Virgie Bell's View: Masters

One can tell the difference in a really good author, and one that is masterful in his writing. I don't actually know what they call books with lasting appeal except classics. In art it was the Old Masters. I think part of the Old Masters’ art was in the grinding of the pigment and creating their own colors. I am going to call Herman Wouk masterful. He has a way of grinding down an event in life to write about it in a setting in his books that gives it an entirely different look and meaning. I now lack finishing the one he titled Glory and then reading one more before I have read them all. Thus far, it is as though I have traveled though history that covers the pre-World War II era, and when I have finished them it will be right in the thick of things as the Nation of Israel fights against its enemies, which are still the same as they ever were. This little country has been the focus of the international world since the beginning of mankind.

One of the benefits of being a reader is that even reading fiction you become more proficient and much more knowledgeable in history. I turn to my encyclopedias and my different collections of various year-end magazines as well as to the computer for the real historical facts of various books that I read, but with Wouk’s works, it is extensive research in the Bible, which always puts me going as far back as I can in the original translations. He has written one that I want De'on to order for me and that is his work by the title This Is my God. I have come to realize more here lately how accurate the history and traditions are which are symbolized by the Jews. After all, Jesus kept these same traditions. He walked the same walk and followed the same customs and celebrated the same feasts as they do today. If you find it strange the way in which they live their lives, then you will have to admit that you would find Jesus strange. Yet, when it comes to the Savior, it is an accepted fact as the way he was dressed. The robes that are worn by the different Middle East countries signify the dress code from the beginning of time. The difference today is the color of the headdress which identifies the tribe they belong to. The cloth that Moses was wrapped in was Hebrew and he was accepted within royalty in Egypt. The various tribes still wear the headgear, but you will notice the man in the street wears westernized clothes.

Various royalties still wear robes. This book that I am nearly finished with takes place at the time of the Watergate scandals. It is during a war in the Middle East. The Soviet Union was supplying the Arab Nation with military equipment. The United States was supplying Israel. Every once in a while, the author throws in something that puts you right in that period, like the first moon walk. I remember that I looked up in wonder at the moon at that same time. He mentioned a woman wearing white stockings as all the rage at another time. I associated that with the time I lived in Littlefield. When you have read all of his books you will have a good grasp of the national history.


People that are against this war go on about the greed in the oil interest that is within the Middle East. This is a strategic supply to the entire world that has always been fought over. If we ran out of water all over, it would be no different. We will fight for our survival. Mankind will lie on his deathbed and fight for life, even when they are indeed dying. I asked Dr. Chatwell once (an old family physician) if he dreaded dying. He said he did dread the process of dying, not the death. Yesterday we spent a really nice day at Lisa's for Mother’s Day. Harvey, the kids’ dad, was there and in a wheelchair. I had not known about this turn of events. I asked him how he liked it, of course meaning was it comfortable, he replied that yes he liked it for it was really good for going to the doctor. I cringe with these little pleasures. I remember him doing the jitterbug with me. There are atheists that fight among the Israeli military, there is the Zionist, and then there are those without any loyalties, except they are of the blood. During this time Gerald Ford became president when Nixon was forced to resign. But it was Nixon who was the force that supplied the weapons for the people in Israel to survive. The American Jewish population is among the richest and most powerful anywhere. The country of Israel depends on this segment of society. As far as I can tell, the war activists act against the Jewish people. It is a fact that the Jews depend upon God to keep them alive, and it has certainly been the case for us intervening that has helped to bring that small nation through until the present time. We must all remember that we will always be of the priesthood of Melchezidec. That was when God walked with Abraham and promised this land to his descendents.

Al Sharpton said last week that his ancestors were building pyramids while we were living in caves. That may be true, but if so, when we worshiped the one true God, then his ancestors worshiped Pharaoh.

I think everything went pretty well on Mother’s Day. I know it did for me. I know it certainly did for De’on’s newest member, the boss kitten named Cady. SUPPORT THE TROOPS!