Things Behind The Sun

Then the righteous
will shine like the sun
in the kingdom of their Father.
He who has ears, let him hear.
~ Matthew 13

Nick Drake

I Can See For Miles

There you will worship
man-made gods of wood and stone,
which cannot see or hear
or eat or smell.
But if from there
you seek the LORD your GOD,
you will find him
if you look for him
with all your heart
and with all your soul.
When you are in distress
and all these things
have happened to you,
then in later days
you will return
to the LORD your GOD
and you will obey him.
~ Deuteronomy 4

Al-Qaeda's new 'planning chief' lived in US for 15 years

And Paul has been up his ass for 9 of them
El Shukrijumah's Irish Nightmare

Chum's Pimpage

Image by Mikaelos y Barbarella

Buy the truth and do not sell it;
get wisdom, discipline and understanding.
~ Proverbs 23

King Harvest

Ask the Lord of the harvest,
therefore,
to send out workers
into his harvest field
~ Matthew 9

Don't Forget To Tip Your Whipper!

Original Painting by Boris Olshansky

What do you prefer?
Shall I come to you with a whip,
or in love and with a gentle spirit?
~ 1 Corinthians 4

Hello, Muddah...

When the LORD
brought back the captives to Zion,
we were like men who dreamed.
~ Psalm 126

La Revedere

"If he were not a criminal,"
they replied,
"we would not have handed him over to you."
~ John 18

40 Day Dream

Original painting by Irving Norman

At the end of the forty days
and forty nights,
the LORD
gave me the two stone tablets,
the tablets of the covenant.
Then the LORD told me,
"Go down from here at once,
because your people
whom you brought out of Egypt
have become corrupt.
They have turned away quickly
from what I commanded them
and have made a cast idol for themselves."
~ Deuteronomy 9

Father Alexander Karloutsos from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese,
Rabbi Bob Kaplan from the Jewish Community Council,
Reverend Brian Jordan from the Church of St. Francis of Assisi,
Rabbi Irwin Kula from the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership-CLAL, Reverend Jim Cooper from Trinity Church,
Reverend Les Mullings from the Church of the Nazarene,
Imam Shamsi Ali from the Islamic Cultural Center of New York,
Reverend T.K. Nakagaki from the New York City Buddhist Church,
Cara Berkowitz from the UJA Federation
and
Matthew Weiner from the Interfaith Center of New York join Mayor Bloomberg on Governors Island to Capitulate to Islam

They refused to listen
and failed to remember
the miracles you performed
among them.
They became stiff-necked
and in their rebellion
appointed a leader
in order to return to their slavery...

DO NOT PACK A SWEATER

Paranoid

There is no fear in love.
~ 1 John 4

The Dance Of The Seven Veils

She went out and said to her mother,
"What shall I ask for?"
"The head of John the Baptist,"
she answered.
~ Mark 6

Maybe I'm Amazed

Be stunned and amazed,
blind yourselves and be sightless;
be drunk, but not from wine,
stagger, but not from beer.
~ Isaiah 29

Hero Blues

The angel of the LORD
encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
~ Psalm 34

Nigh Guy

I hear many whispering,
"Terror on every side!
Report him!
Let's report him!"
All my friends
are waiting for me to slip, saying,
"Perhaps he will be deceived;
then we will prevail over him
and take our revenge on him."
~ Jeremiah 20

The Sweater Girl

You snakes!
You brood of vipers!
How will you escape
being condemned to hell?
~ Matthew 23

Emergency On Planet Earth

Our kings, our leaders,
our priests and our fathers
did not follow your law;
they did not pay attention
to your commands
or the warnings you gave them.
Even while they were in their kingdom,
enjoying your great goodness to them
in the spacious and fertile land you gave them,
they did not serve you
or turn from their evil ways.
~ Nehemiah 9