It is closing in on my brother’s 66th birthday. He is the baby of the family, last one out. My mother and other siblings remain irascible as ever but my dad is gone. I think we are a little unusual in that we have made it this far without losing more than one of our number. Friends from school days and rousting about days are missing. Missing in many ways, some have parts missing, some have teeth missing, hair missing. Some are just photographs, now. My cousins have started dropping by the wayside and their parents, my aunts and uncles, are rapidly disappearing. Time grows short and not long. We have been traveling a while and I can see the end of the road. It isn’t much further.
Who knows what comes next along the road as time stretches. I wonder and hope that there will be rest? Maybe not. Maybe we will suffer the pains of hell that have been predicted for us by those who have ‘a connection’ to the other side or to the beyond. Who can say. None have returned from the edge or from any length of time at the edge so it is anybody’s guess. Perhaps ‘God’ spoke to some of our fellows a long time ago and had them write some stuff down. He didn’t want it to be forgotten, I am sure. What bothers me about God now, is that he only seems to speak to crazy people. Franklin Graham? Jerry Falwell? Ayatollah Rumeni? (and that hunched over guy who is so mean…can’t think of his name)
With time running out on us, I worry that God has forgotten what he told all those other folks, long ago, to write down. Maybe, as my friend in Israel says, he changed his mind? Maybe he doesn’t want us to be friends with each other and leave each other alone anymore? He wants us to kill and steal and covet our neighbours wife? That is what Donald Trump does and Franklin Graham loves Donald. Benjamin Netanyahu steals money from the folks. Ayatollah Rumeni makes the folks pray before he kills them by hanging or stoning them. Jerry Falwell wants the homosexuals put in jail or killed. okay, God…what gives? Is it okay now to do these things? Folks are telling us you told them it was the right thing to do.
Anyway, happy approaching birthday to my baby brother and I sure hope we keep living for a long time so that we don’t have to go to hell anytime soon.
Robert On The Air 