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Stone Babies
Well, let’s just say you are right and that there is a correlation between begetting
Children of flesh and children of
Stone
Then you should know the old tale about the dragon’s teeth, find the island
Disinter bone, tooth, talon
Perhaps even let your beard and hair grow wild and woolly
in the manner of prophets and insular husbandmen
Grow the children through the accretion of salt and animal protein
And at least one book on parenting
Obsidian offspring
Prone to cry out
When others fail to
Greet the King.
Matthew 3:9 KJV
[9] And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
The End of the World as we know it
https://news.sky.com/story/trump-zelenskyy-putin-ukraine-latest-live-updates-12541713
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wj8yje2eo
When COVID was just starting to rake through Italy in the spring of 2020, I came up with an algorithm. The Italian government posted numbers for cases and deaths, and I multiplex those numbers by population data and time factors in order to visualize how long we had until COVID overwhelmed us and how many people we would lose when it was here.
Awful, and a strange form of time travel.
Now, every night, just before bed, I check news in Europe and Asia because, like Italy in the pandemic, they are ahead of us in time.
The version of the last 12-24 hours in Ukraine that I saw at 1 am CDT was 46 minutes old and it told a story that is and will define world history.
How can we not see what is coming? How can we navigate through a world governed by madmen?
The answer is always the same Jesus.
Any perceived punctuation omission is intentional.
Pray
Please pray.
Ghost Rules 2 (the one who God helps)
Use whatever agency you have
Whatever voice
Whatever grasp on the material world you can muster
For these eternal things
The dog king
What if the citizens of a far country decided
To make Tramp, the supermarket stray
King of all to see
After all, he is a lovable fellow, why not make him sovereign?
They might ask each other, nodding quiet approbations.
But some would know
How fragile both mutts and men are
And they would long for a Proper King, clothed in splendor but kind to His unbroken bones
One who could truly
Save us!
Revelation 19
Bwana Spoke, Speaks, Will Speak
Exhausted resources and persistent mattresses
Lately (the last four years or so)
My family has been the target of repeated, well-documented abuse from our neighbors, HOA board, and their employees.
When our attempts to get assistance from the local, state, and federal government have been time-consuming efforts in futility, my children say, not a surprise after what happened (or did not happen) with Z.
Z is a former MLB pitcher who abused his family. He attempted to murder his wife, he physically abused his children, he sexually assaulted his youngest daughter, filmed and distributed the abuse, and threatened to kill her mother and sister if she made an outcry about the abuse.
She tells a clear and compelling story about both her abuse and the strong indications that he raped the girls he coached and filmed that abuse as well.
No arrest.
He continued to coach children and work with Texas school systems.
When I came to the end of what Texas was willing to do to keep my family safe in 2011, I had to believe it was an accountability issue driven by fiscal policy.
And to survive mentally and physically I wrote a book.
We have just seen what happens when the government of Texas prioritizes budget cuts over the safety of our children.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/13/nx-s1-5465635/camp-mystic-flood-maps-fema-texas-flooding
Time for all of us to
Tell our stories.
Me from the past
Lately I have been telling two stories—one is about a family devastated by unspeakable crimes…
that moved because the police and district attorneys and the government of the state of Texas enabled a violent, serial felon.
And the other about my own family, unable to move if we wanted to, because the same mechanisms of law enforcement have failed us again.
When I tell the story about the Weaponized HOA, all sane people ask why we haven’t moved?
Lis pendens and institutional neglect.
This caused me to revisit a previous post—
I have to revise my thesis from this earlier post. Poverty is not the only reason people stay in weaponized places. I am not a victim of poverty. I know what and who has victimized my family.
And I plan to stay and be
A highly articulate ghost.
Ghost Rules Ch. 1 Lazarus
Like many people, I have often wished that there was more in the Bible about what Lazarus did or felt or said. He is this absolutely pivotal figure in the narrative—man raised from the dead after 4 days!
Yet he is silent. He does not have a speaking part.
We don’t know his age or his jobs or his reaction to resurrection, and there is a reason for this—
We are all Lazarus.
Each of us is the one whose redemption and resurrection become the direct catalyst for the Cross.
Each of us is “the helpless dead” until Jesus walks in.
Not a moment too soon or too late, despite what the appearances, the grief, and the conditions of the sepulcher might say otherwise.
Carrying Light 