Part five and half Egyptian Journal

My jounery into Egypt in the Seventies Missionary Journal late in coming my rough draft and book about my experience part five and and a half....after walking out of the Cairo Police Station after being a guest  of the Captain for my own securities sake and mild interrogation for I didnt realize that I was carrying somewhere around two or three years pay on my person Egyptian money for the average income was $165.00 a year and I was carrying a few hundred dollars and a doctor told me that he only made $365.00 a year so any American was rich in comparison and a potential target imagine that...

Urban mining Salvaging and recycling by Peter Romanowsky

After a devestationg divorce and loss of family and home in 1984, the week or month the Nightmare on Elm St came out with Jobnny Depp and of course I lived on Elm Syreet and was give 48 hours to Leave my home and family and booms and only able to take my personal effects and a Nomad trailer that 1 planbed to use to go on a marriage counceling vacation in at the encouragement of my wife and little did I know the conspiricy of my inlaws to have me removed from the family ficture unless I submitted to the family plan which did not include my conservative Christhian views, needless to say I was devestated and in my mid thirties abd thought that I had finally arrived at a place of rest and detirment with out best joint intocome since our martiage and two bar garage and two room guest house and three healtby children but how wkrong I was. No obe could touch me beibg and having a history as a minister and being a respectable part of my larger family. But how wrong I was, I had no one one standing with me in the end and that is how life gkes when you are alm alone and have to start a over sgain all alone. My first order of busines now was pure mental, emotional and physical survival, I was given up yk seventy four hours tp leave my home and fsmily after skxteen years of marriage and I had given up a higher education in the secular world and developed no trade to fall back on except my natural l gift of mechanics,  but haven't worked as one since a teen apprentice but I also devolped a talent for property management and rental from using our large home and mini estate first as a Christian Disciple House and then eventually into rental property by renting out rooms.

    But for now my immediate need is to nos only brace for the divorce and it's fall  outs but to brace myself for winter as this divorce happened on Thanksgivings Eve and winter is approaching and all I cpuld think of is a place to stay warm, for my trailer had no adequate heat but I had no place to park it so I started heading for Florida to wait out the winter and I left on Thanksgiving Eve and my first stop over, over the cold cruel winter desert and stopped along the way with the laxt homeless person and friend that was witb me that I was helping and my only companion. We are a Turkey dinner in a proverbial greasy spoon truck stop style roadside resyeraunt, clean and quaint but but brutally iconic and ironic. The desert is really cold at night and especially in the winter and looks as bleak as he, in the cold. But somewhere the sun had to shine eventially that cold and dark Thanksgiving  night and the Sun did finally shine in Los Vagus and even tbough we got thier that in the day towards evening and found my old Christian friend and brother in Christ, Larry Smith. Now Larry Smith tried to warn me in tears of what was about to happen to me but I could not see it at the time, all looked so well and everything seemed fine and prophetous and happy and bright for the future and making plans to go back to Israel with my family and spend some time there as missionaries as a family and live and rent a flat in Bethlehelm and even my mother inlaw thought that it would be a good idea to go somewhere for a while in  Hawaii, where she was married, etc.

Lazarus

There will be a day that the rich, succeful and well showered and greedy of this wiord, will be praying to the homeless and  so called bums, covered with sores and virtually naked on the streets and living  with the dogs eating out of the rich man's trash can...16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:16:28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Luke