THE HOWL OR THE HORN

Distracted and distraught, detoured into the darkness, in the distance can be heard a deep, gutteral growl.  They are out there, howling in the night.  One can almost see their fire red, glowing eyes.  When the wind is wrong, if you know what to sense, you can almost smell their foul odor.

Are they tracking me? Or, are they herding me into a dead end alley?  Or, are they baiting me into some pit?  They are hard to predict!  But, they are there!

Some are drawn to their cruel caterwauling.  Many let morbid curiousity lure them away, never to be seen again.  A few come back, mauled and mangled, with fear forever deep in their eyes.

It is bad enough that I have gotten myself into this predicament.  But, there are others following me!  Where did I make a misstep?  Where did I take a wrong turn?  How did we get here?!

In the distance, I hear the blare of the herdsman's horn!  We will go that way!  Listen.  There it is again.  Go that way, toward safety and shelter and security!  O, the tone of that ram's horn!  So familiar. So unforgettable.  So faithful!  Run to that saving sound!  Everybody, listen for the shofar!  Mashiach messages!  The Saviour is sounding our salvation!

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BETWEEN APES and ANGELS

Here we are, Lord! Somewhere between the apes and the angels. But even the angels rebelled?! The apes, they are oblivious to their Creator.  What are we to do?

Damn our degeneration; we have decided that we are evolved barely above the apes. And we have forgotten that we were created only a little lower than the angels.  Honestly, it seems to me, that we just want to leave You out of the equation?!

Worse, it really seems that we have slipped in the pecking order!?  We act worse than the monkeys!  It is an insult to them to say "we are behaving like animals".

We are lost in this deep darkness below.  The jungle canopy is so thick, we can't even see the light above. Maybe, if we were to climb up in the trees we could catch a glimpse of the stars?  But, it has been so long and they seem so far away.

I guess we will just roam around here on the jungle floor.  It's a little muddy, but there is plenty to eat.  The bugs are kind of bad though.  Some of us still do howl into the darkness listening for an answer.  But all that is heard is an echo.  Except, sometimes there seems to be a roar way off in the distance?!

DESTINATION END OF THE LINE

Will we like it when we get there?  We are headed to a place very different than where we are leaving.  All will be different.  Landmarks will be upturned and toppled and removed.

The men will be indistinguishable from the women.  The women will be as hard as any vicious man that ever breathed.  Family will die.  Music will be replaced by disharmonious noise.  Joy will disappear.  Anger will be our primary emotion.  We will save the trees but cities will bulge with filth.  Faith will die.  Hope will disappear.

Can we turn back?  Maybe.  But, we are picking up speed in a downhill freefall.  We will stop when we run over the edge or crash at the bottom of the pit.

But, we are laughing and squealing, for now, dancing naked and drunk on the long, black train.

I see faces outside the window, screaming with urgency, "get off!"  Gotta get off this train!  I see some who are struggling up the hillside along the track.  Lord, send angels to show the way out!

The Ides of Jesus

I'd with You always and ever be.

Hide me safely beneath Your wing.

Abide with me even through the valley.

Lied have I, so often, about nearly everything.



Denied You and cursed and sworn "not known".

Cried, did I, weeping over such failure.

Died, on that Cross, despite being left all alone.

Wide, spread they Your arms, Your love is so sure!



Side, was pierced,  life giving blood flowing down.

Tried, did I, to follow, loyal to the death?!

Shyed, away, shrinking, and slipping around.

Spied, piercing glance, me cowardly, holding my breath.



Bride of the Son, all dressed in white?!

Dryed, are all my tears, gone is the "damn".

Fried, would have been, for me, the old Snake's spite.

Vied for my soul, the Shepherd sought this lamb!



Pryed from the grip of all the hissing fiends of Hell.

Ride on to glory; ever let loud praises to His name swell!

MODERN DICTIONARY EDITS

MODERN DICTIONARY EDITS

some changes in our dictionaries need to be made if we are going to continue to evolve.

1.      "NORMAL" -- this word should be removed.  There is no such thing as normal.  It is all about personal preferences.  And, the cognate, "ABNORMAL" must definitely be expunged from daily usage, and from all databases, spellchecks, etc.  One more thing, it is offensive to many; so, there is a town in Illinois that will just have to change its name from "NORMAL" to something less judgmental and more inclusive, maybe "TOLERENT" Illinois?!  And, another thing, “NORMAL INSTITUTE”?!  agh!  Teachers, of all people, should know better!  Furthermore, there may need to be some work done in mathematics and statistics.  Really?  The world is more about “standard deviation” than “normal distribution”.

(below is a preview and sample of more words that need discussion and deletion)

2.      "NEFARIOUS" will definitely have to go.  Also ... "PERVERSION" and other such archaic concepts ... such words are products of an unenlightened age of humanity.  Our words define and deform us.

3.      "SIN" obviously has to go.  It has no place in a modern vocabulary. (and, any cognates, such as "SINFUL" or the verb form "SINNING" ...

4.      "HOLY" in any form ("HOLINESS" or "UNHOLY") absolutely must be stricken from the dictionary.

5.      "GOD" can still be used, but only to strengthen "DAMN" ... but certainly with no real reference to any deity. (oops, another one?)

Somehow, I suspect that others are way ahead of me on this project?!  Maybe I should organize a house to house collection and destruction of unedited dictionaries?