

Ish felt, from his reasoning, that he outwardly appeared different from Master, at that moment, whereas before, when He and Master had inspected his latest project in the Great Garden, he had had no such thought of being, or appearing different from Master. Again, it was reason that messed with Ish's mind and heart so badly that he had to attempt to make some cover up reason to disguise his disobedience!"
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For a spell, there was a deafening silence, as each creature applied the wise old owl's words to their deepest hearts.






"We've hit this evil clothing issue pretty hard. Let's move on," Mr. Owl said.

"As Master walked to the meadow, in the deepest part of the center of the Great Garden, He called, and called; "Ish! Ish! Ishah! Where are you, My beloved friends?"

"We understand, now, that Master knows all, and there can be no thing hidden from Him. But, He had also known before His Living Word caused the Creation, all of Creation, and every event in it, was known to Master. So, when He entered His Great Garden, calling Ish and Ish's Ishah, Master was telling us something extremely, extremely important that he wants us to fully understand, and to fully integrate it with all we do, think, and speak. it is His un-definable love for us!"

"As Master could simply have dropped our of the blue to where Ish was about to take that bite, and said, "Absolutely NO!" to Ish, or He could have done that to Lucifer's very first approach to Mr. Slytalker, and preserved His earth exactly as He created it, why did Master take the really dumb course of waiting till after His awesome Great Garden was doomed, and after His beautiful creatures had disobeyed His command, and after his Heaven was broken by rebels, to then meekly go looking for, and gently calling His naughty family?"

"Love."



For a space, there was another silence.


"Calling to Ish, Master made His persistent love known to us. He still allows us to disobey, and to royally mess up His beautiful creation, but, always He comes looking for us with the most strong, persistent, gentle love possible," Mr. Owl told his little audience. Each ear was fully tuned to his hooty voice.

"In the original record from Moshe', the word Master used for Ish and Ishah was "Lost." "Where are you, My lost friends", He called, over and over."
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"Pointing to Ishah, Ish stated, "She made me do it! She handed me that awful fruit, and I took, and I ate!"" How often do we point to an accomplice, accusing for something they probably have little responsibility for our part in doing? This is so vital a key part to understand as grandpa's story unfolds!, Mr. Owl said.

"But, Ish had just told his first lie a moment before! When he saw Master was about to discover where he had tried to hide himself and Ishah in the thick bush, Ish stepped out, and said to master, "We were trying to be modest, for you. See? We have covered ourselves!, because we are naked."

""That was three direct lies in a row, before master had spoken twice!" Ish was not naked; One. He was not "being modest"; Two. Nor was he forced to eat the fruit!; Three.

"Master spoke to Ish; "Who told you that you are naked?, Ish""

"Ish had just been given another offer by Master to tell the truth! "Moshe' records Ish's exact response, for it is the exact same one we use over and over; "You gave me this woman, Ishah, to be with me. She took the fruit, and she gave it to me!, and I ate it!""

"Whenever I hear that," said Mr. Blue Jay, "I just want to go back to that place and smack Ish a good one!"

"Huff, hu-huff, huff. Me too! hufhufhuf." Mr. Neigh! tried to say, but his voice was to huffy to understand well. He stopped in his tracks, and the little group of passengers scurried off his back.

"Huff-a-huff-a-hu-hu Hi 0 I'm sorry, he murmured." "Quick! Mr. Neigh!, you lie down right where you are!" ordered Mr. Owl. "We're staying right here till you are really ready to continue, Mr. Neigh!"

"When you are able, we will go beside you to the next clearing. Understand, dear friend?"

Mr. Neigh! didn't nod, but he almost fell to the ground.

"Mr. Blue Jay, much as I regret this, may I again ask that you go fetch someone to bring Mr. Neigh! some water and something to eat? I'm sorry, but I'll see that you hear the parts of grandpa's story you miss, my friend."

"Oh! Think nothing of it! I'll do my best to be back quickly. Finding help to carry the things may take a bit."

When all were comfortable, and Mr. Neigh! seemed to be resting better, Mr. Owl continued. "When we say that we love someone, but then treat that person like Ish treated his Ishah, it would be the same for us if we told dear Mr. Neigh!, when he obviously needs a break, and rest, and nourishment, "Wait a minute! We need for you to get us home! No! You just keep on walking, and we'll get you water and food after we get there!"

"That says to him, as it said to Ishah, "I am more important than you, and you need to understand that my needs and wants come before any you have!"

"Ish thought he loved Ishah, but in his words blaming her for his own choice, he showed that he really loved only himself! Master, had just showed both people He put their needs, and even wants, above His own!"

"My grandpa also included another thing Ish overlooked right here. If Ish had simply said to master something like, "Master, I, and I alone must bear responsibility for this disobedience, for it was I who neglected my dear Ishah, that opened the temptation for her to come here alone, and then to hear the lies of this serpent in place of my being here to defend her, I must take all the responsibility. Do to me as You will, but do not hold Ishah guilty," Ish would have made for himself a clear example of selflessness!"

"Moshe' recorded that Master was speaking only with Ish, not both with him and Ishah! So, even without being asked, Ish had chosen to blame Ishah for his own disobedience!"

"Mr. Owl waited a moment, as each listener applied the ancient words of wisdom to their hearts. "Mr. Neigh!," he said gently, can we get you anything?"

Mr. Neigh! opened one dreary eye, and closed it again, as if to say, "Just more rest!"

"After Ish dumped the blame on Ishah, she took the heat. "Master asked her, Ishah, what is it that you do?" [Hebrew, in the manner it is used in Hebrew Scripture records, is present tense for much of the application it has for those who would gain from it study!]

"'THAT' serpent beguiled me! And, It induced me to eat!"

"Compared to Ish's lie, Ishah's is pretty much less blameful! Had she not been desperate for Ish's company? Had she not been created with this burning-gut need to be in intimate union with the man of her living? Had she not been so empty of Ish's presence that she had resorted to finding another association to fill her awful need to be comforted? Had Ishah not found some form of apparent wisdom that only Ish would have recognized for a lie, in Mr. Slytalker's advice? Had she not had in her heart to bring her beloved Ish back into her relationship vault, to have and hold him where Creator had Planned for her beloved to be? And, we could find more justification for Ishah's claim for innocent status in this confrontation!"

"However, taking the cue from Ish, Ishah attempted lay her responsibility on the head of Mr. Slytalker' "This serpent did beguile me!" "Her response was so like that of Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, and Ish, whose responses to similar situations was to ignore the obvious, and hope that they could simply drop out of the lime light, and slither off into obscurity from responsibility for their choices.
"But, Master simply turned to Mr. Slytalker; "Serpent, Go! Cursed are you more than all animals! Your belly will mold to the ground, and least among creatures you shall be regarded. Enmity between this woman, and her daughters, shall be your lot, and all your descendents'; Your kind will bruise her heel, but her seed will bruise your head[Mortal wound], and, implied, cursing you have brought upon all your family. "Beloved daughter, as you have rejected your husband for his appointed leadership position to protect you, now you and your daughters will bear his children, and to him will be your comfort, your belonging, and your desiring. The burdens of childbearing are yours, and your Ish shall rule over your affairs. [Implied is that since Ishah went above Ish to find solace for her needs, now she would only find her needs for companionship in Ish, the same to be transferred to her daughters]

"Unspoken by Moshe' but nevertheless completely implied, Ishah had the very same offer by Master to come clean, and take full accountability for her choice to eat the forbidden fruit! had she taken the full blame, would the serpent, whose welfare, remember, was in her hands by right of her position over all earth, as in her Ish, her right and honorable office was given by Creator, have been justified, and protected from the nasty sentence Master placed upon it, and its descendents?"

At this, Mr. Neigh! opened his one eye again. "Owl, you amaze me! My dear grandfather presented this beautiful story countless times to us colts, yet never did he open the meanings as you are doing! I am grateful that I am hearing this story as never before!"

"My dear friend, I would that every creature upon this old planet hear this story, in even more fullness than I present it!" The elderly owl looked more solemn than his uncle, presiding judge over the region.

"As Mr. Slytalker slid to the ground, never to rise from its face again, Master turned to Ishah, His heart bitter with her tears and pain; "

"In each case of this deathly serious court scene, each cast member who faced Master had little appreciation for the utterly vital role that He, Master played in each member's own survival! Had Master simply opened His mouth, and uttered a single sound, like Mr. Fyyne Pheetha, they all could well have been swallowed up by the ground they stood in defiance to Him, before Him! Do we not today, do this very thing?" Mr. Owl rotated his owly-eyed face nearly a full circle, searching into he soul of each member of his little audience.

"Oh my!" Exclaimed Mis Riding Wolffe. "I really see I've disobeyed Master so many times! I really was reasoning I could get away with my lying right in His face! Oh! Master! please forgive me! Cause me to obey You always, even when I so want to do what You say I shouldn't!"

She smiled at Mr. Neigh!, whose soft face and ears she'd been gently patting and rubbing with a furry paw. It made him very drowsy. "I'm so happy Master loves me!"

Her excited voice woke Mr. Neigh! He opened one eye, smiling up at his little, sweet friend.

"Since Ishah had exposed Mr. Slytalker's disobedience, Master had little choice but to meet out a just punishment for him. Had Ishah, ad Ish also should have done, taken full responsibility, and not blamed their partner in disobedience, it just may have been likely that that act of love would have spared Master's need for Justice, for He always prefers pardon over retribution, as He states in later records of His Living Word, that He despises Divorce! He is so livid with anger toward Divorce, that he includes no forgiveness or redemption for those who Divorce! It is so terrible an act of disobedience!" Mr. Owl again looked around his audience. "If Master had made a plan for forgiving Divorce, it would have ruined His entire Creation! We hear about Divorce, but in Master's Court, no higher crime against His Authority exists!"

Mr. Owl continued; "Also, what we must ask, is, "If none, or even a part of this terrible event had not taken place, what would earth be like today? It gives us a sense of appreciation for Master, and His Plan for the good of earth!"

"For one, imagine how wonderful it would be to have the Serpent Family just as they were created, walking upright, and sharing great wisdom gained from all these years of faithful service to Master? How blessed we would now be!"

"Had Ishah not lied, saying that Mr. Slytalker tricked her into eating the fruit, how wonderful her relationship with his descendents be! He had lied to her, but she had decided before meeting him that she must find any way possible to trick Ish into leaving his work, to share his time with her! Talk about being double-tongued, and two-faced! She would have reasoned her way into eating the forbidden fruit on her own, to get her demented desires!"

"No! Master was not fooled by a one of the many lies presented to Him in that short court session! His creatures, though, showed amazing, amazing capacity and ability to mangle Truth, deceive themselves, and harm their fellow creatures! Does any of this apply to us?"

"Master, as Moshe' recorded this court of inquiry and sentence session, spoke to Ishah; "Great sorrow and many children you will bear in grief, being governed by your husband, Ish, and your longing, or despair,  is to be dependent upon him."
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"Remember how independent of both Ish and Master Ishah had been? To either she was free to express her needs, and her desires, and even her sense of lostness, abandonment, and loneliness, that drove her to seek Mr. Eiderdowne's company, then, to advance her waywardness to Mr. Slytalker. Did Moshe' record even a hint that she had given this respect to either? No."

"Her disrespect toward both Master and her spouse, set up the situation where Mr. Eiderdowne had opportunity to disrespect his duty as the responsible male to his family, and redirect his affections to Ishah. His fall was predicated, or determined to be possible, from Ishah's irresponsible relationship with him!

"What tragedy her mis-directed attention and affection caused Mr. Eiderdowne, and his family!," Mr. Owl said.

"Mr. Owl," Miss Wolffe's voice almost woke him up from his sleepy story-telling, "What happened to Mr. Eiderdowne? Mr. Slytalker, too?"

"We're almost there! You might have to keep me awake to finish, though!"

"Where was I?"

"Mr. Eiderdowne loved Ishah more than his Mrs. Eiderdowne," Miss Wolffe answered.
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"Yes! Now it was Ish's turn. Master's heart was broken for His precious creatures. How hard it was for Him to follow through with His Own Plan for showing His great Love!"

"To Ish, Master now spoke with a sad, heavy heart. His voice was soft, almost with a crying hurt that he felt deep inside; "My dear Ish, My friend whom I created in My Own likeness. for listening to words of your Ishah, eating from the tree I commanded, saying to you, "In the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die;" now, cursed is earth's soil for your account; sorrowing, it consumes all your toil for each day, the length of your life." Master's sad voice continued; "Briars, thistles it springs up where you toil, you will eat the herbs of its field. Sweating from your brow to eat the bread till you are returned to the earth; for, from out of it you were formed, you are soil, and to soil you shall return."
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"Master's own brow sweated from the labor of His painful duty to restore some form of order to His earth. He knew it was too soon to meet the coming disaster, the near-complete destruction of all human and animal life upon earth."

"Then Master did something that gives us non-human creatures the willies! He took the most innocent of all His animal kingdom, some small lambs, killing them, and from their skins, He fashioned coverings for Ish and Ishah, placing these over their bodies, with the bloody side facing outward. It was a sign, not of their nakedness as shame, but of their hidden disobedience, which He had had to delve into much like He had delved into the bodies of those innocent lambs, to expose their very life, and show to each, that the consequence for their actions was death."

Perhaps by this gruesome act, to show the horror of two humans' naked, uncovered disobedience, and the Death their acts had caused to both themselves and all earth creatures which they were commanded to care for, nurture, and protect, this bloody symbol was to reveal to all creatures the severity of consequences for disobedience. Like when Mr. Eiderdowne was given the choice to eat hearts torn from his own children's breasts, or face death by a vicious enemy of Life, Master hoped to shack Ish and Ishah to never forget the severity of disobeying His Command, and for doing so, it would cost the death of pure, innocent creatures, someone else, along with themselves.

Mr. Owl looked around, again. "As grandpa's story unfolds, it shows how Master tied this very bloody symbol of death into His Plan for Forgiveness, Redemption, and Reconciliation for Mankind! In it, He shows us that, following acts and words that cause us harm and hurt, and separation, if we obey His Command to love one another as He loves all, we will seek to reconcile, and renew our former relationships, no matter what it costs to do so, just as it cost Him all He had, to reconcile us to Himself. Implied with His command to reconcile in love as His love, is that if we do not make every effort to reconcile, He has no room for us in His Presence. He cannot forgive what has not been forgiven in our lives - how would He? His Creation exists in reconciliation, which Lucifer rejects, and does everything to make sure it never enters that part of Creation where the spirits of disobedience rule. But, I am ahead of the story!"

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Today is December 30, 2011 I just wrote the first draft of the introduction for this story. It's 5:08 AM

"Mr. Owl, are we going to hear about Mr. Eiderdowne, and Mr. Starr again, soon? I'm getting sleepy!", Miss Riding Wolffe asked, her eyes drooping and almost closed.

"Yes, dear little wolf. Perhaps we all need a rest. Tell you what. After we nap, and Mr. Neigh! is again taking us back home again, we can finish this quite long story!"

"But, just so you know, we're going to see that old ostrich, and Mr. Starr, soon again in the story, well, it is their descendants, anyway! Captain Noach had quite the experience with the show they put on, on his Ark of Safety! Now, my friends, let's sleep!"

Her paw still on Mr. Neigh!'s nose, Miss Riding Wolffe had gone fast asleep before Mr. Owl finished."



It was less than a full day since Mr. Neigh! and Miss Wolffe had stopped for the night not far from this spot on the path to "Creator's Kitchen," and the beautiful green "Meadow Bay" that had drawn her curiosity that very morning. Unknown to her, Mr. Neigh!, in his former days as Police Detective, had traversed this pathway often, tracking down his customers, such as Mr. Fyyne Pheetha. But, that was many years past. He was familiar with all the small details of the path, and now, in his deep slumber from exhaustion, his dreams were of a distant experience he'd had at this very spot. It was not long before he was due to retire as Chief Detective.

It was  a crisp-aired Fall when the elderly skunk entered the Police Office where Mr. Neigh! worked. He was using a cane, visibly limping, and excited.

"I've been beaten, robbed by a gang of Blue Jays!" He almost yelled at Mr. Neigh!, and his secretary. Mr. Chipmunk. "You 'must' arrest them and take back my things!"

"We will do all we are able to do, sir. It would help for you to tell us what happened, where, and when you were robbed, and what was taken. Please, have a seat!"

"Now, first I need your name, and where you are from."

"Mr. Alexander Sniff. I am a fine feather salesman from Peru," said Mr. Alexander Sniff."

"Thank you, Mr. Sniff. Could you tell me what you were doing at the time of the robbery?"

"Yes. I was napping in a small clearing on the pathway to Sealth, otherwise known as "Creator's Kitchen." The weather was clear. I had traveled a long way that day."

"Where was your last stop?"

"Do you know where the ferry boat crosses that big stream? I started that day when I was in a big woods not far from the stream where that ferry boat has its landing, on the other side."
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"Just one more question about you, Mr. Sniff. Where were you going?"

"Why, I was headed to a small town to the North of Sealth (Seattle's original name). It's called "Tulalip.""

"Thank you! Now, how many Blue Jays were there?"

"Well, I saw three of them. It seemed like there were more, perhaps, in the trees. They were yelling and screaming at me. The three I saw were hitting me, then they all flew away. When it was quiet, I looked around, and found all my feathers gone! I want them back!"

"We'll do our best, sir. What time did this happen?, Mr. Sniff"

"It was only about two hours ago. I came here right away."

"Did you run?"

"Yes! I did!"

"Good to know! I can find your resting place better!"

"Now, what exactly did they take?," Mr. Neigh! asked. He had a growing idea of what had happened..
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"Well, I had a large collection of bright-coloured feathers from many birds of the tropics. The Blue Jays distracted me, then grabbed the bag I had the feathers in. They were gone before I realized they took my feathers!"

"Thank you, Mr. Sniff. I'll get on this right away!," said Mr. Neigh! "Where are you staying, so I can contact you when I have something to tell you?"

"Oh. There's a small cottage in a meadow with a small stream that runs into the fast, large stream that the ferry crosses. I stayed in their barn. Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit live there. I've not stopped there yet, but some years ago, when I was through here, they let me use their barn for the night. I am headed there now."

"Very well. I'm on my way!"

That was many years before, and Mr. Neigh! was in much better shape. He galloped at the speed he estimated Mr. Sniff had run at, for the time the skunk had indicated, and stopped, looking for clues. There were signs of a scuffle. Near a tree he found two bright orange and black-tipped feathers. "Definitely not from a bird in this area!," he said to himself.

He looked around in the woods and brush nearby, and up into the trees. another bright feather was caught in a tree, well above his head.

"Hmmmm," he muttered. "I wonder if the local family of Blue Jays know about this? How will I ask them so they don't know I'm looking for Mr. Sniff's feathers?"

He had an idea . . .


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When he arrived at the Snatcher Blue Jay Family's home, he called, "Whinny! Whinny! Whinny! - anyone home?"

"Oh! I'm glad to see you!" Mr. Snatcher Blue jay called down to the detective horse. "I had a nasty time with a skunk today. I'll come down and tell you about it!"

"Something's not right here," Mr. Neigh! said to himself, just as the Blue Jay landed on a limb near him.

"Yes! I was out this morning gathering nuts and fruit, when I saw a skunk on the main path walking toward Sealth. I went down to talk to him, and he told me he was going home from a long trip down to Southland. He had many bright feathers, which he showed me. Very beautiful ones! That's when it happened."

"Yes?!

"Well, all of a sudden there were several large crows who landed around the skunk, and they flopped around and beat him so fast he couldn't defend himself. Then, they flew off with his feather collection!"

"Hmm. So, why didn't you tell the skunk to come see us at the Police Station? You could've flown down to us even faster, yourself, too?"
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"Well, I told him he should go see you. I thought that that is why you are here. No?"

"I am out on a business inspection. I need to ask you jays a few questions about the trade business you have with otters from up North. I really need to know about what they have been bringing you." He hoped Mr. Jay wouldn't see through his ploy to locate the feathers. He was sure Mr. Jay knew where they were.

"Oh, yes! Well, I last traded some fancy mosses for coloured shells they brought. Want to see them?"

"Why, sure!"

As Mr. Blue Jay led Mr. Neigh! to the storage where he kept the shells, Mr. Neigh! carefully looked for clues of the feathers, but nothing seemed to relate to them. Mr. Jay pulled several shells from their hiding place under some limbs.

"See? They're quite pretty!" But Mr. Neigh!'s eye caught something that rang an alarm in his mind.

"Yes! And that's a very nice bag you keep them in. Where did it come from? The otters, I guess?"

"Why, yes! They said it came from a snow goose, just arrived from Southland. He had traded for it with parrots in the jungle, they told me. Isn't it nice?"

"It certainly is! Where did you say the otters were, today? Headed North?"

"Oh! I thought I said they traded this last time they were here? What do you mean, 'today'?"

"I guess I got my times mixed up. Are they headed North? You did say they are? Sometimes, all these times and people and places get all mixed up in my thoughts, Mr. Jay. Now, could you help me? What time did they leave this morning? "They left at, er, I mean it was several days ago. Uhmm, I think they left at around, say middle afternoon."

"Oh. The Snow Goose first arrived for this season just yesterday, Mr. Blue Jay. That nice bag from Southland didn't come from them. Care to tell me how it got into your storage? I'd really encourage you to tell me about the otters - like where you met them, when, and where they were headed, this morning!"

"While you're at it, I'd appreciate you telling me anything you know about the crows who took the skunks feathers. I bet they have something to tell that will clear your story about having a bag that didn't get here when the otters told you it did!"

"Mr. Jays Wings drooped. "Crows? Oh! Uh, no, I never saw them before. I don't know what happened to them. But, you're right about the otters. They left this morning. About mid-morning. I thought there was something fishy about this bag, and I don't want to get involved."

"Yes, I don't doubt that you want to hide your deal with 'those' otters.' Now, are they still here? I didn't meet them on the trail to the North. Your story about this bag is getting more and more confusing, Mr. Snatcher Jay! I'd think you'd like to clear all this confusion with some simple, honest answers! Should we start all over?" Mr. Neigh!'s confused was confused. He looked straight into the beautiful bird's eyes.

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"Uh, I guess . . . well, yes, What do you want?"

"First, Mr. Snatcher jay, were there 'any' at all this morning?"

"No." His wings drooped further. "I made that part up. But, they did come several days ago!"

"Yes. I suppose I can accept that"

"An, this bag . . . I found it along the main path after the crows stole Mr. Skunk's feathers."

"You found it?"

"Yes."

"This morning? Along the main path?"

"Yes. I met Mr. Sniff several miles North. It was on the path not far from here, the one that leads to Sealth. He was several miles North on it."

"Oh, I see."

"Should I take you to where I found it?"

"Maybe. First, Mr. Snatcher jay, I'd like for you to tell me the truth. What did you do with the feathers the bag had in it? You see, Mr. Jay, I don't believe, for one minute, that any crows took those feathers. Your story is too flawed, and getting worse the more I talk with you! Just tell me the truth, Mr. Jay. Then I can file my report, and go home. It's much easier, don't you think?"

"I guess you're right. Yes, the feathers were in the bag. At least, some were still there. Evidently the crows . . ."""

"No! Mr. Snatcher Blue Jay! I told you there weren't any crows! You see, the crows are on my business inspection list, too. Do I need to show the list to you? Now, want to tell me the 'truth'? I'd appreciate that. And, you're sure to feel much better after you tell me what really happened! Shall we?"

"But, but, bu - I I , . . . there were two other jays, Mr. Neigh! 'They' have all the feathers!

"Are your sure? Maybe they traded them to the otters! Why don't you prove this one to me, Mr. Snatcher. I'd like that very much!"

"Mr. Neigh! Mr. Neigh! Wake up!"

Mr. Neigh! raised his head in alarm. "Where? What? Oh! It's late! I've been dreaming when I should have been just napping! He looked around. There next to him were Mr. Snatcher, er, I mean Mr. Courier Blue Jay, he corrected himself, Miss Wolffe, and his long-time Police Captain, Mr. Owl.

"Oh! It's late and I've slept much too long!" He almost said it aloud.

"Mr. Owl! Mr. Wise Owl?!" He called softly. "Mr. Owl!"

"Whooo - whoot - whoo?" Mr. Owl's sleepy voice seemed to echo.

"Mr. Owl, it's late. Time to wake up and be on our way!"

"Whoo, whoo - er, what? Oh! Mr. Neigh!! My! It 'is' late! I was dreaming of when you were a detective!"

"So was I! But, we must get back on the way home. I don't like it here at this hour. I want to keep our little wolf friend safe all the way home!"

"You're right! Miss Riding Wolffe? Hey, little friend. We need to be leaving. Hey little lady, wake up!"

Mr. Neigh! pushed his soft nose under her sleepy chin.

"Ahhhoooowwww!" She moved her head, youwling in her wild dream of watching her father in the full moon, fast asleep!"

"Miss Riding Wolffe! Wake up! Wake up, little friend!"

"Huh? Where? Oh! Mr. Neigh! What?"

It's time to be on our way home again! Are you ready to climb on my back? If you get on now, I can stand up and you won't need to find a rock or old stump."

"Sure! Help me up!"

"No, dear, you need to climb up!"

"Oh, OK."



"Now, how are 'you,' my dear old friend?" They were just settled into the last leg of their journey home. "I'm a bit worried. How do you 'really' feel, Mr. Neigh!" Sleepy Mr. Owls' voice broke the clip,clop - clip,clop of Mr. Neigh!'s walking gait.

"Shaw! I shouldn't have dozed off! I'm fine! But, just the same, let's ask Master for a safe trip home, tonight!"

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"Miss Riding Wolffe. How about you? How do you feel, little one?"

"Oh, Mr. Neigh!, I'm fine. I'm worried about you!"

"Then, just as I asked Mr. Owl, let's ask Master to see us all home safely tonight."

"May I?," She asked.

"Of Course! Mr. Owl?"

"I was just thinking about asking her - Sure!"

"Our Master, we thank You for keeping us safe - all the way home - tonight." The little wolf prayed. "Please keep Mr. Neigh! safe, Father. We love him so much!"
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"There. That's why I like you to pray for me!," Mr. Neigh! said to his little companion. "You get the job done so nice!"
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"Blue Jay, how are you, our faithful friend and messenger?"

"Fine! I should have got you up earlier, I guess. But, you were so tired and sleeping really, really deeply. I'm sorry."

"Oh, don't be. Master's perfect timing gave us the rest we needed, and we're back on the path home. Right on schedule!"

He continued; "That reminds me, Miss Riding Wolffe, about Master's twelve Disciples, and something they recorded for us about being faithful to follow Master. Just after blessing five loaves of wheat-barley cakes and two little fishes, which then were enough to fully feed and satisfy 5,000 hungry people, with twelve basketsful left over, Master sent His disciples to a place across a treacherous, stormy lake, the Sea of Galilee. They were to meet Him on the other side, but a wild, stormy wind came against them."

"After several hours battling the storm winds with their desperate rowing, Master appeared, walking across the top of the water, as if it were a balmy day! At first, when they first saw Him on the wild waves, they He was a ghost!"

"When it looked like He would walk right past them, they all hollered loud, Master! Save us!" He turned, and said, "It's just Me. Need help?"

"Oh! I remember that!," exclaimed Miss Wolffe. "Master came walking across the wild waves as if there were no storm, right? And they did make it safe to the shore, just like He said!"

"So, it's like that for us," Mr. Jay said. "We were not expecting all the events of today, but look how Master has used each one to show us something about Him, and about the things we need to know to honor and obey Him, or, we find ourselves facing very serious consequences when we disobey!"

"Yes, He has given us a wonderful day filled with lessons! Now, I believe He is leading us safely to our destination, home!," said Mr. Neigh! "I'm trusting Him to give me strength to make it back!"

" Matthew recorded this event in chapter fourteen, starting with verse 22. Master spoke directly to the wind, and it went away immediately! And, then another miracle took them to their destination on the other side, just as quick! WOW!"

"See? When Master directs our way, and we have troubles, He always is nearby for us to ask for His help to go through even the worst storm!

"Does that mean Master will take us home that quickly," asked Miss Riding Wolffe.

"Likely not, but He will be next to us if we have any trouble," answered Mr. Neigh! Master will see us through!"

"Hrrrmph - Hhmmph." Mr. Owl pretended to clear his throat, but he was still half asleep and was trying to wake up!"

"Yes! Sure! Where . . . Ah, yes!" Anyone want to listen to the rest of grandpa's story?" If it had still been light outside, they would have seen a twinkle in his eyes.



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"Remember, Master had just found Ish, Ishah, and Mr. Slytalker, sometime after Ishah had begged her husband, Ish, to join her in eating the forbidden fruit of Knowledge of Good, and of Evil. My grandpa, following the tradition of our family to look deeply into the things we hold dear, had passed on the discussion about how and why each participant in this story thought and acted, and how those same things affect each of us."

"Each participant had told one or more lies, had falsely blamed another, had been deceived, and was deceiving him or herself, to boot! As Master lovingly, and carefully applied Truth to each claim and story, and to each participant, His investigation uncovered the deadly evils of thinking, accepting, and speaking deception. He also carefully separated each participant, and the evil each had done, from the others, and made certain that each knew exactly what they were being charged, and what was not charged to each one."

"In my family, we strive to maintain the great gift of wisdom, and the Truth that forms wisdom. We are not a religious family, but we do see the world in light of Master's Truth, as He had it carefully recorded, and preserved in Hebrew Scripture, that is always available to any who seek Him, and His Truth, at any time in all history. This seems boring to those who want just a religious group to belong to, and it is boring to those who care little for Truth, they just want to get all the fun out of living that they can. We owls consider living too precious to spend on just fun, although we have some of the most fun living anyone ever has!"

Mr. Owl looked each of his listeners in the eye. Mr. Neigh!, who had tuned his head around to look at the wise old owl, gave him a wink!

"Following His investigation, Master did something we cannot explain. Instead of taking life away from all guilty participants for committing the horrendous deceptions and disobedience, which each truly deserved, He took two innocent sheep lambs, killed each one, and removed their soft, warm wooly skins. he then placed each skin onto the body of both humans. While the skins did nothing to hide their bare skin, they did something far more noticeable; they appeared so completely out of character with all other creatures, that anywhere either Ish or Ishah went from then on, they stood out to all the world as marked failures to obey Master."

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"Then, as children were born to Ish and Ishah, they passed on this sense of shame and being exposed, and wore the mark of their disobedience. This practice became so ingrained in humans that today when anyone goes out into public without this mark of shame, he, or she, is blamed for indecent exposure! Talk about reversing the order of Creator! He placed the sheep skin on the humans for a mark of shame, and now not wearing it is considered an act of shame by humans!

"Lucifer, through the evil spirits that invade human reasoning and spiritual leaders, has reversed Master's symbol of punishment, to now make it a mark of personal status. The more fancy the covering is, the more social status the wearer is esteemed to have! It is why they deceive themselves to believe that wearing clothing is a natural thing, and it makes them more righteous, and deserving of Creator's love and blessing.

"Nothing could be further from Truth! People who wear no clothing at all are more close to Creator, since they really feel their vulnerability and exposure before Him, and before other people, also unclothed, exposed, and vulnerable."

At this point, Mr. Owl said, "We are not far from the Wolffe's cozy cabin. There is one final thing Master had yet to do in His sentence of these guilty criminals. Let's stop our story till we are comfortable there. I must return to my family, also, and then arrange to meet each of you at the Wolffe's, or someplace else, to finish the story grandpa told us so many, many times. Is there anyone who would prefer not to hear the rest of this story?"

Almost as one, they shouted "NO!" Miss Riding Wolffe said, "Can I invite Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel?"

"Of course you may!," Mr. Owl answered, "In fact, ask them where they would like to meet with us to finish this story! They have the same welcome anyone of us has to listen to this story! And, if they want to bring their friends, do tell them to!"




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"We're just about ten minutes from our home, Miss Wolffe," Mr. Neigh! spoke, his voice still breathless sounding. Perhaps Mr. Owl will be able to come tomorrow and share the rest of his grandfather's story. So far, it's the same as my grandfather's account and hearing it from another family is refreshing to me. I was just a young colt the first time my dear grandpa told the story to me. Mother had a filly the year before, and my sister was still with her most of my first year."

"Our grandfather shared this story with us at Christmas, and that is a time I shall always cherish in my fond memories." He smiled a horse smile, turning his head to look at his riders. "Watch where you're going!," Mr. Blue Jay cried out, and Mr. Neigh! turned around just in time to see and miss, a large tree growing partly in the path!

""Miss Wolffe," Mr. Neigh! asked, "Are you enjoying the story?"

"My! Yes!," she exclaimed. "I want to remember every word of it to tell my own children! They'd love it!"

"Yes, I'm sure they would, my dear little friend. But, with the usual mom's never-ending tasks to tend to her family, I'm afraid there will be just too little time for you to tell the story. It might be a good idea to ask your father to tell it to his grandchildren!," Mr. Neigh! replied. He winked, but dared not turn his head to let his little rider see the wink!

"Well, I'm not a mom yet, so I'll just have to wait and see," she answered. Oh! Look! There's the hedge where Jonny Rabbit and Mrs. Weasel spy on the pathway! We're almost home!"


A special day for Master, and, A Story


It was Christmas Day, that next day. The Wolffe Family tradition was to meet together, old and young, to share family news, tell stories, and simply be 'family,' together.


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Narrator:

Each creature has one of Master's personal traits, Or more. Mice have His trait of much work to provide food and shelter, and to create large families. Worms in the soil clean the small things left on their table, the ground, by plants and animals. They also meet there, while they eat. It is the cool of the day, then. Perhaps even the Serpent shows a trait from Master - it does exactly what He said it would, crawling in the dust of Earth. Master makes certain each of His creatures has a unique place, and purpose, in His Creation.


Grandpa's story is about the deep, eternal love Master wants each of His creatures to experience during their living on Earth. Master created all His Creation just to show His Love, and when Ish and Ishah did not trust and respect Master enough to obey His command, their dishonor and misunderstanding about how much He loved them gave Master the opportunity to show His entire Creation just how great His love really is.

So, grandpa's story may be quite silly at times, but from the first chapter to the very last one, Master's awesome love for each of His creatures is the real story. And, this story of Master's love is best understood with this next section of grandpa's story, so, pay attention!


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Since every creature is so special to Master, it is good to celebrate the creation of each one with a special time to honor their being, their 'person.' Usually this occasion is a yearly event, often on the day of the year each creature was born. It is a time when those who love this creature gather together and give gifts and share other signs of their love for this being. Some creatures just enjoy being by themselves, apart from others, at this special time of honor for their being.


However, most beings enjoy it most when others they love gather to celebrate this special day kept just in their honor. This event often will be held as a party, a picnic, a trip to the ocean, or a day together along a mountain stream. In all the history of Creation, there was one event that stands out, even above all else in history!

As with all Creation events, this one took place precisely as planned, and where, and all its pre-planned details were perfectly executed. This single event showed all Creation Master's deep love for Earth, and Man. This event shows Master's Love for Man more clearly than all others.
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Master always is majestic. His person and character are reflected in every part of Creation; in the vast expanses of Cosmos, to the smallest sub-particles of atoms. His powers know no limit; His Love, no bottom; His intellect has no comparison, and His wisdom has no bounds. Authority, for Master, is unfathomable, and Life, in Master, has no end. In all that Master is, His love for His creature, Man, surpasses all other love.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Man has a day of remembrance for Master, a day that honors that day when Master, in all His power, glory, honor, life, and power, came to Earth as a man-child. Of all things Master could have been to illustrate His love for Man, this one tells it best.

Human babies are helpless, more so than almost all other creatures' babies. Master came to Earth in the person of a Human baby. Human babies can be fussy and nasty-spirited. Master, as a baby, was calm and peaceful. Human babies are usually born in the safest of homes. As a human baby, Master was born in the midst of mayhem, angry mobs and guards with no patience, and in a barn with animals. Just days after His birth, an angry, jealous king had all babies in the town He was born in murdered, ruthlessly, by his soldiers, who "were just doing their jobs"!!!

Master, as a child of Man's flesh, was worshipped by peasants whose grandparents and wisdom-seers had foretold his birth on that very night, in that very village. Master's human flesh-birth was like no other human birth, before, or since.

Of all His Creation, Master had the right and choice to come to Earth as a Majestic King Lion, or, He may have chosen to present Himself as a stately elephant, or a beautiful parrot, a happy little puppy, or any other creature He wanted. But Master's Human creatures needed Him to come and reassure them about His love and protection during a time when it seemed all flesh was worthless. His People were afraid, weak, and many were being killed by soldiers who had conquered their homeland, because the people had turned away from obeying Creator, and, like Ish and Ishah, they had to pay for their disobedience.
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But, just as with Ish and Ishah, Master was compassionate, so he did not destroy them. The payment he required was very hard to pay, and it made Living for His People very hard, very painful, and many were being killed.

Creator had promised Ishah, and the serpent that beguiled her, that he would return as one of her blood descendants! His promise is recorded this way:

"Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall [d]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel."

Genesis 3, verses 14 and 15.
[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3&version=NASB]

The most important reason Master came as a human newborn, was that He wanted to offer to any human who came with a pure heart, a restored relationship with Him. Remember how Master killed the innocent lambs and placed their bloody skins on Ish and Ishah, to be a permanent mark to them that their disobeying Master, and lying and blame-shifting to make other creatures look guilty instead, had actually caused their lives to be lost. Like the lambs had lost their lives, and each lamb was innocent of any wrong-doing, their disobedience had caused innocent creatures to lose their lives.

While the two lambs were not humans, Ish and Ishah's children were human, and when they were born to Ishah, each baby was innocent, but, because Ishah disobeyed Master, her children, innocent as they were born, would lose their life because of her choice. And, so would the children of her children.

This is a life and death situation, and Ish and Ishah simply had not valued life in the awesome level of respect for it that Master does, and He is the One Who gives life.

We see this same unhealthy disrespect for Human Life today, as people kill one another, kill their unborn children, and allow their governments to use them, and their talents, to wage wars on other peoples. Master will return again, and destroy those evil people who make such governments, but we who love and desire to obey Master can simply refuse to follow the crowd, or the orders from our evil-minded governments, and instead give honor and respect for human life.

When He was born, Master's place of birth was in the most humble of places; a working animal barn, in the feed manger with feeding animals next to Him!. From the highest throne over Creation, Master chose to descend into a humble place where Man would not make his own family live, and for sure where a man would not have his child be born. Master's love for humans is revealed in His choosing this humble place for His coming to Earth in the flesh of Man.



Is it not fitting, then, for Man to honor that day when Master lowered Himself to lower than Man's own domain, because He wanted to open the Way for humans to reconcile with Him?

Today, we do not see or hear much that encourages us to fully appreciate how much Master loves us. This story from Mr. Owl's grandfather, and his ancestors, was kept and passed down to each generation of Owls, just so this species of bird would love and appreciate Master with respect. How much more should human grandparents keep and pass down this same story so their grandchildren would also love and obey Master?


Prophet Daniel longed to know the details of Master's coming to Earth in the form of a human, so he prayed and fasted 21 days for Master to see that he, Daniel, was serious about learning this wonderful story. Finally, the angel sent to Daniel with the details arrived. One might imagine a discussion between Prophet Daniel, angel Gabriel, when Gabriel was sent to speak to Daniel about Master's plan to enter Man's world in Man's body, some 500+ years after Daniel's time.




""Hello, Daniel! I was sent when first you petitioned for knowledge of things to come, but I was detained in a scuffle with Lucifer and those Fallen Angels warring against Master and the Kingdom of Heaven for the past three weeks. I apologize for being tardy with the answers to your queries.""

""You are most certainly welcome whenever you visit, Angel Gabriel, and I am honored by your presence. Yes, Lucifer and those angels of evil miracles and deceiving wonders do present formidable acts of war, but we rest assured that Master will remain unscathed by even the worst of their attacks, yet we do experience minor setbacks sometimes when the attacking is severe. I trust that you are well, and unharmed?""

""Why, thank you, Daniel! Yes, you may assume that. Just a bit weary from it all. I'll be so glad to see the Final End of this senseless warring against Creator and us who Believe Him. I understand that you have been standing in prayer for us angels? And, having some of your own battles with Lucifer?""

""Indeed, it is so. However, to master goes all praise, for His arm protects me.""

""So, Daniel, how would you want me to present the messages I am to deliver?""

""Well, my desire was to understand some of the scriptures I've been studying about future times and events. One especially stumps my mind; that of Prophet Isaiah's record speaking of a man born of a virgin woman, who grows up to preach and teach Master's people for a time, but then he is given a terrible death, and then rises to new life on the third day from when he dies. Do tell me more!""

""Very well. However, let's start with some discourse as to why Master speaks of a Man coming, and not another of His creatures. First, let's determine why it is a man. Why was it not the Sparrow? This sweet-natured little creature surely has the sweet, gentle character such a savior would need?""

"I can think of no reason a Sparrow was not chosen. Tell me why not.""
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""The Sparrow, by it nature, does not experience the temptations man faces. Understanding what it is like to face these is vital to gaining Man's respect for this savior. No, it was not the Sparrow.""

""Then, Gabriel, I would ask about Majestic King Lion? Surely his mighty roar and the fear he causes in those around him would qualify him for this task?""

""Yes, King Lion does cause fear in those near him. But, Lion has little, if any love for those who would harm him. He even cares little for his own family. No, this savior must show Man that even when Man brutally harms, even kills him, this savior still loves Man with the same unconditional love. Another try?""

""Even the Lion fears the mighty Elephant! With it trumpet trunk, the Elephant sounds the battle cry that echoes miles around. An, Elephant is a caring creature, for its own. I think, surely it could be Elephant?""

""Elephant is a good choice, except that Elephant lives so differently from Man, and this savior needs to be so close to the natural Man that he is fully identified with the same desires and senses as Man. Besides, Elephant eats grasses, and how could he sit at a table to share a meal with any man?""

""Giraffe has good qualities. He is a family creature, and some keep close company with Man? It would seem natural that Giraffe would be a fitting form for this savior to come in!""

""Perhaps. But, Giraffe does not walk and talk on the same level as Man, and Man has a difficult time as it is, to even look Giraffe in the eye!""

""Well, Sheep was so obedient and willing, he gave Master no resistance to take his skin and use it to mark Ish and Ishah's bodies as a sign of their disobedience, in the Great Garden. In fact, Sheep's blood was a kind of sacrifice to atone for their disobedience!""

""No, Sheep is certainly innocent, but this savior must experience complete love of life, as Man does, who resists death to his dying breath, unlike Sheep, who are easily led to their slaughter. This savior must understand Man's struggle to survive, but also he must freely give his life for Man to know how much more precious is obedience of Master, than even his own life.""

""Then, I suppose that no creature other than, than . . ""

""Man?"

""Yes.""

""What for?""

""Complete identity with Man.""

"Why?""

So man would know and trust this, his savior.""

""Born of a virgin?""

"Born from a virgin, but fathered by Master.""

""Gabriel, I now see why you are right. No other creature has been given such never-ending grace by Master, for so long, but still continues to practice rebellion and disobedience, as man! Man has far more power to disobey than even Lucifer, and to destroy Master's Creation! It makes sense that Creator would bar Man from the tree of life, as man could live forever, and he may even destroy Lucifer and the kingdom of Lucifer's evil, and put in its place an even more evil kingdom!""

""Not only does Man have Lucifer's strong will to gain control of Master, but Man also has the capacity to create greater destruction! Not even Lucifer has this capacity!"

"Wow! I am seeing why this savior must be a man!""

""Yes, even Lucifer must ask master for permission to do evil, just as Job recorded. But, not Man. He simply thinks of something, and then sets about to do it, all on his own strength.""

""Man also has mocked Creator more than all other creatures. Master tells us that he is willing to forgive us our disobedience right up to the moment we lose our life! Who better but a Man to show other men how to forgive?!""

""Did you read that this savior comes in the form of a baby?""

""I did. Can you tell me why?""

""Had he come as a mighty prophet, such as Isaiah, then only the inner circle of religious groups would identify with him. What other form could he have come in, that would not best identify him with the most low of Mankind, and yet, the highest levels?""

""I think one form would be as a mighty prince. Few people seek advice from a man of renown. Nor, would he come as a warrior, for the warrior follows orders, and is subject to higher powers. This savior cannot be subject to any authority above himself."'"

""Good! Tell me why he came as a newborn?""

""If he came as a student, he would appeal to few others than students. if as a physician, only the ill would seek him; and, if as a tradesman, the wealthy would turn up their collective nose and think nothing of him.""

""Oh.""

""Have you considered why he is to be presented as a newborn human baby?""

Not really; no.""

""Family.""

""That's all?!""

""Why do you say, "That's all?""

""Well, everyone is born . . . Oh! I see now! That's right on! "Everyone" relates to being born as a goo-gooing baby, with mom, dad, and sister and brother, to be taken care by, and grow up with! Question? Will he have brothers and sisters, if he is not fathered by a man?""

""Yes. His mother will be still a virgin when she conceives him, but she is near her wedding day, and even though she is accused at the time, later her accusers will not focus on their suspicions of her being disobedient to pre-marriage purity. Through the entire experience she has, from Master's angel relaying the message that she has been chosen for this task, and would she accept it, to birthing the baby, to watching him grow into manhood, and then preaching, and then his terrible death, his mother remains a faithful, humble woman who trusts and believes Master above all her fears, accusers, and the natural instincts and apprehensions all women experience! She is one awesome woman!""

""Wow!""

""So, tell me what you think about the Savior coming to Earth, and Man, as a helpless, human newborn?""

""It's confabulousexpialidociouslyfantasimally WOW!!""

""I thought you'd say that, Daniel!""

""So, Daniel, you now have the knowledge of why and how Savior comes. But, do you know who he is?""

""I assume that you mean "Who he is to be identified as being in the future, some 600 hundred years from now, when he comes?""

""No!, I mean, who he is right now!""

""Uhmmm, I did not read that he is alive now! I was given a dream, where Creator is sitting on His eternal throne in Heaven, then it is like the one He sends in man's flesh to be man's savior appears before His throne, as a man, with a flesh body. When I saw this, I was being carried by Creator, but it was like an invisible being actually carried me, a 'spirit' being, for lack of better words to describe how I was carried.""

""Could the man standing before Creator, at the throne, have been like the one who carried me to witness this Heavenly anointing of the Savior, another form of Creator?""

""Yes, he is! In fact, He is Master, Who takes on the form of a newborn man, and grows up among Mankind, becoming respected by both Men and the Master Whom He is in this flesh form! In other words, Daniel, this savior is Master, and he lives just as Master commands all men to live, thereby proving Himself worthy of Creator's honor, since He follows Creator's commands to man!!""

""Let me get this straight. Creator is the Savior standing before the throne Creator is sitting on at the very same time, anointing and commissioning Savior, and I am there watching this, carried there by Creator in a third form, similar to a spirit-being?

""Welcome to being the first human to experience the Living Spirit of Creator, Who indwells those who desire the fullness of Creator to be dwelling in them! It is only with His person dwelling in you that you have eyes to see and understand what you just described! In fact, the prophet has recorded that men will no longer need to go to where a servant of Creator teaches His Living Word to gain understanding. With Creator dwelling in you, His Living Word is also in you, and to know anything about Him, all you will then need to do, is to ask Him to show you! That is a gift that Creator, as man's Savior, will leave after He leaves Earth, just after He is risen from the grave His body is placed in, after He gives His flesh life on the cross. He becomes "Savior" after He rises from Death. Before, He is the greatest prophet ever sent to Man!

""Isn't it wonderful how Master can do anything?""

""But, Not disobey His Living Word.""

""Oh. True. I often wish I were unable to disobey. It would make things so much more simple!""

""You can live without disobeying.""

""That's not so!. Everyone does! Scripture says so, too. You lie!""

""No, the Word Master gave says His Own do not have the will to disobey Him.""

""Everybody has a will!""

""Of course! But not everybody has the same will. Who's 'will' do you have?""

""Mine. Who else' will would I have?""

""Well, not mine, of course. I can't give it away, anyway. But Master can give His will to anyone who asks.""

"He can?!""

""He can.""

""So, I can ask Master for His will, and he will give it to me?""

""Yes, He does that for anyone who asks, believing.""

""But, I already have a will. Where did it come from?""

Ish. That is why it is faulty, and prone to disobedience. You still have his will, if you have not replaced it with the one Master gives you..""

""I want Master's will.""

""It costs.""

""How much?""

""Everything.""

""Like . . .?""

""Everything. What do you like to think?""

""Uhhmmm . . . well, I like to think . . .""

""Give it to master.""

""Maybe He won't like it?""

Good thinking! He well may hate your thoughts.""

""Ouch! What about food? Friends? My children? Or, my parents?""

""Everything; everyone.""

""Oh. That's not easy!""

""It's impossible.""

""But, I thought you said I would . . ."

""No. I said Master's will would cost all -everything.""

""I can't give Him everything"""

""No.""

""But, but, bu . . . er. . . How can I . . ."

""Ask Him.""

""Ask? What?""

""For His power to enter your person in order that He may cleanse you of everything that dishonors Him - everything.""

""That . . . that . . . that is like, like, I don't live anymore!""

""Right on! You're dead to self, alive to Him!""

""Dead?""

""To your self-esteem. Alive to listen, hear, and do His will. Not till you're dead to self-esteem can you be alive in His will to do His will.""

""Dead? But alive? What . . . how?""

""Master's life.""

""His life? How?""

""You give Him your life, and your will. By His authority and power, He then dwells inside you. He gives you His Living.""

""That's complicated.""

""No. That's impossible on your own! Complicated? Only in your heart, which He tells us is our worst Deceiver, far worse than Lucifer's deceptions! It's really very simple - just one step!""

""One step? How?""

""Trust, by your obedience.""

""Obedience?""

""Does His Living Word say to 'DO' anything to earn His reward of eternal Living?""

""Yes.""

""What?""

""Obey His commandments.""

""Oh.""

""Do you?""

""Kinda. Well, what I mean, I try. But, I often fail.""

"He doesn't accept "Kinda."""

""I didn't think so. But, all my religious friends say they often fail to obey?""

""He calls such disobedience, disobedience. They are not part of His family. He says so. In the record he will have one of His 12 disciples, Matthew, write in a book, he says that they who follow after Him, but fail to do His Living Word, are wolves in sheep's clothing, and they only pretend to be His obedient "Doers." Matthew will write this in his "Gospel of Disciple Matthew, chapter 7, verses 17 to 21. He tells Matthew, I don't even know these!""

""Daniel, does He know you? Well, by this you tell me, no, He doesn't 'know' me.""

""Want Him to?""

""Do I! YES!""

""Obey Him.""

""Oh. Now?""

""It's the only "Way." He has another of His twelve disciples, John, record in his record, "The Gospel According to Y'shuah, by Disciple Yohannon (John)," in chapter fourteen, verse 6.

"Thank you!""

""Thank Him.""

""I will. Thank you!""

""NO. Thank HIM!""

""Master, I see! Thank You for opening my blinded, evil-loving eyes to really obey You! Master, 'why' didn't I know this before? Oh! Master! I hear You! What's that? "This 'is' incredible! I 'HEAR' You! Oh? Yes? Yes! That's so, too. I know, Lord. Yes. Take that; of course! 'That, too. Yes, him, too, Lord. OH! I 'feel' so, so . . . light! Oh! Here! Let's not forget them! And, here, I've got another of 'those.' Take everything! All I want is You, Master! 'MY' Master! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Oh! I Could SHOUT! I'm so - so - so - FULL OF JOY! WOW! I'm Alive! Alive!""

""Told you so. Yesterday. Day before, ten years ago.""

""When? I didn't hear You?""

""I know. I was disappointed, too.""

""Oh. I know. I didn't 'HEAR' You!""

""No. You didn;t 'HEAR Master. I just spoke for Him.""

""Oh. Do you think people will 'HEAR Master when I tell them, now?""

""No. But, some will, when He opens their hearts.""

""Oh.""

""Is that all you can say; "Oh"?!""

""No.""

""Get outa here! Go, tell the whole world what you 'KNOW'! They need to know, too!""

""I love you.""

""I love you, too. Master sends His love for you in the message he sends in my heart for you. It's His.""

""A baby?""

"" I don't follow.""

""You said, "Master is coming to Man as a helpless baby?""

""Oh. Yes? Er . . . I mean, YES!""

""That's really how we are, isn't it? We're helpless. We must be cleaned - we cannot do it by ourselves. We can't give ourselves living spiritual food. We can't even talk in Spiritual Truth! I think Master's a wonderful father! He loves me - us - so very much!""

""He does. Tell someone that. They need to be fed. And cleaned. And to talk, too. Tell them how simple you were given His will. His Life. His WAY! You 'CAN' talk now! It isn't goo-goo, gaaa-gaaa, either! I love you, brother!""

"'Love' Him.""

""I know. I do.""

""Bye now.""

""Do you know Master's Baruch (Blessing) for His children?""

""Blessing? He gives so much joy inside. Isn't that enough?""

""Yes. But He gives much more.""

""More?""

Read the ancient Hebrew Scripture Baruch for Master's chosen People, Y'srael, recorded by Moshe' in Numbers 6, verses 24 through 26. Read the meaning for each Hebrew Word there.""

""Wow! I see!""

""There's more than that!""

""No!""

""Sure is! Turn to Deuteronomy, chapter twenty eight, verse 2.""

""Wow! WOW! Praise Master!""

""There's more.""

""Incredible!""

""It's true. Read the entire chapter of Deuteronomy 28. Do you 'see' how Master pours His floods of Baruch (Blessing) on His children?""

""Obedience?""

""Now read Malachi chapter 3, verse 10. Is this a test Master wants you to give Him?""

""Yes! He really does!""

""Will you?""

""That is not easy! - - - whoops! It 'wasn't' easy! I can think clear! It is like the old thoughts are still there . . . but, but, I can really think new thoughts I never had before! Incredible!""

""Master's thoughts.""

""Hey! That's right!"

""Keep reading His way of Life, obeying what you read right on the spot you read it, and keep listening with the ears He gave to you!""

""They're His eyes, His ears, His way. How could I 'not' hear, see, and go?""

""I don't know. But don't try to find out, EVER!""

""No Prob! I love Him! I Love Him! I Love Him!""

""Go tell the disobedience-sickened world!""

""Bye.""

""Bye. Read and study Song of Solomon, chapter 7.""

""I shall.""

""Master be with you.""

""Oh! He is!""

""I love you, my brother.""

""Me too.""

""Bye.""

""Master be with you."
""Every moment.""

""Bye.""

""Please don't forget me.""

""That's not possible! Master keeps you on my heart. You're super special to us both.

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Visiting Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe, in her home, nestled in a very tall, hollow tree, in a little green meadow, with a tiny stream running through. Master finishes His unpleasant task for Ish and Ishah's disobedience, and a thousand years pass;


Finishing Mr. Owl's grandpa's Story;


"The Mutiny On Noah's Ark of Safe Passage"



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Once the weary adventure-filled travelers had returned to each one's home, and had refreshing food and lots of deep, sleepy rest, they had asked Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel where Mr. Owl should come to finish his grandpa's story. Each of Miss Riding Wolffe's human friends was very excited  to share Christmas Day with Red Riding Wolfe's family and her friends!"

So, it was settled. In fact, some family members of the traveling group decided to come. Mr. Owl's grandchildren, who already had heard the story many times, came just to hear it once more. Mr. Blue Jay's whole family came, because he had told the first part, best as he could, to them.

Jonny Rabbit and his sister had come.

And Sly Catcher Weasel had arrived with his little sister, Kitten Weasel. Of course, her real name was Angel Weasel, but her father called her "Kitten."

Mr. Wolffe ushered everyone to the main room in his tiny den. When all were comfortable, and it 'was' a sight to see - with the birds, Mr. Owl, and his grandchildren, and the Blue Jay family!, trying to find a place among the ground creatures that felt anything like 'comfortable! All three of Riding wolffe's human friends were there, too, but somehow they all fit very nice and comfortably into the tiny den! And Mr. Neigh!, there was simply just too much of him to fit at all! - Mr. Wolffe spoke.

""When my little daughter told me about the story Mr. Owl was telling from his own grandfather, and you dear human children all chose my humble, and too-small home to gather together to hear its finish, I was very happy! Now, here is Mr. Owl to finish the wonderful story!"

"Mr. Owl!"



Mr. Owl had found a place to stand on a bit of the inner tree that jutted out into the tiny room. He turned to Mr. Neigh!, who was still trying to find a comfortable way to squeeze just his head into the doorway of the tiny den, with the rest of his body sitting on the ground in the small yard! What a sight!

"I want to thank our Mr. Neigh! for his sharing in this story. His grandfather also told it to him, and he was kind to make comments and give me encouragement as I was telling the first part to him, Mr. Blue Jay, and Miss Wolffe, on our way home yesterday."

"This last part of the wonderful story our grandfathers handed to us, from their grandfathers, is mainly about the events and people during the time Master saved us all here from our families' complete destruction, when the evil that Ish, and Ishah's original disobedience brought upon all Earth."

"We will start with the closing scene in the first part, which there was too little time in our long journey back to tell. Is everyone comfortable? Mr. Neigh!, I don't see how you do it, my big friend, but I am delighted that you can be with us!"





"Home In Time For Master's Special Day!"
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When Master had confronted His two human, and one serpent creatures, who, together had disobeyed His command to not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and I recited the underlying mental and spiritual deceptions that each one had used to try to justify his, or her disobedient act, and lying words, he had to make a proper price each guilty creature would pay to at least partly restore the good their acts and words had destroyed. It is in His decision, here, that we first see how powerful Master's Grace is!"

"Each of the three characters had committed a crime, or act of disobedience, that was severe enough to deserve death on the spot! But Master, Whom is both Love and Truth, made a most alarming decision! Instead of killing the two humans, He took two innocent little lambs, killed each, and removed their skins, with the fleece, which He then placed on both humans! His act saved their lives, but it also showed all Creation that Master cherishes human life so much, He is willing for other life to die first!"

"This coat of the dead lambs' skins could not hide the nakedness of the humans' bodies, but it did act as a symbol that their disobedience carries a very grave price, and that price is too great for them to pay, and still survive, in their flesh life. Disobedience would require that someone, or something else had to die, to pay for their evil!"


"When Master had killed the two small, innocent lambs, and placed their bloody skins on Ish and Ishah, He had one more thing to do, to insure that their disobedience would be limited just to Planet Earth. This final task would end human existence in the flesh for eternity, making it impossible for Mankind to continue in disobedience past a limited life-span. This was one of the most sad moments Master has ever faced."


"He said, "Surely Ish will also eat the fruit of Life and live forever. He can have no chance to live in an eternal state of disobedience, and thereby ruin all Creation! Now, with the knowledge of both how to perform good, and to perform destruction, as I have, and Ish has clearly shown he has no care for the damage disobedience causes, he must leave My Great Garden, to labor with the natural elements of Earth, where thistle and briar, disease and famine are wont to overcome his work to survive."

"Master led Ish and Ishah, in a sad, procession, to the entrance of the Great Garden in the Land of Eden. There, He stopped with them, and gave them instructions for their coming lives;

""To Ishah, Master spoke. "Lovely Ishah, because you sought after consolation and comfort from other than Ish, and you preferred the children of other creatures for your companionship, now you will have your loneliness and your child-bearing multiplied, and you shall bear your own children in great sorrow. Because you preferred other companionship, now your desire will be toward your husband, and you will be under his authority to determine your living.""

"Master's words burned into her already grieving soul."

"Turning to Ish, He said,"

""Ish, as you preferred Ishah's word above My Own command to not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil, your act has caused the ground to be cursed. In my Great Garden, you were fed and nourished with the tree. But, in the natural world where you must now live, the ground shall be your source of food. Instead of abundance from it, as in My garden, the natural ground will spring up with thistle and briar, to force you to labor against it. In sorrow and grief, you shall spend the days of your life.""

""From the soil your body is formed; From soil your body is sustained; to it your body shall return.""

"Ish had taken the fruit after Ishah, but he was given much greater responsibility and had much more to pay than Ishah, for it was to him that Master had made the direct command to not eat the fruit. The consequences he faced for his evil deed, and mostly for lying about it, were justly more severe."

"Ish had struggled and worked very diligently to create a wonderful beauty in the Great Garden from the heavy, overgrown jungle tangle. He now had the same hard work ahead in his life, but this time it would be labor he must endure every working day. Needless to say, he was heartbroken."

"So, Master sent the dejected pair off into the natural environment of Earth. Perhaps they had no idea how difficult life had just  become, nevertheless, their disobedience had earned their plight. When they were gone from sight, He placed two mighty angels to turn away any human that wanted to enter, on its Eastern side, at the entrance. Their polished swords gleamed in the sunlight streaming in through the metallic canopy in the skies."

"However, in Master's design for His Creation, Ish and Ishah, and their children, would be cared for, and all their needs met by the abundant provision Master gives to all His creatures. Now, however, Ish and his lovely wife faced the grueling task of producing their own shelter, sustenance, and in this sorrow, their children would join them."

"Master, knowing before Creation was formed that this evil and His sentence upon Man would take place, also knew that Man would soon build large, evil cities, and the animals' rebellion would spread, until both human and animal evil would form a terrible destruction over all earth. He knew they would take objects of His creation and form them into shapes that then they worshipped, instead of worshiping Him. From Creator's abundant love and sustaining provision, Ish's descendants turned to the trees and stone these substitutes were made from, preferring the lifeless objects instead of Creator!"

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As formed by Creator, original Earth protected and nurtured life so greatly that the planet was covered in deep layers of fertile soil from the intense, wild-growing jungles, and the human and animal population expansion. Evil multiplied rapidly in this rich environment, until Creator found only one family of humans that was led by a faithful worshiper. Noach."

"On a fine day, in this wild, evil world, Master spoke to Noach with deep concern in His voice."

""Noach, faithful servant, I find all flesh to be a continual evil before Me. I shall destroy every living creature upon earth. Noach was 500 years of age when his family of three sons started arriving. Master informed him of this plan at some point between his first son, Shem's birth, and when he had begun to build the Ark of Safety. He was 600 years old the day that Master sealed the huge ark door shut, and flood waters both rose from the earth, and fell from the skies."

"Mr. Neigh!, you told me that the old ostrich you met, Mr. Fyyne Feather, I believe his name was, spoke about whales, or something. It is interesting to know that in some deep-ocean research, a party of whale scientist discovered ocean beaches over three miles under the surface of our present day oceans! They also discovered a submerged series of hewn stones, from off the Eastern coast of the continent we live on, at its South-eastern tip, that extends down to several miles under the ocean surface!"

"I've also heard from some adventurers to the far Northern reaches of the land of India, that they discovered two ancient cities whose remains have a high level of radiation, indicating a massive atomic explosion there in ancient days. If so, it would explain how the waters from above the earth, trapped by the metallic canopy, were allowed to fall upon earth in such torrents."

Modern Disciples of Master are using machines to create likely models of this metallic canopy, and the results are profound."

Miss Wolffe's paw went up again.

"Yes?"

Are these disciples like the ones who were Master's twelve followers? Can me and my human friends be His disciples?"

"All it takes to be a disciple of Creator is to obey Him! Can you do that?"

Miss Riding Wolffe quickly said, "Not with my nature! It's too hard to obey Master in everything!"
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"Well, that's true!, Mr. Owl replied. "But, Master can change your nature! When He does, you will want more than anything else to obey Him!"

"Can my friends, Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel be Master's disciples with me? I hope they want to do that!"

"Miss Wolffe, anyone can be Master's disciple! If you are sincere to want to, ask Him to change your heart, and overcome the evil inside you. Why would He refuse that?"

"One thing you might want to remember about the way Master changes you, is that He puts a hard canopy around you, to protect you from evil. It's much like the clear metallic canopy He placed above earth; You can see through it, but it keeps out all the floods of evil that are trying to fall on you, and flood you with too much evil to see and follow Him!"

"To be a disciple of Master is to obey His Living Word, as he gave it to His faithful recorders. He has kept it perfectly with His faithful scribe service, which follows the scientific, exact copy process that He gave to Moshe'! It is so exact that not a single tiny stroke has ever been missed, or added!" Mr. Owl beamed his approval of her question. "In fact, my little one, we owl have been His disciples all down through our generations, and that's how we became known for our wisdom!"

He continued his grandpa's story; "Master's creation of Planet Earth was so perfect that the things that bombard other planets, and now, Earth, were blocked by the metallic helium canopy, and collected on its outer surface. Vast amounts of ice were part of that collection. Whatever broke through that obdurate, tough metallic canopy had to have been a massive force!"

"Moshe' recorded, in Genesis chapter one, that the waters above the canopy were separated from the waters below it. That means, from what we now see as thee miles more depth to our oceans, there was an enormous amount of frozen water sitting on that canopy!"

"In fact, Moshe' records that it took 40 days, and nights, for all that water to finish falling to earth! History records some awful floods, but none anywhere near that size!. Moshe' also recorded that the surface of earth was ripped open, and deluges of water poured up through the deep fissures."
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Exposed to the almost absolute zero cold of space, all this water, and remember, much of what fell had been ice sitting atop the canopy, at temperatures far below freezing for water, the North and South pole waters froze to very deep depths! In fact, explorers going down over a thousand feet in the area of the far North shores of this continent discovered a frozen jungle more that a thousand feet under a jumbled mass of soil and plant debris! That's pretty sure-fired proof that the massive flood Moshe' recorded covered the entire earth!"

"Earth surface rotates at a speed of about 1,000 miles per hour. With all that broken metallic canopy, melting ice boulders and water, as the mountains on earth swished through that awful, grinding flood, they caused a massive turbulence that eroded entire mountains away in minutes! Is it any wonder that Master gave Noach construction plans for a huge boat that was built so strong it has been preserved to this day?! Its hull is a solid stone-like substance, so hard and dense that it rings like a bell when you strike it with a rock or hammer! It was obdurate, like the metallic canopy that now crashed down in chunks upon it."

Narrator: In Pennsylvania a storm raged for six days, dumping about two feet of rain on the ground. The Susquehanna River ripped apart a small town, Johnstown, and it spread widened from about a mile wide as it passed the state capital of Harrisburg, to two miles, and flooded a large section of the major steel industries located there. Houses and large steel drums, boats, and ripped-up building rushed by in the 60 mile-per-hour current. This was just a tiny sample of the massive turmoil The Flood caused!
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Miss Wolffe raised a paw, quietly. "Miss Wolffe?." Mr. Owl said. "Is there a question?"

"Well, I remember hearing about Noach, and the ark he built. Is this where Creator gave him the plans for the ark, and what animals and all he was to load aboard the ark"

"That's a great question! Yes, Miss Wolffe, at this point, Master gave Noach very detailed plans for how to construct each part of the ark, so it held food for humans, feed for animals, and the right places and construction for the berths each kind would need for over a year of living on, and depending on only what the ark carried to live on. In fact, that's a key part of the story, as it was the way the ark was constructed that saved the lives of everyone aboard, when  . . . well, that's a surprise part coming up!"

"But, yes, Noach got the entire plan at about the time he was 500 years old, it seems from what Moshe recorded.  Another interesting thing I have to share, is that a disciple of Creator was clearly shown exactly where the remains of Noach's ark lie now!"


"Well, back to Master's plan for this ark. it was the first boat ever built on earth! The tiny sea that exited at that time could be walked around easily, if one needed to be on the opposite side. So, why have a boat? Much less, a large one? Only Master knew the enormous flood coming, so only He knew the size it needed to be, and how each part would fit together."


"Miss Wolffe, can one of your human friends tell us how long this ark was to be?"

"Cindy, you're the oldest of my human friends, can you tell us the answer?"

"Well, a very long time ago, I faintly remember my father reading this story to me. If I remember right, it was, oh, about four hundred and fifty feet long!"

"Right! Mr. Owl said. Can you tell us how many cubits that is?"

"It's 300."

"Again, you're right! Cindy!"

"Can one of your other two girls tell us how high it was?"

Eriel took this one; "It was 30 cubits! That's about 45 feet"

"One last question for you human guests!. Melissa, how wide?"

"About 75 feet! That's 50 cubits, or so."

"Well! you young ladies have indeed heard, and remembered some of this great story! Now, here's two questions for you, Miss Wolffe! Be sure to take your time answering!"
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"How many feet are in one mile?"

"5280."

"Ah! Good!"

"So, how many feet in 3 miles?"

"Almost 16,000! Why?"

"Well, that's how much turbulent, writhing and roiling water was under the ark! When we truly calculate the fantastic miracle that saved that tiny boat, compared to the enormous size of the flood, we can better appreciate the wonderful plan Master gave Noach for this ark!"



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"And, you friends of Miss Wolffe are right with all your answers for the Ark of Safe passage! Your dimensions are those given by Moshe'. I bet your mother read to you from Master's record book, right?"

All three nodded, with big smiles!

"Yes!," Miss Riding Wolffe smiled at Mr. Owl, and her three friends. "But I like my grandma's reading it to me much better! She makes all kinds of animal noises and talks funny, like the bear, the giraffe, and even the iguana lizard! It's fun when she reads it to me!"
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"Good! I'm no competition for your grandma, though!"

"Now, Master told Noach the ship's name includes the word, "Ark." Can you tell me the ship's full name? Anyone?" Everyone looked puzzled.

"Well, I'll have to tell you, then. But, you'll have to wait till it's name appears in the story, just the way my grandpa told me!"

"If Master only led two of each kind of creature to His Ark-something, what did He do with all the rest left outside? He didn't drown innocent babies and creatures that were not evil, did He? How could He do that?," Miss Wolffe asked.

"My, my! You're full of questions! Of course Master 'could do that! How could He? Well, it's something we don't know everything about, but Master records why. His reason is found in Genesis, chapter six - Whoops! I mean "Book of Beginnings"! See? It says 'all' flesh living on Earth was evil. Did this include Noach's family and the animals that Master kept alive on His Ark-"something?" (That's an interesting name Miss Riding Wolffe has for Master's Ark, isn't it, Eriel!"

"Master's record leaves much detail out, about the world before the Great Flood, and the experience on the Ark-something, as well. But, overall, we have quite a good bit that tells us about Earthlings before, and after Master flooded Earth. Now, my young friends, let's hear the rest of the story!"
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Grandpa Owl's Ark-"something?" Story


Noah -"Nuach"
Strong's H5146 - Noach
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H5146


"Now, many generations after Mr. Slytalker Serpent, with Fallen Angel Lucifer and the Warlock Serpent Enforcers tried, and failed, to destroy Master's Earth, all creatures continued to do as they pleased. Some, like Ish and Ishah's sons, Abel and Enoch, pleased Master with their total love for His Way so much that He walked and was seen in person by them, as He was their best friend. But, for others, they loved Evil more than Creator. The number of these Evil-loving people and animals grew to where they almost entirely covered the planet. Even children of parents that loved Master, wanting the fun of evil's self-esteem and self-focused life-style, turned away from Master, Who had been with them as small children in their parent's home. Even though their parents had taught them to love and honor Master!"
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"When Noach was 480 years, before he and his wife had three sons, Master's record given by Moshe' tells us that Master noted that it would soon be time to destroy Life upon Earth with the Great Flood, "because all flesh is evil continually," He had Moshe' write.

"So, Master's Plan had one man, who served and honored Master, and his family, of all many, many billions of people then living, that He would keep alive. Of course this was Noach, his wife and three sons, and the wife of each son. After surviving the Great Flood, Noach would have more sons and daughters, but for the time before it, his children were limited to these three. Mrs. Noach would be over 500 years of age when she gave birth to the rest of their family!"

"Anyway, during one of His evening walks with Noach, Master said, "Noach, My plan for Earth calls for you to build a great ship. Think you can do this, my friend?""

""Well, Master, You know me better that I know myself. You tell me!""

""Noach! I asked you first! Please, tell Me!""

""Well, the way I see it, and you know I don't always see things Your Way, if I'm supposed to build, er, what's a "Great Ship"? I don't recall my ever seeing such a, a, ah,; oh well, whatever it is!""

""It's an Ark-"something?", Noach! In time, I will reveal its full name to you, Noach.   "Noach was silent.

""Say something, Noach!""

""Something?""

""No! I didn't mean to say it 'that' way! Just listen, then. I'll describe the Plan, Noach.""
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""Er, I mean, doesn't it have a name? It's much easier for me to remember a name! It helps me to picture it in my mind, and see how it will be used, and even what its general appearance will be""


""Noach! I knew this would be the problem! But, it should be so simple . . . Sometimes I wonder why I ever created Ish with this weakness to know and understand My Way!"

""Now, I shall describe it to you, My friend.""

""Does it hold animals?""

""Noach!""

""Ok, OK! You talk, Master!"" Noach looked at his shoes. They were genuine loafers, his favorite to wear during these long walks with Master.

""Yes! Animals, Noach. "'Every' kind of animal!""

""What?! I . . .""

""Noach!""

""Oops!""

""Animals, and each of your sons, and their wives.""

""I don't have . . .""

""Noach! . . .Listen to Me!""

""OK, I'm sorry! It's just that . . .""

""Noach, 'do' you have time for this? I could alter My Plan, but there's just no one else . . .""

""Sorry! I'll listen. My lips are zipped shut, See?""

""In 20 years you'll have a son. He'll be loyal. His name . . . Oh! I need to let you to name him! Just because I already know everything and all names in My Creation is no reason to take the fun of giving names to all your children! It'll be the 'right' name!""
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""But, before this Great Flood, you need to build this Great Ark. You asked Me to describe it, so I will do so.""

""Noach?""

""Yes?""

""You know when you were a boy, and played on the beach, at the ocean?""

""Yes . .""

""Well, there were sticks floating in the water, right?""



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""What?! Am I to float sticks in the water!?""

""Noach!""

""Sorry . . .""

""No, maybe I should just call all this off. It's pretty hard to get you Humans to think on My level of understanding, or even a little closer to it than the paltry level of your natural understanding!""

""No! No! No! I'll do it! Really!""

""Well, OK. But, please stop interrupting Noach!""

""Yes.""

""It's not a "Stick-"something?"," Noach. It's a form of wood lamination-joinery that is solidified into a dense, very durable material, that will withstand the massive destruction forces that will rip and tear Earth apart. The ship is large, and it requires tools and materials you must design and manufacture yourself. I have all the plans available to you, and will guide you each step of the entire process. But, you must build the Ark yourself. That is why I am coming now, 120 years before Earth is flooded.""

""120 . . .""

""Noach!!!

""Sorry!""

""Yes. Do you know what a flood is?""

""No.""

""Well, it's, its . . . hmmm. Let's just say it this way, Noach, Remember when you swam out to the middle of the ocean, and tried to sink to the bottom?""

""Why! Yes! My! That was 450 years ago! I thought sure I'd drown!""
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""Noah?""

""Yes?""

""Noach, that's exactly what's going to happen to all living flesh upon Planet Earth, the day you are 600 years old, which is 120 years, 2 hours, and 19 minutes, exactly, from this very moment!

""Bu, bu, but, that's going to happen to me?""

""Noach!""

""No, you'll be inside this Great Ship, with all animal species, and your own family, where I will keep you safe till I have developed dry land for you to land on. That will require one year and ten days' time!""
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Genesis Flood Chronology - Noah's Ark
http://www.bibleinsight.com/floodp1.html


http://www.christiananswers.net/bible/gen7.html
http://www.christiananswers.net/bible/gen8.html

" 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noach removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noach, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee."




""By the way, Noach . . .""

""Yes?""

""I saved you from drowning that time, too!""

""What? Opps! Nutten . . .""

"All flesh upon Earth is, is, well, you know, Noach, I've shared My grief over this wicked people so many times with you - you 'do' know, don't you?""

""I do.""

""I'm sorry I made flesh life, Noach.""
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"I'm 'flesh.'""

""Opps! Yes, I know. And I love you, friend Noach. My! this is hard!""

""Does this great ship called "something"?, does it 'float'?""

""I have a name for it, but the time to reveal it to you has yet to come.""

""Oh. I forgot.""

Yes, just as you discovered with that near drowning incident, it's a good thing to 'float' on top of water! Yes, this great ship does 'float,' Noach.""

""Noach, I want you to be its builder. But, are you sure you can handle this task?""
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""But, I thought it was to be named "Great "something?" ship"?""

"Wait! Wait! Noach, let's start this discussion all over, from the beginning!""

""Sure.""
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""My Creation Plan says that you are called to care for two of every kind of creature of flesh, that breathes air, I made from the dust of Earth, Noach.
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""Because the "Great 'something' Ship" needed for this task is so big, you must start building it this year, your 480th upon Earth. It is not like anything any creature on Earth has seen. It is like a stick upon the waters of the ocean, tossed about in the waves. But, unlike a stick, it is made from dense, hardened minerals and wood laminations that I have instructions for you to follow as you build it.""

""I will show you what to do, but it is with skills I have given all men that you will use to construct this ship. You will combine the materials as I instruct you, and they will form a ship that will withstand the destruction that is coming. In far distant times, people will say it is a wooden boat, but they will have little interest in My Living Record, just like people now have so little regard for Me.""

""To give you an idea of its size, I will compare it to the barn where you keep your Mr. Starfire Horse, and his family, and shelter your other livestock. Your barn is 20 and a half cubits wide, and 25 long. It is 10 cubits high. But, you only keep a few creatures there, and you do not need to store large amounts of food and water, or keep the dirty bedding in a separate place, as you will need in this Great 'something' Ship.""

""Could you keep two of every flesh creature upon Earth in your barn, Noach?""

""Not even!""

""This ship will shelter a pair of every species of flesh life, and your family, Noach. All will need to eat, have fresh, clean water, and have a clean, dry living area for the entire year and ten days you will be aboard. How big do you think it should be?""
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""Whoa! How long? That's incredulous! Me . . .??!!""

""Yes, you.""

""Wow!""

""So, Noach, how big?""

Maybe 1000 cubits by 500? And, and, and, and 100 high?""

""Oh! not 'that' big! Try 300 cubits long!""

""OK.""

""And 50 wide""

""Hmmm . . . OK. Got it."

""And 30 high.""

""30 high? That's . . .""

""Noach?""

""Yes.""

""30.""

""Got it.""

""Now, let's move on. For the entire 120 years you will be constructing this, My great "something?" ship is to be in sight of "Mocking Song City."
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""Yes.. . .WHAT?!! ME? It, er, I mean, Your great "something?" ship? For 'THAT' long?!!?""

""Noach?""

""Yes.""

""'That' long.""

""'That' long, master?""

"Noach!"
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"Yes. It will be 'that' long a time where I dread to go! That entire city loves to mock me for being Your friend! I hate when they say terrible, evil things about You, Master. You know I trust You, so I will build it where you say to.""

""Noach?""

""Uh . . . No. I mean, uhmmm, yes?""

""Building My great 'something' ship isn't all. You're to also be preaching.""

""Hey! I like that! At last, You give me something to do that I'm good at!""

""To Mocking Song City, Noach.""

""Now, You just wait a minute! You may be Creator, and Master, and the 'only' hope for life possible. You may even . . . Right, master. Thanks for the heads' up!""

""Noach?""

""Yes.""

""I don't envy you.""

""Thank You! I don't, either!""

""Oh.""

""Noach?""

""What, er . . . yes?""

""I thought saving you would reward you for your doing this. Was I too stingy with your compensation plan?""
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""Well, I . . er, I'll manage. Thanks.""

""Noach?""

""Well, Master, it all is so  . . . so . . . well, sudden. Help me?""

""Why Noach! Of course! I thought you 'knew' that!""

""That helps. Thanks. I think I can, now.""

""Master?""

""Yes?""

""I love you.""

""Why do you think I have chosen you, My dear friend?""

""Oh. Thank You.""

""Do it?""

""Yes.""




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Mr. Owl looked around, his head seeming to turn the whole way around, at his rapt listeners.

"Noach built, and then preached. The next day, he preached, then he built. One day he would apply the harder-than-stone earth-mix Master had shown him to make, to the large slabs of tough lumber he and his sons had cut. This made the lumber many times stronger, and it actually turned to a stone so solid that it rang like a bell when struck with a hammer!

"Then, for the next day, as the mixture set up and hardened, he would go stand at the gateway to Mocking Song City, and preach the truth about how evil the people were. True to their arrogant city's name, they would taunt and mock Noach every time he told them the truth!"

"Every day, faithful Noach would do his best to gain even one person's attention, to share the better way of living in Master's Truth. But, all he ever got was angry, mean words of resentment, and not many days went past that he had stones and rotten eggs hitting him numerous times.

"Many, many days he would call to Master, and they would share hours, sometimes when Noach was the most drained from his hard building labor, and the even harder task of preaching. He grieved in his soul for all the angry people who loved evil more than even Master."

He even poured his grief out to his lovely wife, whom he dearly loved. She loved him with all she had to give, but his grief was so deep, her words did not comfort him."

"Except for resting on the Shabbat, the seventh day of each week, to honor that same day Master had rested from Creating His Kingdom, Noach repeated this pattern for ten years. Not a single person had listened. All Mocking Song City people did was to jeer, mock, and tell each other "Noach jokes"!!"
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""You hear the latest?

""Not that Noach guy, again?""

""Yes! Noach!""

The latest story is that his great -something-ship is sinking! It's too heavy for the ground to hold it up!  Ha! Ha! Ha! And he thinks it will float on water! Water that doesn't exist, at that!""

""Hey! You hear about Noach today?""

""Not that guy, again?? I'm sick and tired of hearing stuff about that old tongue waggler! "All he ever says is, "Turn from your evil! " Love Master!"  I Hate him!"""
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"Yeah. We should drag him to the sea and tie some of that gopher wood stuff around his neck and throw him in! Think he'll float?""

""Sure! Right to the bottom! Some boat-thing he's making! We've never had something he calls 'rain,' and he also says there will be so much of it that anyone outside his silly old boat thingy will drown! How stupid can a person get?!!""

""Noach's gonna save us! Noach's gonna save us! Noach's gonna save us! Noach's gonna . . . ""

""Shut up!""

""Well, he 'IS'! He says so!""

""No he's not!""

""Yes, he is!""

""Shut up!""

Mr. Owl continued; "For the next 10 years, on one day Noach applied a new layer of the stone-like hull, and preached the next day, while the new layer cured. He had hundreds of large metal plates and rivets to make to hold each beam and rib securely in place, exactly as Master's plan called for. The discovery of the ship in its resting place on a hill side of the Ararat Mountains was confirmed by these composite, iron and other metal plates, still exactly in the places Noach had faithfully placed them!"

"At night, comforted by his faithful wife, he slept the deep, dreamless sleep of a weary laborer."

"But, not every night was so peaceful for Noach. In a recurring dream that came infrequently his family; brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, were going past where he worked on the ship on their way to shopping in Mocking Song City. However, while they were still inside the high-walled city, he would hear screams, and suddenly the city gateways had gushing torrents of flooding water pouring out, carrying the bodies of people inside. In his dream, he always watched in horror, helpless to save even one, and then, finally, all was quiet and still."

"Noach would waken from these terrifying dreams in a drenching sweat. He loved his neighbors, and much more his own brothers and sisters. Many times he would be found by his dear wife, weeping over their hard, arrogant attitude, unable to quench the hot floods of tears for people he knew would soon perish forever.

"At the end of the second ten years, Noach's wife gave birth to their first-born, Shem. She said, "Finally, master has been kind to my beloved. He has given him his first Believer!"
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"And, it was so. Years would pass before another Believer would arrive, but Master was faithful to His word."

In Shem's tenth year, he was considered a mature, responsible youth. It was the custom in those times that the tenth birthday of a child marked the age of responsibility, and Shem had shown how much he loved Master, and His calling for building the ship, and preaching to the people. Noach was 510 years that year."



"During Shem's tenth year, Noach's wife presented a second son to Noach; "Ham". If only Ham had not opened his eyes! Perhaps the events of this story, and even history itself, would have been far different! But, Ham did open his eyes when he left his mothers womb, and, though his father, Noach, was faithful to raise his boys in the honor and Way of Master, the people and ways of Mocking song City held an unbreakable grip on son Ham, as we shall find out."

"For his part, Shem, from the age of four, had stood beside his father as the elder Noach preached the message of Salvation to the crowds of Mocking Song City passing to and fro, by the ship construction site. As Shem listened to his father's retelling the words of Master, and he saw his father weeping countless times for the people, he soon understood the great weight upon the man he loved above all people, and he took his own place beside his father, and preached with his father, at times."

"Shem also loved the work on the ship. He especially liked when his father went out to collect the metal ores from nearby deposits, and his love of animals, the beautiful flowers, and rushing waters of the river from the Garden of Eden that flowed past where the ore was located. Great trees were felled by Noach, and his faithful, powerful horse team, with the majestic Mr. Starfire, a great, black stallion with a perfect white star in his forehead, leading the four-horse team."

"Shem was about ten he first time he actually began helping dad with the work Master gave Noach. Before, he just made believe that he was making a much smaller model of the great "something?" ship, in his sand box."
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In his tenth year, Shem grew to be a man. His dad, Noach, was 510 that year."

"Noach had a full set of the ship's plans, and these Shem studied so much that he had them in his memory by the time his little brother, Ham was born. Their intricate order of the ship's design, right down to the different berths each creature would have for the long journey when all would be sealed in the ship, and the great storage areas that would be filled with feed and food for all, and the large water tanks, to store enough to last the journey, captivated young Shem's interest. He seemed a perfect fit for his father's calling."

"One day, like a few hundred before it, Shem went with Elder Noach to the ship site. It was preaching day. He was proud of his father, standing there with his hands out, asking people to come and turn from the forbidden worship to Master, and His Living Way of Life. He shared with all how one day, not far away, a great flood would take all their lives, unless they joined him and his family. He had tears running down his cheeks from his compassion for his neighbors."

"For all Elder Noach's efforts, all he got from anyone, even his own brothers and siters, was jeers and mocking, and some even threw stones and mud on him."

"You wicked, evil people!," Shem shouted this particular day. It was just too much for him to see how they treated his father, for all the love and compassion he saw his father have for them. "How terrible you treat my father! Don't you care one thing about the safety and lives of your own children, as my father does for us?!" He'd shouted at a group of mocking, especially mean-mouthed grandparents, returning with their young grandchildren, from a forbidden worship event. Both grandparents and grandchildren were shouting very, very nasty things at Elder Noach."

"The passing group shouted all the louder in response to Shem's angry outbreak. "You have no right to stand there and scare our children like you have obviously scared your own child, with your phony tales of this 'flood' story! As for 'your' Master, if our safety from this silly flood story is important to Him, then He can come and tell us, Himself!"

"Your Master is a bigger liar than you are, Elder Noach!. We don't even believe he exists! Where is this 'Creator,' Who will destroy us with a 'rain' that has never been seen upon Earth?!! Show us!""

"An old grandfather, who was secretly a member of the core group of the forbidden worship organization, walked up to Elder Noach, and yelled, "Now, old geezer, just look at that young, gullible child standing here, with you. You are ruining his future here in our society, with all your lies and building that stupid, silly ship! We have a children's protection enforcement section of our police force. We should have him taken away from you, and raised in freedom from your stupid religion! His life is too valuable to waste with your worship of this Creator, or Master, or whatever you call the silly deity you tell us is sending this impossible flood to destroy us!""

"That day was the first that Shem also wept bitter tears of remorse for those who refused to turn away from their heathen idols, and seek the Master of Truth, to be saved from the sure destruction Master had told his father about. In his father's eyes, young Shem had become a full-grown man, that day."

"Shortly after this sad day, Shem had passed his tenth birthday, and Ham joined their little family.

""Master has given my poor husband even greater sorrow, this day," Shem's mother wept, silently, knowing in her heart with a mother's intuition, her son's future."
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"When Ham opened his eyes for the first time in the world, his brother was guiding Mr. Starfire, their father's great black stallion and the team of horses he led, bring supplies to the building site. He was aware his father was helping mother birth their second child, but he did not know his mother's sorrow with the birth. "Master, how much more sorrow will visit my poor, dear husband? How much more derision and unjust accusations must my beloved endure?" Mrs. Noach's heart was very heavy that day."

"Following Ham's birth, Shem and Noach the Elder faithfully labored on the ship, and preached words of deliverance and warning about the impending destruction. To no avail."

"For twenty more years, this daily practice occupied the Elder, and his young assistant. The day Japheth, the third son, was birthed, Shem was once again guiding Mr. Starfire and the team back from excavating ore at the metals' deposit site. When Japheth joined their family that day, Mother Noach rejoiced!, "You have given my husband another Believer!"

"At first, after he was old enough to go out and play, Japheth followed after Ham, who never was interested in their father's work, or held any interest in his burden for the arrogant people of Mocking Song City. Ham was drawn by the neighbors' interest in observing feast days held by the city's leaders. These gala events centered around worship of many idols, in defiance of Creator, so Noach the Elder had forbidden his sons' attendance."

"With Shem's devotion to the work and preaching of his father, Japheth, as a young child, was left with either Ham, or his mother. Ham was just fifteen years when Japheth decided to go with their father, instead of following Ham's love of the forbidden worship events. That left Ham with much more freedom and unaccountability for his association with those who defied Master, and he was drawn deeply into the occult world where its inner-circles held their most secret practices."

"As time matured Japheth, his play with Ham was replaced with walks between his beloved Shem, and the father he almost worshipped, he had grown to love him so."


"Not all people were unkind toward Noach, although no one else would surrender their hard, irreconcilable hearts to Master. One of these owned a lumber mill not far from the Noach residence, and the sawyer and his sons milled the logs to the sizes Noach specified, exactly as Master's plan called for. At another neighbor, who smelted the ores Shem and Noach brought into the strong, resilient metal plates and rivets called for, it was Shem's delight to watch the process, when his father allowed him to stay and watch."
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Mr. Owl," Miss Riding Wolffe asked, "What does "occult" mean? I never heard that word before."

"My child, it is a good thing you have never heard it before. In fact, it kinda slipped out before I could use another way to say it. Your parents do not use it, because it is the dark secrets of those who defy Master that it refers to. Actually, the word itself simply means darkness, and to be hidden from others. Those who practice pagan religions hold their innermost worship for Lucifer, the Fallen Angel, in these secret places, and secret gatherings. But, all also pretend to worship Creator, and many have false, Believer-appearing worship places and services, too. Organized religions all have these secret, occult worship inner circles, where the core members plan and control the false, but open fake worship of Creator, in great public ceremony, and even have community organizations to help others, such as with health, assistance for poor people, and other things to make it appear they are benevolent and a good cause."

"Mr. Wolffe, I apologize for my slip," Mr. Owl, said. "Do you have any comment you want to share?"

"No, not at this time. You handled your slip well, and sooner or later my sweet child would need to learn this. Mary, for that was her real name, how do you feel about what Mr. Owl said?"

"In Moshe's record, in "The Book of Beginnings," chapter 6, Master's word tells us that all flesh upon Earth had become evil. As for the details of what their evil was, all we can do is look at the evil around us now, and realize that Master had Disciple Matthew record His words in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24 that, "As it was in the time of Noach, so shall the days just before the Final Day of Man's rule be, and evil will dwell upon Earth then, my dear little friend"
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"Do you remember Slytalker, Mr. Eiderdowne, Fallen Angel Lucifer, and the many creatures in the Great Garden who had formed secret groups in the dense, dark jungle to worship Lucifer, instead of Master?"
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"Yes," replied Miss Riding Wolffe, "that part of the story gives me a creepy feeling!"

"Master allowed these creatures to continue their secret worship of Lucifer, and to entice every other creature upon Earth to join them, Man and animal, except for Noach, who was determined to love, obey, and worship Master, even if he would lose his life for resisting these evil worshippers' demands he turn away from Creator."

"It all sounds spooky, and I'm glad to not know much about it!," the little wolf pup replied. "May I talk with you about it later, father?"

"Of course!" Now, let's listen to Grandpa Owl's story."

"Mr. Owl just stood silently, shifting his weight to one taloned claw, then the other, his thoughts focused in the far past, as the creatures in his grandfather's passed before the window of his mind. "What a terrible waste! If only they had turned away from the Deceiving Lucifer, all the events in this tragedy would have not taken place!" Another window of his mind opened, and he saw a future time when the same evil would again trap nearly all Earth Life with its evil, and man and animal would suffer huge loss of life and health. "What a terrible shame it would be! And, all so unnecessary because all it took to escape the sure destruction of Life would be a simple turning to Master, to obey His gentle call." His feathers visibly rustled as these emotional pictures flew through his thoughts.

"Alrighty, then!," Mr. Owl said, in a relieved tone."

"For another 90 years, Elder Noach, with sons Shem and Japheth, and when he was unable to get away to the forbidden events, Ham, labored with the building of the ship standing beside the road to Mocking Song City."

"On days that Ham worked, the mocking was considerably less, and Noach the Elder noted it with a strong pain. He knew his son's predisposition with the forbidden worship, and yet the gentle, loving father withheld his intervention, acknowledging Master's Will for Ham's life. However much it pained the human father, he understood that Master experienced so much more heartache for Ham than Noach would dare imagine."



"At the Last Day," interrupted Miss Riding Wolffe, in her sweet little wolf-pup voice, "I remember my Grandpa saying that Master called a pair of each kind of breathing animal to come to Noach's ship. Why didn't he save all the animals?"
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"Thank you, Miss Wolffe. I really like your enthusiasm for the story! Your question is a bit sooner than where I am, but it is a good question we can think about as the story continues to that place."

"Master had Moshe' record the answer in his Genesis - "Book of Beginning," remember? - in chapter six. Master looked upon Earth, and all flesh, man and animal was worshipping and practicing evil, except for Noach the Elder. This means that the rest of flesh creatures were either practicing evil worship ceremonies, or they were not part of Creator's Believers. Master does not say what the sons of Noach the Elder were, either Believers or not, but Moshe' did tell us that only Ham had evil in his heart toward Creator, for his family  . . . an, well, that's getting ahead, and I don't want to spoil the story!"

"All we know for certain is that Master is fair to every living creature, and waits to the very last possible moment to do anything harmful to any, in hope that some may be kept form destruction. However, all humans and animals at that time, except for Noach the Elder, were doing evil. Grandpa's story may  well be true, but Moshe' 's record is Master's Living Word, and we can always trust it, even above my grandpa's story!"

"Right on!," exclaimed Mr. Neigh!, He'd been dozing off at times, as he was still very, very tired from the long trek from Grandma's, earlier. He'd heard Miss Wolffe's question, and was about to interrupt with almost the same thoughts as Mr. Owl gave her. "My grandfather always told us young'uns that this story was given by all grandpas in our family, right from the ship of Noach, but that it is Master's record we must trust the most. Our creature stories can become distorted from the original, but Master's Living Word is kept by His appointed scribes, and it has never had a single alteration from the record Moshe' wrote down!"

Mr. Owl had been standing in one place for all this part of the story, and was feeling drowsy. As Mr. Neigh! talked, the sleepy owl almost fell over! He caught himself in time, and shifted from one foot to the other, still in a half-sleep.

The old, wise owl's mind was filled with thoughts of the complete destruction of all living, breathing creatures upon Earth, long ago, "How terrible it had been!" his thoughts spoke in his near-sleep state. Then, his mind's picture turned to a coming destruction of nearly the same total devastation of Earth's entire creation. So many would then perish, not from just flesh life, but from the spiritual life, as well.

"You go to sleep, Mr. Owl?" Mr. Neigh!'s voice caught the elderly owl's attention.

"Yeah! He's nodding his head and his eyes are shut!," Mr. Blue Jay's screechy voice made everyone laugh. "Really though, I wonder if Mr. Owl is thinking about why Master had to end nearly all flesh life from Earth, and why he will have to it again, one day." And no one laughed.

As she watched Mr. Owl in this quiet moment, Miss Wolffe thought, "How kind and gentle Mr. Owl is!" She listened to Mr. Neigh!'s advice as she thought this.
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"Oh! I didn't mean to startle you," Mr. Neigh! said with a grin.

"And you didn't, Mr. Neigh!. Mr. Jay, you are right, I was picturing in my mind the awful destruction that Master had to permit with the Great Flood. How it felt to have refused Noach the Elder's many years of preaching a message of salvation to those who perished, and I'm certain, wanted so very much to have yet another chance to believe in Master. How awful!"

"Now, let's continue."

"I just mentioned Mr. Eiderdowne and Mr. Slytalker, from in the Great Garden. They and all the animal creatures had forsaken Master, and were worshipping and obeying Fallen Angel Lucifer. Lucifer never told them the plan to overrun Master's Creation, and destroy Master, so they just believed Lucifer's lie that they would become like Master, and equal to Him and then be able to live without His authority over them. Had they known that evil Lucifer would eventually destroy them, too, they would have had a very, very different regard for Lucifer. But, as evil is, evil deceives, and Lucifer is as evil as evil gets."

"Before the Great Flood, Master allowed all creatures to live very long, full lives in the safe protection of Earth's biosphere, under the metallic canopy that blocked huge ice asteroids from plunging into Earth, and from the enormous amount of water that was sealed below the surface of Earth. All creatures grew in very large sizes compared to today, and few died from any disease, as there was little, if any disease. So, flesh-life had it very, very good, and easy!"

"So," he continued, "with such wide dishonor to His loving protection, Master was left with just Noach the Elder who obeyed Master. Our Owl family tradition says that Master called particular animals to Noach's Ark, but, as with Ham, who betrayed His loving act to save him with his father, Noach, some animals Master called joined Ham and the rebellion. But, I am getting ahead of the events in Grandpa's story."

"Also, there is one group of animals Master had kept pure. These were animals he had given to Man as two very important reminders of how Man had once been able to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, and have eternal life, free of disease, and mal-nutrition. Man's digestion system does not provide all vital nutrients his body requires, so the Tree of Life gave him these. But, when Man was led outside the Great Garden his body still required these nutrients in order to survive. These, master called, "Clean" animals."

"The second reminder this animal group preserved was the memory of Ish' and Ishah's former pure state in the Great Garden. After their disobedience, Master placed the bloody lamb skins on each human, to wear as a sign of their disobedience. It had taken the life of two innocent lambs to make those remembrance signs, and Master had instructed Ish to take a certain number of innocent lambs and offer them to Master in remembrance of his and Ishah's wrong choice to eat the forbidden fruit."

"For the Ark, Master called 7 pairs of each kind of these clean animals, and he commissioned them to be sacrifices of gratitude by the humans, after Master brought them safely through the Great Flood to dry, habitable land. These animals would also serve as man's source of vital nutrients after the flood."
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"Oh! My!" exclaimed Miss Wolffe. "Are we going to be some human's supper?" She shuddered with the thought.

"No, each of us here are considered as "unclean" animals," Mr. Owl said. "That does not mean we are "dirty," creatures, but it does mean that Master has not set any of us aside as "clean" human food! You can rest, now, Miss Wolffe!"

"Well, I wouldn't want to ever eat any of you, you're my friends!." exclaimed Cynthia Joy! "How disgusting!"

"Thank you!," Mr. Owl said. "But, there is another important message Master gives us in this historical account. Those 'clean' creatures were like He, Himself, would someday become, a life-blood sacrifice for His beloved Human Family. He, just as they, but actually of His Own will, would become a sacrifice that any and all humans would have a way to reconcile to Creator, Who is Master, remember, and He would, just like these innocent animals, die a most horrible death, and give His living blood, only His would be truly perfect, evil-free, human blood. In His knowledge of the events of Time, His human-blood would fall upon the ground from His body, just as the blood of flesh creatures does when they are killed, but His blood would not be wasted on the ground as dung."

"Hidden in a chamber underneath the Cross He gave His life on, another, greater Ark of Reconciliation had lain in safety from Lucifer's worshipers who had demanded His death. Centuries before, their ancestors burned Y'rushalom and the Great Temple to the ground, desperately attempting to destroy both this great ark, and His Living Word kept in its exact, original form by the temple scribes."

"He knew that a day would arrive when He would give His servant, Moshe', ten Commandments of Life, and He would instruct Moshe' on building that Wonderful Ark of Reconciliation, where on its top would be a symbol of His Heavenly Throne. Each year, from when Moshe' craftsmen assembled this Wonderful Ark, to the year before it was carried away from the Great Temple in Y'rushalom and hidden in the chamber beneath where He would give His Living Blood, blood from an innocent clean and specially-dedicated bull would be placed upon this throne symbol, named "Mercy Seat." That innocent blood represented cleansing from all the disobedience of His People for that year."

"The sacrificial blood of innocent animals used for this ceremony actually was insufficient to cleanse the people's disobedience, but it was like a placeholder, one that would hold the place of His own, truly innocent blood, blood that Death can never consume. "Living Blood."

"His Plan of Creation called for this Wonderful Ark to be placed under the spot where the cross He gave His life, so that as a Lucifer-worshiping soldier thrust a long spear into His heart, His Clean blood would flow down through a crack in the stone that opened at the moment His spirit left this body, and onto the Mercy Seat. The Mercy Seat was the only place He ever accepted cleansing blood for His People, who were led from captivity in Egypt by Moshe', but blood of bulls on it was merely a symbol of the Living Blood He requires to cleanse disobedience."

Cynthia Joy's hand went up, just over her head. "Yes, Cynthia." Mr. Owl's eyes were soft, and sad.

"Why does Master require blood of innocent creatures to cleanse human disobedience? It seems to me that it is a terrible injustice to kill an innocent creature just so the disobedience of humans can be cleaned up!"

"My! Cynthia, you've said the one thing I believe all humans should be asking themselves every single day! "Why does an innocent creature need to be killed for all the evil things I will think, speak, and do this day!"

"Yes, Cynthia, and you other dear human friends with us, taking life away from innocent animals is very unjust. In fact, that is the whole message Master tried to tell Ish and Ishah by placing the skins taken from innocent lambs upon them. They had committed a terrible act of disobedience, and it actually was a crime that requires Death of their person. But, humans disobey Master so much, that if they all would die from their acts of disobedience, then there would simply be no humans left!"

"So, Master keeps humans alive by substituting innocent animals for their death sentence. But, animal blood still isn't enough to pay the great price of disobedience, so His own blood had to be placed on the Mercy Seat that covered the Wonderful Ark of Safe Passage, that Moshe' had built."

"Oh! How awful!," cried Miss Riding Wolffe. "Why!?? The 'clean' animals don't want to die, do they? And, Master didn't want them to die either, did He?"

"Of course not, Miss Riding Wolffe! But, Master made Creation with exact precision. Obedience and its opposite, disobedience, can be compared to two kinds of mass, or weights. Good and Evil are names that can easily be applied to each of these terms. He did not tell us the formula for how evil damages good, but we see how good is affected when evil acts, words, and thoughts occur."

"So, the science of repairing evil with good requires that something good of equal value be taken to replace the damaged good item, or part of an item, that evil harmed. Since humans disobey Master so much, soon all humanity would be dead, if humans paid for each evil they committed! Animals, therefore, are, or were, used as innocent placeholders of this payment for disobedience."

"Because Master did not tell us exactly why evil causes death and this terrible price to repair evil, we find that our only way to accept this system of repairing the damage for evil is to trust in Master. Faith in His Living Word comes by hearing it, and seeing how good it relates to everything we compare it to as we carefully examine every detail in it that we can. When we can find no fault with Master's Living Word, then we know that we can trust His Living Word to show us how to live, and how to know what disobedience is. His Living Word is truly Living!"


"Now; because Ish disobeyed Master, his evil way is passed to his children, who watch and follow his example. Every generation of Humankind, after Ish, follows his example, dear little wolf-pup."

"To answer your question, no, neither innocent animals, nor Master, Himself, want to die simply because Man disobeys Master, and acts with evil in his heart. But, Master does show us that when humans disobey, it costs a great price. So, to have a pure heart is better than to have an evil heart. Humans have the ability to live like Him, with a good, pure heart, which they can love more than they love life."

"There's another thing Master shows us with these 'clean' animals. It's trust in His command, for the Good He promises with every command Does anyone here know the story of Master sending His Disciples on a tiny fishing boat, floating on a very stormy Sea of Galilee, where He told them to meet Him on the other side?"
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"Yes, Cynthia Joy?"

"Well, maybe it's not the same story, but there was once when Master sent the 12 men in a boat to the other side of that lake in Israel, and a terrible storm came up, and they feared they would drown, but Master came walking across the heavy waves, and ordered the storm to stop."

"You got it! Cindy Joy, what did Master tell those Disciples 'before' they got into that little boat?"

"Well, I think he told them He would meet them on the other side?"

"Exactly! Did those men have any reason to fear drowning? That's the lesson we are given with the clean animals that were on the Great Ship! Master said, "These are for a sacrifice of gratitude 'when' you safely reach the dry land, 'after' the flood!"

Mr. Owl swiveled his head and looked each of his audience in the eye, except for little Eriel, who was fast asleep!

"Master did not say to Noach, "IF" you reach the dry land!"

"Ok. Just one more lesson from these dear animals!

"With their dying, these animals provided a living sacrifice for Humans to be reconciled, first to each other, after disagreements separated them, and with Master, after willing humans sacrificed an innocent animal they had either bought, or had raised with their own hard labor and cost. The entire message of this innocent animal dying a horrible death is all about reconciliation. We allow creature, false-hearted counselors to advise us to break away from someone who we feel hurt by, and permanently leave them. But, that is opposite Master's call to reconcile, and forgive those who cause us harm."

"It is a great lie to believe as these false counselors tell us, that we can be free from obligation to reconcile, because it simply goes against everything that Master teaches us, shows us, and actually tells us we must do, to be with Him after we leave this life! How sad that many will believe the lies of separation from loved ones, only to find that Creator cannot allow them to live with Him after this life is finished!"

"Now, is this concept of reconciliation, and its vital importance to our relationship with Master becoming a bit more clear?"

"Mr. Owl, if I sacrifice my life as a gift to Master, so it's like He can use me anyway He wants, do you think He will accept me as worthy of being with Him after my life here is finished?" Miss Wolffe had a quiet, peaceful look."

"Dear Miss Wolffe. That is precisely what Master wants from all of us! If we animals, and your humans, all had this same selfless attitude of giving Master our entire being, for all the life we are given by Him, then His message of reconciliation has been accepted by us! Very good!, Miss Riding Wolffe!"

"For any who give up their right to life and give it to master, their living becomes a living sacrifice. They are very dead to their own desires, but replace those desires with Master's desires. They do not go around asking other creatures to guide them, but directly to Master they ask His daily guidance for all that he leads them to meet, and experience for that day. It's having the best friend, and the most rewarding life possible!"

By now, little Eriel had awakened. 'It's a living sacrifice!: she exclaimed.

"Perfect, Eriel. Hope you are enjoying the story?"

"When I can stay awake!," she blushed.

"Well, we hope you will hear this story many times in your life, Eriel," Mr. Owl said. "We all went to sleep, I'm sure, when we listened to it at your age!" he smiled, remembering the first time he heard it, sitting on a limb, next to his grandfather.
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"Mr. Owl," Cynthia asked, "are we created to be a living sacrifice?"

"Yes, we are, but only when we first want to be, and ask Master for his guidance to show us how He wants us to live," dear friend. "It's harder to be a living sacrifice, than to die as one, because each day we must open our hearts to Master, and he sends us to those who will harm us, and hurt us, and even kill us, because that's how He brings His honest reconciliation between us and others, and between Himself and us. Remember, everything Master does is focused on reconciliation. Not even living a holy life interests Master, so long as there is anyone we refuse to seek to be reconciled with. It's 'that' important to master."

"Shall I continue the story?"


All were silent.
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"This part of Grandpa's story is difficult to understand. If Master wanted to save human and animal life on Earth, and yet those he would save were not perfectly obedient, why did He save anyone? Would not evil continue 'after' the Great Flood, if those whom He saved from the flood were not perfect? In fact, exactly this happened. But, Master knew before He made Creation these events would take place, and evil would continue after the Flood. He also knew that when His love enters the places where evil exists, His love clearly shines far brighter than the silly glitter of evil!"

"Humans, and the animals in Grandpa's story, had many evil emotions. Not only disobedience, but pride of self, hatred, greed and envy, self-focused esteem, and many other evil emotions that were meant to put Master down, and raise humans above Master," Mr. Owl continued.

"Now, the rest of Grandpa's story . . ."




Master's Plan for Life Aboard the Great Ship
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"Living, breathing creatures need clean, fresh air, lots of healthy, well-kept food and feed, and tons of clear, sweet water, and, clean quarters to live in. Living aboard the Great Ship, for a year and ten days, these items of vital worth to healthy human and animal life posed engineering challenges that had never once entered Noach the Elder's mind, because they just were not needed in the perfect Earth he lived in."

"Master's ship plan included these four, vital compartments!," Mr. Owl said a bit louder, "Let's learn a little about how a ship is constructed, and names for its sections. Shall we?"

"I know the name of the front!," Melissa Joy said with excitement. "It's the "Bow!"

""Yes, you do! That's a good place to start, Melissa! Thanks!"

"When a ship ties up to a dock its Left side is by the dock. Anybody, what is this side called?"

"Well," Mr. Neigh! said, " since it is also in a port, I'd say it is called the "Port" side."

"Perfect!"

"The Right side is a bit harder. It doesn't have anything that it ties up to, but it does have a better relationship with another part of it environment. Anyone, what is the Right side of a ship called?"

Several voices mingled as the little group discussed it. "Is it the 'seaside'," asked Eriel.

"No, but that's the general idea."

After a moment, Cynthia tried, "How about 'shipping side.' Because other ships go by on that side?"

"Hmm . . I'd never thought about that," Mr. Owl said. "But, no, it has another name.

""OK, I'll just say it; It's the 'Starboard," since two things happen on this side, First, it faces the open seas, or stars, and then, when another ship docks with it, it docks, or boards, on this side, and crews and cargo pass over this side, between it, and the other ship."

"Now, the back of a ship. Anyone?"

""I think it's called "After I  pass you, that's all you see of me!," Eriel smiled.

"Oh! Yes, I guess it could be called that!," Mr. Owl laughed. "It's just one word, though."

"Cynthia Joy?"

"It's the 'tiller. That's where the steering part is, a rudder, and the tiller, used to move the rudder, on the deck."

"You're all right! Actually, just to confuse everyone, it has several names; "Aft, and Back are two, and even a certain body part! Anyone care to guess that name?"

"My papa says that's my 'caboose'!," Eriel laughed.

Looking at her gentle father, Miss Wolffe said, "Mine says it's my 'Fanny'!"

"It's my hinny!," Cynthia laughed, too. "So, what is it called, that's like a body part?"
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"Stern!"

"What's that?"

The 'butt' end!"

"But . .?"

"No buts about it, it's the Stern!"

"What a weird name for a ship part!," Eriel exclaimed.

"Alright! Now, where do you think the Portside Provision Hold is located on this ship?." Asked Mr. Owl. Eriel, your hand is raised . . ."

"On the left side, in the back," Melissa called out.

"Right!"

"And, the one in the Starboard Bow?"

"On the Right side. And, oh! toward the front!," Melissa said.

"Excellent! Now, we need some more directions so we can find our way around on this ship. Master had Noach build four decks in it."

"Four? The Book of Beginnings says three?," said Miss Riding Wolffe. "How come 'four'?"
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"Let's start where Master counted from. First, the deck just above the keel, that part that runs along the very bottom of a ship, down the center; then, the first deck, so-called since it is designed to hold cargo, and two more decks above that. Four floors in all. We shall see why the keel-level was also a kind of deck, as the story unfolds. Matter of fact, it holds the key to what happened on the long voyage."

"Above all, the roof was also a type of 'deck,' since it safely carried all the heavy rains and massive, high waves safely off of the ship. You might call it the 'Key' deck, for if it had failed, the tossing ship would have sunk in just minutes!

"The top deck had some very important functions, as well! The ship hull had to be a very solid, tough material, and Noach had no need to use transparent material, as the Earth was a perfect climate, and open windows were all anyone had ever had in any building, in that time. To have vital light down inside the very dark, cave-like interior of the ship, Noach followed Master's plan and built a light tunnel that rose above the top deck high enough to have an open window, covered by a low over-hanging roof. It let both a small amount of light inside the ship, on each deck, except the keel deck, and fresh air. It also ventilated all decks, including the keel deck."

"Did it have a sail?," Eriel asked.

"No."

"Then, how did it 'go'?" Her face was one big question mark.

"By Master's wind, the wild water currents gushing over Earth, far below, and directed by His exact Plan!," Mr. Owl answered.

"How was it steered?," Miss Wolffe asked.

"Well, that's interesting! Master had Noach cut great, long, anchor stones, tied at their top, with a rope, to the hull. These can be seen, today, lying a straight line where each hit the surface of Earth, dragging and slowing the ship, as it approached the mountain where it stuck in the soft soil, and stayed till the land appeared, and everyone could leave. In fact, the holes at the top of these anchor stones were so well designed, that at the moment they stuck earth, the small eye of the rope hole broke away, allowing the ship to continue, and not founder too far out in deep water to beach on land!"

"These anchor stones also maintained the ship's stability in the wild winds, and the very fast, dangerous water currents. The winds may have reached speeds above any known storm in our time, and could have easily capsized the ship! Also, the torrential rain and gushing ground waters may have had speeds faster than any flooding river, or broken dam flood we've ever heard about. Earth rotates at 1000 miles per hour, and the deluge pouring down from above was traveling at hundreds of miles per hour when it struck the surface. The massive metallic canopy was a shattered, sharp-edged gouging tool that tore into Earth with millions of shards, and the ship had to withstand its heavy blows."

"Metallic Helium is lighter than water, so it likely floated on the raging seas, as it burst into boiling froth, melting at the far higher temperature in the seas, than its near absolute zero place above Earth. Watch a large chunk of dry ice boil on a deep pool of water!"

"So, these anchor stones provided a system of both steering the ship through the raging turmoil, and safely landing as it landed where Creator had planned its landing to be, on the gentle slope of the Ararat Mountains. Pretty awesome!," Mr. owl said.

"We can count on Master keeping us safe through any storm!," Cynthia said, her eyes beaming. "I know, because my family has been through some very tough ones."

"Us, too," Melissa said. "I'm happy Master keeps us safe."

"Those anchor stones are kinda like Master said about Himself," Cynthia said. "He's the corner stone that keeps the builders' work straight!"

"Sure is!, Cynthia. Do you know what day of the year those great stones guided the ship to its safe landing?"

"No."

It was the same day Master gave His flesh life as a living sacrifice, on the cross!"

"Really?! He really is some planner!"

"The best!"

"We'll learn a little more about the stones after a bit."




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"Well, OK, we understand about the four decks, the four provision holds, the front, or bow, the back, or stern, the port and starboard sides, and the tiller, or steering part, which in this case, was left for Master to control. Melissa, how do we go from one deck to another, on this ship?

"Uhmm . .  Oh! I know! a ladder! But . . . that won't work; How could a giraffe climb a ladder! I don't know."

"How about a ramp?! One that goes from top to the keel deck, but has doors at each deck to seal each off from the others?! We will see how important this feature is, later. These doors lock from the ramp-side, as well. Another important thing to note."

With these ramps, the giraffe family could easily climb to their quarters from the outside access ramp, where all creatures entered the ship. Plus, when Noach and his sons had Mr. Starr and his mate pull wagon loads of provisions aboard the ark, these ramps made their job much easier."

"Now. Cindy Joy, can you tell us what was placed into each provision hold?"

"What? Oh! Ummm. Well, some animals needed hay and grain. Some needed fruits, and others, nuts. I suppose some liked my favorite fruit, bananas! But, they wouldn't keep . . . How long did you say?"

"A year and ten days, but that was only inside the ship! After they went out, there was still no food, and they had to start a garden and wait a long time for it to grow enough to keep all creatures alive! We really don't know just how long these provisions had to last, before there was food from the new part of earth they landed on!"

"Wow! That's a long, lonnnggg time! That's a lot of food! What about clean water to drink? And, what about cleaning up after all those creatures went to the potty! Yuk! What a stinky mess!"

"Master's Ship Plan used the ramp for keeping His Great Ship clean, and well lit, with plenty of fresh air, food, and everyone's' potty-do given the shooby-do-do!"

"But, you're right, Cynthia. all those foods, plus many more. How they were made to last the whole time, we don't know. But, remember how Master kept Jonah alive in a great fish? And, He gave His people fresh food that rotted each night if it was not gathered that day, except for His Shabbat Day of Completion and Rest, and even that rotted tote night after the Shabbat!? And, for those forty years, the clothes they wore lasted the entire time, without any wear! Think Master might have kept their fruits and water and hay and all other supplies fresh and ready to serve? Maybe even, He replenished the food supplies, like when He gave the widow lady enough oil to fill all the empty oil flasks she, and her neighbors could find, with  just a few drops left in the one she filled all them with!"
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"Just think about going a whole year without a good banana, if you're a monkey, or Cindy!," Mr. Owl grinned. at Miss Wolffe's friend.

"Master loves you too much to allow that to happen!"

"Well, that takes care of food, water, and shooby-do-do. What about fresh air and light? In fact, Master's provision for how these two vital elements got into, and he foul air got out, are important parts of grandpa's story. The ending would be much sadder than it is, if air and light could not have entered into every level of the ship. The signals to the  . . . Oops! I'm getting ahead of where we are in Grandpa's story!"
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"So, how do you think fresh air and light got all the way to the bottom deck, Eriel?"

"I don't know!"

"I do!" Melissa's voice was so much like Miss Riding Wolffe's, that Mr. Owl said, "Yes, Miss Riding Wolffe? What!? Oh! that wasn't you! Yes! Melissa!" he said, grinning.

"Air got down by the ramp. Light went down by a window in the side!"

"Well. Air went down something a little like a ramp. And light went in through something like a window! But, a window in the side would allow the raging waves to break into the ship, and sink it. Closing the large gates at each deck would also block air flow traveling on the ramps. Oh! I nearly forgot to include the ramp on the other side! Having ramps on both sides will play a most crucial part of grandpa's story!"

"Where these ramps met each deck, a main corridor crossed the ship, and a center corridor ran from bow to stern, along the sides of each deck, crossing this main entrance corridor."

"Did I miss anything? Hmm . ."Yes! I didn't finish about the air and light system. it was a narrow, vertical space, descending from just under a heavy roof above the top, roof deck, where the design of the ship prevented wild waves from entering the opening, but air and a dim light could enter. Also, Noach could stand on a platform here, and observe just a tiny part of the world around the ship. This tiny port to the outside will play a most-important part of the coming story."
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"This narrow, slot-like vent had three sections, separated by two walls. The section in the center carried the warm, moist air from the ship's animal berths up to the low overhang vent at the top, just under the top roof. As it rose up the narrow center slot, it pulled cool, fresh air down from the vents that opened to the outside, on either side, just below it. These two vent shafts with the fresh air going down to the decks had white-painted interior surfaces, and the light reflected down it, going to the deck just above the keel deck. A dim light all over the ship was enough to see, for those who tended to the animals.

After the ferocious storm abated, there were some sunny days, and the light entering this system was quite bright in the lower decks. On the gloomy weather days, however, the dim light barely gave enough vision to tend to the passengers. On one of these dark days, the tragedy struck. But, that's a part yet to come."

"First, we've got to go meet Noach and his sons, as they prepare to load and start the perilous voyage. The first ship voyage ever upon Planet Earth!"

"My friends, did you know that Noach's Ark was found, and various parts of it examined and certified as wood, metal, along with animal dung from its decks? Large, iron-bearing plates and rivets joining heavy, laminated wooden beams and joists, ribs and the steel-like hull of this ship show the detail of Noach the Elder and his sons skilled craftsmanship. The steel-like hull they made from materials still unknown, ring like a bell when struck with a steel hammer. You could call it "super Cement"! The ship lies much like it landed, although some mud slides have carried it down from its initial landing spot near the top of a mountain in the Ararat Mountains of Turkey. Nearby, there are ancient houses built with primitive, uncut stones, in several small, tightly-knit villages. The native peoples living near this area still call it Mesha, now called Naxuan, in Turkey."
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"It is located at about 6000 feet from sea level, and, it's in a farmer's field!"

"Grandpa also learned about the anchor stones, or weights, from the descendants of the village people whose families have lived near the site of the Great Ship's landing, since Noach's sons and daughters lived there! Those anchor stones are still in a row below the landing place, in a row that points to where the ship landed, not far from where it now rests. Each stone weighs up to 12 tons!

"What about Noach? What did he do when it was time to go into the Great Ship?," Miss Riding Wolffe asked. "Did those terrible people in Mocking Song City let him alone?"

"Not even!," exclaimed Mr. Owl. "In fact, they tried to block the animals, and the wagons bringing supplies! It was awful! They refused to stop mocking and interfering with Noach's tired family! But they were working secretly with his son . . . Oops! I'm getting ahead of where I should be!
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"You people have watched my family labor on this great ship for 120 years! Do you still not see??! How foolish and stubborn your blind hearts, and deaf brains, and soon dead lips are! Who will listen? Who will be saved from the Great Flood that is to start in a few days? Listen, won't anyone? Please!

"Shem's pleadings went out on the deaf ears of those who passed to and fro, from Mocking Song City. Today was the Final Day for their preaching. Like Noach, Shem's heart was heavy, but he did know, and understand, that Master had said it was their family that would ultimately be on the ship, so he simply said, "Master, I know You are wanting for all to be saved, but also, I understand You know there will be none besides our family. However, I grieve for my aunts, uncles, and cousins, who will not see the light of day after this time of destruction. I will miss each one so much!"

"Shem, himself, was now in his 98th year. His whole life had been under the intense influence of his father's huge project, and he had become of one mind with his father, both in the joy of making the enormous ship, and in the grief of seeing his extended family, and their neighbors refuse to accept the long years of offering salvation from the now-soon disaster.

"It seemed to Shem, that rather than encourage the people to turn from their evil worship of Lucifer, and the Serpent priests, their efforts only made the people more determined to forsake Creator, and His Way of Living. On his failure to persuade even one to turn to Master, and be saved, Shem had spent many nights in deep sorrowing, and his wife had comforted him for long hours through nights when he simply could not sleep, for the agony that weighed his heart. They were married when he was 35, so now, even though still childless, they had grown together as a single person, they were so close to one another.

"Ham, and Japheth each had sweet wives. But something about Ham's pretty, strong-willed Sharrah caused Shem to feel strange around her. Ham was off with his many friends since he was just eight years. They had grown up together, so Noach had not considered them a problem for his middle son. If only Noach had been more nosy!
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"Finally, when Ham was 88, Noach had put him in charge of the finishing work inside the ship. It had been clear for thirty years that Ham's friends had no interest in obeying Master, although Ham always said, when his father asked him, that Master had given him the job of saving his friends. Perhaps Noach was afraid of what he'd learn, but for whatever reason, he just trusted his son's word.

"Japheth was also married. Like Shem before him, it just seemed Master had a special young lady who really 'heard' the message his brother and father preached so incessantly.
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""They're so sincere, how could I lose if I really did what they say? Anyway, if their story is wrong, it will just end one day. Then, I can go back to the fun my family now refuses to give up! What's to lose, especially if Noach is right?"
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"That had been Shem's wife's response to Noach's fervent preaching. She was the first to respond, but it still was after she fell in love with Shem. She loved him so much, she'd do anything to be with him!"

"Because of their choices to marry Shem and Japheth, the family of each woman had rejected both. It was a painful sacrifice each made to stay true to their love for their husbands, and they each missed having their own fathers' presence in their homes.

"Tamara, Shem's lovely wife, was deeply wounded with her father and mother's rejection, early in her marriage to Shem. Her desires from a small girl, were for her husband and children to be a close part of her mother and father's home, where she had felt so secure and appreciated. But, her love for Shem was like a boulder had fallen down between her parents and her, severing all her hopes and dreams for her own life."

"Ishah, yes, her parents had named Japheth's wife after the first Mother, was a sweet, gracious woman. Her love for Japheth seemed to know no bounds, and the bond between them grew almost overnight! Japheth did not share in his father's preaching, but his work on the ship brought much jeering, even from Ishah's family, especially her brothers. Her father seemed interested in Japheth, and they had many long evenings together, discussing the pros and cons of the ship work, and about Master's call to turn away from the worship of Lucifer. But, to Mr. Lightfoot, it just seemed all too heavy a matter to take seriously, especially since his associations with Luciferian worshippers made his business of marketing leather goods very lucrative, and he was not about to give that up!"

"Ham's Sharrah was an entirely different lady. Her family, while they refused to turn away from Lucifer worship, did not seem to oppose anything Noach and Shem preached! Instead, they frequently attended some of their more formal meetings, and even praised their words as being, "Informed," "Relevant," or even, "Inspired"! They were charter members of The Order of the Illumined," one of the openly homosexual advocating Luciferian groups, and they were rather prominent leaders in the organization. They also held Holy Spirit Baptism services, where new initiates could come and be prayed over, and then oil poured over them, as an act of becoming immersed in the group as a life-member.

"They even held open services, where inspired members could stand and speak in an unknown language, and several interpreters would then stand and give loud "interpretations" of the gibberish language. it was called 'Word of Knowledge" gifts, and they claimed that Creator was sending these gibberish messages. But, the "interpreters" never seemed able to interpret any single gibberish message in the same words as any other "interpreter," thus proving that the gibberish was a hoax."

"What the outsider was not allowed to know, all the inhuman, gibberish language messages really did, was to worship and honor Lucifer, all right under the nose of Noach, and his two faithful sons!"

"After Master came and gave His flesh person on the cross, His Apostle Paul carried on the strong teaching to stay completely away from this gibberish language, just as it had been forbidden for even mentioning in the land of Israel, and those who dared speak it, were to be instantly stoned to death! But, long before Israel, and up until the Great Flood, gibberish language was commonly used to worship and praise Lucifer!"

"Noach had seen all this, and even not knowing the details, he had placed Ham inside the ship, to do the finish work, just to keep him separated from his wife's family. A mistake Noach would pay a great price for, later."
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"Master had given faithful Noach a great task, and Noach knew instinctively that worrying about all the lesser things in his life would deter his attention to the assignment. As he had a specific time frame to finish the ship in, he had told Master that he would simply trust Master to take care of what he felt was too much to bear, and trust that all would work out right. Being human, Noach realized he was limited, and there would be mistakes, even very severe mistakes. But, he knew that Master could be trusted to faithfully finish any task He assigned, even though serious problems may happen. Noach saw a small part of Ham's nefarious associations, and suspected his son held secrets he should know about, but, with his being so tired, Noach simply prayed to Master, explaining his thoughts, then he turned his attention, and energy to preaching and building."

"The tasks involved in preparing the ship to carry the thousands of creatures, each specie in its own, unique environment, and with proper feed, fresh air and water, and clean, dry and warm quarters, made for a very busy Noach and his sons, during the final months' work. His position allowed delegating most tasks to his sons, and a his faithful horses, but the finishing details had been entrusted to Noach, and he spent long hours in those closing weeks to make certain each detail was finished properly. Life on Earth literally rested in his hands!"
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"The final week arrived. Master called a pair of each specie to the ship, and they arrived in a specific order, climbing up the entry ramp to the berthing assignment at the ship's entrance on the second deck. There, Ham was in charge of sending each pair to assigned quarters, and taking care of any smaller issues of misunderstanding, or questions about where to find supplies each pair would require during the voyage."

"Yes? Cynthia?"

"I'm getting tired of you not saying the name of the ship! Didn't Miss Wolffe want to know it, too? For me, the story would be easier to follow, with the name of the ship!"

"OK, I've been holding that thought for a time, now.  But, Master had kept its name hidden from the people, just to make sure the evil spirits would be unable to talk about it! I like to follow His method, since it gives me a sense of what Master thinks like!," Mr. Owl said. "It helps me to gain wisdom for my own life."
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"Oh! I hadn't thought about it that way," She replied. "I guess I'll just wait!"

"Good! Actually, that name is much like Master's true name. If the evil spirits had it, they could call on His true name, and be saved from their destruction. He says that all who call on His name will be saved, so He limits who knows His true name, I believe. He reveals names at the time each needs to be revealed. I hope that makes sense."

"In the top deck, birds and squirrels, and monkeys, and the many warm-blooded creatures who made their homes above ground in the giant trees that grew on the verdant landscape of pre-flood Earth, were shown their berths. Some, like the crows, had questions about how far from their berth they could fly. "We are so used to investigating all our neighbors, and all our wide territory, that if we have to be cooped up in a tiny space for 'that' long, we'd just die!," they told Ham. He had to tell them he would ask Noach later, how to address their problem!"

Since Sharrah, his wife was also tending to the boarding, he asked her to go to Noach with the question."

"Furry, and burrowing creatures were housed in assigned, specially-built quarters on the aft section of the top deck. Many, like the otter family, needed special attention to their unusual environment, and for them, it required a small pool of water in their tiny berth. When the pair saw what Ham had created for them, they were delighted!"

"Woolly Mammoths, Tigers and Lions, Great Apes, and the many species of Bovines were quartered on the second deck, in the bow section. The Giant Elephant pair and the Giraffe family, and the Great Bear families were quartered on the aft section of the first deck.

"The aft section of the second deck was outfitted for deer, antelope, and the goat families. Each had a warm, dry berth, with clean bedding and water in the two provision holds, one on either side, near the two access doors that opened to the ramp running from top to bottom of the ship."

"When he was able to break away from other tasks, Noach stood at the top of the entrance ramp, welcoming new arrivals."



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"Below him, nearly surrounding the ramp where its end rested on the ground, a taunting crowd from Mocking Song City had formed the first day Noach had stopped preaching, to gather in the arriving creatures. In just a little over one week Master was scheduled to close the large entry ramp, and seal it secure against any attempts to break in, by human or the coming deluge."

"On the ground, forming a safe approach path to the ramp, a double column of the Great Bear families stood, foreleg to foreleg, facing the gathered crowd of mocking humans. At the outermost end of one line of bears stood Mrs. King Lion. Her mate, Mr. King Lion, stood opposite her, also facing toward the crowd, but also half facing arriving animals, with words of welcome for each new arrival. Thank Creator for this arrangement, as it maintained order and safety for the arrival of those animals He was leading in to the Ship."

"That first day drew to a safe close, so Noach asked the bears and lions to assist likewise for each following day, till all were safely boarded. He and his sons had some last minute loading to do, and he did not like the idea of trying to maneuver through the jeering crowd with the horses and wagons they pulled. "We would be delighted to assist you Noach!," the lions and bears said almost together. "Master sent us first, saying he wanted to have every safety precaution possible. He also sent protective angels, to be ready for anything worse than taunting. Look closely in the trees over there, there, and over there. You can barely see their outlines, but believe us, if these humans get too far out of hand, they will wish they had kept their peace!"

"Noach was both relieved and encouraged. To him, having the burden all these past years of building and preaching, plus the issues with the daughter-in-laws' families, and with Ham's wife, had taken much of his strength to manage it all. He was very happy to think it would be over soon, and he could rest. Little did he know how precious the nearly one year rest would be, when a near disaster would require all he, and these faithful lion and bear defenders could stand, to hang onto the safe delivery of the entire ship!"
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"Onto the very bottom of the ship, in the bow section, all reptiles would find their places. The near freezing temperature would help maintain their lethal activities, and keep them healthy and alive, as well. Great crocodiles, Alligators, and others, such as the boas and large lizards were provided clean, dry quarters on the ships' bottom. They shared the space with large water tanks placed at this level to keep the ship's center of balance low, and the water supply cool. In the aft section of the large bottom deck was a large holding tank for the soiled bedding that was routinely cleaned from each passenger's quarters. Chutes from each deck above, with a simple weighted trap-like door at each deck to keep the stench sealed off, allowed easy daily cleaning chores for the attendant crew."

"However, as Ham was given charge of the final berthing arrangements, he was free to redesign a section of the bottom deck's reptile berthing quarters, and it access. Trouble was definitely brewing on the Great Ship."

"Noach was formed by Creator to be a careful, diligent human. His preaching and precise building of the ship showed this characteristic in all he did and said. But, he was not informed of all that went on, by those he trusted. His trust and innocent belief on Master to see that all went to plan let a sly, devising group slip through the fine screen of his careful attention to minute details. It seemed that someone was determined to ruin this plan of Masters for human life upon Earth, as that plan was ruined once before."

"Master's plan for a pure human presence upon Earth had been altered with Lucifer's disobedience, and now those who worshiped Lucifer were planning worse disaster for humans upon Earth! If they had their way, not a single human would have landed upon dry ground!"

"Please, Mr. Owl," Melissa broke into the narration, "But, didn't you tell us that they safely landed on dry land at the end of the voyage? It is starting to sound like a disaster interrupted the journey?"
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"Yes! I did say that! You find it in the Book of Beginnings, chapter 7, verse 11, where Noach's age is recorded, to the very day of the safe landing! The other part of the time equation is in chapter 8, verse 14. Master is careful to have His record writers give exact details, especially for those that only His Word preserves for us. However, for details we have little or no known evidence to support them, we still must trust His Living Word, since in the rest of it, all does check out true. Would He tell true things in one part, and lie in others?"

"Course not!" Cynthia exclaimed, with a small frown. "He wouldn't, but how do we know the story you're telling about these events is true? You weren't there!" she looked at old Mr. Owl, directly into his big, owly eyes. He blinked them back at her, first one yellow-tinted eye, then the other, like he was smiling."
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"Well, I . . . that is," He seemed to search for the right words. "Humpff! Cynthia, I agree with you, completely! But, how do you know the story my grandpa told is not true? I wasn't there, and neither were you or anyone here. Besides, my grandpa was known for his trustworthy honesty, and he was respected as a community judge, and one everyone could go to with problems, and he nearly always had sound words that guided many out of trouble. Why would I not trust my grandpa to tell this story with all his ability to make sure it was true? For me, I simply learned to trust what my grandpas said, including this story."

"Actually, Cynthia Joy, the question you asked is the only one that matters about this story. It has details about the ship Noach built and captained that Master's Living Word does not include. But, rather than toss grandpa's story away, because Moshe' did not record what it tells us about that time and events, let's look at the story in the light that Master did have Moshe' record, about how people in Noach's day, and after Ish and Ishah ate the forbidden fruit, despised Master, and His Truth. In that light, we can easily see how the things in this story reveal to us what our own time and the people around us, is and are like. We need to understand just how evil our time is, and Master even tells us this in the record He had Disciple Matthew write, in Matthew, chapter 24. We all should read and study Master's record, there. it says whole books about what this very day is really like, and grandpa's story actually opens Master's Living Record about our present day of the near End Time."

Mr. Owl looked tired. His long story telling was taking a toll on his old bones. "Cynthia Joy, if you only knew what your own father wants to tell you about this story, and how he deeply loves you, and desires that you carefully follow Master's Plan for you, and your living, I believe that you would gain a whole new perspective on trusting in Master's Living Record, and in the love your father has for you. Would you promise to think and pray about this? I know that you will be truly blessed beyond anything you've ever known, if you do this.! And, I do really appreciate that you brought this question up! It is so vital to understanding my grandpa's story, and to understanding all the evil now around us. This truly is Master's Own wisdom we are blessed to share!"

Cynthia thought about her own grandpa. She loved and trusted him. "Yes!," she said. "I think I can trust your grandpa's story, now! Thank you, Mr. Owl! it's fun, anyway!"

Mr. Owl continued; "Another problem Noach faced was making plans for each creature. Master had given good plans. But, have you ever had to make someone you've never met before, and really don't know what they like and don't like, comfortable? Noach delegated all the details he could to his family, like cleaning, feeding and caring for each creature, and keeping a good log book of how all went, so they could go back and examine the records, if anything needed a change in procedure."
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"Noach's long life upon Earth had given him much savvy for most of the creatures in his care, but there was one that he was completely unprepared to manage, nor was his family prepared, either. Every other creature despised it, and regarded it as a traitor, and it was very large, had a nasty attitude, and most other creatures had never seen on of its kind before."

"That's not Mr. Slytalker, is it?" Eriel guessed.
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Well, one more clue, Mr. Owl winked. "Perhaps the worst thing, this creature never bothered to care for his home - in fact, he really didn't have one - he never cleaned his messes - and he made many - and he cared little, or nothing about his family, if he ever even tried to locate them!"

"Hey! That's Mr. Eiderdowne!," Eriel exclaimed. I remember all that from the first part of your, I mean, your grandpa's story!"

"You guessed right that time!"

"Now, you can try guessing what Noach thought when, on the second day of that long, last week, Monday it was, Mr. Eiderdowne's great, great, great grandson, followed Master's orders to walk onto the ship, right up to Noach, welcoming arrivals. His awkward head, on a very long, curving neck, was at least a foot higher than Noach. Bending his neck so his two, weird, large eyes could blink directly in Noach's face, he stared for a long moment into Noach's bewildered eyes. Noach found he couldn't speak!"
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"This, umm, er, this one's too strange, er, I . . . "Noach was thinking, trying to gather his wits enough to address this grotesque creature with at least some intelligence. "It has feathers, but fly? Naw! Impossible! Those feet! Not even his faithful Horse, Mr. Starfire, had such big, ugly things! Did I say it has feathers? he heard himself mutter almost audibly. It's knees bent backward, an it was so huge that it seemed ready to keel over and fall to the floor at any moment! And feathers? There was so much body that it looked as if it body had simply given up trying to cover itself with them! Moreover, its eyes seemed just too evil, and it was obvious that it held no measure of respect for Noach. "Oh no! What will I say?! No! What will I DO!," Noach thought to himself.

"Now, from the burial coffin, or ossuary, that ancient tradition of the local inhabitants where the Great Ship landed, and its remains still remain, we can easily witness that Noach was a man of eight feet in stature, his wife the same height. It is common, in our time, for ostriches' heads to be 6, 7, or even more feet above their feet. So, we can reasonably deduce that this descendant of Mr. Eiderdowne was taller that Noach but a foot, or so. Moreover, we can see how ostriches behave, and easily imagine that that has been a trait for all their members, from Creation. In this ostrich's case. his fiery gaze into Noach's eyes was like a scorching blast from an over-heated oven! Noach felt burned crispy!

Due to Mr. Eiderdowne's part in seducing Ishah, Master had placed the ungainly beast on the far side of Earth, far away from Humankind. e wanted no chance for a second seduction! This bird was obviously well fed, and filled with scorn, as well. At well above 1000 pounds, it held a formidable pallor over all who stood so close to it, and it knew and used this feature to its advantage."
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"You, um, I mean," Noach attempted to speak. "Are you one whom Master sent to board this ship? I don't recall plans for you, er, I mean, well, let me check. Uhh, I, what are you called?"

"Well! Why don't 'YOU' just let me introduce myself, instead of sputtering and stammering! Aren't 'YOU' the one they call "Noach"?

"Ah, why, yes, I am!"
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"And, 'YOU' don't know who I am? What sorta human runs this ship, anyway?"

"Who are you?"

"Oh, 'that'! Well, I guess 'You' might be one of 'those' humans who never bothered to come visit the land of my ancestors, where all us ostriches have lived these hundreds of years, since 'you' humans got yourselves kicked outa the Great Garden! I can't believe you fell for that Serpent and his lies! What wimps 'you' humans have tuned out to be!"

"Well, er, we try - er, I mean, we have our problems! No! What I'm trying to say is we humans have made many mistakes. Just like 'all' creatures. We find that if we follow what we believe is the right way, and do not first listen to and obey Master, Who is the True Way of Living, that we fail, and we disobey Him! Don't you also find this to be true, with your kind of creature? - did you say, "Ostrich?"

"Well I am sure I don't know that! I make it a point to never waste my time thinking about 'what' might happen if I do this, or don't do that! Who cares?"

"Master cares. And other creatures. We don't live on this small planet alone, you know!"

"Well, maybe 'YOU' don't live by yourself! As for us Ostriches, 'we' live so far from you humans, and all other silly creatures like you, we just don't need, or care, to even live together! If we don't care, then why should 'you,' or anyone else care?"
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"Why?! Now, 'you're' kidding! What are 'you' doing here?, Mr. ah, Mr.?"

"I'm just "Mr. Ostrich," to you, human! And, 'what' I'm doing here is wasting my time with a silly-faced, weak-hearted 'human,' who's supposed to have a place ready on his fine ship, waiting for me!"

"Yes, I suppose you're right. No one has come, except those Master sent. But, Mr. Ostrich, where's your mate? Certainly you must care about her?"

"Hah! Mr. Noach, you're the one kidding now! What that ostrich does with herself, what she does with me, and what she does with our kids . . . who cares?! I DON'T!"

"Now! Mr. Noach! WHERE'S MY Place, you've got for me, on this dingy old wreck?! YOU DO HAVE ONE FOR ME, RIGHT?!!"

"Sure! I mean, Mr. Ostrich, I think I, er, I mean 'we' have a berth for you. Please come with me. I'll ask Ham, my son, to get you situated."

"I'd prefer speaking with his wife," the deceiving ostrich sneered. "I trust human females more than males."

"You do? I thought you said . . . oh, never mind. Perhaps you do, Ostrich, and that's fine with me. However, for now, you will need to talk with my son, Ham. He is the one who knows where everyone is berthed on this ship. Our number of passengers is well over 100,000 creatures! Some are very big, and some, as you, are somewhat smaller."

"Now! Come with me."



"Ostrich?" Look, father, It's all on this chart on the wall. But, here, with the feather creatures, there's no single creature anything like the one you brought in, over there, except for this creature that looks just like that one, but, it plainly shows a pair of them! See? When did you say it, er, he, comes from?"
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"I didn't, Ham."

"Sir? I need to ask where you are from? We're having a bit of a problem finding your quarters. Knowing where you came from will help."

"First, 'you' can't figure out who I am! Now, you don't know where I'm from! What does where I'm from have anything to do with where I am to stay on this leaky old tub?"

"Mr. Ostrich. We are committed to your comfort aboard Master's ship! If you'd not mind helping, we could serve you much better!"

"Now! 'You' listen to me! Master told me to come from where I live on the opposite side of the Earth, with my fellow ostriches, since long ago! It has taken me years to get here! Now, Mr. Noach, and 'you,' Mr. Ham Noach, why are you playing games with me?! My grandpa told us grandchildren ostriches how we can never trust human males! Not since your first ancestor, Ish! And, we have an enemy even worse than 'you' humans' too!"

"I bet you do!," Noach thought to himself. "It's yourselves!"

"Please now, Mr. Ostrich," he spoke to the conniving old, huge bird, "Perhaps if you'd only give us the place where you come from? I'm sure we'll have you situated comfortably very soon!"

"That's right! My father's very good at getting everyone taken care of, Mr. Ostrich. Don't you have any worry about that!"

"My father's very good at getting blah, blah, blah!! Well, just show me, and stop flapping your gums, humans!"

"Very well, Mr. Ostrich. We'll have you taken care of. Since you seem to not know where you're from, we don't have an idea what other creatures you're comfortable with. I hope our choice will please you."
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"You dirt-brained people!" Mr. Fyrewytch almost screamed. "Didn't I tell you? We Ostrich DO NOT associate with ANYONE! Don't you GET IT? "No-one! I want to be, ALONE!"

"Now! Just take me to a place on this Great Ship, er, why can't you give this old bark a real name? "Great Ship" My sass! What a foolish thing to call it! "someplace I can be ALONE!"

Noach and Ham started down the ramp to the first deck, just below the main entrance. Japheth met them at the first deck gateway.

"Oh! Japheth! I'm glad you're here! We've got a small problem with Mr. Ostrich, here," Noach said, pointing back to the great bird following a ways behind them, just coming around the corner at the deck landing. "Where's his berth?"
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"What, er, I mean, "Who's 'that'?! We never made plans for any creature that looks like that!, Japheth exclaimed, quietly. "Where are you going to put him?"
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"I thought you could help with that," His father said. "You know where the larger creatures' quarters are better than the rest of us. Can I leave it up to you to get him settled?"

"Sure! There's a great spot near the feed and provision rooms toward the bow, on portside. I'll make a very nice berth for them! You 'are' here with your mate, Mr. Ostrich?"

"Wife? You humans! If not for this coming flood, I'd have nothing to do with a one of you! Wife! Indeed!"

"No! We ostrich males have a most undesirable duty to make our females eggs fertile. But, that's all! Let the females and the chicks fend for themselves! Perhaps Master sent a female, how would I know! I don't care!"

"Well, just in case. Master is not sending one mate of a species, and not the other mate. This ship's duty is to save species, not individuals. We'll have a berth ready for you, and for the female of your species ready shortly, Mr. Ostrich. Until it is ready, you are welcome to take a tour of the deck."

"Well, you won't put her, if she does show up, on another floor, or whatever you call these levels?"
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"No. Master plans for a pair of each species. I'm afraid that includes 'Ostrich,' too."

"Well, there'd better be no problems!" The huge bird stared angrily directly into Noach's eyes.

"I'm sure we can handle anything that occurs, Mr. Ostrich. Now, if you'd like to tour this deck, or perhaps take a short walk outside, to form some last memories of Earth as it is before the destruction? We'll have yours, and Mr. Ostrich's berth ready shortly."

"Hey! I didn't bring any extra feed, and I have nothing to buy entertainment with! And, I don't like being where humans are! Don't you have something for my entertainment? Master said you are the 'host,' right, Mr. Noach?"

"Very well then, Mr. Ostrich. I heard the elephants, crocodiles, and Gila monsters are having a gala party, and amateur dance and talent show, today. Something to try to liven the doom and gloom around here. it starts in an hour. On the next deck up, if you'd like to go.?"
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"Sure! Just what I spent years of travel to see! Oh, OK, Guess not much else is goin' down 'round here. I'll expect my berth to be completed in time for suppertime, when I return."

"OK, son. Try to get his quarters done. Looks as if we have an interesting time ahead with Mr. Ostrich aboard!"

While Noach hurried back to the main door to greet new arrivals, Ham and Japheth held a short conference."

"Remember grandpa Lamech's story about what happened in the Great Garden with the ostrich and horse that Ish and Ishah each rode, but usually separately? Remember, it was the ostrich that helped to trick Ishah into eating the forbidden fruit, and disobey Master's command? Follow me, my brother. I've got an idea!," Japheth said.



FLOOD!

"Things were going smoothly on the Great Ship. much as Master had outlined to Noach that they would 120 years before. Noach's encounter with the feisty old ostrich was a notable exception, for sure, but hardly a major problem. In a couple days' time, all final work would be finished. The huge quantities of foods and feeds, clean water, bedding, and caring for new arrivals would be done. "Then," Noach thought to himself, "my sweetheart, Abby, and I and our hard-working sons and daughter-in-law can sit down!"
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"So, why is it that when humans, all of them, start thinking like Noach is now in the story, that that's when they should be most alert for disaster" But, for humans, it's great fun to dream, and Noach enjoyed his dreams!

"Exactly at suppertime the ostrich barged his way back to the deck for larger animals. "Where's my berth?, he yelled. Ham  and Japheth had only about 20 minutes' work left to finish the angry bird's berth, but his angry interruption made the job last a full hour, by the time they had him calmed.

"Perhaps, if Mr. Fyrewytch  had tried to contain his anger just a wee bit, he would have noticed  a small change in his berth's location! But, his anger-blinded eyes kept him from understanding a very important fact, much as it had blinded many of his ancestors. And, besides, he was frustrated with Master's calling him to the ship, and just wanted to rest, now his large tummy was satisfied. "Tomorrow, I take care of the problems of today!," he told himself. "For now, that soft, dry bed looks just too tempting!"

"However, when the morning broke, a bright, warm day as all days before the Deluge were, he forgot his plan to check on his new surroundings. When Ham came to check on him, early in the morning, he just said, "Yes - I'm fine! Now, see to it that all my provisions reach me on time, for the first two days, while I get situated!" But, again, he failed to notice how easily his demands were acknowledged by Ham, and how eager Ham was to accommodate his least demand."

Noach's 120 year struggles to preach the truth about the coming flood, and to build the ship for completion on time, were finished. The final day of arrivals was nearly over. It was almost the last minute when a bedraggled, disheveled Mrs. Fyrewytch, yes, the mate of Mr. Fyrewytch, struggled to get herself up the long entry ramp. When Noach saw her, she was about halfway to the top of the ramp, and breathing with great gasps."
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""My!" Noach exclaimed. "You barely made it in time! Why are you alone? Your mate arrived yesterday, and he was rather, well, shall I say, disquieted that you would be accompanying him. May I ask, are you alright?"

"Huff, huff, huff. Oh! Please! May I sit down!"

"Oh! certainly! Here, here's a bench by the door. Catch your breath, Mrs. Fyrewytch!"

"It was just minutes from the moment Master was scheduled to close and seal the ramp, from the outside. Noach had several last minute things to check with his sons, so he told her to expect him back in a few minutes."

""Oh! Good! Japheth! Mr. Fyrewytch's mate just arrived! She was too tired to talk with me, but she is waiting at the entry. Would you have time to go and check in on Mr. Fyrewytch, just to make sure of our plan?"

""Sure! I'm on it!""

"On the way back to the entry, Noach checked with Japheth, and Shem. As he trusted, each told him all was "Go!," for the Master to close the entry ramp."

""OK, Mrs. Fyrewytch. I'm back now. Are you better?""

""Oh, yes! My mate was unhappy with me and left me about half way, to go on by himself. But, he's always been pretty strong-headed, so I did not object. I did not want to hear him confront you, like he said he was going to, anyway. It is so hard to see my mate with this attitude all his life. His grandpa told him a story about how humans and Creator betrayed the first Mr. Ostrich, and Mr. Eiderdowne, and ever since we ostriches must live far away from humans.""

""Is that so? I am very sorry for you, Mrs. Fyrewytch. I can assure you that if I had had the opportunity, I would have been very happy to show your mate that at least one human will not betray him, or you!""

""Yes. I have always questioned Mr. Fyrewytch's reasons, it seems he merely takes others; accusations for fact, and then he gets himself into a worry and frenzy over things that really are either not true at all, like I suspect his grandpa's story is, or he later discovers that the facts were twisted into terrible things that led him to believe bad things about others that just are not so!""

""Perhaps, on this voyage, Creator will find a way to change my mate's attitude, and begin thinking for himself, and look into what others tell him about how he should think about things and situations?""

""Well, Mrs. Fyrewytch, I will join you in hoping, and praying that your desire becomes true, and that your mate has a change of heart.," Noach said, gently. "Now, are you strong enough for Japheth to show you to your berth?"



"At last, Master closed the long entry ramp with a solid "Bang!" Then, He sealed it with a substance that would close out even the worst of the terrible deluge He was about to destroy all living flesh upon Earth. After the final creature had been safely ushered aboard by the Lion and Bear protection team, and those mighty, fearsome and regal creatures joined the rest of the passengers, the Mocking Song City committee that named itself "The Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale," were out in force, seeming to sense a change in the air, as the last few creatures crawled, leapt, waddled, jumped and walked up the entry ramp. As the day closed, and Noach and the welcoming team entered the ship for the night, their profound hatred for Master, and His faithful servant, Noach, seemed subdued that night. Instead of booing and jeering, as they had every night for the past week, they fell into a nearly silent column as they returned to Mocking Song City."
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"That day, Japheth and Shem and their wives, had gone out to where the family of each wife lived, and they had extended a last welcome for them to join them. Both fathers had said, "Well, it's all well and good that you assume this will happen, But, for 120 years, it has not, and for all time since Creation, it never once did anything like what you and Noach claim. We'll just take our chances. If this is the last goodbye, then sobeit.""

"Each daughter had wept, and begged, but to no avail. To her dearly-loved old father, Shem's lovely Tamara said, "My precious father. How I long for you to change your heart. But, you must follow your own heart, and though I do not expect to see you again, I will always love you. You are so wonderful a father to me.""

"Her father sat silently, almost as if he might have been rethinking his refusal. "Daughter, I have nothing but love and respect for you. You have done well by marrying Shem, but, I cannot agree with his father's strict worship of Creator. Too many enlightened leaders in our society have studied Noach's proposed "Flood," and the best simulation that their scientific research shows, is that there could be a long chance of a very heavy dew that made our crops turn rotten. Another theory is that a break in the earth's surface plate may cause a local water level rise, but they have even prepared us for that very distant possibility. I just cannot see my way to join your wild plan for escaping the "Flood," as Noach has preached these many years. It just cannot happen, my Tamara!""

"They had parted, with Tamara's many tears. Shem shook his father-in-law's hand, and gave him a warm, last hug. He had grown to love and respect his pretty wife's father, and could barely keep the tears back."



"That night, Master shut and sealed the entry ramp. The passengers could hear Him at work. It took just a few minutes, but they knew He had made certain all of them would at least be safe from outside destruction. Few realized the inside planned destruction, though. And, no one knew how utter the creature that planned the destruction was determined for it to be!"




"Mr. Fyrewytch, just as he had demanded, had stayed in his berth for the final day, and did not venture out. Had he, he would have had a nasty surprise! His berth was tightly locked from the outside! Only a service door to allow his water, food, and necessary personal needs that was much too small for his body to fit through, was open!"
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""I wish those nasty neighbors would shut up!," he'd grumbled. "I can't sleep with that racket!" But, he rolled over, and dozed off."





"Noach had assigned Shem to manage the provisions, and he and the faithful Mr. Starfire and the team had worked long hours gathering and bringing supplies that last couple of months."
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"Mr. Starfire," as Noach had named him, had a great, well-muscled build, and his majestic black mane, long, shiny-haired tail, strong, arching neck, and beautiful, pure white star on his forehead set him off like a prince among all the horses in the area. Starfire was very proud of his lovely mate, a quiet, but willing and pretty much equally-strong black mare. She had caught Starfire's attention when they both were quite young."

"Now, as she pulled the wagons Shem drove, they were a most beautiful sight for Noach, who had taken to both horses, when he had spied them at a local cattle and horse sale. He had paid top price, but never felt it was a single penny wasted. Starfire's attention to his lovely Atlanta saw him taking up any slack she may have had, as they pulled together. In turn, she was always ready to strain as hard as he, with really tough spots. Driving the wagons, Shem was as one with the horses."

"No one was disappointed with Master's selection of the pair, and it would have broken Noach's heart to have another pair chosen."
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"That final week, the laughing, mocking, jeering "Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale" had brought other Mocking Song City citizens to join the melee. They had formed a semi-circle at the entry ramp, and only the presence of the Massive Bears and Lions guarding the ramp held them at bay. To increase their wild party atmosphere, plenty of spirits flowed freely, and made the otherwise raucous rally a drunken brawl for those final moments. Working the new arrivals and the wagon-loads of supplies past them was not only difficult, at times it was downright hazardous. Some of the extended family members of Ham's Sharrah had even attempted to "rescue" her, and nearly abducted her when she had stepped off the entry ramp to talk to her parents."

"These relatives, like most of the rest of Mocking Song City, held that after Noach and those he had tricked into believing his wild tales, and had stayed on the ship for several weeks, would eventually give up, but, why wait for that? So, these family cousins tried to abduct Sharrah.."

"Unknown to these cousins, Sharrah Lhucie was a devout believer in her parents' religion. Her parents and she had discussed the things Noach was preaching about, after she and Ham married. Her devotion to their religion, an occult, dark worship of Lucifer and a few spirits of the same evil nature, had held numerous secret meetings, to discuss plans to carry on their evil practice, just in case Noach's message was true, and Lucifer had confirmed that indeed, it was true. Lucifer was very careful to hide this fact from the humans that worshipped the evil spirits, and to maintain to those disobedient humans, that Noach was telling a great lie, just to fool people into turning away from Lucifer."
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"Ham was influenced by Lucifer almost from his birth. His mother sensed this, but she prayed that Master would show her son the true Light, and Ham would turn away from the intrigue that Ham had for Lucifer's worshippers. Abby had prayed many years, "Master, keep my precious Ham in Your Will. But, May my desire for my son also be for Your will to be done with my son.""

"Watching Ham become interested in Sharrah, and then his spending every spare moment to run away, often with misleading excuses his mother saw through, to Sharrah's family and their occult worship, made for many teary nights for Abby. Sad as she had been at their wedding, she still trusted Master for her son."

"For her part, Sharrah Lhucie was a full priestess in the occult. Her immoral ceremonial acts always excited Ham, and he could never find a way to overcome his male senses of excitement for her as she performed in the Lucifer worship sessions. So, as she approached him with the plans to infiltrate the Great Ship with an occult plan to carry the forbidden worship on board, and beyond the Flood, he could not find strength to resist. Even as he listened, though, there was a discernable voice in his inner-being, saying, "HAM! HAM! What is this! No! No!" But, Ham ignored it."
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"In the course of their marriage, Ham had taken full part of the occult worship. and Lucifer saw to it that Ham received favorable treatment. Ham was promoted to a high rank in "The Order of Illumination," and in his  position, was entrusted with inner circle secrets. It was all a ruse, on Lucifer's part, as it was merely a plot to promote the sure destruction of the entire Ark, and finish the plot to destroy Humanity, that Lucifer had set in motion, in the Great Garden, in Eden. That plan had backfired, when Master had not instantly killed Ish and Ishah, as Lucifer had mistakenly assumed the words, "Surely you shall die!" meant. Instead, with Man freely roaming over all Earth, Lucifer had to come up with another scheme to trick Man into turning from Creator, to disobey and detest Creator, and His Living Word. Lucifer knew that if Man obeyed Creator, Man would live."

"In a while," Mr. Owl said, "we'll hear more of the plan Lucifer was using Ham for." He continued . . .

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"Growing up, as they joined their parents traveling into Mocking Song City for occasional trips for supplies, for their country farms, Ishah and Tamara had heard "Noach's message many times by the time they met their husbands, In fact, Ishah had been led to open her mind by Shem's preaching! Her love for Japheth was growing, and as she joined him to listen to what Shem was saying one day, Japheth had asked, Ishah, I've never asked this; I was afraid of what you might say, but, what do you think about what Shem is saying?""

""Japheth, I've been wanting to talk to you about this. But, I needed to be sure, and today, I am sure!,"" she said.

""I want to ask Shem, or your father, or maybe you?, what do I do to make my choice clear to join your family? This makes perfect sense to me, and, anyway, I love you, my Japheth!" She was smiling so sweetly, Japheth kissed her on the spot!"

"That last night, when Master had sealed the entry ramp, hot tears poured down the cheeks of Noach's family, except for Ham and Sharrah. They had begged to be excused to go to their quarters, in the top deck, to rest, as the reason. The real reason would be discovered later, the following week. However, that night they held a séance for Lucifer, and were deep in worship of the enemy of Life."

Just minutes to go, Shem and the horses had pulled onto the entry ramp, with the final load of provisions. The drunken, raucous crowd had grudgingly made way for them to pass, and then closed in behind them, trying to grab things off the wagon. But Mr. Starfire sensed their move, and he neighed to Atlantic, "Now! Run!." The pair had sprinted up the ramp way ahead of the mob, much to the drunken chagrin of the party-goers."
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"Empty-handed, they mocked louder; "Say! I hears Noach's Master has a roast planned tonight! He's going to close all these creatures in Noach's Great Hoax Ship, and burn it!" They repeated the phrase over and over."

""Some sacrifice!"" others yelled back."

""Maybe it's us, your Master is going to roast!," some began shouting. "Tell us, which is it?!""

""Tell us, Shem! Which is it?! Cat got your tongue?!!""

"At the entrance, Noach stood, and guarded it from intruders. As some partiers attempted to board, the Great Bears came out of the shadows, and the drunken people quickly dispersed. Just moments after the wagon had disappeared into the darkness of the ship's hold, Master closed it, with a loud, solid "BANG!" It was at that exact moment that those evil-minded citizens of Mocking Song City had a clear sense of their impending doom."
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"In abject horror, the small group of partiers watched a hand covering the long ramp with the same cementing material Noach used to make the stone-like hull of the ship. Some, overcome by the enormity of their fateful choices, fell on the ground. Others, with sincere anguish, began beating on the sealed ship. weeping, "Please! Please! PLEASE! Let us in!""

"That night, most members of The Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale" association returned to their houses in the city with silent, fearful looks, and few words. The next morning, they woke, and expected to see that the flood had started, just as Noach had said. Nothing."

"In the ark, Noach and his family rested. All life aboard rested from their arduous journeys to the ark, from the heavy labors to build it, from the labors to harvest and store the huge stocks of water and provisions, and from the sheer emotional stress involved in both human and animal passengers.



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The next day, no rain. Nor, the next. Not the next day. And, not the fifth day, either! Murmurs began. ""I hear that Master is merely keeping those creatures in there to take the ship off the Earth! Glad I'm NOT in it!"  Another rumor was, "Well, maybe we're right after all! Noach and his Master really wanted to just fool us!" And," Well, how long will they keep up their silly ruse! They 'have; to come out before they starve!""

"The next day, it was a Shabbat. Master's Celebration of Completion, and Rest Day. Those aboard the ship, under Noach's leadership, kept the day in a restful state, honoring Master, as Master had indicated for all His Earth Creation to do. No one was exempt."

"That evening marked the beginning of Day Seven, in accordance with Master's Time Accounting Methods."




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"Earth's mountains were much lower before the Deluge. The facts speak for themselves, to those Earth Geologists who care to discern them, from the multitudinous false, mock-scientists of today, who are determined to destroy any and all reference to Creator and His direct intervention in the history of Earth, and its creatures. But, these modern day mockers cannot refute the facts. Facts such as Earth's broken surface plate is but a few thousand years' existence in its shattered state, and that the high mountains formed with volcanic eruptions, and massive upheavals to the plate, destroying its uniform, stratified structure, have all been of fairly recent occurrence, in geological time."

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"Instead of accepting Master's chronology of Creation upon Earth, and elsewhere, Man has determined to replace the truth with many concocted tales about billions of Earth years' worth of time to gradually change both the surface of Earth, and its inhabitants form and specie. This foolish tirade has caved in on itself with multitudes of counter-opposing ideas and speculations, and yet remains as always, simply Man's silly attempt to despise Master, and replace Him with the finite mind of both Man, and his desired deity, Fallen Angel Lucifer."

"For instance, if this silly theory of Earth-change taking billions of Earth-years were fact, then, instead of a mere few billion human population, and the relatively small number of plant, animal, insect, bird, and aquatic creatures would be utterly too much for all Earth's resources to sustain! For man alone, according to this fools' desire theory, the present population would number in the high trillions, which is an entirely impossible feat, as there isn't enough space on Earth's surface for even one trillion!"

"Another fallacy to this blind-man's attempt to replace Master with Lucifer, is that even the present Gulf of Mexico, to the South of the land far to the East of meadow Bay, and its Table of Creator, that you, Mr. Neigh and Miss Riding Wolffe just returned from, would now be filled with the sediment carried into it by the Mighty Mississippi River. In fact, the river would be running through the Gulf as a river, with towns, farms, and cities occupying the place where now a deep gulf is filled with water!"

"So, as grandpa's story from his ancestors endures through the Time of Man, it also adapts to the changes that Creator performs to Earth, and picks up the foolish ideas Man concocts to replace Creator! What a story!"




"With night-fall, the end of this day of commemoration for Master's Marvelous Earth Creation, and that of the entire cosmos, was like no other, either before, or since. Safely returned to their homes in Mocking Song City, and quietly sleeping in their farm-homes, all the hard-hearted inhabitants who refused Noach and Shem's many years and enduring efforts to open their blind hearts to the truth, were puzzled over a full week of quiet, after Master had sealed the entry ramp."

"But, Master wept." He had The Plan, but still He wept bitterly, for His Beloved Mankind.
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"Before anyone could fully waken, a massive explosion shook the entire earth! The surface of Earth reeled and shuddered under enormous impacts of heavy metallic helium plate sections that fell everywhere, bringing with them billions of heavy chunks of ice that had collected upon the outer surface of the metal shield."

"Not only did these massive sections of the metal plate, that boiled in the far warmer atmosphere of the surface than the near-absolute zero temperature where helium forms a metallic crystal form, rain down from above, but the frozen water coming with them literally formed immediate oceans. The freezing drop in temperature that occurred quickly froze all earth's inhabitants and the waters, now filled with debris, at both polar ends of the planet. Further exposure to stellar coldth maintained this instant freeze for most of the two regions, for hundreds of hears, In fact, today vast sections are still frozen, down to 1200 feet, where the preserved jungles of pre-flood earth still lay, underneath the permanent crust of frozen sludge rising a thousand feet above!"

"Master's design for the Ark of Safe Passage, for that name was its true name and meaning, spared the passengers from viewing the massive destruction, and the multitude of floating human and animal remains. The cold winds, and rushing waters flushed the stench of decay away, and, as time and upheaval of Earth's surface followed the initial deluge, the entire world of pre-flood Earth simply disappeared under the surface of the torn planet's soil. Massive volcanoes began erupting, and the former stable mantle over the deep, under-world waters, broke apart, allowing huge areas to quickly sink into an abyss of water."
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"For a full 40 days, and nights, this deluge persisted, never again to repeat on Earth. The deluge from above, kept high above the surface by the metallic helium canopy, had fallen through hundreds of miles of earth's warm, thick atmosphere. As it fell, its rotational inertia carried it at a faster ground surface speed when it smashed into Earth, and it massive weight and bulk quickly tuned the fertile land into a frothing mass of roiling, near-frozen soup. Mocking Song City was almost instantly mashed into a vast kettle of writhing, tangling, boiling buildings, stone wall fragments, bodies, and huge tree trunks, all forced into a sea of the same boiling mass that covered the entire planet."



Little Riding Wollfe shuddered as Mr. Owl recited this part of his grandfather's story. She snuggled closer to her human friends, and Cynthia placed her arm around the little wolf pup, holding her as if reassuring the pretty wolf that she was safe.

Miss Riding Wolffe thought of their watching in horror not long before, as the Earth opened and swallowed Mr. Ostrich, the old ostrich who refused to tell the truth about his stolen merchandise trades with Grandpa Otter. "No," she thought to herself, "it is always best to speak truth, and when someone tells you anything, to check out if they are speaking truth, or a deception. But," she thought, "it is always best to do so with love and a mind for reconciliation, just as Master always commands us to do, for He is our guide for living in harmony, together." She snuggled close to her human friends.



Mr. Owls voice caught her attention. "From the shattering mass and speed of the falling deluge, entire mountains ripped apart, instantly pulverized into a soupy, roiling mass. From where they once stood, firm and secure, many deep chasms in Earth's surface formed. As the former solid crust plate broke apart, the miles-deep rifts opened gushing flows of Earth's inner core of molten lava. By the time these events happened, though, the tough, resilient Ark of Safe Passage was riding the wild seas, far above. In fact, today's deep seas exploration has revealed ancient ocean beaches that are three miles beneath present ocean surface levels. Indeed, Master did mean that all Earth would be destroyed!"

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"In the Ark of Safe Passage, Noach and all passengers rested, after the storm abated, and the ship ceased its heavy rolling and endless spinning about. Its anchor stones that hung from its underside had slowed and stabilized the rolling and turning, but not entirely. However, they had firmly remained attached by their heavy ropes, and would be vital to the ships' safe landing, whenever that should occur. For now, Noach and all were thankful for Master's Ship Plan, and the passengers, for Noach's faithful building according to that plan!"

"Mr. Fyrewytch also rested, as he demanded that he be allowed to do - but, much longer than he had intended!"
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"For the first two days, he ate and grumbled, as his neighbors' coming and goings interrupted his self-centered rest. Much to Ham and Japheth's delight, he continued to ask them to serve him in his berth. One rather unexpected fact about ostriches and sea-going vessels, is their long legs, awkward, long neck and head, where one's balance is sensed, and the very heavy bulk of their body midway between top and bottom of their height. "Just how would 'you' like to try to walk around a ship tossing about on a rough sea?," he asked Eriel. She giggled.

"Outside, howling winds seemed about to tear the sturdy ark to pieces. During the initial deluge, its supper-strong roof and top deck were under constant bombardment from heavy chunks of falling ice and metallic helium, that was already boiling as it struck Earth. As the first days' calamity stretched into weeks, the torrential hammering softened to a gentle sound of rain falling onto a hard roof, providing a soothing atmosphere."

"The crashing seas held the tossing ship in a grip which felt like a giant hand determined to shake it apart. As the downpour slowed, and the boiling tumult from the depths of earth subsided to gently swirling waters, the ship began a soothing rocking to and fro."

"Just 11 days before the rains stopped, day twenty nine of the forty days' deluge, Mr. Fyrewytch sleepily wakened to the calmer, but still clashing and thundering deluge and the tossing and turning ship, and said to himself, "My! I'm certainly glad that yappy mate of mine isn't here!" His self-centric, self-esteeming mindset held him in such a terrible grip that he felt no pain or remorse for anyone else! Had he only known the events of the following days, he'd have had a warm welcome for his mate on his mind, and, she would have been at his side when he arrived at the entry ramp!"

""No mate! Not even an egg! Wow!""
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"On day 31, Ham and Japheth delivered the ostrich's breakfast, and cleaned his berth. "I can hardly believe this!," He said to himself. "There's just no other ostrich but me onboard! And, my neighbors have calmed down too!""

"Then, he wondered, "What's wrong with this picture? I think I'd better investigate this, right now!""
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But, before we follow Mr. Fyrewytch outside his suite, which was now opened by mutual consensus by Ham and Japheth, as the old bird had calmed down, we must finish grandpa's story record of the last visit Master made to the Great Garden, before it was completely left to the fast-growing jungle to overrun it. Mr. Neigh!, did your grandpa's story tell what happened to Mr. Eiderdowne, after Ishah and Ish ate the purple fruit of knowledge of Good and Evil?"

"Sure did! He went up to Master after . . . "Oh! Hold on, Mr. Neigh!!. I'd like to make sure the surprise part fits with the rest of my grandfather's story. I'm sure the two accounts are very close, and I do want to hear your grandpa's story from start to finish, soon! Is that OK with you?"

"Oh! Of course it is! I'm kinda lost in my memories of the story, and of my dear grandpa, as I listen to your tell it, Mr. Owl. I miss my dear grandfather, and all the wondeful things he told me, and did with me. I think all grandpa's should be like he was," Mr. Neigh! said with a soft whinny.

"I think that you and I share some very precious memories of our dear grandpas, Mr. Neigh! It's so good that Master has given you and I all these years to be friends together!"

"But," Mr. Neigh! quickly added, I'd like to mention one thing I'm quite sure your grandpa did not include in his story record. It was the very last part of the last day, and as Mr. Starfire and Atlantic approached the entry ramp. the mob led by "The Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale" were especially raucous, and the Lions had their paws filled with try to open up a passageway for him and Atlanta to pull the wagon past them mob. So, Mr. Starfire bit one of the people on the backside real hard! 'Course, Noach apologized, but, I always thought that that was one of the best parts!"
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"When Noach apologized to the young man, the boy realized that the preaching was all about saving people, and animals from certain death. He begged Noach for a place, but Noach had to tell him, "There's just no room! It's too late, now! All the rest of Noach's life, he remembered that boy, and grieved for him."

"Wow! Well, you're right! That's a part only .a grandpa horse would know!" Mr. Owl chuckled softly.  Thank you, Mr. Neigh!"

"My! isn't that a lesson for us all?! If we truly love someone, and even when they mock us and scorn us to our face, we must always welcome them back, because Master always welcomes us back, even when we are too late to save our own life. When we spurn anyone, and refuse to open our mind and heart to welcome that one back whenever Master may open their heart to change toward us, then we simply prove that we have no love or respect for our Creator, and certainly not as our Master of Living and Purpose. How sad it must be for families who refuse one member to return with a repented, respectful and apologizing heart, just because we assume they have not changed!" Mr. Owl's eyes looked even more sad than his normally sad, round owly eyes looked.
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"We last heard about Mr. Eiderdowne, in the Great Garden, just before Ish reached the little grass-covered knoll meadow, where fig trees, the Tree of Knowledge of Good, and of Evil, and the Great Tree of Life stood a little ways apart from the others, nearby the babbling, singing fountain springing up from the deep earth, below."

"As Ish made his way to the place the relative of Mr. Slytalker was taking him to, to meet his Ishah with the hopes of spending a wonderful day with his lovely sweetheart, a signal from the relative serpent alerted Mr. Slytalker of the approaching pair. He turned to Ishah, glaring at her with a knowing eye; "Now! we must leave you alone to welcome your husband, Ishah. You know the plan we helped you with to regain your husband's attentions. Make certain you follow the steps, and words you are to speak. He will listen.""

""You must not speak one word about me to Ish, Ishah! It will spoil all we've worked hard to accomplish. You wouldn't want that, now, would you? Just get him to eat the fruit, same as you have! I'll handle the rest.""

Ishah only nodded a teary, quiet acknowledgement, her eyes gazing sadly at the ground she stood upon. Inside, she felt, betrayed, lost. Emotions she had never before experienced.

""But, but, bu . . .I want to share the good news she tells Ish! Maybe he will decide it's just too late to keep her. Then she'll need my soothing words!," Mr. Eiderdowne exclaimed."

""Shhhh!""

""Eiderdowne! Shut up! Ish will hear you!""


"Without time to spare, for Ish was approaching the clearing by then, Mr. Slytalker grabbed Mr. Eiderdowne by his long, awkward neck, and quickly jerked the very surprised oris into the nearby dark and dense jungle, almost breaking his neck!"
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"When Ish came to the clearing, his lovely wife sat there alone, a lost look on her pretty face. Her eyes looked very sad; lonely. Off to one side and just inside the heavy jungle growth at the edge of the meadow her charmer, Mr. Eiderdowne, stood and watched with Mr. Slytalker, the too-smooth-tongued, deceiving serpent The Serpent stood at half-again the same height as Mr. Eiderdowne's own height, its scaly, slithery skin covering large, tough muscles."

"As Ish crossed the babbling spring brook, Mr. Slytalker restrained the lust-stricken Mr. Eiderdowne; ""We must leave Ish and Ishah alone! Come! We have to go!""


In the Great Garden there were many creatures who lived in peace and harmony with one another, with Ish and his Ishah, and all the garden was a delight to them. Mr. Starfire, and his beautiful mate were one of this loving group. When Master would come to walk and commune with Ish and Ishah in the cool of the day, the pair of horses would often accompany this little party. Ishah loved Mr. Starfire, but she was torn inside by his long days work with her Ish, when she felt so much need to have her Ish by her side, giving her the attention he was giving Mr. Starfire and the work Master had assigned to her capable husband."
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"Often accompanying Master on these visits, the Deer Family, The Beavers, and Mr. and Mrs. King Lion, who immensely enjoyed Master and His company, walked together in a tight group. In fact, Both Mr. King Lion and Mr. Starfire would carry the smaller animals on their backs! It was a sight to witness!"

"In the Antediluvian period, and especially in the Great Garden, the air was sweetly scented with the tantalizing perfumes of a thousand kinds of flowers. Along the way Master walked, playful otters, prankster raccoons, bright parrots, and many specie of His creatures would happily join the procession, singing, chattering, and dancing along the grassy, lovely paths. All rejoiced with Master's Presence, and His love for each knew no bounds."
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"But, Master's heart was heavy on many of these wonderful occasions. He knew the 'Plan,, " Mr. owl said with a sigh. "What my grandpa used to say here I must also say. By the word, 'Plan,' Master, Who created all with His Word, knew every event and all details of His creation before he spoke it into existence. But, He did not design any rebellion and acts of disobedience for His creation, or for His creatures. So, we understand from His Living Word recorded by Moshe', that Master's Design included what we might think of as a back up plan, should His creatures depart from His Design for their living, and relationship with Him."

"It is vital that we understand that Master does not Design Evil to happen, but He does Plan for if it does happen."

"His awareness of the impending destruction gave Him all the more reason to enjoy the moments He had with these creatures He so loved. He loved those who were even then plotting to destroy His entire Creation, under command of Fallen Angle Lucifer's dark, occult meetings. He knew that one day, all too soon, His creatures would turn to evil, and He knew Lucifer's design was to ruin and destroy all Creation, by using flesh creatures upon Earth as unwary pawns in that diabolical hatred for Creator. And, Master had just the right back up plan for such a rebellion, where He would allow Lucifer and the generations of Ish to war against one another and cause the utter destruction of Earth's biosphere, save for a very sect few whom Master would save in Noach's Ark of Safe Passage."



"Now, confronting Ish, Ishah, and Mr. Slytalker after both humans disobeyed Master's command, Master determined a just, kind sentence for each guilty person and the Serpent. Now banned from the Great Garden, word of Ish and Ishah's sad plight spread quickly throughout the garden. For many garden dwellers, this brought a first-time awareness that all was not the peaceful living they had assumed all the garden was living in. Wherever it went, this news caused great sadness."

"More than all His creature's sense of grief, Master's grief caused Him to weep with the deep groans of one suffering the loss of a child," Mr. Owl said softly. "Even the loss of one's mate does not create that heaviness that loss of one's child brings. And Master?, He had just lost His lovely Earth Family; His precious friends; His children."
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"For those who desired to follow Lucifer's shameful deception, and replace Master with the spirits of evil Lucifer used to deceive them with, with many supernatural signs and wonders that Master never used. they met in occult, secret groups, in the darkest of the tangled jungle, always fearful and watchful for any sign of Master, or of those who might tell Him of their meetings."

"However, they were not the only group of garden residents forming to worship and honor a spiritual leader. Many creatures had formed small groups, usually members of one specie, to openly honor and praise Creator, for they loved His goodness, truth, and His living way. Rather than be led by ugly deceptions from evil-minded, destruction-planning Fallen Angel Lucifer, these faithful creatures lived in the truth of Master Life, and rejoiced that he was their Creator, and He made teach of them, and gave this magnificent Earth to be their home!"
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"In the garden these faithful began to assemble together in the center of a large, newly-completed meadow. Trees dotted it, as it was a community for birds designed by Ish. The birds there were all loyal to Master, and they invited all other garden creatures to assemble with Master, on the day following His ordeal with Ish and Ishah's disobedience."

""This day was a beautiful, but their hearts were not. Master looked into the heart of each one gathered there, His heart ready to burst. "My dear creatures, this day marks the beginning of great sorrow upon all My Creation. No longer will you know freedom of spirit. Heaviness and much pain will be yours all the days of your living upon My Earth. Already I caused some of your innocent to give back to Me their life, to be a token of the Death caused by Ish and Ishah's disobedience.""
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""No longer are humans your master. They will be your owners, to use and misuse you as innocent victims of your worst fears. They no longer know what it is to be pure, innocent, and alive. Lest they eat of the Tree of Eternal Life and thereby gain eternal life for their state of evilness, and you suffer eternally from their self-esteem, I have cast them out of My Great Garden. They must now toil with great labor to induce the soil of Earth to provide their food, and they will find that eating you will be far easier. Their life span is reduced from permanent to mere years.""

""A time will come when both they and you animals will all turn from My Living Way, to follow after evil, My dear, sweet creatures, and then your descendants must be purged from Earth, that it survive. My Truth will remain, but sure destruction will prevail over evil."

""In that day, My Ark of Safe passage will safely deliver each of your specie to the dry land of a vastly-altered version of this Earth." He said this with an immensely sad tone, but with great authority to His words."



""My creatures," and His eyes filled with hot, pouring tears, "last evening I came to my Ish and Ishah, where they hid themselves from Me, in the shame of their disobedience that made them feel naked, and exposed. In truth, it was their loss of innocence that falsely caused them to feel naked. They were near the tree of Knowledge of Good and of Evil, having eaten its fruit the day before. Mr. Slytalker, the Serpent, had beguiled Ishah into eating the fruit, who then tricked her husband to take it also. By my provision for Ish, as head of his own flesh, he had opportunity to cover Ishah's misdeed, but he followed her in the disobedience.""
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""Thinking I could not see him, Mr. Slytalker was hidden in the midst of the nearby jungle, where he had forced Mr. Eiderdowne to accompany him, as they abandoned Ishah, after tricking her into eating the forbidden fruit. Mr. Ostrich, "Eiderdowne," as Ishah called him for the soft plumage I had given him, had colluded with Mr. Serpent, "Slytalker," in order to devise a plot to deceive Ishah, and cause her to eat the forbidden fruit, then to trick Ish into eating it, also. However, during the events immediately after tricking Ishah to eat the fruit, with Slytalker's revealing that he had also tricked Mr. Ostrich, using him to get Ishah to eat the fruit, Mr. Ostrich finally came to see his own evil thoughts, and acts.""
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""To Me, he has made amends, at least he repented and asked for My forgiveness, and he asked forgiveness from Ishah's and Ish' also, which they each gave him. But, to detain him from ever beguiling another human, I have banned Mr. Ostrich from Human presence, for many long years, to a far land.""

""In his tricking Mr. Ostrich, Mr. Serpent, "Slytalker," had broken the necks of three little hatchling ostriches, had then ripped out their tiny hearts, and forced Mr. Ostrich, on pain of death from a Warrior Serpent, to eat them, one by one. Then, he told Mr. Ostrich that if he ever tried to expose anything he, or any member of Fallen Angel Lucifer's occult worship order said or did, his act of eating the hearts would be reported to Me. Actually, that would never, ever happen, for if I ever have one of Lucifer's worshippers approach me, that one's evil could not withstand My Truth, and he or it will surely die, immediately, from the shock!""

""I tell you these horrible details, in order that you will mark them permanently in your memories. You fathers, tell them to your descendants, as you become grandfathers!""
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""I now relate the last words Mr. Serpent, Mr. Ostrich, and Ishah had, so you understand how the deceptive words work to lead one into disobedience. These three had met for the final time, under the forbidden tree.""

"""Ostrich! I hear from my accomplice that Ish is about to arrive any minute! We must let Ish find his Ishah here, alone. Come! We have to go!"""

"""Don't!, Ishah begged. ""I need both of you here when my . . . my . . . I mean when Ish arrives! Please! Don't leave me!"""

""Knowing the truth, now," the serpent hissed in her face, ""you are not to tell Ish about me! Just tell him that you will not be able to face another day without him, and that you need his eating the fruit so you can believe he is serious about his promises to give you more of his time. I'll handle the rest! Right, Ishah?"" Serpent's face was pushed right up into hers."

"""Now! Mr. Slytalker!," Mr. Ostrich spoke, ""you just listen! I'm the one who loves Ishah the most. I'm going to defend her against that male human, if he dares be angry with her for defying 'his' stupid ideas about Creator's, My, silly commands! NO! I will NOT leave Ishah!"""
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"""Oh? Then what do you think I'll tell Ish, and Creator, about what I, and the Warrior Serpents witnessed 'YOU' do to the Ostrich children, Mr. Ostrich? You know Lucifer reports such things to Creator, when it suits us 'our' interests? I'm sure Creator wants to hear of your loyalty to Lucifer, my friend. Now! GO!""" ""That's when Serpent yanked Mr. Ostrich's neck so hard it nearly snapped, taking him into the dense, dark jungle.""
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""Now, My dear creatures, you know I love you, but do not think that I don't also guard over you jealously, and know every moment of your lives, and whom you associate with, and what you even think!""

""Before, when Serpent tricked Mr. Ostrich into eating the baby ostrich hearts, after Serpent broke each frightened little one's neck, he had made a serious mistake. He assumed that I would not see and hear each detail of his evil act! For you, My hearers, remember this!""

""When Serpent, "Mr. Slytalker," told Ishah the fruit was something that I intended for her to eat, he added the term for meaning that she would 'NOT' die from disobeying My command to her husband. To Ish, I had clearly commanded, "In the day you eat this fruit, you surely will die!" "
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""Hiding behind Serpent, Fallen Angel Lucifer and the other fallen angels that devise deceptions to mislead My creatures away from Me, and destroy My Creation, uses the same convoluted, twisted and warped, illogical deceptions, They make truth sound very complicated, so that then they cam restate the complicated deception in more plain words, except that then what they say is not truth, it just has some truth mixed up in its deception. To always be able to recognize these twisted words, carefully study My Living Word, and ask Me, directly, to show you exactly what I have had my writers record in it! Be not fooled by devious wording, nor by claims to decipher tangled words with clearer statements. Unless they come directly from My Living Word, recorded and kept by My writers and scribes, those all are lies.!""

""For his just sentence to compensate for the proud, arrogant attitude he displayed, Serpent is now the lowest of beasts. His belly is his foot, and to protect him from sure extinction by those who would destroy him, and his kind in retribution for his deceiving Ishah, I have given his bite a venom that will be deadly enough to kill an attacker.""

""To Lucifer, I am assigning the same lowness of stature. From now on, Lucifer will be known as "Hissing Liar," an attacker of womankind, and her descendents. But, to Lucifer, as to a lowly serpent, there is One descendent from Ishah, Who will utterly crush the head of Lucifer, and the entire kingdom set up to worship the Evil Lucifer so loves, will also suffer complete defeat by her descendent.""
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""This descendent will be called "Savior," and He shall lead those captives of Lucifer to triumph over Lucifer! By His power, in Whom My power will rest, humans will have available My power to overcome all evil! In a still further-off time, there will be three young daughters of Ishah, Cynthia Joy, Melissa Joy, and Eriel, who will hear this record, and will know My love for them is real! Each will know that their grandpa, and Cynthia's father, want for each one to give Me their whole being, that each will be just as I have planned for their best!""
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""Dear creatures, I will never leave nor forsake you, though My Presence with you in this manner, here in the Great Garden, will end with this time. To humankind, your voices will become as dumb utterances, at a future time. To you, they will speak as mumbling.

""While Ish is no longer here to set My Great Garden in order, and it will return to a vast tangle, you are free to stay. Or. to leave.""

""Master?"" The shaky, frightened voice belonged to Sparrow, shaking from the shocking news on a nearby tree limb. It's pure little heart shattered by the message Master spoke. He loved Ishah very much and would spend days by her window, singing his merry heart out to her. It broke Master's heart to see his distress."
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""Yes?""

""Master, my mate and our children love this garden so much. Will it never be like this again? Will we never sing for our human companions again?""

""Oh! My sweet and beloved little Sparrow! I'll let all you here in on the plan I'm keeping a secret for now, from humans. After many, many years, long after I give Myself to be their Savior, when the time is come about, it will be My joy to cause Earth to be even better than what you see now! Do not worry, My happiest of all creatures, never will anything keep Me from caring for you. Not one of you will ever fall, but that I shall know, and give you My peace. Now, go, forget what Happened here. Find Ishah, and sing your heart out for her delight! May your sweet, joyful song bring to Ishah My love and comfort, little friend! Tell her that I love her every morning!""

""This command is for each one of you. You are My creatures, and I did not make any mistakes!""
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""Nothing, and no one is able to separate you from me, even if you should choose to disobey My commands! Remember this, and be sure to teach it carefully to your descendents, because much suffering will come to the world from Ish's choice to dishonor Me, and that same choice will be made by many, many other creatures. Just as to follow the Way of Living increases joy, and living, so following the Way of Disobedience causes destruction of joy, and of living, causing all great suffering.""

Until I again walk upon Earth among you, and My kingdom is here, upon Earth, there is to be allowed much destruction and evil. However, no one suffers but that I shall provide all needed for sustenance, and strength to endure, even to live within great rejoicing, for in Me, Living is abundant! Nothing shall harm you that I will not first equip you to triumph over. I AM is your eternal Keeper!""

""Master? What about my uncle, Mr. Ostrich? Is he coming home? He's my favorite uncle, but he never had time for us. I really miss him!"" The little, fluffy ostrich chick said in its tiny, almost squeaky voice."
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""My little friend, this breaks My heart." Master gazed down at the baby ostrich chick, looking even sadder. "But, your uncle has brought much shame and grief into My Garden, even into your life, though you are innocent. My dear, small friend, never forget what I am about to tell you. Just as I am Sparrows abiding friend, so I will always abide with you as your own abiding friend.""

""When I created the ostrich, little one, I thought long and much how I would make some creature besides a human who could also spurn My love, or choose to love Me, with all its heart.""

""I considered the Sheep, but the nature of sheep is to be steady and sure, only without reasoning power. Turkey cares much for his family, by his nature. Tiger loves to rule over all too much, and Elephant? Well, he's just too big!""

""But, little friend, My Ostrich, the family you are from, its nature is well-suited! You have a heart of your own, to love either self, or Me and others. The will I gave you is very strong and proud, to serve well, either me, and others, or yourself.""

""When Mr. Ostrich wants to, he is a most-dedicated caretaker; but, when not wishing to love others, he is ruthless in his pursuit of pleasing himself. He's much like humans!""

""So, I said, "I'll give Ostrich the situations in life to show clearly how to obey Me, or to disobey Me, so all non-human creatures can see the difference. When Mr. Ostrich is disobedient, his life is a mess! When he obeys, his life is full of My joy! Your uncle, little one, is the first proof of disobeying My Way of Life.""

""Your Uncle Ostrich followed after his nature, to increase his self esteem. To get what his nature desired, he had to make many evil choices, which nearly took his life, and did take the lives of three of his own children. To give him a new start, I have sent your uncle to a land very, very far from here. He will have a chance for making right choices, but still his many descendants may also choose to disobey Me, and destroy not only themselves, but others their evil affects.""

""I wish I could make your living easier, little friend.""

""I'm so sorry for my Uncle Ostrich,"" sobbed the little chick. I would go to live with him, if I could. May I keep him company? May I?""

""My! What a beautiful love for your uncle, my child!," Exclaimed Master. "But, if you went all by yourself, who would care for you?""
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""You said You would, Master Won't You?""

""Now, see? What did I say? Did EVERYONE hear Little Ostrich? He's a perfect proof that My ostrich will illustrate what loving Me will do for all My creatures! Yes, I SHALL take very, very good care of you, 'My' Little Ostrich!""

""Do you have any other Ostrich children who wish to live with your uncle,?" Master asked. "I would be very delighted to take care of all who wish to go!""

""I want to!""

""Me too!""

""Me! I want to go!""

""Can I, master""

"A chorus of ostrich chick voices from the group around Master affirmed their love for Uncle Ostrich."

"Suddenly, a great cheer went booming out of the large assembly of faithful creatures! In a thousand small echoes it returned; Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! for our Beloved Master! He will save us! He is our gentle, kind Friend!""

"Master's arms rose, stretched out above them in a blessing that each could sense as a pouring out of His Love for all. The brilliant light from His face caused the sun's light to appear as a shadow in His glow. "My beloved creatures, I AM is your Great Shepherd. Follow Me into the mountains of high praise! Walk by My side where no evil can be. How shall I be ashamed of you who exalt Me above yourselves!""

""My Peace, I give you!""

""Well, well! This is really giving Me a warm fuzzy!" Master's face was shining brighter. I was holding back a bit on another bit of news about your Ostrich Family, but I see it is now a welcome news! You see, the mother of those little chicks running unattended was also a grave concern for Me, so I have sent her along with Mr. Ostrich, to have a chance to start her living over. She is grieving over her choices to abandon her little ones. I told her she must never expect to have baby chicks again, as Mr. Ostrich is still unable to love lady Ostriches.

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Now, since you all want to go, Lady Ostrich will have a family to care for! She so wanted another chance. Perhaps Mr. Ostrich will see and understand how good it is to follow the natural order I made for each creature to be with its own kind, with all of you there!""
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""Even should any of you here, or your descendants choose to disobey Me, My creatures, I'll not forsake you. But, I will cause things that teach you to return to Me - I AM is a Jealous I AM!""

""Master?" The first little ostrich looked directly into Master's eyes, the former frown now an ostrich smile. Thank you! I will do my best to be loyal to You always!" His little voice was stronger. "I love You, Master!" Sitting beside him was a baby hippo. It gave a little, happy wag of its stumpy tail, and gave a big hippopotamus smile to the young Ostrich. "I like you," He said. "I love Master, too!"



""After quiet returned and the assembled animals, birds, reptiles, and even a few chirping crickets went their ways, Master led His little charge of small ostriches to their new home with the two banished adults. "Let Me share a little bit of My Plan for the future with you little ostriches," He said. "Let's sit here in this small meadow. We are near the edge of the Great Garden now, and soon we will be leaving it for good. There is much I wish to share with you, My sweet little friends, but all of it would be too much for your young minds.""

""But, here is something I am sure you will remember." They were gathered 'round Him, sitting on the meadow grass. He gently picked up and cuddled the smallest one on His lap. "

""Quite some time after I cleanse Earth from the evil now practiced by a growing number of My creatures, there will be a faithful, obedient servant of Mine. His name will be "Job." After he has proved himself My faithful servant, he will test Me, and I, him. He will never fail to trust Me, though I will give Fallen Angel Lucifer limited authority to take the lives of Job's beloved sons and daughters, just as I gave Lucifer limited authority to take the lives of your cousins, and to beguile My beloved Ish and Ishah."

""I will even allow Lucifer to take dear Job's health and peace, and his wife will implore him to curse Me, and just give up and die! But, My servant Job will remain true to Me, and then I will restore to him more sons and daughters than before, and health that will make him strong and resilient all his days!""

""This will cause Job to dig very deep into a search for My majesty and authority, far deeper than nearly all other humans! Because of his trust and faithfulness, I will reveal to Job great and marvelous things, My Law and My Way of Living.""

""Now, for you ostriches, I will reveal to him that I created you with no natural desire to care for your young!, no, not even for your own un-hatched eggs! But, I will show Job that you, though not having any desire to care for your un-hatched, you do trust Me to care for this vital part of your existence!, and I will faithfully care for and multiply My Ostrich family!""

""Indeed!, here is a short English translation of the record My Job will write about The Ostrich!  . . . "The Ostrich' wings flap joyously with the pinion and plumage of the lovely stork, for she abandons her egg to the care of the ground, warming them by its soil; she forgets that a foot may crush it, or a wild beast may trample or tear it. Her young she treats without care, as though not her own; since I made her forget wisdom, and her labor be in vain, she is unconcerned; I have not given her a measure of understanding. When she lifts her body to run, she laughs at the horse, and his rider.""
Job 39, Verses 13 - 18

"Master patted the small, gangly-legged baby Ostrich, which had folded into a little, fluffy ball, and almost gone to sleep in Master's lap. "Here. You take good care of your little sister," He said to the larger ostrich child, with its head resting on His shoulder. "Remember, I AM is watching over you. If you should want My help, just call My name!""






The old Mr. Neigh! and those listening to Mr. Owl as he shared his grandpa's story, were silent, each in deep thought of their own experiences similar to those of each character in the story. Miss Riding Wolffe's lips moved silently, her mind and heart speaking quietly with Master. A tear trickled down one cheek; soon, another followed.

"Master! Please! I must tell everyone I meet about Your love for them, so no one, I hope, has to feel so forgotten as those little ostriches." She opened one teary eye. Then, looking up at Eriel, she put one soft, furry paw on Eriel's lap.

"I love you," she whispered to her little human friend. "Thank you for coming!"