One of the things I have been tracking is the prevalence of the digits 1 and 8 around certain events. The origin of this was in conspiracy certaintist Miles W. Mathis claiming that they occurred overly frequently in fake events, as sort of an inside joke.
He linked them to the "aces and eights" hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he died, and to the eighth and tenth letters of the Hebrew alphabet, used to spell the word Chai, meaning life.
So in his view, aces and eights carry a dual meaning of Death and Life.
The following post (from the blog where I first heard of Mathis in the comments) was on 8/19/18, and references a performance from late 2017 that was released as an album on 8/1/18.
A post on August 18 would have fit the pattern better, but sometimes a signal needs time to propagate....
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
