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Last Saturday one of our men’s group invited us to go with him to the liturgy of St. Basil the Divine at the nearby St. George’s Coptic Orthodox church.

Due to ‘Covid 19’ only five families were invited to attend in the little church building. We were considered Bill’s ‘family’ and so we 5 masked guys were shown to our distanced pew where we participated in the 2 hour liturgy, in the beautiful Orthodox way.

I personally deeply appreciated being once again in the richness of an ancient liturgical setting. The many blessings I received serving as a priest for 8 years in a liturgical tradition came flooding back to me, not least the awareness that I was fitting in to something infinitely bigger and greater than ‘me’.

This truth was emphasized in the short but profound homily about the meaning of the word ‘Way’ (Acts.9:8) in the original language. It is first of all a ‘treading on self’ – a truly revolutionary message for those of us living today, in this, “The Century of The Self”

Returning home I opened an email from a friend with a link to a sensible conversation between two intelligent academics. They used the word ‘Iconoclastic’ to describe the irrational ‘madness’ that we now find ourselves caught up in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfsH3AaoqYM&feature=youtu.be

An Iconoclast is one who ‘destroys statues, institutions and traditions,’ however, the definition of ‘iconoclastic’ also includes, “the destruction of an image”.

As I pondered this in the light of the service we had just attended with a ‘masked’ priest and the instructions ‘Do not touch the icons’ – the very hallmark of the Orthodox tradition, it dawned on me the deeper spiritual significance of the current push by “the powers that (think they) be” toward mandatory face coverings.

An icon is an image, using earthly things to open a window to heavenly realities. In this sense Jesus Christ was THE icon, God become man.

“God…. has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (2 Cor. 4:5-6)

As we believe and receive Jesus Christ as the ultimate icon of God, our seeing of others is then transformed, for “We no longer view any man after the flesh.” (1 Cor. 5:16) As a “new creature” we are given new eyes with which to see our fellow human beings.

We are then by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit able to appreciate afresh God’s making mankind “in his own image”.

And so as we look into the face of every man, woman and child no matter what their social, educational or economic status, their gender, their age or their ethnic background, and are able to see them as ‘children of God’ to be valued and respected even as we all are, ‘broken’ image carriers of our Creator.

This spiritual truth rather than the physical health pros or cons of ‘face coverings’ is the primordial issue.

It is the “enemy of our souls” who wants to ‘Cancel’…. every last vestige of our loving Father’s image whom we bear, quintessentially in our faces………..especially in a smile that reveals the beauty and benevolence of our Creator

This year, in the Hebrew calendar, is the beginning of the decade of the 80’s (5780). The Hebrew letter Pey with the value of 80 is represented by the mouth, and by extension, speech and breath. This follows the Ayin of the 70s, representing the eye with which we see.

I believe people are being awakened to see and then speak the truth

I wrote a few weeks ago about why the phrase, “I can’t breathe” resonates with so many. Do the desperate Queen of the Underworld and the Giants of Harfung want to cover our mouths, to also silence the voices that dissent from the toxic, Main-sewer narrative?

Here is an example of someone whose videos have repeatedly been ‘taken down’ by the Harfung Tech Giants. As another doctor turned artist. I appreciated the wry English humor of this ‘down to earth’ observer, describing how he believes we are currently, victims of, “The Greatest Crime in History” perpetrated by an iconoclastic medical and political elite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhYX8RzyMC4

It was in the May 17th blog, that I first wrote about how Father had shown me that The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis was a prophetic template for understanding the days in which we now live. As I’ve said before, I try to avoid giving my ‘opinions’ and to share what I believe I’ve been given as ‘revelation’ from our Father for your discernment.

The Silver Chair has a wonderful ending. Against all odds, Aslan’s “strength is made perfect” in the midst of the weaknesses of Jill, Eustace and Puddleglum, the three chosen adventurers, and the plans of the evil Queen and the Giants of Harfung are thwarted!

Last night Father gave me the word ‘Iconoblast‘ to stand in contrast to Iconoclast. I discovered this morning there is no such word in the English dictionary! ‘Blast‘ however as used in biology e.g. lymphoblast, is from the Latin for ‘BUD’ referring to a precursor cell.

He also highlighted to me another well known Orthodox icon (pictured below) that hangs in our Upper Room. It depicts Christ ‘the firstfruits’ (precursor) having blasted through death, taking the hands of Adam and Eve, from whom all mankind are descended, drawing them up, to in turn, share in His resurrection life.

A ‘rocket’ seems to be blasting through the overarching earth.

This reminded me of how the three in the story, escaped with the ‘missing’ Prince Rillian along the tunnel that the evil Queen had been constructing, in preparation for how she, and her bewitched prince, would conquer and rule the world of Narnia.

But now the spell that had kept the true Prince of Narnia bound had been broken. He is once again in his ‘right mind’ and on the side of good.

The four finally blast through the thin cover of earth remaining at the end of the tunnel to emerge from the dark Underworld and set foot once again in the magical world of Narnia…… even as the other Underworld captives, are at the same time being set free….. for Jesus Christ ‘led captivity captive.” (Ephesians.4:8)

The Queen’s and the Giant’s efforts will in the end prove futile, for as God affirms….

“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it BUD and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” (Is.55:11)

Lord, please make me your BUD, an ICONOBLAST, not an ICONOCLAST : – )

Probably one of the best known prophets in recent times is the late Bob Jones.

The first time I came to Minneapolis I ended up that evening ministering alongside Bob to a small group. He said to folk, “God has sent you two loaves of bread. tonight.” referring to my singing and his speaking, bread representing the truth of the prophetic word that feeds and gives life.

I remember the two songs I sang were Good Mornin Dad and What A Dad. The heart of Bob”s calling was also to reveal the loving heart of God our Father or ‘Papa’ as Bob would affectionately call him. ……..the FATHER from whom every FAMILY on earth is named. (Eph.3:15)

At one point Bob said to me. “You’re a prophet and you know it.” I did, and
the way this calling has worked out over the years has often been to do with recognizing God’s action and subsequent commentary on things in our personal life.

A biblical example of this is the prophet Isaiah. He was told to marry, and then to have children and then to give his children certain names. Those names ended up embodying the prophetic message he had been given to deliver.

The final prayer Hilary and I pray every evening before going to sleep is from Psalm 127, “Lord give to your beloved sleep and in their sleep what it is you want us to know that we might best serve you tomorrow.”

As I woke from sleep a few nights ago Father wrote on the blank page of my mind, the scripture from 2 Cor.12:13, “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

He then began speaking to me about the name and nature of our first born son, Robin. (a little easier to say than Mahershalalhashbas!) We have been sharing some of Robin’s story with you in recent blogs.

The name Robin as I said previously, is from Robert which means, “bright fame”. Other sources give the meaning “illustrious one” and “brilliance”. It is to do with light.

Father then connected and contrasted our Robin with another Robin who has recently risen to fame. In fact if you search the internet with the Harfung Giant called Google the first person they will present to you that they think you need to know about will be a lady called Robin DiAngelo. Her name translates to angel of light.

An angel is a messenger. (Heb.1:14) Father showed me how the message that Robin DiAngelo was bringing through her book “White Fragility” was flawed, and that Satan was using this lady in the guise of a messenger of light, as an agent of darkness, by utilizing Satan’s weapons of Condemnation and Fear to foster hostility between a shamed white race depicted as VILLIANS and a fearful black race depicted as VICTIMS.

God sends his Holy Spirit to convict us of sin. Conviction is different from the spirit of Condemnation which we are told we are now freed from.

“There is therefore now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rm.8:1)

The Conviction of the Holy Spirit is specific, you know exactly where you went wrong, whereas Condemnation from the devil brings a vague sense of guilt and unworthiness.

Conviction brings hope with the promise of forgiveness and the confident expectation of transformation,

“If we confess our sins (this includes sins of discrimination for God is “no respecter of persons”) God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all iniquity.” (1Jn.1:9)

Condemnation by contrast keeps us bound. It leaves us hopeless. No forgiveness is granted, no change expected.

In the case of White Fragility the author asserts that because some are born of a particular race, they are doomed like Lady Macbeth to cry forever, “Out damned spot!” …..the spot however is not red blood but white skin!

Your only hope of salvation as a white person seems to be to hire the Harfung Diversity consultant promoted by the Harfung Tech Giant to train you how to manage your inexpugnable guilt.

Protesting, “Black Lives Matter” with a sign put in your window – real or virtual, might help salve a guilty conscience, ease that shame, and calm the fear – that a brick might, put your window in – real or virtual!

(Yes, you’re right. I did slip into satire there 😊)

Robin Di Angelo peddles her lucrative message from the rarified atmosphere of a pseudo scientific ivory tower.

Robin Kyle lives out his costly message from the trenches of real life.

He is a father raising three children of color, to whom he is a shining example. His earthy wisdom and insights about current racial tensions has been acquired the hard way through honestly trying to support his wife as a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement.

In the last year Robin did in fact suffer two painful amputations. One was having his left leg cut off through surgery The other was having his wife cut off through divorce.

Hilary and I have learned a lot by listening to and observing how our son has handled his suffering. He has returned blessing for cursing, going the way of Jesus to become a true “son of light”

Living together even more intensely over the past 7 weeks, we know he is not perfect, none of us are, but we see Robin striding out along “the highway of holiness” refusing to assume a victim identity his eyes fixed on Christ who became The Victim for the whole world that we might share in his Victory of love over hatred and forgiveness over bitterness.

He has with resilience and self control taken personalresponsibility and weened himself off the pain relieving medications and onto a healing diet and excecise regime, and has with selfless love continually cared for his children and reached out with compassion and acceptance to all, without exception.

Listen to another knowledgeable and wise spokeswoman from the black community..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPioIXGQjy0

No one should dispute that black lives do matter, however in practice the Black Lives Matter Organization do.

The God given building block for every society is the family, beginning with a father, a mother and their children. It does not end there, as we have demonstrated throughout our married life. This nuclear family is meant then to open it’s arms to be a place of acceptance and stability for every single person who is sent to become a part of that family, no matter what shape, size or color.

The Black Lives Matter Organization on it’s website however, states that one of it’s main goals is to “disturb” i.e. to disrupt and destroy this “family”, the most basic element for health and welfare of the black, or any other community.

I am reminded of a second evil Shakespearean Queen, Gertrude, in Hamlet, who uttered the self incriminating lines about the queen cast to portray her own betrayal in the counter play, “Thou dost protest too much methinks!”

Those who shout the loudest at others through the Harfung Main – scream media may be the ones who get heard……. but they are likely the ones who, hypocritically, are most guilty of the very thing they accuse others of.

This phenomenon demonstrated in the Black Lives Matter Organization and the book,White Fragility was addressed by Jesus 2000 years ago when he spoke about those who point out the speck in another person’s eye while a huge log, made of the same material, is sticking out of theirs. (As so humorously illustrated above!)

Ha! So Jesus used satire too!😃

I was directed to one more link embodying the two names I have been focusing on over the last weeks. It is an interview by PETER ROBIN-son.

This lady, like ourselves, came to “The land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE.

The very last question PETER ROBIN-son asks is why she agreed to do the interview. The answer she gives, is the same answer I would give about why I take the risk to write these blogs.

Yesterday we flew back to Minneapolis from Boston.

As we boarded wearing our masks at half mast, so we could nose breath, we were chastised by a frightened looking man saying,

“Put your masks up. That doesn’t work. It’s against the rules!”

Of course we happily complied for his peace of mind.

An hour later on our sparsely peopled flight one of the flight attendants walking passed noticed I was no longer wearing my mask and said to me.

“Could you please put your mask on?”

“Could you please give me the reason?” I enquired politely.

“FDA regulations.” she replied pleasantly.

“OK” I replied, “I’ll certainly comply, but I’m a doctor and you know I don’t believe it is helpful.”

“Me neither!” she chuckled.

Later on in the flight she quietly approached me and gently touching my arm whispered,

“We’re on the same page. I think herd immunity is the way to go.”

Everyone else having left the plane, as I waited for my guitar at the door, we connected once again.

“You know what disappointed me most was that I wasn’t able to see your beautiful smiling face.” I joked.

Whipping off her mask, she give me a smile from ear to ear..

“Me too!” she laughed, pointing to her two perfect rows of pearly white teeth. “These are my best feature!”

I was reminded of a piece I wrote about an encounter with another flight attendant on the outward bound flight 7 weeks before.

DIRECT TRUTH by Paul Kyle

(A reflection on being the only unmasked ones on an AA flight to Boston)

Would you like a mask sir?

No thank you.

We are asking everyone to wear a face mask.

Medical condition.

Oh. I see. Alright we do allow an exception for medical conditions.

Yes. I’m immunosuppressed 

Oh! I’m sorry to hear that. Chemotherapy? 

No 2020.

I’m sorry. I don’t understand?

I live in 2020

Sorry. I still don’t understand?

Our world is a toxic soup…..hormones in the water, pesticides on the food, arsenic in the air, mercury in the vaccines……

I see!

That’s why I’m immunosuppressed

I see. And how would the mask harm you?

It would further immunosuppress me.

How so?

By raising the carbon dioxide level and also reducing the oxygen in the breathed air behind the mask to a dangerously low level, it would put stress on my body, further compromising my immune system.

So is low oxygen a bad thing?

Yes. It’s like if I developed sleep apnea. I would then go to the doctor and he would treat me to prevent the development of heart disease, Alzheimer’s and so on….

Oh! I wouldn’t want that to happen!

Well those things would take some time to develop. It’s more an acute condition I would be concerned about

Acute? Is that like a coronavirus infection?

Correct. In fact that is the reason people are dying from coronavirus 

Really?

Yes, they are finding that it is the lack of oxygen that causes cellular death and organ shut down

So by wearing a mask you would be creating the same conditions that cause Covid deaths!?

That’s right.

It might be true , but it certainly doesn’t seem right!

No. I agree. Viruses too.

What do you mean ‘Viruses too’?

The mask hinders your expelling viruses and means they are recirculated in that moist environment increasing the risk of activation and infection!

You mean you could get a viral infection?

Yes, and with my immunity further suppressed and oxygen depleted as well…..that wouldn’t be good for me!

But hold on a minute….I live in 2020 too!

That’s right.

So I’m immunosuppressed as well?

Correct.

Oh my God!! …….Well at least I’m saving someone else’s life by reducing their chance of getting infected!

Not really.

What do you mean ‘Not really’?

It’s not airborne spread like Ebola. It’s surface spread.

Really?

Yes. And it’s not an untreatable grade 4 condition but a treatable grade 1

You mean I’m not saving anyone’s life ……….and I might just be – killing myself!!!??

Yip

(Ripping mask off and running down the aisle) ‘Everyone, get your masks off!!……Get them off! …….Right Now!!!’

With thanks to Dr. Russell Blaylock, Prof. Dolores Cahill and the OSHA regulations. Links are in previous posts

The first 5 lines are factual, the rest fantasy😊

P.S. God of course works all things together for good and one example was the new friend we connected with over mask wearing, seated outside a cafe in Boston. I posted about this on June 6th “Basking, Not Masking”

The above video was his farewell to us in Boston. Below is my response from Rivendell in Minneapolis.

You know what I’m talking about?

These of course are the words of George Floyd uttered as his life was literally being squeezed out of him when just a few weeks ago a police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on his throat until he was dead.

The incident was like “a shot heard around the world”.

Now where did I hear  that phrase before?

Ah yes.  It was the shot fired at Concord just a few miles from where we have been living for the past 7 weeks, the shot that began the first American Revolutionary War destined to birth the United States of America and usher the world into a new era where for the first time in the history of humanity a new nation would aspire to be founded on biblical principles in what became known as the American Experiment.

Last night we read the words from Haggai, “Once more  I will  shake the heavens and the earth.” It seems we are living in those days, days akin to the first American Revolution, when in the face of tyranny something revolutionary and of worldwide significance needed to and did happen.

I believe those words carry such power, far beyond that isolated incident in Minneapolis, in these days, because they strike a chord  deep within everyone, because we are all beginning to feel, “ I can’t breathe”

This is a spiritual reality that is being played out in a physical reality.

Yesterday Robin went to the hospital for his final appointment with the physical therapist. He emerged, his face red  and sweating after being put through his paces……..with a mask on!

This nonsensical mask madness is clearly seen by some, but it is being felt by all.

We identify deeply with George Floyd’s words because we have all had that frightening experience, when for some reason as a child or an adult we found ourselves in a situation where we couldn’t get enough air and felt like we were suffocating.

That is the fear that is literally being induced today, by the enforced wearing of a mask that has the effect of  reduciing the oxygen content of the air we breath and increasing the carbon dioxide content stimulating the sympathetic nervous system to release adrenaline, the stress hormone, enabling us for “fight or flight”: because we are loosing our freedom…. as that Sabre tooth tiger closes in, ready for the kill,

It feels physiologically speaking like we are being set up to die.

This time our feelings are to be believed. These physical measures that are being instituted worldwide depriving us of our physical freedom and meaning metaphorically that when we can no longer run, we must turn to face the Sabre tooth tiger that is ready to pounce and kill us, reflect a spiritual reality!

That is why a second American Revolution needs to happen, not the revolution we are currently witnessing in the images subsequent to the George Flood image that are filling our screens, a revolution in the name of anarchy with the removal of all law and order, but a revolution similar to the first American Revolution to establish in a way that never fully happened with this Experiment the first time around, even though it was the intent, 

ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

Never have the forces of good and evil been so obvious. Yesterday I watched an interview. You can view it below unless of course it has been “censored” which is very likely. A doctor of standing describing a foolproof cure for COVID 19. The reason why in Taiwan  only 7 people out of a population of 24 million have died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSDdwN2Xcg

 

The fact that the Giants of Harfung under the direction of the Queen of Underland have been aggressively trying to censor this clearly life saving news is yet one more proof that despite their protestations that you join them for the feast, their intention is to devour you and your children.

Thankfully we know that there is another King who has a kingdom that cannot be shaken and that is coming even as I type.

Let us each do our part as American Revolutionaries this second time around, to fill the Revolutionary Spaces that have been left empty by those who have retreated in fear, and with faith, hope and love,  stand for Freedom of speech, Freedom of assembly, and Freedom of religion, and for the Greater Good, “breath the free air again“ to speak out courageously for the Truth as it is in Christ , that will set us, and the whole world truly free!

P.S. Here a couple of practical ways to stand for medical Freedom if you are so lead.

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/

https://medicalfreedompac.com/

The evil wind I have been describing is not a new phenomenon. In fact it first turns up in the oldest book in the Bible.

In Job we read about how Satan sent an evil wind and how Job’s children were all killed when their house “gave way” (Job.1:18,19)  Not only did Job loose his family but he also lost his wealth and his health, all that we hold dear in this life.

However we also read how Satan was only able to do this because God gave him permission. He’s like a dog ……on a leash held by God, or as one of my friends puts it. “He’s only middle management.”  In other words he is only able to do what he has been given permission to do by our Father God whose essential nature is love and who is also all knowing, all seeing and all wise In other words he knows where we are at, knows where he wants to get us, and knows how to best get us there, by allowing adversity through the Adverary into our lives. God uses the evil wind for his good purposes.

Proverbs 19:23 says “The fear of the Lord leads to life. Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.”

This does not mean that trouble will not touch a man who fears God, but that when a man who fears God is touched by trouble it will not destroy him, it will define him because of the way in which he chooses to respond’ ……..as a VICTOR not a VICTIM.

Job’s wife who took offense on his behalf wanted her husband to play the VICTIM role.

“Curse God and die.” She said.

But he would not cave in to self pity, and to FEAR of what else the future might hold, refusing to complain, he said,

“Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?”  (Job.2:10) 

Next he was tested by his, so called “Comforters” who were anything but true “friends”  as they piled on the CONDEMNATION, telling Job he was being punished by God for his wickedness.

Again Job asserted his trust,” Though  he slay me, Yet will I trust in him.”  ( Job 13:15)

The debate went back and forth for 40 chapters!….. but in the end God intervened, lifting Job  to a whole other plane by giving him a transformative spiritual revelation.

“My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” (Job 42:5)

I believe that revelation was a vision of the cross, where Job saw the son of God, the spotless Lamb who had never been touched by evil, bearing the suffering that had come from that evil, that had stalked not only Job’s life, but the life of every man, woman and child, who has ever seen the light of day.

Grace through faith is imparted to Job as he emerges from this fiery trial cleansed and whole, his house now no longer built on the sandy foundation of his own words and works but on the solid rock of that PETER revelation of the finished work of The Lord Jesus Christ, the “Lamb of God  who takes away the sins of the world”……. ‘who was slain from the foundation of the world.’ ( Jn.1:36. Rev.13:8)

Someone has said that a religious man spends his life trying to avoid hell, a spiritual man is one who has been to hell and back

Last week we listened to Jordan PETER-son being interviewed by his daughter, Mikhaila about his last year. It can only be described as a journey to hell and back. It was the testing and (im) proving of a spiritual man who has also chosen the path of VICTORY over VICTIMHOOD. After listening, my respect for him (them) grew enormously!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWgVpmo1e0

The fruit of Job’s suffering was that he was then able to be an immense benefit to his friends. Instead of saying the prayers of a religious man, as he had done at the beginning of the story he had become a true intercessor carrying in his person the power and authority of his suffering Savior, the one who had chosen to become a VICTIM on behalf of all men in order that all men might share in his VICTORY over sin and death.

We have over the past weeks, and years watched our son Robin make the same journey.. As he has chosen to trust in the midst of loosing health, wealth and family, he has also been changed, growing in the wisdom from above…..

“……. first pure (morally and spiritually undefiled) then peace loving (courteous and considerate), gentle,, reasonable ( and willing to listen) full of compassion and good fruits. It is unwavering, without (self – righteous) hypocrisy (and self serving guile).” 

Robin is now back with us in our Boston apartment so graciously provided by Father through the instrumentality of Hospitality Homes. It is perfect for our needs, spacious, centrally located and well equipped.

It is however sparsely decorated with just two pieces of art.

The first picture is of a sun rise through a wood  just as we have over the past month, watched our son rise through a wood known as the Harvard  Arboretum, wealthy in magnificent trees from every land..

The second picture is of wind and water.

In the 1800s Boston prospered as the iconic clipper ships were built and then blown from here full speed  across the oceans, trading in the bounty of every land.

A second  “cloister walk” our Father has given us here in Boston is around a small body of water called Jamaica Pond.

There, inscribed on an old wall that has stood the shaking test of time, writ in moss, I noticed this well worn but timeless wisdom…….in answer to that desperate appeal by the Psalmist when the foundations are being destroyed…………

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sail.

This is what Jordan and Greg and Robin have chosen to do,

……not to look backwards with anger

nor to look outwards with bitterness

nor to look inwards with self pity,

nor to look forwards with fear

…… but instead

to look upwards with

faith,

hope

and love,

and allow that wnd that was sent

to blow them

Heavenward.

……wih a wealth and bounty gained

to bless every land

where the Spirit takes them

……with wisdom and comfort to offer those handling benzodiazepine withdrawal, war wounds or amputation.

Last night Father woke me to insert an additional blog, interrupting my further answer to the question “What can the righteous do?” ……or maybe giving another perspective on how that question can be answered?

He brought to mind someone I have not thought about for many years. A man called Stewart Black.

Stewarty as we knew him was a very attractive person. Physically his handsome looks were topped off by a very distinctive head of thick white hair that he must have had from a very young age.

His character was also admirable. He was an “elder” in our church, and when the Holy Spirit was poured out and all sorts of rumors began circulating about the strange “Unpresbyterian” things happening in the youth group, Stewarty was the only member of the Kirk session who came to see for himself…..and ended up staying! “

Another reason everyone loved Stewartty was because of his sense of humor.He always had a funny take on things which would bring a smile to our faces and help us young people not take ourselves too seriously.

Father, then said to me…… pairing Stewarty’s name and hair

“it’s Black And White”

Now I realized that you can take this in two different ways. Firstly when the expression is used to indicate that something is OBVIOUSLY right (and something else is obviously wrong) ……“It’s so black and white!!!’

This might be described as somehing becoming  ‘politicized’  or ‘weaponized’ where we have taken a side. It could also be described in biblical terms as having eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Someone sent me an article recently from a Christian magazine entitled” Why I am Wearing a Face Mask to Church.” The author argued from scripture why he thought this was the right decision he had made now that church services were starting up again. I have written a few times and linked you to the medical references as to why we think medically speaking wearing a mask does not make sense, and could mistakenly be thought to be taking a side in a debate….where at the end we take a vote and one side wins and the other looses.

That however is not my intention and would I believe be missing the “Soft Stand’ point I wanted to make at the end of the last blog

Father said to me this morning, “ It’s not about the mask .It’s about the smile“  In other words it is not about taking a side, it’s about giving a smile, because we are no longer living from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but from the tree of life.

It is not about your choosing between something that you believe is right as opposed to something you believe is wrong. it is about choosing to follow what the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is showing you will bring life to others.

The first tree produces the fruit of self righteousness ……..I’m right (and by the way you are wrong)  The second tree produces the fruit of joy .

It’s not whether or not I have transmitted a virus or not, it’s about whether I have transmitted life and health or not and it centers around whether my motive is loving from a pure heart when I am on everyone’s side, or living from a political heart when I am on one side and not on another.

And so what Father was emphasizing was that it is not

BLACK  and WHITE

but…….

black AND white.……….like Stewarty!

The name Stewart (which happens to be the maiden name of both my mother and Hilary’s mother) means a servant. Our goal is, like Jesus Christ not to take a political side, but to be a servant of all, not by trying to please everyone, but by following in his footsteps, not as a moral teacher but as a living savior who has given us His Spirit that, as I said in the last blog, we might out of a place of rest, having surrendered up our “ political/tree of the knowledge of good and evil ‘’ opinions, hear instead his word of life in any and every situation.

As these thoughts were coalescing in my mind today, Hilary and I were staring out over Boston Bay from the harbor wall. The sight and sound of the sea awakened a longing  in me for, as my father used to say, ‘ a dip’

“ I wonder if I would be allowed to have a swim here or not?“ I said, tongue in cheek to Hilary.

”Well it wouldn’t do your health any good.” She replied, eyeing the dirty water.

It dawned on me I had just asked my question from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and she had answered from the tree of life.

The wind of evil I pointed to in the last blog seeks to kill. Under the guise of protecting us from something that will harm us it is in fact I believe hindering us from receiving something that will heal us……..a life giving smile, This is the reason why in public I  continue to, from a respectful distance, give an open faced smile to everyone I meet.

In taking a stand in this loving way I have found many people literally disarmed by the smile.  That shaming look from behind the mask which might have been an initial response quite often yields to acceptance if not full smile. And in the unmasked I encounter whose first instinct is to nervously grope for their fig leaf lest they be shamefully ‘found out’ my smile invites them to ‘just chill’.

This is how I have been lead. How you are lead is for you to discern.

In this simple and practical way I find an outworking of Colossians 2:15 as the devil is disarmed of those two weapons I mentioned in the last blog, scaring and shaming, as with a simple smile I convey the love that casts out fear and the acceptance that counters judgement and rejection.

And so Stewarty I salute you with the finishing flag, my beloved BLACK and WHITE brother who is now in a perpetual state of staring into his Father’s face, having heard the words,

”Well done good and faithful Stewarty. Enter into the joy of your Lord.”

………..and  with an open face, he reciprocates that smile, as a true ‘chip off the old block’😊

At the end of the Foundations Course we read the story in Matthew 7 of the two men. The wise man who built his house upon the rock and the foolish man who built his house upon the sand. Then came the test to see if their house would stand or be destroyed.

“..…..and THE WINDS BLEW and slammed against that house.”

That wind just blew through our hometown of Minneapolis and the house of the fools, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey was destroyed with one billion dollars of damage……and that was just to the property!

I believe that currently there is a Satanic storm. An evil wind is sweeping across the whole earth..

The scripture I was given about this was, 

” This (superficial) wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly (secular) natural (unspiritual) , even demonic.(Jim.3:15 Amp.)

The motivation behind such wisdom we read is bitter envy and selfish ambition. The fruit of such wisdom is disorder, unrest and rebellion. 

Satan’s goal has always been to steal, kill and destroy. He is the “father of lies” and uses two weapons – FEAR and CONDEMNATION.

First came the FEAR through the ‘panic-demic”

I was given these words to sing in the song All Will Be Well.

Though fear has gone viral across every land

Though joy has been cancelled and business been canned

The ongoing hysteria generated by the Mainstream media around COVID 19 together with the irrational massive government overreach has left millions of people damaged emotionally mentally and economically, and deeply confused.

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how-fear-virus-changed-our-world

After the SCARING came the SHAMING..

What is ‘Black Lives Matter’ ? It os an implicate accusation directed toward those who do not identify racially as Black, that generates guilt and shame. The meaning of the name Satan is “accuser” To accuse another is to do the devil’s work. We are told to do away with the “pointing of the finger” (Is. 58:9)

In contrast to the wisdom from below that has wreaked such havoc in recent days, James describes the wisdom from above,

“……. first pure (morally and spiritually undefiled) then peace loving (courteous and considerate), gentle,, reasonable ( and willing to listen) full of compassion and good fruits. It is unwavering, without (self – righteous) hypocrisy (and self serving guile).” 

Having heard this wisdom from a couple of old white guys in the clip above here is some wisdom from a few old black guys who have demonstrated over a lifetime of fruitful service that they really do care about black lives..

Here is another wise commentary on recent developments by Walter Williams.

https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/TheGazette/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=THEGAZETTE%2F2020%2F06%2F24&entity=Ar01401&sk=5AFD4773&mode=text

Again it is the work of the evil Queen of Underland (Babylon) in conjunction with the Giants of Harfung (The BIG corporations controlling commerce and communications) to censor such wisdom and promote views that foster division and destruction for political ends. The primary issue is not race but POWER.

People who are SCARED and SHAMED can be controlled and manipulated by those who are driven by “jealosy and selfish ambition……”

We are at a time akin to the birth of Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, on the verge of a totalitarianism that has arisen that would engulf the whole world. The current turmoil is a showdown between good and evil  between truth and lies.

The stone that was used by the propaganda machine to foment this most recent avalanche threatening to destroy the foundations of society was the tragic death of a man called George. The end game was described many years ago by another man called George.

”Every book has been rewritten.  Every picture has been repainted. Every statue and street and building . Every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.“

George Orwell’s book was called 1984.

“Did he get the date wrong?” you  might ask. Interestingly the number 36 represents Enemy. It took another 36 years for the Enemy to fully reveal his hand in this year 2020.

Thankfully we know how it will all end  for another George , our Heavenly Father who in Jn 15 is called  by the Greek word ‘georgios’ (translated husbandman or vinedresser) from which the name George is derived has seen and scripted the end from the beginning. If we “abide in the vine” that this George tends, our lives will in the end have borne “ good fruit that will endure”

The sources of truth I have been pointing to over the past months birth faith unto life while the distortion and lies of the Queen of Underland and  the Giants of Harfung, (see The Silver Chair Blog. May 17) fatten us up for the kill by continuing to feed us a diet of fear and shame that lead to division, destruction and death.

When wrong is called right and right is called wrong

When the court is corrupt, true religion gone home

When wisdom is drowned by the noise of the throng

Let me use these lines from the song, that were given to me before their recent fulfillment had transpired, to begin answering more practically the question posed in the title.

The next line in the psalm suggests fleeing like a bird. Thankfully we can draw on another image of a bird……the Holy Spirit descended peacefully as a dove on Jesus head after he was baptized by John, as the Father spoke, “This is my beloved son in whom I delight.”

Knowing our Father’s delight puts us in a place of rest where we can hear his voice and know what we should do in any and every situation.

When In these evil days we feel that evil wind blow our way, we will be lead by that other good wind, the Holy Spirit, as to how to Stand.

I will give two examples from our recent experience. One I will call a “Hard Stand” the other a “Soft Stand”

If you have followed the blog for any length of time, you will be aware of the evil wind that has blown against The Big Green House through the accusationss coming from the neighbor living next door at house number 2725. The Strong’s number 2725 is the word for “The accuser – Satan”!

Our standing against these accusations culminated in a public hearing before the Citty council where over 60 other neighbors rallied in support of us. “True religion“ James tells us is to care for widows which is what we did in our home until the City threatened to punish us if we did not desist. The court, corrupted by the love of money, has continued to harass us. Afraid of a costly lawsuit from our disgruntled neighbor they have once again transmitted and compound her bullying in our direction.

Just a few weeks ago we received another threatening letter demanding an inspection of our property. When we informed them we were out of town with our son who was having an amputation they requested someone in the house co-operate in a “ virtual inspection”

We sought the council of friends and were confirmed in our belief that this was in breach of our 4th and 5th Amendment rights under the American Constitution. I then wrote to them..

We are not giving permission for any intrusion into our home, real or virtual in our absence.

I would appreciate if you would answer the question from my previous email…………….What is the city’s legal authority to do a zoom inspection or even come into the house?  Don’t you have to have some sort of “probable cause” to believe we are violating the law?  Since only our family lives with us now, what evidence do you have that we are violating an ordinance?

Thank you for your anticipated clarification.

Paul and Hilary Kyle

In response to this “Hard stand” we have heard nothing more.

The above photo is of a mural on a bridge that I run past when I follow the path along the Charles River here in Boston. The path is full of runners and walkers, mostly young and intelligent looking students or staff from MIT, Harvard or one of the other prestigious educational establishments. The mural reads and the artwork reflects “Patterned Behavior”

As I observed nearly all these folk hidden behind masks, I realized it was an illustration of how fear makes us cower and can be used to manipulate even the most intelligent people to act foolishly………in yielding to a pattern of behavior that if you do due diligence and think for yourself makes little sense.

Then the Holy Spirit prompted me to take a “Soft Stamd”

I heard, “Just like fear, JOY is contagious. Give a mask less open faced smile to each person you meet on the trail…….spread the pattern of joy😊

and so I did…….and so they did (well many of them)

SMILE …..

because in their heart of hearts they know

………God does love Me😃

I will complete this answer in my next blog in another day or two.

P.S. Amazingly just as I was about to post this blog I noticed the headline about an interview today , “Thomas Sowell tells Mark Levin left wing ideology falls apart “like a house of cards“ when you demand the facts.”

Another ‘sign following’ that we are on the same page – God’s Foundational page.

Hours after posting the last blog, the Holy Spirit showed me the above title for this one…….

So from Peter’s Hill to Peter’s Son!

After choosing to challenge the (mask) regulation on Peter’s Hill in order to do what Hilary believed was “the right thing”, we discovered this piece by Jordan Peter- son explaining to us why we live dangerously😊……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSErYhxNLX0

When  Robin first pointed me to Jordan Peterson it was his lecture answering the question “Would you call yourself a Christian?”  that impressed me. Although much of his teaching as a psychologist draws on the biblical stories he essentially said, “I would not call myself a Christian unless I lived like Christ”  I recognized in the way he answered that question the Christ like qualities of INTEGRITY and HUMILITY. His conclusions are also based on scientific studies – FACTS that add up over time . These are my three criteria for discerning what sources of “truth” I trust.

He strikes me as a “prophetic voice “ for our time. The phenomenal popularity on YouTube of this Canadian psychology professor has lead to thousands of young people move from atheism to faith in God and from hopelessness to purpose in their lives. 

His name itself points to his prophetic calling in these days. The Jordan river is where the prophet John the Baptist appeared as “a voice crying in the wilderness’. His message was that people should turn from the sinfulness prevalent in their society and take responsibility for their own lives. The decision to die to self and emerge to a new God centered life was then demonstrated in their submitting to John’s baptism.

The essence of this Jordan’s message is also, that we get really honest, and take radical personal responsibility

Then he is also a son of Peter. I finished the last blog with the apostle Peter’s confession of faith to Jesus, “You are the Christ the Son of the living God”. Jesus said this revelation and confession of Peter (whose name means ‘rock’) would be the FOUNDATION upon which he would build his church.

On the day of Pentecost when the church was born, Peter answered the question of the responsive crowd, “What must we then do? “ by spellng out how we take personal responsibility to express faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:38) 

This verse formed the basis of a Foundation Course we taught at the Big Green House which was interestingly built by a man also called Peterson ….on a foundation of 250 tons of rock!

The key verse in the Foundation Course was Is. 28:16 (Amplified

“ Listen carefully, I am laying in Zion a Stone, a tested Stone, a precious Cornerstone for the (secure) foundation, firmly placed. He who believes (who trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone) will not be disturbed or give way (in sudden panic)”

The day Robin was discharged from hospital was topped and tailed by those “signs following” which confirmed to me the theme of this blog.

My proverb at the beginning of the day was.

“ Wise people are builders – they build families, businesses, communities. And through intelligence and insight their enterprises are established and endure.” (Prov. 24:3)

That evening I walked to the top of Peter’s Hill to say farewell to our beloved wood. At the top there are two large Foundation sized rocks, thoughtfully placed for people to sit and take in the beauty of Creator’s masterpiece.

The night before mischief had been at work on these stones. The graffiti is pictured above.

This amazing “sign following” appeared at the perfect time and in just the right place. where, only a  week before I had received the revelation that I shared in the last blog about two good men – Greg and Robin.

I couldn’t help but superimpose on those stones the illustration that I draw when teaching our Foundation Course.

When we believe in the Lord (Master) we repent from going our own way. When we believe in Jesus (Savior) we are baptized for the forgiveness of sins and when we believe in the Christ (the Anointed One) we too receive the Holy Spirit.

When our lives are built on this foundation we will not be shaken, but will be able to stand “in the evil day“.

Is the foundational spirit behind BLM the opposite? The Urban Dictionary’s top definition for RIZZ (which is crystal meth) is a poem that begins

I destroy homes, tear families apart.

I take your children and that’s only the start.

Last week Sean King once a leading voice in BLM said that statues of Jesus Christ are a form of white supremacy and should be torn down.

The scripture came to mind. “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Ps.11:3)

I aim to begin answering that question in my next blog which I plan to post in a day or two.

The other day Hilary climbed to the top of Peter’s Hilll in the Harvard Arboretum across the road from The Brigham and Woman’s hospital where Robin is (He must be a Brigand because he sure ain’t a Woman😊)

This wood consisting of thousands of diverse and ancient trees has been such a blessing from our Father as the ‘other’, walks and worships in the midst of creation…….for it’s still only one visitor per day in the hospital because of ‘the virus’

It was my turn to visit our courageous son who was just coming round from his 5th surgery in 3 weeks. 

“Ping” A text arrived from his mother. 

“Can you see me? I’m at the top of Peter’s Hill“ She asked.

“Yes” I replied.” Can you see me?  I’m waving from Robin’s window.” 

When we met up again she told me of how on top of the hill she had met a couple. They had connected initially because they like her, were both challenging the dominating narrative……

As the unmasked couple came nearer than 6 feet to the open faced Hilary, the three began to chat about the current situation, and the lady said,

“Something just doesn’t feel right!”

A friendly pair, they were intrigued with Hilary’s story about living through “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland.

Hilary explained how initial legitimate protests had been hijacked by evil, leading to decades of bloodshed and suffering, inflamed by the press and power hungry politicians.

Some things don’t change.

(In fact this horror of bloodshed continues to this day in Northern Ireland Just last week Westminster (regardless of the will of the Northern Irish people) legitimized murdering a 9 month old child, about to be born.)

Hilary thought her new friends seemed like a typical, ordinary, decent couple from Boston – but with their own ‘troubles’ – deep confusion about what was going on in today’s world.

The lady continued…….”Normally we Bostonians are friendly types. I feel bad about how inhospitable people here have become!”

“That’s what fear of ‘the others’ will do to you.” Hilary replied.

“ How can we get more understanding about what is really going on?”

So Hilary suggested a few perspectives beyond the Mainstream they might investigate on the web.

Yesterday I read on one of those sites yet another reason why the mask madness does not make any sense. OSHA, the Occupational Health and Safety Agency of the federal government have had a regulation for years stating that if the environmental oxygen level drops below 19.5% by volume it constitutes a serious danger to health as an ODA – oxygen deficient atmosphere. This ODA is created within a few moments after putting on a mask because of the displacement of oxygen by carbon dioxide. If you would like to read further about the lack of scientific evidence for any merit in the wearing of masks I recommend Dr Russel Blaylock’s article here

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/dr-blaylock-face-masks-pose-serious-risks-healthy11

Although the physical repercussions of face masks are grave, I believe the spiritual, mental and emotional consequences are even worse. It has highlighted to me the deep significance of the line I was given many years ago,

I open my eyes, I see your smiling face

Warming my heart. Good Morning Dad

While Hilary was having this conversation on Peter’s Hill, I was looking out toward them from Robin‘s window, while a doctor and nurse were engaged in yet another pain reducing procedure to cover a portion of the raw skin at the graft donor site, which had accidentally been left exposed. Robin was very uncomfortable with a couple of other ‘below the waist’ sources of pain going on at the same time!

“Just a little artwork to cut the dressing to size” the lady doctor explained.

Robin lying on his front shot back……….“ I’ve got some glitter here to finish it off with….”

We all laughed at the notion of the fictional glitter …………

………and in doing so it was as if the glitter materialized in the room as our faces lit up …….and Robin’s name (“Bright‘) revealing our Father’s true nature, came shining through, his smiling son.

The following day it was Hilary’s turn to visit Robin and mine to enjoy the Arboretum. As I turned a corner at the foot of Peter’s Hill, I came face to face with another mask-less man – in a wheelchair. His two stumps of legs were poking out from his shorts. Before I knew it I had engaged him in conversation about his condition. I could see he was quite taken aback by my forthrightness and so I explained to him about Robin’s situation.

“Who is doing the surgery.?” Greg asked.

“Matthew Carty.” I replied.

“ I am now a medical student at Harvard. I was trained by Dr Carty last year. He’s the best there is.” volunteered Greg, enthusiastically.

What is your story? I asked.

I was in the military. Walking along a road in Afghanistan…..one moment I was all there, the next……. I was like this.”

”Tell your son another transformational moment came for me some time later, when I finally stopped looking back with regret over all the things I could no longer do and began looking forward to all the possibilities ahead. “

He nodded to his beautiful wife standing shyly behind him. “That’s Teddy in the buggy….and we’re expecting another”. He smiled.

”……and this is one of those possibilities you talked about.” I said. “Had that not happened to you I would have never stopped and encountered the deep faith and hope that’s alive in you, and received such wise council to pass on to my son. Thank you Greg”.

To demand that the smile of God on the human face be covered up for what turns out to be no reason at all, is as diabolical as it gets

This is why they masked the face of

Georgiana Flood.

The image of Georgiana’s contorted features as she writhed in pain when her limbs were cut off before being ruthlessly murdered, like the millions of her brother and sister black children, was not flashed across screens worldwide by CNN or BBC.

These faceless and nameless children all went “silently into that dark night.” cruelly killed by men who have no fear of God but are set on destroying his image borne by every man, woman and child.

Such evil Is now being unmasked and although at times it seems overwhelming, God is preparing, a new leadership for his world. Good men like Robin and Greg who have been trained and purified by being forged in the fire of affliction, learning how to overcome evil without and within by the grace and mercy of God.

On my way home I stopped at a traffic light. Through my open car window I couldn’t help but hear a conversation between a couple of black ladies, whose lives also matter, standing just a few feet away.

“I’m going to be so glad when we can get rid of these” the young girl said holding up her surgical mask. “ I think we should have a ‘burn your mask ‘ like ‘burn your bra’ celebration” when it happens! she chuckled.

She noticed my unmasked smile through the open window and we exchanged thumbs up as the lights turned green and I drove off laughing, into our future where I know “All Will Be Well.”

I’m sure when the original Peter made his confession to Jesus, “You are the Christ! The son of the living God.” He too had a radiant smile …….all over his face😊

In 1998 I was lead to go to New York City to be Brian Caruth’s running partner in the New York Marathon. Well we both completed it in a tad over 2 hours : – ) But I knew the main purpose had not been to win the race but to run through all 5 boroughs of the City and drench it in the prayer “Lord Jesus we enthrone ……Come Lord Jesus and take your place……as King of New York.”:

Team Kyle had constituted Hilary myself and Abby (7) and Joshua (8). As we drove up out of the City the day after, I looked back to see the Twin Towers dominating the Downtown. Abby spontaneously began singing “Lord Jesus We Enthrone You………Come Lord Jesus and take your place”.

As she did Joshua (now Gilbert) began to laugh.

“What are you laughing at?” I asked him.

“There are playing cards coming out of Abby’s mouth.” He chuckled.

“What are they.?” I asked.

“Well, there’s an Ace and a King and Queen, and a Jack and a Ten.” He said

Father then whispered to me

“It’s a Royal Flush. And I am coming to take my place as King of New York. But with that there will be a flushing out of evil.”

Who would have anticipated that a few years later those Two Towers would have been destroyed by evil or that 22 years later this city and others like Minneapolis and now Seattle would be decimated by two debacles which are exposed in the ridicule of JP Sears and the candidness of Candace Owens that top and tail this blog.

Last summer our daughter and her family fled New York City just in the nick of time. Many of their friends are now also moving away as ‘The Big Apple’ becomes ‘The Bad Apple’.

This morning I read “People lose their way without wise leadership, but a nation succeeds and stands in victory when it has many good counselors” (Prov.11:14)

He has sounded out the trumpet that shall never call retreat

He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgement seat.

These lines from the Battle Hymn of the Republic are surely being fulfilled in our day as we witness the bad fruit of bad leadership from those whose hearts are perverse.

A few nights ago we watched a powerful documentary drama about St. Joan of Arc. It told the most amazing, beautiful but tragic story, of how when France was languishing in victimhood, during the Hundred Years’ War, a simple teenage girl who ‘feared God’’ and responded to his voice was raised up to lead France’s army into victory over the English in order to see the Dauphin crowned as King of France in the name of “Jesus, the King of heaven”

She insisted on moral purity from all her soldiers and in a standoff between the armies she instructed her army be given communion on the battlefield. On seeing this the English simply turned and walked away liberating the besieged city of Orleans! Here it is if you’d like to view…..

https://youtu.be/edUgN5srLTs

Having lived a courageous life of selfless service out of a pure heart, Joan was in the end tragically deserted by her friends and betrayed by self serving politicians, suffering martyrdom by being burned alive at the stake.

In the last blog I wrote about Pain, and it’s bed fellow Anger. Another associate of Pain and Anger is called Sorrow

That night, Father spoke to me about the road we take each day to Robin’s hospital.

It begins on the unusually named STORROW DRIVE

He said, “The road to ST – hood is the road of sORROW.”

As I wrote about the four men last week, when you experience Anger and Pain, if you do not look outward for someone to blame, but you take personal responsibility to utilize the Sorrow of the camber, you will ascend and help others ascend “the highway of holiness.”……as you, “Count it all joy…..!”

From STORROW we turn onto RIVERWAY and then ARBORWAY

This speaks of “the man” in Psalm 1. “Who does not walk in the counsel of wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of scoffers.”

But his delight is in the law of the Lord

He is likened to a tree (ARBORWAY) planted by the river (RIVERWAY)

…….that bears fruit in its season

This man is the man Jesus Christ……….and all who identify with Him, who fear the Lord and walk in His ways, yielding the same good fruit from their lives.

Here is a link to another courageous young woman who ‘fears the Lord’ Her’s is a voice the Giants of Harfung and the Queen of Underland fear and seek to silence, but God is raising up true servant leaders as America’s hope in these chaotic and deceptive days, who will stand and speak for truth and righteousness, like Candace……….seeking like Joan of Arc to move her people from victims to victors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMC1DkIWvfo

P.S
On a personal note, Robin is still in hospital. Dr Carty is planning to do a skin graft whenever the wound is ready to receive it. We hope that will be this week. Robin’s pain relief continues to be a major challenge. Thankfully Hilary and I are now allowed to visit, though in a limited way. We are all learning patience and trust in Boston. Thank you dear friends for your many expressions of love and support.

P.P.S.
Just as I was about to post this, we got word that our dear friend of 50 years Paul Cupples, who was one of the four men mentioned in the last blog has just this morning made his final ascent up the camber of suffering onto the highway of holiness and to his eternal destination. In the words of another Paul, he has fought the good fight finished the race and kept the faith. He and his wife Jesse are both deserving, by God’s grace, of that crown of righteousness, for a life well lived, leaving much good fruit behind.