Palm Beach, Flordia today:

The average age in palm beach is 74. It is were men got to die well. To die in comfort.

Palm Beach, Ecuador January 8th 1956

Where a group of men went to die well.

"He is no fool who parts with what he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with what he cannot lose."
-Jim Elliot

Allow or cause?

Does God allow or cause suffering and injustice? And more importantly how does he feel about it?


For the Lord will not
cast off forever,
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

for he does not willingly afflict
or grieve the children of men.
To crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the earth,
to deny a man justice
in the presence of the Most High,
to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
the Lord does not approve.

Who has spoken and it came to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
Why should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
-Lamentations 3:32

a little improv.

For many people (not all) music is the thing known in the present life which most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity.
-C.S. Lewis