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Veteran’s Day always brings to mind that LIFE cover photo of the sailor kissing the nurse. I was too young at the time to be much interested in kissing girls but I sure remember all the bells ringing, horns blowing and people pouring out of their homes at the announcement of Japan’s surrender that meant the end of WWII. Edith Shain may have been that nurse as she claims, but whether or not what she is quoted as saying about the photo and that moment in time is certainly true: "As for the picture… it says so many things -- hope, love, peace and tomorrow. The end of the war was a wonderful experience, and that photo represents all those feelings."

Those years between the attack on Pearl Harbor and V-J Day were hard ones for us here on the Home Front. What with so many loved ones being killed and maimed in the war, the rationing and other hardships it had seemed a very long and never-ending saga of bad news interspersed with stories of heroism and victories. But with the announcement of Japan’s surrender most of us were of the same mind as Edith that the end of the war would bring “hope, love, peace and tomorrow.” These feelings were shattered by the growing realization of how our government had lied to us about the events of WWII, the Korean “conflict” a short time later, the Cold War, Vietnam, and a stream of unrelenting wars since with all the war profiteering going on. Looking at what America has become, I have to question what all the sacrifice of WWII and the following wars has really been about? If the dead that were sacrificed could arise, what would be their judgment in view of what America has become?

Quite candidly, our government lied to us back then during and after WWII and has never stopped lying since. As I grew older and began to study the many variations of “official” proclamations by our government concerning WWII and all the wars thereafter it became obvious the whole is filled not only with the lies but mysteries as well, a prominent one being why we got the bomb before Germany or Japan? The answer for me in light of the many obstacles working against such a thing ever happening is Israel in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

The PBS presentation “Journey to Palomar” was a marvelous tribute to the genius and perseverance of George Ellery Hale. Few of us are not fascinated by the mysteries of the universe, but solving some of these may prove to be as intractable as some mysteries on our own planet such as those of the Sphinx, the great pyramids of Giza, JFK, RFK, and 9/11. You would at least think the mysteries on our own planet, particularly those of recent history would be easier to solve than the mysteries of the universe, but now the mystery of Barack Hussein Obama who given his shady and mysterious background, the MSM adoration without any of the hard questions being asked would seem a fairytale, something so fanciful no one in their right mind would have believed possible!

While we are told a DNA test has proved Steve Fossett was killed in that crash the mystery surrounding it remains, such as the ELT not being activated by the impact and what he was doing in that area? There are his various connections to those in power, that as with JFK, RFK, and 9/11 leave many questions unanswered; and the lack of incontrovertible answers leads naturally to conspiracy theories; but these aside few of us who lived the events of WWII only to discover how our government lied to us then and thereafter are very likely to believe “official” stories like the Warren and 9/11 Commissions. If it comes out of government, we now take it as lies to cover up the truth and protect the guilty. And who does not shudder at the pronouncement “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.”

And now as I haul out the aluminum foil, if there had been no Hitler there would be no modern State of Israel; but what a horrific price to pay for a homeland for Jews! But when I consider the hellishness of those atomic bombs, had Hitler or Tojo gotten the bomb first there is no doubt these atomic weapons would have been used on America and there would be no Israel!

But there it is; the miracle of Israel bearing testimony to the faithfulness of God’s promise to Abraham. There are ominous portents on the horizon for America, and the fact our government lies to us to protect the wealthy and their bought politicians does not bode well for the immediate future. And without hope of anything really changing for the better who has hope for the long term welfare of our nation? I watch what role Israel is playing in current affairs; and from this I believe we can discern what the future holds for America and the world. What I don’t see in these portents is the euphoria of the “hope, love, peace and tomorrow” that picture on the cover of LIFE represented to us at the end of WWII.

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Fortunately those of us who talk to our furry companions are not threatened with being hauled off to the Loony Bin for doing so. And while some of us are convinced Fluffy and Fido understand what we are saying few of us expect them to communicate in turn with articulate speech, though “feed me” and “pet me” come through very clearly, especially in the case of cats. Yet, when I stroll about outside the cat seems to actually enjoy my company and strolling with me just like the old dog I had on the mining claim here in the Kern River Valley when I was a boy. Why? I don’t know.

In a crazy world it continues to make some kind of sense to us and makes us feel warm all over when we see a TV segment of baby ducks being rescued and returned to their anxiously waiting momma duck. Part of that warm feeling is being aware the momma duck seems to be aware that the humans involved are trying to help her and her babies, that there is no intent to harm her babies. When kittens and puppies, any baby animals are rescued by humans we get that warm feeling that there is goodness to be found among us; and few things so stir our anger as to discover someone has been cruel to baby ducks, somehow we know those that would do such a thing must be some kind of monster, something distinct and apart from a human being. Jesus leveled the direst of warnings against those that would harm a child, and we seem to know intuitively that those that would be cruel to harmless little creatures like baby ducks will have the same satanic trait toward people, a diabolically inhuman trait that is not subject to any kind of “rehabilitation.”

It may be fortunate for us that the resident cat or dog cannot speak our language; we have the advantage of being able to talk to them without fear of a negative response. It doesn’t work that way talking to people where we often have to be very guarded and circumspect in our speech. Over the many years I have often found myself talking to some critter, much as I imagine my Cherokee ancestors did, giving vent to my innermost thoughts knowing the animal though being attentive would not betray my confidences. Very seldom do you find a person you can trust in like manner. This is one of the reasons animals figure prominently in many religions, why so many try to endow animals with human, even supernatural characteristics.

But I have never tried to communicate my thoughts about the hereafter with the resident cat or any other such creature. While I believe all life returns to the Creator of life, I just don’t expect animals to understand my thoughts on the subject. Perhaps because my many years of dealing with forest and farm animals never resulted in the kind of communications I would have with people it hasn’t crossed my mind that I should be looking to animals for answers to the many questions I have concerning the supernatural. In this I find myself departing from those like the ancient Egyptians for example; but I won’t attempt to disabuse those whose beliefs include things like cats being “familiars.” In some cases, people are having fun with such a thing and I wouldn’t think of intruding myself on the fun.

My son Michael and my friends like Mike and Byron know what I mean about living with “ghosts” and they are as likely to talk to the resident cat as I am when they visit. But I would understand their concern for me and couldn’t fault them if they called for the boys with butterfly nets if I ever told them that my ghosts or the resident cat were having real conversations with me; much as I have always avoided people who declare “God told me” and expect people to believe them. Whether it is God, ghosts, or the cat those of a rational mind are going to demand such claims be supported by incontestable evidence and rightly so.

But God does speak to me through the Bible and his Creation, and while I find these to be a far better resource even if Nancy Reagan did engage in séances I wouldn’t be finding fault with her, and if some believe in astrology that is their affair. Believers in such things are often among the best and brightest, the most well educated and are often trying to make sense of the lunatic world they find themselves in. It is only natural for people to reach out to the supernatural in an attempt to make sense of the craziness surrounding us, and I find comfort in lighting a candle and communing with my loved ones gone on before me. That I haven’t resorted to a Ouija Board or crystal ball doesn’t mean I have no sympathy with those who do credit such things, and we would be all the poorer without Abbott and Costello’s “The Time of Their Lives.”

Many of us reach out to the supernatural in an attempt to find comfort in our grief, to find a source of guidance, of understanding and hope in an evil world that makes little sense. What might be considered a milder form of lunacy among those who credit charms and amulets, séances, astrology or crystal balls can be entertaining, even bringing comfort to some. It is when such things become extreme and impinge on the lives of others adversely there is cause for real concern. Few would want to return to the Dark Ages of burning witches and heretics, though the Biblical warnings against things like witchcraft remain.

I really enjoy the old black and white movies of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man; I even enjoy the Mummy films of Brendan Fraser, but I do not like the blood and gore in full color of the senselessly violent films. I like things that stir the imagination without the computer generated splatter of blood everywhere, and one of the more obvious signs of the end of this age to me is the growing violence against women and children, both in film and in reality.

If people are having fun with their beliefs or finding comfort in them without harm to anyone more power to them. If those of us who talk to our furry companions are not causing any harm by doing so, why would any complain? But since I believe we are now facing a new Dark Age one of the things I am growing increasingly sensitive to is the way people abuse animals as well as the way women and children are being abused.

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Satan has his hot button issues some of which are homosexuality, pedophilia, child molestation, marriage and family, the Bible, moral standards, civilized manners and speech and the servants of the Evil One will quickly organize to attack all those expressing views about these things contrary to the Devil’s. “Hath God said…?” And this is how the cunning serpent in the Garden approached Eve, to call into question the word of God. Eve’s mistake seems to have been in not only paying attention to the serpent but allowing it to go even further and actually contradict God, telling Eve she would not die as God had warned, but would become like a god herself.

As a daughter of Eve, Governor Sarah Palin should have taken heed and not listened to the serpent. While I applauded Governor Palin and voiced my support of her as a glimmer of hope on the political scene, knowing she was the only bright spot in McCain’s campaign and the wisest choice he could make under the circumstances this did not detract from the Biblical injunction due to Eve’s part in The Fall that women are not to have power and authority over men.

Jesus warned the true prophets of God do not wear soft clothing and live in kings’ palaces. Paul warned women about adorning themselves with jewelry rather than a quiet and humble spirit. The proper roles of men and women are carefully delineated both in Scripture and nature, and whenever either departs from their proper roles there is a price to be paid. When it comes to politics or any position where either men or women seek power and authority over others invariably there is a hearkening to the serpent rather than to God. Whenever anyone attempts to pass themselves as a child of God while patently ignoring those things that should be the distinguishing characteristics of their purported divine parentage we are warned to be wary of such people.

From the very beginning when Caesar Bush pronounced he needed no other advisor than God I knew he was certainly not divinely anointed to the White House, but rather a false prophet. No real prophet of God seeks power and authority over others, but is commanded to live in a way as to be an example to others of God’s way of working in the lives of his children; and seeking power and wealth is a characteristic of the children of the Devil, not the children of God.

The Devil moves in the very best circles of the world. While the works of the Devil are evident in the most heinous of crimes against women and children especially, he seems most comfortable among his own of the most elite establishments of this world system, among the inner circles of power and wealth, and though his servants often flaunt such things as riches and fame the most powerful remain in the shadows lest their evil deeds as Jesus pointed out be exposed.

Emerson was quite correct in pointing out individuals like Socrates, Jesus, and Washington leave no class. While they may leave disciples, such individuals are unique not only to themselves but to history. Many may take of their example and teachings, but invariably when the schools are founded and followers begin to multiply the unique genius of the originals becomes lost and those that presume to speak in their names too often become only caricatures of those whose philosophies they espouse. However, with the loss of the originals we are left with their recorded words, but apart from the Bible there is just no way of making sense of a crazy world, one in which the historical record is that of continuing violence.

We are told in the Bible that a meek and humble spirit is the most prized of God, and are warned that “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” If Satan’s fall was occasioned by his pride it is not to be wondered at that his servants, the children of the Devil, would be heir to this same weakness. It’s a hard thing at times to live honestly before both God and men in a world under Satan’s dominion, to live in such a manner as not to give offense through the hypocrisy of unbelievers that would try to have it both ways having one foot in heaven and the other in hell; but such is the requirement for the children of God.

I do believe the struggle on the part of the children of God to be against the world, the flesh, and the Devil, that the warfare is a spiritual one waged in the spirit rather than the material weapons of this world system, but rather the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. The children of God are warned not to give place to the Devil, to resist the Evil One and not to be ignorant of his many devices by which he attempts to ensnare the unwary, but there is a place of safety in keeping our hearts with all diligence, knowing in the words of Jesus that where our hearts are, there will our treasure be also.

But having been designated by many a member in good standing of the aluminum foil hat crowd through my writings expressing my belief there is in fact a Devil and the Bible is factual in many instances and trustworthy in making known the thoughts and the will of God toward humankind, that God has in fact spoken to us through his prophets in the Biblical accounts I have nothing to lose by further pointing out there are many claiming to be God’s children just as willing to call me mad.

As the world churns in unrest on many fronts it is good to have a place to draw apart, a quiet place in which to commune with your own heart and find peace of mind. As with me, it is good if you have departed loved ones and friends with whom you can have sweet communion, knowing we are only separated briefly from these loved ones by the thin and fleeting veil of our mortality. Such is the hope the world cannot offer us, but only God.

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As I wrote about it at the time Jeremiah Wright may have prophesied better than he knew in condemning America. When the thought first suggested itself to me some years ago that the seed of America’s destruction may have been sown in slavery, something this election has served to confirm, I resisted the impulse to pursue any inquiry into this. I was born into a generation in which the Founding Fathers were held in such high esteem approaching veneration that to question their motives leading to the Revolution and thereafter was truly unthinkable to me. But with the passing of years and much study of American history I gradually began to sort things out in my mind, realizing that trade does indeed curse all it touches, that those nations that increase wealth based on slavery also increase sorrow whether such slavery be that of North or South leading to the attempt at national suicide: Lincoln’s War, a war from which America would never recover.

As mind-numbing as it is for some because of the laborious attention to many details, Professor Claude G. Bowers’ exhaustive “The Tragic Era” remains the quintessential scholarly work defining what led up to the Civil War and that period called “Reconstruction” immediately following the assassination of Lincoln and resulted in a Federal Triune Dictatorship. But to try and go back in time and attempt to understand those circumstances that led to slavery in America can be a mind-numbing task, and not something I was willing to undertake. However, the place of slavery throughout history can be summed up in one word: Profit.

To take by force the bread earned by another has been one of the Devil’s most successful methods of establishing tyranny and supporting despots. That America has been enslaved through taxation without representation, ruled by the wealthy and the politicians they have bought is a direct linear result of the failure of the Founding Fathers to exclude slavery by our Constitution. By the time of Emerson and Thoreau the abolitionist movement was gaining ground, but both men realized trading a southern overseer for the wage slavery of a northern one would only perpetuate the profit driven evils of slavery. And from the very beginning with the introduction of slavery into America, the failure to deal with this early on because of profit America now stands in peril of God’s judgment.

In retrospect, the disastrous reign of Caesar Bush during which he became hated by so many together with a cadaverous McCain too closely aligned to Bush and Governor Palin seen as a threat doomed the GOP. But in the beginning of this long and painfully drawn out election cycle it seemed utterly preposterous that the Democrats would choose Obama, and that once chosen he could possibly win the election. That is, it was preposterous unless God was determined to bring judgment against America for having turned away from him and delivered our nation up to Satan.

“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” As Job suffered the torments of Satan he maintained his faith in God and remains a testimony to all believers. I believe the election was in God’s hands, and as he gave Satan leave to torment Job so I believe he has given Satan leave to torment America leading to the judgment of Babylon in Revelation. But as in the case of Job, the children of God will suffer afflictions that try their faith, the righteous entering into life through much tribulation. However, those nations that turn away from God will be destroyed.

If as I expect Obama will prove to be an Ayers/Wright surrogate he will be the tool of Satan and only hasten God’s judgment of America. Millions are hoping for a new day to dawn under an Obama presidency, but like the prophets of old sent to warn Israel I consider the very evils of slavery that have culminated in this election and have a foreboding of what the future holds for our nation as the weed of slavery for the sake of profit bears its inevitable bitter fruit.

I’m an old man with a Biblical view and interpretation of history. Some have been generous and charitable in allowing me the latitude of speaking as coming from a past Norman Rockwell America now forgotten to most, one most people not of my generation have only learned about from books, films, and TV. But in fairness to myself what could have been more preposterous than to even entertain the notion of what has transpired over the last couple of years culminating in a Negro as President of the United States? I have to ask myself how something so seemingly preposterous could be explained in any other way than to see God’s direct intervention in the affairs of America. Obama has said “We have laid our hands on the ark of history,” but if he was referencing the Ark of the Covenant to lay hands on that meant certain death.

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President Clinton was a charismatic well liked liar, but President Bush lacking any charisma seemed to go out of his way to lie and be hated. This has much to do with Obama’s success, but while “Out of Africa” was a very good movie a Jeremiah Wright presidency would not suit most Americans though it would have U.N. approval.

Getting the popcorn and kicking back for the circus today doesn’t take away from the serious issue that if Hussein wins we will find ourselves suffering the reign of a surrogate Ayers/Wright. But no matter who wins, the reign of Caesar Bush has put America in a very dangerous position and it is problematical how any leadership, even a good one rather than the corrupt one entrenched, can resolve the issues threatening our nation. However, Hussein as an Ayers/Wright surrogate and disciple is virtually guaranteed to tear America apart.

It isn’t too difficult to compare this election to a Roman Circus with Hussein promising free bread to everyone and some can enter into the spirit of his pronouncement “It will be fun to see how the story ends,” but with him in the role of Caligula having been the recipient of the “longest wet kiss in history (Gov. of Miss.)” by the MSM complementing the madness of it all there is definitely an air of throwing Christians to the lions and burning them at the stake for the amusement of Hussein and his worshippers. Of course, if you belong to the Ayers/Wright/Hussein court you might be spared. However, once Jeremiah Wright pronounces Ayers god-damned and exposes him as just another southern overseer several of whom I knew in Watts and the universities pretending sympathy for Negroes, this would bode ill for any Caucasians in that camp no matter their Roman salutes to a Hamite Caesar no different than that of Aryan Brothers in prayer.

As I found myself struggling to open my bottle of Centrum Silver from the bottom this morning I was reminded of a couple of things. For those familiar with plastic bottles having both cap and bottom very similar you understand how this can occur. But if you find yourself struggling to open the bottle from the bottom for some length of time before your brain kicks in and alerts you to what is happening you may be in serious trouble. If you begin cursing the thing and get out your Channellock pliers and start using them in an attempt to unscrew the bottom of the bottle you are in very serious trouble.

It’s a simple metaphor for how politicians are promising to fix the problems in America; their brains do not seem to be functioning and they have gotten out the Channellock’s and are trying to open the bottle at the bottom; but those strong pliers can burst the bottom of the bottle and the pills will go flying all over. The more politicians are trying to “fix” things, the more they appear to be trying to open that bottle at the bottom with Channellock’s.

Of course my experience with the Centrum Silver bottle this morning could have been a senior moment, but one in which my brain successfully functioned and quickly apprised me of the problem rather than resulting in reaching for my Channellock’s. However, it was no senior moment some time ago when I began to consider the seed of America’s destruction was sown in slavery, and while I fervently hope otherwise this election may prove that premise.

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It is an ongoing debate among scholars how much of the migration of humans and the beginnings of modern civilization depended on climate and how much depended upon innovation, the tools by which people were not only able to survive but to build cities. A curious statement in the Bible, Genesis 4:26 where we read that with the birth of Enos the son of Seth “then began men to call upon the name of the Lord” would lead me to believe much of innovation is of Satan, and cities would become places where evil flourished, one of the main reasons for this being that merchants did not produce the food that sustained life but would supply it for a price at a profit to those who neither sowed nor reaped by the labor of their own hands.

I have long supposed some innovations like nuclear energy to be the work of Satan, and I believe we would be better off without explosives of any kind. But there is no doubt in my mind that trade, as an innovation, curses all it touches. Invariably collectivism of any kind will succumb to those evil that will take advantage for the sake of power and profit. And I’ve often wondered what would be the case of churches today were the Holy Spirit still slaying those like Ananias and Sapphira?

But the earliest chapters of Genesis describe a time of growing violence and perversion resulting in the Deluge, and Noah was the only man left God found righteous. When the perversion of his son Ham is recounted in Genesis we read that Noah pronounced a curse upon Ham and his descendants. That Noah is actually pronouncing such a curse standing in the very place of God in judgment of wickedness we get a pretty good idea of the closeness of the relationship between God and Noah in the same way as that of Abraham and Moses to follow.

One of the greatest advantages I enjoyed as a child was being taught the great stories of the Bible, so that like Timothy I knew the holy scriptures from childhood that are able to make one wise unto salvation. But not everyone receives the “engrafted word” unto salvation, as the Bible makes clear.

In Romans the Apostle Paul points out the Jews had a great advantage, in fact he says it is of chief importance, having been given the “oracles of God,” the very words God spoke to people from the time of Adam and Eve and eventually committed to the writings contained in the Bible. But Jesus and Paul made it very clear that the outward forms of worship including that of circumcision would not save either Jews or Gentiles, but only the engrafted word of God made to live and grow in our hearts by the spirit of God whereby we are made children of God and rightly call him our heavenly father.

While the beginnings of Modern Man and civilization remain shrouded in mystery, I take the book of Genesis at face value in describing these things. The Adam was a special creation in the image of God that came to be known as Modern Man, the Deluge caused the continents to appear as a result of the breaking up of the fountains of the deep and the waters receding. But the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent would cause continuing enmity between the children of God and the children of the Devil.

God would continue his conversations with a few like Noah, men like Abraham and Moses together with later of specifically chosen prophets. And there would never be any lack of false prophets, those purporting to speak for God then even as they do today causing Jesus, together with some of the writers of the New Testament, to warn of wolves in sheep’s clothing. But there is a royal thread that runs so true throughout the Bible that is unmistakable to the children of God, and like that royal thread is found by those to who these scriptures ring true in their hearts. Take the story of the Tower of Babel for example; I find no better cause through science than the story of the confusion of tongues as given in Genesis.

As the work of God continued through the earliest ages of humankind he would choose Abraham to carry out this work. But following the Exodus that generation of Israelites would perish in the desert leaving a new generation to occupy the promised land of the chosen people. Over time the northern kingdom of Israel would go into captivity because of disobedience to God, and the southern kingdom of Judea would follow not long after; and after the destruction of Jerusalem following the crucifixion of Jesus not until 1948 would Israel once again rise as an independent nation.

But the new nation of Israel came about in fulfillment of God’s promise there would always be a remnant as a testimony of his faithfulness to the covenant he had made with Abraham, not the faithfulness of the Jews. However, it is remarkable this tiny nation should figure so prominently in world affairs, something I actually find miraculous and brings the full force of Paul’s statement about having received the oracles of God being of chief importance to Jews into view. As People of the Book the Jews have not only distinguished themselves and survived, but have made themselves the “football of the world,” hated and despised by the nations of the world. This situation has only been exacerbated by Israel becoming a modern nation, but also by its very existence depending on America as the only friend it has. And at some juncture in time, Israel is going to be betrayed.

However, there is a new covenant God has made with his children found in the New Testament, those grafted into the tree of life, the legitimate children of God and the seed of the woman following in the line of Seth and Noah to whom both the Old and New Testaments speak in that royal thread that runs so true throughout.

In the twilight of life my mind seems to naturally turn on the many issues God has shared with men and women, the things recorded in the Bible that speak to my heart and together with communing with my loved ones gone on before me to be with the Lord bring comfort to my soul in these desperate times, and in the words of Scripture I find myself in the place of that scribe bringing forth from his treasure things both old and new, things not only of reverie and contemplation, but things exciting as well since in the course of my life I have attempted to keep up with the pace of our modern world and how it relates to the Scriptures.

I know for example the earth cannot possibly continue to support anything approaching any quality of life for the increasing billions of mouths demanding bread, earned or not. That innovation such as nuclear weaponry that can empower the most evil of Satan’s servants cannot come to a good end. In just a few days we will learn who the next president will be, and while I know Barack Hussein Obama is a servant of Satan the axiom of Scripture remains; “When the wicked walk on every side, what can the righteous do.”

Governor Sarah Palin has said this election is in God’s hands, and I certainly agree. But there is Jeremiah Wright calling down the wrath of God upon America because of the way he perceives God should be taking vengeance on Caucasians. But I know he is only speaking for himself and those like him that demand government continue supporting unproductive mouths be fed by the productive. We know the vast majority of Negroes will vote for Obama because he is “one of their own,” a strictly racist vote, while Caucasians voting for McCain/Palin will be accused of “racism.” The whole thing has made this election a hellish, witch’s brew of racial and Marxist hatreds and opportunism, one in which the Devil’s MSM has already enthroned their messiah.

But there is always the unexpected, and it is in this realm of the unexpected where the miraculous intervention of God in human affairs is most often displayed. It is for this reason some of the greatest minds of history have willingly accorded the works of God supersede the works of men whether it be of God’s wrath and judgment, or of mercy. Whatever one’s thoughts about the subject, there is the sober warning of Jesus that only a few are going to be saved out of this evil world system that is presently Satan’s domain, one in which the children of God are beset on every side and everywhere they turn by the Devil and his servants.

The war that started back in the Garden at the time of The Fall continues, but it is a spiritual war not fought with worldly weapons, but those supplied by the spirit of God. And the oracles of God working through the Holy Spirit indwelling those who are saved bear witness to the truth of this to the children of God. No matter what the Devil does, each night as I commune with my heart upon my bed my assurance of God being in control of my life is the thing that speaks peace to my soul. And this should be the assurance of every child of God.

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This presidential election is so implausible as to defy making rational sense of it, but does remind me of studies having to do with “Zombie parasites of the brain.” Apart from such scientific studies, seemingly from out of nowhere Barack Hussein Obama appears from a shadowy, dubious and questionable background and those investigators not turned into Hussein Zombies are labeled “racist” for questioning his blatant lack of credentials and qualifications for the presidency, so utterly lacking in these as to be ridiculous if it were anyone but a Negro that university spawned political correctness has made sacrosanct and untouchable.

Even more implausible is his being treated like a rock star by the MSM and touted a “great speaker” despite his obviously not being anything approaching such unwarranted praise, even seeming dim-witted, haltingly searching for words with insulting verbal pauses of “uh, uh,” when he speaks. To add to the irrationality of all this is his having said absolutely nothing of substance while the MSM touts his agenda of “change” never addressing any specifics of what he means by this glittering generality apart from a Marxist redistribution of wealth!

But what is known about Hussein’s associations with those like Ayers, Wright, and ACORN being the black equivalent of a white supremacist with an Aryan Brotherhood connection would disqualify any Caucasian contender. In my opinion only Satan could so successfully pull this off to advance his choice of Hussein. Only the Evil One has the power using the tools at his disposal like the universities, MSM and Hollywood to accomplish something so sinister that seems like a bad work of fiction. But I remind myself Satan owns those in power able to hide the truth about so many things like JFK and 9/11, and he is able to advance someone like Hussein to serve his purpose having laid the groundwork already through the universities and the administration of Caesar Bush.

To add to this being such a zany and implausible election where are the real issues being addressed, the things that are tearing America apart like our open borders and the millions of illegal aliens and drugs invading our nation at taxpayer expense? What about English as our national language, holding those accountable for the mortgage meltdown and banker bailouts, and this betrayal of “Press one for English”? Other than Marxist socialism it doesn’t seem either candidate has any answers to America’s meltdown, but taking Governor Palin at her word the election is in God’s hands I turn to the Bible in an attempt to make any sense of what is going on.

From the outset I considered Governor Sarah Palin a glimmer of hope on the political scene. But from the Biblical perspective she is up against the subservient position of women in the Bible by God’s decree beginning with Eve. Removed from anything Biblical, removed from anything of the supernatural and metaphysical it seems to me McCain made a wise choice in Governor Palin. However, from a Biblical perspective while some condemn her for fundamentalist Bible beliefs how did she manage to pursue a course in her life that led to political eminence of leadership including having authority over men counter to such beliefs? In its own way this is as much a mystery as that of Hussein.

In an America where the value of women is gauged primarily by their youth and sexual attractiveness Governor Palin offers quite a Biblical conundrum for believers. It is the weakest part of “The Da Vinci Code” to entertain the notion Jesus would ever intend a woman to lead the church, though as fiction it had to make sense. However, here we are in reality having a woman positioned to lead America should events fall out in a certain way becoming a truth stranger than fiction.

The utter implausibility of this election cycle including McCain/Palin emphasizes what most writers know, that the difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction has to make sense. This is somewhat of an oversimplification of what is a very complex idea, but as a general rule it has broad applications of validity based on the fact that much of the reality of life makes little sense and the novelist must tweak the many nonsensical realities of life, “A tale told by an idiot,” in order to produce a fiction that makes sense causing the writer to resort to many a literary device and taking license in order to make the thread of the tale hold throughout.

Just reflecting on my own life much of it seems a tale told by an idiot, and is best done by moonglow or candlelight to sort things out. At that some questions that come to me in soft light have some very hard edges difficult to smooth by reason alone in the bright light of day, one such being the love of God.

God; do you love me? Have you ever taken the time to ask yourself with the utmost seriousness and contemplation whether God loves you? Just ask him straight out: God; do you love me? Apart from the question generally never being asked of God by most people, there are a host of reasons why many people would fear to ask even if it occurred to them to do so, many fearful of what they believe the answer would be because of a litany of sins.

Of equal importance is the question of whether a person loves God? The only answer I have to the question is in the love I have for others. As I commune with loved ones gone on before me I rely on their love for me and mine for them to cover a multitude of sins, this is my only hope of salvation since I believe this is how God will judge me in the hereafter. But I speak of unconditional love, the kind of love that sacrifices with no sense of sacrifice. In this I have much in common with the beliefs of many people regardless of their system of beliefs, whether orthodox or unorthodox, and I believe this is the essence of the teachings of Jesus and Paul’s marvelous summation of love in I Corinthians chapter thirteen, that of faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these being love.

It is the unconditional love we share for one another that transcends the bounds of my earthly existence and holds me in close communion with those I love gone on before me. Without this love as Paul affirms, though I need no such affirmation knowing in my soul the truth of this, I am nothing, I have nothing. And Paul together with the other writers of the New Testament knew that without this love there can be no faith or hope, certainly no faith or hope of salvation and the only thing that makes any sense of a life that would otherwise in many instances be only a tale told by an idiot.

But to love unconditionally is not without its discipline, and even as the loving parent disciplines their child so God disciplines us. This never comes to mind but what I turn to the story in Genesis and God’s discipline of Adam and Eve, and especially the many questions arising from trying to make sense of why the curse should fall so heavily on Eve? God condemned Adam for listening to Eve, and condemned Eve for being beguiled by the serpent into disobedience. But Adam would seem to be attempting to justify himself by blaming both God and Eve for his own disobedience. However, Paul is quite adamant in I Timothy chapter two concerning the judgment of God and the resulting role of women in submitting to this.

There is no other collection of writings comparable to the Bible, and it is for this reason that despite the large body of literature surrounding the events described in the opening chapters of Genesis I continue to credit it as my primary resource; and as such the role of the serpent in The Fall as described is of great importance. The New Testament would lead us to believe the serpent was Satan, and it was his hatred of the Adam reflected in the book of Job and elsewhere that led to his part in The Fall. If God’s curse of Satan for the part he played resulted in the serpent being representative of the Evil One then the natural abhorrence most people have for snakes notwithstanding the fascination some have for the creatures is easily understandable and they serve a figurative purpose.

But in the council of gods as I take it to mean by the phrasing “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” it seems quite possible to me that there must have been allowance for the possibility of The Fall to occur. There are interpretations of two seeming accounts of the creation of Adam and Eve with several resulting mythologies, and early Hebrew scholars together with later Christian scholars have made many attempts to reconcile these. Nevertheless the serpent’s choice to approach Eve rather than Adam is a mystery. But having succumbed to the serpent’s wiles in disobedience to God the woman would become the weaker vessel, made to endure the primacy of men and suffering childbirth, needing the strength of a man to protect and provide for her despite the anecdotal incidents to the contrary. It remains a man’s world despite the several efforts of women to counter this; all of which brings me back to the mystery of the relationship between the serpent and Eve, a mystery I admit causes me no little trepidation to intrude myself into.

A part of the curse of God upon Eve was pronouncing as the Hebrew allows “You are going to be humbled (even degraded) as to need a man!” And historically this has proven to be so, even though in many cases a woman has needed a man just to protect her from other men. But this has had the result of women harboring resentment toward men, an unhappy situation for both men and women all of which makes no small contribution to life seeming a tale told by an idiot.

There are tantalizing parts of the Bible together with mythologies that lead back in time to something between Eve and the serpent that I believe would explain many of the mysteries of ancient civilizations, their monuments and artifacts. However, sex has been a curse falling largely upon women, not the least part of this curse being once a woman has lost her youth she no longer has any chance of attracting the needed man in her life whereas men continue to have value in most cultures into much older age. That this seems to be such an unfair result of God’s judgment the only possible explanation would have to come from knowing the facts of the relationship between Eve and the serpent in the Garden. Mythologies abound, but the Bible does not offer much in the way of explanation and we are left with trying to make sense of why God’s judgment fell so heavily upon Eve, why God’s decree became that of men having the rule while women suffer disproportionately both physically and culturally from men.

I consider the dinosaurs to be a satanic creation, something God had to wipe out to make earth hospitable to Adam and Eve. I believe the earth at the time of Adam and Eve to be a single land mass surrounded by ocean and the Deluge created the different continents. But the history of evil Satan represents had to have begun long before the special creation of Adam and Eve made in the image of God, a special creation Satan hated and attempted to destroy and from this the many different mythologies attempting to explain Good vs. Evil emanated.

For those such as myself who take the Bible to be literally true in many instances, who believe there are actual facts behind the stories of Genesis and Creation there remains the enigma of Governor Sarah Palin at this point in American history. It is of great interest to me to see how this election plays out, and just how much of it may have to do with my own ideas of Biblical prophecy and the role of women in God’s scheme of things. As things stand, the choices in this election would seem to be between a tale told by an idiot or something that only makes sense within the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

The Weedpatch Gazette

What normal person does not enjoy ghost stories? Whether a singularity is expected due to the Large Hadron Collider, UFOs, Artificial Intelligence, the Apocalypse, or the Rapture there is enough in science, SciFi, and the metaphysical to entertain most people’s fancy and imagination. As a child I was given to writing stories, but it wasn’t until I was in high school that I actually took this seriously. One of the occasions for doing so was my writing the following ghost story for our English class, and each year to celebrate Halloween I continue to share it with others.

When I was a boy living on the mining claim here in the Sequoia National Forest long before there was a “Lake Isabella” and the town of Isabella for which the lake, a manmade reservoir, would be named had a total of 36 souls in residence, once the warm weather arrived I would move my bed out of the cabin and sleep all summer long under the branches of a marvelously scented old pine. It was sheer magic to be lulled to sleep by a balmy summer breeze soughing through the needles of the old, stately tree, making the kind of music only angels or a pine tree can make. We had no neighbors within a mile and virtually no one locked doors or windows in that time long ago, and reflecting on that simple life of simple pleasures long gone I recall a story about a husband and wife living in a remote area of Walker Basin not far from Isabella and near the historic town of Havilah.

There were some proud moments for me while attending the high school in the old town of Kernville before the lake went in, like my beating Bakersfield running the 880, when our school band would perform for local audiences and the principal’s son Billy and I would play for dances at the South Fork Community Center, the times when my music teacher Mr. Swadburg on piano and I with clarinet would play classical music for audiences around Kern County.

But the story I wrote for our English class about the couple living in Walker Basin was a proud moment that stands out vividly because the teacher thought it so good she chose to read it for the entire class. Some of the old timers who attended school with me may very well recall the story. I especially glowed when Myrtez, one of the loveliest girls in school, exclaimed after the teacher finished reading it, “That was really good!” When a boy has done something that impresses a beautiful girl he isn’t very likely to forget such a thing notwithstanding the praise of a teacher; so, here is the story:

The incident occurred during the summer of 1951 when the woman’s husband had to make an extended trip away from their home in the wilderness. This necessitated leaving his wife alone; but the circumstances were such that she could not accompany him.

In those days seldom was any thought given to securing doors or windows, and those wise to country living knew how to prevent unwanted visits from local bears, lions, and raccoons disturbing people and their dwellings; common sense matters of prevention like never leaving food scraps about that would bait visits by wild animals.

Nevertheless, with her husband gone and admitting some uneasiness about being alone, the woman did take the precaution before going to bed of tightly locking the doors and windows of their cabin that first night of his absence. Then, confident all was secure she blew out the kerosene lamp on the nightstand, slipped into bed, and despite being all alone in the total darkness of the wilderness in no time was fast asleep.

At first, she did not know what it was that had aroused her from her slumber. It had been a noise of some kind, but she didn’t know what kind of noise? Even in the darkness of the forest night there were natural sounds to which you become accustomed; like the squeak of a mouse caught by an owl, the bark of a fox, natural forest and country sounds like those of a wilderness stream that somehow you become so accustomed they do not disturb your rest at night.

But this was no naturally occurring nocturnal night sound that had awakened her; of this she seemed certain in some unknown somnolent fashion of the mind. She lay there in the dark; beginning to wonder if it had been only a dream after all that had disturbed her rest, when all of a sudden she heard the sound! This time she was not asleep; she was wide-awake and immediately knew what the sound was! It was the sound of a guitar string being struck of the instrument her husband kept in the other room of the cabin next to the fireplace!

Nearly petrified knowing she was completely alone, the doors and windows of the cabin locked tightly, she lay there transfixed with fright not knowing what to do! A few extremely tense moments passed; then the unmistakable sound of a guitar string being struck once more rang out in the blackness of the small cabin!

A loaded shotgun was kept handy leaning against the wall next to the bed, and the woman despite her abject fear accepting that she must do something reached with trembling hand for the gun. She no sooner had hold of it than out of the darkness a string of the guitar was struck again! Loudly!

Easing her now shivering, quaking legs from under the covers of the bed as quietly as possible, she very slowly and deliberately sat upright; and placing the shotgun between her trembling knees she reached over to the nightstand in the darkness, then with shaking fingers managed to lift the chimney from the lamp, and though fearful of doing anything, fearful of making any sound struck a match, lighted the wick and replaced the chimney. No sooner had she done so than the guitar in the other room twanged loudly once more!

Summoning up more courage than she ever thought she possessed the woman arose from the bed, and pointing the shotgun toward the darkness where the guitar was located overcoming with great effort her fear-dried and constricted throat and mouth managed to articulate a shouted, more nearly screamed “Who’s there! I have a gun and I’ll shoot!”

The sudden sound of her own voice ringing out in the small cabin, her shouted warning nearly unhinged her! But there was no response to her shouted threat from out of the now dread blackness of the other room of the cabin. Then, as she stood there pointing the shotgun toward that fearful dark of the other room, a plucked string on the guitar rang out again!

Trembling all the while, fearing her legs would buckle and collapse under her the woman held the shotgun in her right hand finger on the trigger, and with her left she lifted the lamp from the nightstand; then with halting step though nearly frozen with fear advanced toward that dread dark room and guitar.

Suddenly, there in the reflected light from the lamp she could see it! There was the guitar, now seeming to her more an evil haunting specter than a musical instrument, leaning against the wall next to the fireplace. But there was no one, no “thing” to be seen in the room! As she stood there nearly paralyzed by fear looking directly at the instrument a string of the guitar was struck forcefully as though by an invisible hand!

Nearly dropping both shotgun and lamp, the woman jerked hard against the jamb of the bedroom door and looked at the spectral instrument in horror! Finally, once more drawing from some hitherto unknown depth of courage she managed to take a faltering step forward. With lamp held high in one hand and ready with the other to fire the shotgun pointed toward the guitar, her frantic mind was racing with what action she might be called upon to take, from what invisible force or creature she might have to defend herself?

When only about five feet away from the guitar she watched transfixed in fascinated horror as right in front of her a grotesque yellow-winged “something!” some “creature!” with hideous face, multiple clawed limbs and menacing, gnashing mandibles suddenly leaped at her with lightning speed from the dark bowels of the instrument and violently struck one of the strings! It was a large grasshopper.

True story.

Sam

The Weedpatch Gazette

This election cycle has gone so beyond fantastic to the weird and spooky more suitable to Halloween I could almost wish our choice was Joe the Plumber vs. Paris Hilton. Being a normal man, and as such being stupid about beautiful women, I candidly admit I’d be having a struggle with such a choice. But folks, this is the real thing and We the People have nothing but a rough road ahead no matter who wins; so if you find yourself avoiding black cats and buying a rabbit’s foot for luck the first time in your life it is quite understandable.

However, Messiah Hussein’s Gospel of Marx and the “Redistribution of wealth” form of worship that so infuriated his Apostle Biden when caught out on it comes complete with the Human Weed Prayer: “Give us this day, our daily bread- Or Else!” With the enormous increase of human weeds, the unproductive mouths that are overwhelming America demanding to be fed by the productive this probably helps to explain the surge in people buying guns here of late. That Messiah Hussein is even above the sensible requirement that he prove his U.S. citizenship to everyone’s satisfaction is a declaration of his messianic credentials, something only “unbelievers” would dare question.

Unfortunately, we can’t go back in time and undo the seed of slavery sown to our destruction by the Founding Fathers, and following Lincoln’s War the bitter crop illustrated by Jesus’ “Parable of the Tares” threatens to overcome the fields of America unless the angels of God come to do the reaping, separating the good from the bad. And I’m not at all sure this is going to happen here in America given the fact the weeds were sown in the soil of slavery, with welfare and our open borders continuing to invite the weeds to multiply sustained by extorting taxpayers for the benefit only of the wealthy with no end in sight.

And now that even Northern overseers as Henry Thoreau called them cannot provide employment because of a leadership that has betrayed and sold out American industries and jobs to foreign nations the slaves cannot even rise above their government mandated status as slaves on the government dole. When even the good seeds cannot find suitable soil, employment, they are doomed to morph into weeds. But a Hussein presidency could be a Pharaoh that knew not Joseph and provide employment for the slaves, though this would require Americans being denied any pretense of Constitutional liberties.

However, I don’t see any Moses coming to deliver us from slavery, and I can’t help but wonder even should one appear if the slaves once delivered wouldn’t quickly be demanding a return to Egypt where they could at least be fed? Besides, where would such a Moses be leading us? I don’t see any Promised Land for American slaves.

Neither Emerson nor his disciple Thoreau could cut the Gordian Knot of trade cursing all it touches, even though both agreed such a thing was an evil permeating all civilizations but difficult, if not impossible to circumvent. In the final analysis the benefits of civilization are relative, causing to wonder as Henry speculated if the savage that owned his wigwam would prove the wiser to trade for the palace of the civilized he would never own. And though I own my humble cottage here in this part of the Kern River Valley, my ownership is contingent on keeping up the property taxes, much of which is used to benefit politicians and their subsidized weeds.

Not only do politicians refuse to address the issue of the millions of illegal aliens in America and refuse to secure our borders for the sake of wage slavery and drug profits, none dare openly espouse birth control aimed at controlling the number of unproductive mouths to be fed at taxpayer expense. As evil as it was, it was one thing to breed slaves for productive labor and quite another thing for the unproductive to breed just to be supported by unearned bread extorted by the tyranny of government from the productive, the gospel according to Marx and his disciple Hussein.

From a global perspective, our planet would fare better with 3 billion fewer people. As it is, famine is threatening millions and the only “solution” the U.N. offers is to demand the productive nations feed the unproductive while doing nothing to curb the surplus unproductive populations demanding bread. What is not likely to happen is for unproductive nations to produce the kind of leaders that would be anything other than corrupt tyrants and despots siphoning off the help provided to their own use without benefit to their starving millions.

It only adds to the enmity of other nations that TV continues to promote an image of America as a nation filled with violent, sexually perverted, materialistic and hedonistic people demanding they be entertained and devoted only to their own selfish desires, and a thoroughly corrupt leadership dedicated to a continuum of such selfishness. That such an image of America serves the purpose of fanatical Muslims and the anti-American propaganda of other nations is something to which the MSM, Hollywood and politicians seem utterly oblivious.

Nature red in tooth and claw will remorselessly thin out herds that have overpopulated even to the extent of creatures turning on those of their own kind for survival, and if conditions should become such here in America who can say what the outcome might be? But the recent surge in people buying guns could be a predictor of what people are fearing as the outcome not only of the coming election but of worsening conditions in America where lawlessness and barbarism is becoming too much the rule rather than the exception. Of this We the People can be certain: Hussein and a Democrat controlled Congress fearing a revolution the Founding Fathers recognized might be necessary in the face of a future despotic government the Second Amendment specifically addresses by “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” would be making every attempt to disarm law abiding citizens.

No one need be a believer in the Apocalypse to understand the world is in turmoil and world peace is as far from realization as it has ever been. The specter of world famine looms as unpredictable weather conditions devastate harvests and our oceans are being depleted of fish for food. The Bible has it world conditions will become such as to demand a leader who will cause the nations to come together as he promises peace and prosperity for all. Despite the Biblical warning about a falling away and the Man of Sin revealed such a seductive siren call would be hard to ignore in an increasingly dangerous world.

For those that believe such a thing is farfetched, what could be more farfetched than Hussein actually being a serious contender for the presidency (and not assassinated), and Republicans offering no one better than McCain? Such a thing is the stuff of a really bad novel, not real life; but here it is, stranger than a fiction that at least has to make a modicum of sense, and quite frankly going beyond the fraud, corruption and lies it is downright spooky and gives me the creeps!

The Weedpatch Gazette

It’s a sign of the times when prospecting and mining equipment is enjoying resurgence as it is here in the Kern River Valley. I’m very familiar with prospecting and mining, and over the years have known many involved with this. Some are into it for recreation, the weekend panners and small time dredgers with small riffle boxes for example enjoying the great outdoors as much as the hunt for gold. But there are signs that the new interest in this is being born of fear and desperation because of a sinking economy, and I may yet have someone coming to my place seeking my expertise in prospecting. For example, I know where someone could begin looking for a very promising tungsten load were they of a mind to but for my own reasons I’m not all that anxious to give away such a source, perhaps because of my Choctaw Cherokee ancestry that often suggests it is better to keep some things a secret from the “white eyes.”

The silver mine I filed on in 1969 up on Bull Run Creek was never done with the intention of working it, but rather to keep that area the pristine wilderness I came to know as a boy. But imagine my consternation when I filed the claim and discovered the old boys that first discovered the silver load and worked it back in the 20s had never bothered to file on the claim and tell Uncle Sam about their discovery. However, the evidence was there including mule trail, old engines used to pump water out of the stope, the tin shack with cook stove and several old bedsprings, rock crusher and smelter, stone fortress with gun loops and stone holding ponds that a whole lot of silver had been taken out of that mine.

To this very day, that old mining operation is a mystery and no one seems to know anything about it. A further mystery is whether those old fellows stopped working the mine because the seam ran out or because they could no longer keep the water pumped out of that stope? A tantalizing thought, that, there may still remain a fortune in silver left untouched. However, what with the restrictions today, the enormous cost of slant-drilling to try and pick up the silver seam, pumping and drying of the shaft no one would likely make the investment without it being a sure thing. So, the mystery may remain a mystery, one like so many others associated with prospecting and mining.

But I love a mystery, and those of us who believe in the supernatural, who believe in God, in ghosts and spirits, angels and demons, have a considerable advantage over those that do not believe, one very real advantage is being able to make sense out of the crazy world we live in, a world that makes little sense by strictly empirical proofs of science. As a very well educated man I look at what science has to offer and in many cases this has never been enough for me; there are just too many things utterly inexplicable without their having a supernatural, metaphysical if you will, explanation.

What is happening right now with politics in America makes no sense to me apart from a manifestation of God vs. Satan. To ascribe this to the failings of human nature alone makes no sense, especially when the battle is still being fought over who really killed JFK, who was really behind the 9/11 attack on America and so many other things of great magnitude you have to wonder who would have the power to pull some of these things off without definite, undeniable proof positive concerning the perpetrators being readily available.

Right now it is so patently obvious the Devil’s candidate for the presidency is Hussein that only crediting the Evil One can possibly account for the enormous amount of MSM propagandizing hatred generated against Governor Palin. How can her wardrobe really be of more concern than Hussein’s ties to Ayers, Wright, ACORN and refusal to allow the kind of microscope turned on him and his background, family and allies than either McCain or Palin? This should speak volumes of Satan being busy covering and running interference for his chosen candidate. More to the point in my opinion, I long ago concluded Caesar Bush has not been assassinated because the Devil takes care of his own, and I assume the same thing to be true for Hussein. Simply considering how many would like to pull the trigger on both men, who but the Devil could keep either of them alive? I admit to discounting any good guardian angels.

But speaking of Ayers, he is a perfect example of why I say the universities of America are Public Enemy Number One! The universities of America are where Satan really holds power over America, not in our government which is only a product of the universities. If you want to know how powerless We the People really are you only have to consider how virtually impossible it is to hold the universities accountable and why those like Ayers are so representative of the universities as a whole. That folks has to be the Devil’s work, taking care of and rewarding his own.

Well, I continue to love a mystery. I’ll take the supernatural being involved with the affairs not only of world conditions, of conditions threatening America, but in my own personal life. For example, I have a “shrine” here where I write with the pictures and mementos of loved ones gone on before me to be with the Lord. At sundown, I have here of late been given to lighting a candle at this place of remembrance and communion with these loved ones and hold a holy vigil with them, the soft light of the candle lending soft comfort to my soul at the end of each day. As I do battle with the Evil One and his servants, this interlude at the end of the day is where I find comfort and solace for my soul. If you do not have such a place of comfort and solace you might consider it, especially in these uncertain times.