Daily Journal Continued July 13,1998, By-William Thomas Thompson This Monday morning is clear and Summer hot. My car is still in Earl's Auto.Air Shop for the 3rd time he has rebuilt it and the 5th time I have rebuilt it in one year. This old car with mill-ion miles needs to be given away to a person that really needs a car if I can get it running good,With all it has cost for a new motor and air conditioning although Earl's work is guaranteed. Bible school opened last night and I had to move all my paint supplies out of the bus so they could clean it up and out. It looked good even though some seat fronts only had blank faces painted and may not get much more for now because I have a dead line to paint art for the big Hambidge Center show this weekend at Rabin Gap Georgia near Dillard. I have never been one to plan much ahead and sometimes the Lord changes my direction and pur-pose suddenly. I believe we are to wait on the Lord for our daily instruction and pray for divine guidance. I have only a few cases of small canvases left to paint and then I want to switch to all heavy canvas with heavy framing so it appears stronger and should not ever warp. I am resigned to do God's will and not my own. I want so much to paint huge displays like the drive-in art museum in St.Augustine but that is hanging now by a thread as I try to please everyone and wind up pleasing no one. I am resolved. Johney Jones has left the area and in the week he was here,he went through about $1,000.00 counting what he made and what he took. The church Pastor fixed him a place to stay at a vacant house if he would only cut the grass but when he cut part of the grass,someone stole the lawn mower,that is what he said happened. "The wages of sin is death."wages of a wicked man buy nothing,his word is worthless and his presence is as a flame of destruction. Disney's head was on 6o minutes last night explaining that the boycott by the Baptist has not hurt them,Michael Eisner who looks like Dracula's cousin is more than a friend to the gay world. Who would ever have dreamed that sodomy would have been an issue with anyone or that such people would ever come out of cover. Pat Robertson is said to have predicted trouble for Disney. The fires are so much like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah that God destroyed by fire in Abraham's time. The principles revealed in the Bible are there for all times,God does not ever change. In painting on the bus I see a community gone down from how I remember it as a child. The house next door has a dog with pups and the dog has mange and is in misery. I went to the feed and seed store and purchased a bottle of mange cure. All it is,is oil and water for $6.95,or at least that is all the dog hide needs to cure mange is old motor oil. They said the vet wanted $800.00 to treat this dog. I am not surprised. A vet charged us $200.00 on a dog in recent years and failed to cure. As the dog suffered near death I went to this same store and purchased a spray can of simple mange spray for $3.50 and one spraying cured the dog. As of late today the family had not use the solution. Daily Journal Continued July 14,1998, By-William Thomas Thompson God has no lazy people in his kingdom. Early to rise on this day of burial of our dear cousin Gracie T Painter who lived at Mauldin,S.C. and daughter of my fathers half brother James Henry Thompson of Fountain Inn,S.C.,We took flowers to her funeral at Cannon Funeral Home in Fountain Inn at 11am. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,works follow them" With the show"Stan"on T.V. for the last two nights showing all of the ghost of a nation gone dead from a mystery virus starting in an East Texas town,with the Last nights news of frogs dying all over the world after reporting earlier on the deformed frogs and with the President today acknowledging we have a major computer problem coming up that may shut down the beast of government,I say it is time to take Revelation Prophecy serious and begin to pray. Clinton like Nebuchadnezzar calls his smart men that know nothing about how to resolve this problem. They have bet on the wrong horse,paid the wrong piper and missed the boat of salvation of a nation gone mad with more problems then can ever be solved. The only real permanent poverty are those that know not God. After working in the neighborhood painting in the bus on the old Buncombe road in the run down area of San Souci,I have been sure educated on poor and how these people live. The streets around the church building are all loaded with cars that run or do not run and the streets are the public playgrounds. There is constant traffic in and out. This reminds me of the little mill village of Conestee where I assisted my brother years ago to take down his gospel tent and no man in the village wore a shirt. This reminds me of a drive through Harlem's 8th Ave. where you must weave in and out to miss all the parked obstructions that block the street and limit traffic flow. Terms come to mind that I have heard in recent times of "trailer trash" in referring to low class living areas and especially trailer parks. Another term often used is "white trash" describing people who live in and about conditions like this although this neighborhood is a mix of white, black and spanish with no trailer parks. All this area from the industrial South was multi mill villages with typical mill built houses on hills and now about half are removed with the land vacant includ- ing our uncle John Dupree who worked for years at the American Spinning plant that still stands but his house on Sizemore street is gone. About a stones throw from here is the site of the old Poe Mill. We purchased some solid brick out of that mill only to learn the hard way that they were for inside walls only. When wet and cold they would freeze and disintergrate. Then through the 2 tunnels that holdup the railroad track and about 3 long blocks I am at Earl's place and my car is finally ready with cool air a blowing across my ribs and dust covered everything. Earl's place has everything,a restaurant and auction house next door. Trailers and lots of cars. Earl can fix everything and does for the town. What goes on here is like watching a major movie in any given day every minute of every hour. Earl should charge admittion to see. Poor in mind is poor in body,Give us the mind of the Lord! I feel for these people but they seem happy and content. There seems to be little or no real future for children raised in this type of casual life but what future do we as a nation also have? Daily Journal Continued July 15,1998, By-William Thomas Thompson Proverbs 28-1,"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: Its the S&S Cafeteria today for lunch with all the kids screaming and the worlds best apple pie that messes me up to eat,anything sweet depletes all my energy. Here like elsewhere are many people unworthy to eat good food or breath God's air from what I see. all the noise people make and the way they laugh makes me want to throwup. The put on of people and how silly they act and what little they say considering how much they talk makes me want to go away and not come back another day. There is so much I need to do today if my time does not go away before I can work and get all and everything done that I need to do. If its just my work it is okay but I must pick up everything that drops from others in terms of trash even that across the street when it shows up bad. When I eat anything sweet,I get hungry sooner. I made the long trip to Greer to check on the free metal panels but they were gone again and my man did not get them for me. So long they were there but not near a load and now lose them again. Maybe it is not meant to be for me as its all closing in. The way I have suffered to get these and the cost to transport them would be a mountain for me. By faith I must see that its not up to me. Maybe I need straiter panels and better ones delivered to the art site where I see huge prophecy art painted of the fulfillment. I believe that all things will be according to Gods will and enough right materials will be available when and as they are needed. We must be patient and wait upon the Lord,to be faithful to His job. A vitamin C alert that too much may be toxic. On my way to Greer,I stopped by Dillard's Orchard on highway 14 to buy peaches hard and soft for myself and others. Peaches are so beautiful this year golden yellow and the fresh taste is sure out of this world. I wish everyone could enjoy this fruit but it has a quick decay like riches that go away. Someone stated that whatever you can lose,you will lose. I say,give it away today. Let no man want if you have,give it before being ask if needed. Any person that believes not in God is poorly educated! My soul hangs heavy with a mix of what I want to do and say com-pared to what God may want for me to say or to do. I painted a peach today and what a pretty peach it is. Because it is going to the Hambidge Center,I named it Georgia Belle although those are a white meated peach and not this delicious red yellow and golden color. The elberta I remember and the golden Jubilee. I saw an animal police in a wired pickup truck speed by. A report on CBS 7pm news stated that most of the fat on peoples bodies today come from sugar. Not only is sugar content high in fruits and in vegetables like carrots but sugar is added to the most of American diets for reasons of improving taste. This is a waste and is taking the advantage of innocent people by adding a part sugar to their daily diet. Hidden sugar is cheating the one eating and may be a liability to the person if ever proven. I read about the orange juice man that added fructose to his juice for years it said 100 percent pure orange juice and every airline served it and I drank it and always felt like death thereafter. It said he went to federal prison for this which was easy proven. Let us serve the Lord and not lie,cheat or steal for any reason.