Heaven IS Real

I finally read Heaven Is Real and like other readers read it in one evening. I wrote an article for My People about it. It's actually more than just about a boy's near-death experience and a visit to Heaven. It's about his parents' prayer life and God's answering those prayers. It's been said already by many others, but I agree. It is a book worth reading.

Psalm 88

The Great American Bible Study on Psalms has increased my appreciation for the Psalms, which after all these years I almost didn't think possible. My latest song is based on Ps 88, which was absent in the rather comprehensive Psalms, Hymns and Inspired Psalms. I guess I've never been in such a need for it until now.

O Lord, my God, I call for help All day and all through the night.
Let my prayer come before You, Lord. Show forth Your power and Your might.
You've caused my lover and friend To shun me, I don't know why.
So all that I can do right now Is to turn to You and cry.
You've caused companions to shun me, Made me a horror to them.
I feel shut i, without escape As they me falsely condemn.
Every day I call upon You, You Who are the Almighty.
I spread ot my hands awaiting The blessings You'll soon give me.

Awaiting Easter!!!!!

We've moved.

Hierogamous Enterprises which began and continued for 22 years in Cincinnati, OH, has now moved to Hot Springs, AR. After a bit of reorganizing we will continue as before with editing, publishing, clowning, etc.

Gingrich goofs

Gingrich told ABC NEWS: "I think that if you take a position when a woman has fertilized egg and that’s been successfully implanted that now you’re dealing with life."

Think again Newt. What? Is it a dead Human-seed before it's planted? Isn't an acorn as much an oak tree albeit in an undeveloped state as the smithy's mighty tree. Humans are, like trees, only made by God. 

Public Service for Killer Whales

It seems to me that of all cetaceans the orcas, known to all as killer whales, whales who kill, who have never denied the designation as killer or shown any remorse for their killing even of other cetaceans, have the least grounds for freedom. Dolphins and other cetaceans may kill in self-defense or mating combat, but only killer whales have earned the name killer. Rather than give then their freedom to continue their killing, ought not we continue to give them usefull, productive lives in public service as entertainers?

They actually seem to do better in their role as entertainers than their Human audience does at serving to their own species, are better servants like the Best Servant of all, He Who gave up all to become Human to serve Humans.

the Klopts' agenda

While editing my perhaps never to be finished Encyclopedia Xenologica, I return to pondering my favorite science fiction writer, Cordwainer Smith, for the umpteenth time. I discovered that his word "klopt" probably comes from the Dutch with his characteristic word play for the greatest enemy of (wo)mankind. It's ironic too because the Klopts have good reason for thinking of girl babies as a birth defect. It's ironic too because of how very relevant the dehumanization of women is now when Smith wrote his story fifty years ago.  It also ties in with recent blogging on the pregnant man hoax. He and his stories were definitely ahead of his time. I even learne a bit about genetics to add to my entry.

Klopts: [Dut. correct, true] “lost children of mankind”, “singing monsters” singing “We want in, in, in!”, “worst people ever to get loose among the stars”, surviving colonists on Arachosia transformed by Astarte Kraus into feuding, burlesque, misogynic heterophobes, opposed by legendary Catlanders (“The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal” by Cordwainer Smith), from XXY, XXYY and XYY Klinefelters to ‘neither male nor female” YY bleeders with steely-hair and red-green colorblindness, see psi-Klopts, Ptokls

The Third Steward

I feel compelled to ponder the contrast between the homily Sunday and today on the same Gospel passage. On Sunday the third steward of the parable was described as prudent, like many nowadays not trusting the banks, not wanting to risk what they cannot affort to loose.
Today the homily's point was from a completely different direction as an encouragement to increase the influence of the Word of God we have been given and not to "bury" it.
Could both be right? The Word of God is much more valuable than mere money yet we are to be good stewards of "little things" like money as well. We are told not to cast pearls before swine, not to share the Word of God to those who would not hear it. Perhaps we are called to be both kinds of stewards at once, guided by the Holy Spirit Who blows God only knows where.