They’re all here–cows and horses, cats and dogs, even a fox–all grooving on their first snow. Go ahead, tell me some of these dogs and horses aren’t having the time of their lives. Especially the dog with the snow shovel. You didn’t know you could do that with a snow shovel, did you?
There’s snow in our forecast for tomorrow, by the way: so I hope this video will get us in the mood.
I’ve been working hard to type up the chapters of His Mercy Endureth Forever for Susan to edit. One legal pad down, three more to go. Huff-puff.
Looking back to last week, it seems I finished writing the book on the very last day I could have written it, before bad weather kicked in till next April. Providential!
Pausing from these labors, visiting the old blog, I find myself asking, “Where is everybody?” There were even spaces available in our town’s last parking lot today, and an empty waiting room at the doctor’s: what gives?
Well, I’ll wait till after supper (meat loaf tonight) and then post a cat video, hoping that will draw readership. (“That’ll fetch ’em!” he thought…)
Not that these animals are very often kept as pets, but I couldn’t resist this video.
God seems to enjoy improvising on a basic theme, like a jazz musician. These South America maras–members of the cavy family, which includes guinea pigs–have long legs and bunny-ears. But they’re not rabbits; they’re rodents. They live in semiarid grasslands in Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia and grow up to weigh from 20 to 35 pounds. We don’t have rodents that big in North America. But South America also has the capybara, the world’s biggest rodent–even bigger than the mara.
God’s stuff–cool!
I had my regular checkup today, everything’s cool; and as no one else was waiting to see him, Dr. Swan took the opportunity to pump me for more information about the Bible and Christianity. He took notes on my answers, so I had to pray I told him nothing but what was true, and acceptable to Our Lord.
It humbles me, whenever I’m called upon to minister to someone. After all, I’m not an official and bona fide Bible scholar, not ordained. To perform this service makes me acutely aware of my limitations. It makes me careful to stick to what I read in the Bible itself, and to what I’ve learned of history. Dr. Swan grew up in a village in Burma, and the Bible is unfamiliar territory for him. So I have to get it right.
Not your typical visit to the doctor’s office.
On Friday Patty will see him to discuss the results of her recent tests. He hasn’t read them yet but he told me not to worry, “Everything looks pretty good so far.” Please pray he’s right.
Here comes the avalanche…
Why do I keep thinking of St. Gildas’ phrase, “running on all fours into Hell”?
So Switzerland’s Parliament has outlawed “homophobia” and “transphobia”–without clearly defining what those things are–and you can get three years in prison (!) for committing these… crimes (http://www.papermag.com/switzerland-transphobia-hate-speech-laws-2609791592.html).
The upper house still has to vote on it, but it seems a foregone conclusion that they’ll all hop aboard the bandwagon.
The new, ahem, “law” is aimed at “verbal and physical homophobic violence.” “Verbal”? As in anything that any homosexual objects to? In Canada and elsewhere in the defenseless Western world, that’s been the experience–just about anything you say can land you in the soup. Like, perhaps, quoting the Bible, “Male and female created He them” (Genesis 1:27)–wouldn’t that be some kind of “transphobic verbal violence”? Have they just struck down religious freedom in Switzerland?
The next project, we are told, is to hurry up and impose “gay marriage” on the country.
O Lord our God, I don’t know why these things are being done–and done so energetically, at that. What is the great boon that these people think they are bestowing on the human race?
Father, remember that these things are done without our consent, against our will, and over our objections. We are trying to oppose them, but we can do nothing without you. Equip us to do thy will, O Lord: to know it, and to do it: that the evils of this evil age might pass away. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Providentially, a wise fool appeared as if to illustrate Paul’s point: see his lengthy sophomoric contest below the original post.
https://leeduigon.com/2015/04/28/pauls-speech-to-wise-fools/
There’s no fool like an educated fool.
Wednesday’s hymn, Take Two: Let’s see if I can actually post this to appear Wednesday morning while I’m stranded at the doctor’s office.
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, written in 1846 by Horatio Bonar, sung by the Antrim Mennonite Choir–I expected this to be sung to the same melody as I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, which is the same melody (I think) as Fling Out the Banner… oh, well.
They do get really angry if you don’t obey them.
At Shawnee State University, Ohio, a philosophy professor is suing the school for punishing him for not obeying a “transgender” student (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11507). I’m going to use quotation marks around that word from now on because there’s no such thing as “transgender.” There are only deluded and wicked people who say they are.
Anyhow, this guy wanted the prof to address him as a woman, and when the professor “declined to address the ‘transgender’ student as a female,” the student replied, “I guess this means I can call you a c__t.” And the prof was punished for creating “a hostile environment” in his classroom.
Do they have any idea at all how viciously hostile an environment this “transgender” supremacy creates for Christians–or for anyone else who has at least a toehold on reality?
Hey! Everybody who didn’t vote straight Republican last week! This stuff is what you voted for: to give leftids the false authority to force people to say things that they know are not true, that they know are wrong, and are humiliated by being made to say such things.
That’s what you voted for and that’s what you’ve got.
So I’m all mellow and calm as I go to post this nice cat video–and then WordPress tells me I’m gonna get a “new editor” for a “new layout” and that’s the top of my head they’re scraping off the ceiling. No! No! No new stuff! I can barely manage the old stuff that I’m used to. Who asked for anything new around here? Not me! No, no, no, I will most emphatically not try “our new editor,” no way, why can’t you people just leave me alone, what have I ever done to you??? Excuse me while I scream.
Yeah, all right, Google and Facebook are No. 1 and No. 2, not surprisingly, with Youtube No. 3: but in a recently published list of America’s top 50 websites, Numbers 6, 7, 8, 17, and 28 are porn sites (https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states).
That’s an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of time watching dirty videos.
For what it’s worth, Fox News has pulled ahead of CNN. There are times when the nooze bears more than a little resemblance to pornography.
I wonder why our culture can’t do better than this. Any theories, anyone?