This morning I saw MY hawk again....this time in a tree IN MY VERY BACK YARD! This is a majestic creature and, I believe (my wife says I live in LALA land....I take it as a compliment) this hawk knows me and has come to trust me and that that's why it comes so close to my house. Whatever. I began thinking about animals. I think I AM an animal too. I think I AM an earthling, MOST comfortable HERE on the earth. There are a lot of Christians in the US who want to leave the earth. They think it belongs to Satan. (How can one fallen angel about 9 feet tall and invisible own anything at all, let alone retain possession of what he didn't make and doesn't sustain?) Why do these people all want to leave by way of the so-called, "rapture," or even at the so-called, "second coming?" They have been and still are being taught by leaders who are shallow students of the Bible and shallow-thinkers. They may ascribe to the phrase "the earth is the Lord's and all that is in it," but they do not really believe it. Satan owns nothing, not even himself. Adam didn't give anything to Satan. Adam didn't own anything. God gave Adam a commission to take care of the earth and that commission has not been withdrawn. God is still saying I AM with you always. HERE is where it's all happening! O.K., not just in the third dimension, I agree. But the fourth dimension, where so much good stuff is happening, is also RIGHT HERE...just behind that thin curtain! Somewhere behind, beyond, within MY (?) hawk, I see and sense the fourth dimension and the love and peace and joy that God feels all the time. I love this hawk. I also know somebody out there is so "out of it" that they may take a gun and kill my hawk so they can parade around with its feathers in their hair. The self is a hollow tree, indeed! But even that fool isn't my enemy. He too is mine as much as the hawk is mine, he is just a lot dumber. A hawk only kills what it needs to eat. Most hunters' refrigerators are full. But....they don't even hunt for the love of killing....they hunt for the love of the beauty of nature and the loveliness of creation.....they just LOVE being outdoors, and killing is the price they think they have to pay to be outdoors. If they only tried shooting pictures, they would find it to be so much more exciting....to enjoy nature and also leave it intact! I would be sad if some ignorant farmer (although I AM grateful he feeds me!) shoots my hawk, I would not be crushed. Evolution could bring hawkes back from oblivion in a million years, no problem. (Evoluion is just God taking his good old time at an ongoing creation). Well, I've just been "winging it." Probably half my fans are now ex-fans, but, as long as my wife is fine with me, I AM fine. Whatever.

Josh: You ARE the man for setting me up on My Space. So much fun! I can't stop listening to my own "My Teeth Are Shinin' Today." It is really pathetic that I AM my own biggest fan! I wonder if Jesus liked himself? Right now, I like myself :)