Kiano

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First, I was hit hard by your story, your extreme youth, your face in the photo, then I was hit by the strangeness of the term.

Is this, like the MAID, the pharmaceutical death, and the ornate Cross on the logo, another Canadian difference? What is this “enichement?”

Google corrected my search twice to “enrichment,” before I found the true meaning.

The similarities are haunting—two young men go willingly to their deaths.

One buys drugs at a local pharmacy and dies in a funeral home.

The other endures the torture of a Roman execution.

Both are entombed.

But what happens after that depends entirely on the power of the older man

To be

The Resurrection and the Life.

John 11:1,3,14,21-26 KJV
[1] Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. [3] Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. [14] Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. [21] Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. [22] But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. [23] Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. [24] Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. [25] Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: [26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

https://www.vesciofuneralhome.com/memorials/kiano-vafaeian/5675301

The Organizing Man

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I stop by the Goodwill to look for bins that could be used to wash clothes or organize them if the machine is transformed by answered prayers and there is a shelf with sheets that bear a passing resemblance to those I once bought for my mother’s house transformed first to a short term rental and then back to a family home.

Maybe the roosters just sound the alarm because of the light of the fire like a tiny sun from near earth waking them from peaceful slumber

What if he gave them away? Who? You ask

The organizing man

Nice enough to strangers

One of whom I am become.

The Williams of Heaven

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https://www.fox19.com/2026/08/14/3-suspects-plead-not-guilty-death-7-year-old-william-evans-ellis/

Hey, kid

I have been working on something lately that (tragically)

Reminds me of you

It started with the question of how “you” could transmit hope to a distant “stone-age” tribe

What symbols would “you” need to

Stand in for Man

Stand in for Woman

Stand in for child

Stand in for God

Stand in for Pain-Brutality-Disenfranchised-Sorrow

Abandonment. Near total abandonment.

By now you recognize where I am going with this—Substitutionary Atonement

For the lamb, the goat, the chicken, the child, the man, the monster

Living then dying inside the universal symbol for In-all-my-years-of-law-enforcement….

This is what ellipsis is for

All the Williams of Heaven

We will see each other again

And this time you will tell your whole terrible story

Through the Universal Translator

God with us.

Matthew 18:3-7 KJV
[3] And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [4] Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. [5] And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. [6] But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. [7] Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Matthew 23:37 KJV
[37] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

This is our God

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Isaiah 22:22-25 KJV
[22] And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. [23] And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. [24] And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. [25] In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

The Watch

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Isaiah 40:10-12,21-23,29-31 KJV
[10] Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. [11] He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. [12] Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? [21] Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? [22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: [23] That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. [29] He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. [30] Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: [31] But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Jesus is coming back soon

Get ready

The Insomniac Game

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The dog wakes you up

The one you overlooked at bedtime because she is old

Once awake, you must play the game

Pray, and press your head into the pillows

As though this could be a time-traveling space ship and you could

Navigate the unthinkable

Process each broken bone, bond, or boundary

Circling darkness

Harm has come to the voiceless

Howl, old dog

give voice to all the babies

None of us rescued.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/02/cleveland-teesside-police-failure-murder-sexual-assault-two-year-old-girl-isabelle-walsh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Preston_Davey

Shark week?

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https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-uncomfortable-subject-jesus-addressed-more-than-anyone-else/

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/nigeria-un-experts-warn-rights-violations-against-women-and-girls-christian

Our favorite local swimming spot is celebrating “Shark Week,” so we figured we would watch the beloved yearly event.

Our viewing party lasted 5 seconds as the opening scene of the episode showed a large shark thrashing a small seal to death in a swirl of blood. The footage was graphic, even haunting.

I ask myself when did humans decide that we would record and profit from violence? Or just profit from it?

The world is burning, and in the conflagration there are stories of human atrocities that far outstrip the “instinctual” feeding frenzy of a shark.

We all need to wake up and decide what we will record, what we do with that record, and where this is all going.

Jesus himself gives us the most haunting descriptions of hell. If we won’t listen to our own consciences, maybe we need to listen to him, after all, he went there for us.