SCRIP-BITS

Ecclesiastes 2:13.    Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
 
Oh Friends, yesterday was certainly one of, if not the hottest day of the year in my area. You could feel the heat just bore through you, as you stepped outside. Even the strong breeze, which is usually cool, was as hot as Hades. (smile) However, later in the evening, around 8 p.m, the Duchess and I went for a walk down the boulevard, and it was still steamy. I did my usual 1/4 mile, but she made the whole tour of the area. I guess she’s younger and stronger than me. Hn, Hn! But I don’t really care nuh people. I’m just glad that I can walk even that distance, cause last year this time, what with my prostate cancer and knee problems, I could barely make it across the street to the mail box without falling over. So I’m giving some big, hearty and grateful thanks and praise to the Lord for that small mercy. Shortly after we came back though, the thunder and lighting began, and around 9.30, a few drops of rain fell. I heard it on my window upstairs and rushed down to see what it looked like. By the time I got outside though it had already petered out. The part of the road covered by and overhanging tree in my front yard wasn’t even wet. Just goes to show how little rain really fell. I couldn’t even stay outside long because the lightning was in action again, and I remembered the folks who got struck by it a couple days before in the East End. Now that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. But seriously though Friends, what’s happening with our young people today eh, what’s going on in their minds? Two nights ago in Scarborough, the eastern hub of Greater Toronto, at an area barbecue, with roughly two hundred people in attendance, apparently two young fools took out their ‘make me feel like a big man toys’ and began shooting wildly at each other in the midst of the gathering, eventually killing two innocent people and injuring at least a dozen or more. A couple weeks earlier, one bright (read darm foolish) young man, in broad daylight, opened fire on another two in the Eaton’s Centre, the big downtown mall in the heart of Toronto. Two young people died from that attack, which was apparently in retaliation for the attacked having knifed up the attacker some time before, leaving him half dead in the streets of T.O. Now I can certainly understand the retaliation factor involved there, but what floors me is the foolish brazenness of these young punks, doing the nonsense in broad daylight amongst a group of innocent bystanders. They apparently don’t give two deleted expletives about the rest of the society, and if that’s true, then it’s a very sad thing. There’s already been a fair amount of gunplay in the area already this year, supposedly activated by turf wars between gangs. So when and how is it going to play out and end eh? Oh Friends, if that’s the sort of young people we’re raising, with no respect for society and/or human life, can you imagine the kind of Wild West scenes that are eventually going to take place? The police are already thinking that there will be some sort of retaliation over this incident. I guess none of the young people ever saw the Jack Lord western movie of long ago, I forgot the name, where one participant made an incredibly wise remark that went something like this: ‘If you live by the gun, you’ll die by the gun. Ecclesiastes 1:2.’ The scripture reference might be wrong Friends, but the statement is surely correct! And sadly this sort of scene is taking place all over the world. Granted it took Cousin Sol a fair amount of time to do all his experimentation and research into the way of and reason for man’s life, before he came to the realization that our Bit describes: ‘Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.’ Yes my people, wisdom will excel over folly any and every time! Unfortunately though, wisdom seems to be a very scarce commodity, and daily becoming scarcer in our modern society. Why is that eh? Are we too busy being selfish, greedy, ungodly, lustful and too taken up with the things of the world, that we hold human life so cheaply? I don’t know the answers nuh mih breddren, but I do know that our Bit is right, and so is the continuation of Cousin Sol’s results in his research. ‘The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event (death) happeneth to them all.’ (Eccl.2:14) Now that realization shook up Cousin Sol and made him a bit mental, wondering what was the purpose of life if both the fool and the wise man both died the same way and were eventually forgotten. Oh Friends, time and space are against us, and since I don’t want any complaints about the Bit being too long, I guess you’ll simply have to tune in tomorrow, God in favour, for the continuation of this saga. (smile) Till then, please walk in peace, LOVE and wisdom with God. Much LOVE!…a foolish son is a grief to his father…and bitterness to her that bare him… (Prov.17:25) P.S. Sorry it’s a tad late, but it seems I was too exhausted from my physical activities yesterday to get up any sooner. (smile) Much LOVE!