“When it comes to dragons I’m with Saint George,” Paul said.
“You’d wound or even kill them?”
“With a sword,” Paul affirmed.
“They’ll go extinct!” Paul’s opposition cried.
“Precisely,” Paul said resting on a bunch of obvious assumptions which, since they’re obvious, don’t need to be stated.
At this point I must confess that I don’t know where this story’s going so I’ll just end it by saying, I’m with Paul, or, if you prefer, being more with Paul’s opposition, just pretend I said, Look, squirrel!
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Denise offers the prompt word “wound” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Revelation 12:7-9 KJV – 7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
This tunnel leads further into some castle.An old door in a castle. It was probably not the same castle as the first photo.This door, wall and railing came from somewhere. Considering that I was a tourist when I took this, I suspect there’s a castle nearby.
The following is a 25 minute video reenacting the journey on the road to Emmaus described in Luke 24.
Luke 24:13-35 KJV – 13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. 16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. 17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? 18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: 20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. 21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. 22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; 23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. 24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. 25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. 29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. 31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? 33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. 35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
The two images below show the opened door of a Miami Beach Lifeguard station at about 72nd Street on North Beach.
Admittedly it might be hard to see the door.
But it’s there.
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A red flag signals high hazard. A purple flag signals dangerous marine life. A flag of any color blowing in the wind, like the two above, signals it’s windy.A view of the lifeguard station from a distance on the beach. The door’s still open.
During the regular part of the Sunday service when Brian satirized critics of his ministry, he read, out-loud, a social media post which commanded that the eyes of everyone in his congregation start functioning with “20/20, cataract-less, floater-less, astigmatism-less, whatever-ails-you-less perfect vision”.
“Fat chance that’s going to happen,” Brian mocked just before his six-year old granddaughter sitting in the front row, nearly blind from birth, jumped up and down screaming, “Grandpops, Grandpops, I can SEE!!“
As others in the congregation admitted sudden vision improvement as well, Brian wondered if his own eyes had been healed (hoping not). Looking down at his Bible, a ministry-produced, three-ribboned, leather-bound, authorized version adulterated with his commentaries, he was surprised to clearly make out even the fine print of the footnotes without glasses.
For the next hour Brian read verse after verse. When he finally looked up, all that came out of his mouth was: “So that’s what it says.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “perfect” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Occasionally I post nonsense verse as comments on blogs such as on Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick or Chel Owen’s Terrible Poetry contests.
A sonnet is too long for me to write. Besides I can’t remember how one goes. Though rhythm, rhyme and such might bring delight I cannot write another one of those.
Be happy, for a change, is all I ask. Is it too much for smiles to bless your face? A frown is such an ugly sort of mask, so smile a teensy bit and show some grace.
We’ll soon be dead and then some say we’re gone, but others say we’ll have to face a hell. If heaven’s not the road we’re fighting on we probably should repent of that as well.
In hell we might be roommates, don’t forget. So smile, my dear, we haven’t got there yet.
I posted the following as a comment on this video:
This is the clearest presentation of the distant starlight (non)problem that I have heard to date. We cannot use distant starlight to tell us how old the universe is given relativity physics. So, we will have to find other evidence to estimate the age of the universe. Radioactive decay might be one, but those rates aren’t reliable based on conflicting erosion rates, the discovery of soft tissue in fossils and the rates of dispersion of decay particles from zircon crystals. What we are left with is historical evidence, but that takes us back only about 5000 years which is surprisingly close to the time of the flood in the Septuagint chronology.
The video is almost two hours long, but John Hartnett does a good job of describing three rejected solutions to the distant starlight problem to arrive at the anisotropic synchrony convention proposed by Jason Lisle.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 