they asked the necromantic gods of the Gentiles for answers from the dead
It is 2:42 PM Tuesday afternoon here in south western Michigan. It is a cold gray damp day. I do not know if we see any sunshine the rest of this year. We can only cry out to the Son to shine light into the darkness covering America.
"So how do Trump-supporting evangelicals square their supposed belief in the literal truth of every word of the Bible with Trump’s monstrous behavior and policies? This is a guy found liable in civil court for sexual assault, and credibly accused of similar behavior by 15 other women. A guy who has been married three times. A guy who has been charged with 91 felonies. A guy who is about to go on trial for allegedly illegally covering up a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star he committed adultery with four months after his current wife gave birth to their son. A guy who rather than displaying Christian humility and charity, compulsively boasts about himself with every other word out of his mouth, and positively wallows in the personal excesses of wealth. A guy whose policy agenda would snatch health insurance from tens of millions, viciously punish unauthorized immigrants, cut taxes on the rich, and on and on." a quote from an online news journal https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-04-pious-one-donald-trump/
I got up this morning around 7:15 AM. When I got up I felt damp/soiled/sticky. I came upstairs to find Carol making food to fed the troops. Right now our garbage cans are full of trash due to all the trash left after feeding people last week and this week. Carol reminded me today there is no garbage pick up this coming Friday due the fourth of July holy day/where American's celebrate war/blood shedding/glory in massive destruction/murdering of Nature and countless people.
Sometime this morning the troops left and I spent the morning praying, reading the Bible, and writing in my paper diary. I read this afternoon from a volume titled, 'From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective' Edited by David Gibson & Jonathan Gibson.
I left this morning around 10 o'clock AM to get fresh coffee beans and then to visit two local thrift stores to search for old used books for my library-I found these used books today-
'Full Term' a novel by J.I.M. Stewart
'Sun and Steel' a memoir by Yukio Mishima Translated by John Bester
'The Final Martyrs' short stories by Shusaku Endo Translated by Van C. Gessel
'Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Student's Guide' Second Edition by Isabel Rivers
'The Natural Way Of Things' a novel by Charlotte Wood [Europa editions]
'Dinosaur In A Haystack: Reflections In Natural History' by Stephen Jay Gould
'Let Me Finish' a memoir by Roger Angell
'Knowing What We Know: The Transmission Of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom To Modern Magic' by Simon Winchester
'Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction' Edited and with introduction by Norman Sims & Mark Kramer
'Making Sense of God-An Invitation to the Skeptical' by Timothy Keller
When I got home from my wanderings the troops were still gone-I cleaned the kitchen, catalogued my used books and wrote in my paper diary. When the troops landed I was reading in our dining room, 'Black Mass-Apocalyptic Religion And The Death Of Utopia' by John Gray.
Last night is a blur but I do recall reading before going to bed, 'The Gaudy' a novel by J.I.M. Stewart. I was pleased to find this morning the final volume, 'Full Term' a novel by J.I.M. Stewart in "the final novel in Stewart's superb quintet, 'A Staircase in Surrey'.
I will close to feel wasted, but not knocked down to the ground.
"So how do Trump-supporting evangelicals square their supposed belief in the literal truth of every word of the Bible with Trump’s monstrous behavior and policies? This is a guy found liable in civil court for sexual assault, and credibly accused of similar behavior by 15 other women. A guy who has been married three times. A guy who has been charged with 91 felonies. A guy who is about to go on trial for allegedly illegally covering up a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star he committed adultery with four months after his current wife gave birth to their son. A guy who rather than displaying Christian humility and charity, compulsively boasts about himself with every other word out of his mouth, and positively wallows in the personal excesses of wealth. A guy whose policy agenda would snatch health insurance from tens of millions, viciously punish unauthorized immigrants, cut taxes on the rich, and on and on." a quote from an online news journal https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-04-pious-one-donald-trump/
I got up this morning around 7:15 AM. When I got up I felt damp/soiled/sticky. I came upstairs to find Carol making food to fed the troops. Right now our garbage cans are full of trash due to all the trash left after feeding people last week and this week. Carol reminded me today there is no garbage pick up this coming Friday due the fourth of July holy day/where American's celebrate war/blood shedding/glory in massive destruction/murdering of Nature and countless people.
Sometime this morning the troops left and I spent the morning praying, reading the Bible, and writing in my paper diary. I read this afternoon from a volume titled, 'From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective' Edited by David Gibson & Jonathan Gibson.
I left this morning around 10 o'clock AM to get fresh coffee beans and then to visit two local thrift stores to search for old used books for my library-I found these used books today-
'Full Term' a novel by J.I.M. Stewart
'Sun and Steel' a memoir by Yukio Mishima Translated by John Bester
'The Final Martyrs' short stories by Shusaku Endo Translated by Van C. Gessel
'Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Student's Guide' Second Edition by Isabel Rivers
'The Natural Way Of Things' a novel by Charlotte Wood [Europa editions]
'Dinosaur In A Haystack: Reflections In Natural History' by Stephen Jay Gould
'Let Me Finish' a memoir by Roger Angell
'Knowing What We Know: The Transmission Of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom To Modern Magic' by Simon Winchester
'Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction' Edited and with introduction by Norman Sims & Mark Kramer
'Making Sense of God-An Invitation to the Skeptical' by Timothy Keller
When I got home from my wanderings the troops were still gone-I cleaned the kitchen, catalogued my used books and wrote in my paper diary. When the troops landed I was reading in our dining room, 'Black Mass-Apocalyptic Religion And The Death Of Utopia' by John Gray.
Last night is a blur but I do recall reading before going to bed, 'The Gaudy' a novel by J.I.M. Stewart. I was pleased to find this morning the final volume, 'Full Term' a novel by J.I.M. Stewart in "the final novel in Stewart's superb quintet, 'A Staircase in Surrey'.
I will close to feel wasted, but not knocked down to the ground.