https://www.aol.com/entertainment/robert-redford-waited-vatican-wednesday-160521161.html

There is a history of pairs of famous people dying on the same day. Charlie Kirk did not die on the same day as Robert Redford, but the pairing in time still seems relevant.

Charlie trusted in Jesus for his eternity.

He died a violent, untimely death.

Redford trusted nature and Playboy and said that what we have in this life is all there is. He lived a long life and died of old age without any controversial epithets.

The contrast is notable and tragic.

I am with Charlie.

Give me Jesus.

2 Corinthians 2:12-17 NIV
[12] Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, [13] I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. [14] But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. [15] For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. [16] To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? [17] Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c707kx2nk7go

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.

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.

Use whatever agency you have

Whatever voice

Whatever grasp on the material world you can muster

For these eternal things

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