{"id":18708,"date":"2025-09-25T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=18708"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:10:28","slug":"riwas-stories-at-patreon-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=18708","title":{"rendered":"Riwa\u2019s Stories at Patreon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Coming October rewards<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Santamos groundhog day<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A return to Aqua World<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">More Santamos Island boat rides<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Miyako and Yumi<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Heads will roll<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">URL-spa treatment<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The family that hangs together<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Birth of a serial drowner<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The she-spies last case 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Scooter trouble<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Operation Barracuda<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Penny hears a story<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">August<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> stories\/rewards will fall off at the end of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">September<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> to make room for <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">October<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> rewards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I fully expected to be gone today, and so did many others. But God was merciful. The bible says his mercies endure forever. He did not bring chaos upon the whole world by taking millions of people home to be with Jesus. Instead, Jesus delayed his coming. For now, He has spared us from his mighty judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Families are still intact. Little children are still with their parents. The economy has not crashed, and there has not been devastating destruction upon the planet\u2026 at least not yet. Some people are disappointed, and to be honest, so am I. But then God reminded me how much He loves all of us and that He wants every last one of us to \u201cget on that ark\u201d, so to speak. There is still time for many to get saved. So I had to repent, and I went around last night thanking God that He has given us a little more time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It\u2019s ok if you laugh and mock me. I\u2019d rather warn you and be mocked than not have warned you at all and simply allowed you to be caught up in the ensuing chaos unawares. That would make me a cruel and inconsiderate human being, and I can\u2019t do that to you. You have blessed me so much over the years by reading my stories when you didn\u2019t have to. So let\u2019s take this as a thankful reprieve, and a chance to warn all our friends and neighbors before time runs out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">So now I get to look forward to having cataract surgery on my eyes in a couple weeks. As I sit here at my desk, I see three pairs of glasses lying around as a fourth pair sits upon my face. I change pairs often: when I go outside and when I get up in the morning. When the print is small like this is, I find myself looking for the pair that best magnifies the words. My right eye has rebelled, so my right lens on each new pair of glasses gets thicker and thicker. I keep using my finger to push them back up onto my nose because of the growing weight. It\u2019s all kind of ridiculous, so it will be nice to get my eyes working better. But I\u2019ll have a week or so of taking it easy and allowing them to heal after surgery in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Anyway, it\u2019s time for me to get back to work. I hope you enjoy the stories I\u2019ve come up with for you this next month. My role here is to keep writing for you to give you a distraction in the midst of all the crazy things that are happening in this world. And we certainly saw some heart-rending things this last month, didn\u2019t we? I\u2019m just concerned we\u2019re going to keep seeing much, much worse until Jesus calls us home off our temporary dwelling upon this sinful rock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Please take very good care of yourselves and your families, and I\u2019ll get back to writing. And I\u2019ll keep organizing mom\u2019s pills and going out to eat with her like we did yesterday until that chaotic day finally comes upon this planet. And as always, thank you so very much for being my patrons. I\u2019m humbled, and I can\u2019t believe how blessed I am to have all of you as a part of my Patreon family.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming October rewards Santamos groundhog day A return to Aqua World More Santamos Island boat rides Miyako and Yumi Heads will roll URL-spa treatment The family that hangs together Birth of a serial drowner The she-spies last case 3 Scooter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=18708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riwas-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18710,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18708\/revisions\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}