“God is not waiting around to get even with people for things that they have done fifteen years before. God is gentle and humble of heart; unconditionally good and loving. Therefore we do not need to cower and grovel before God’s will. We need to trust in it; trust in its awesome beauty, its unconditional power to bring goodness out of seeming limitless diversity of so many people’s lives; trust in the affection that the Hebrew prophets termed hesed we emet – a parent’s love for a child.’
Robert J. Spitzer
“And because of the abundance of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold.”
Matthew 24:12
“Caesar was swimming in blood. Rome and the whole pagan world was mad. But those who had had enough of transgression and madness, those who were trampled upon, those whose lives were misery and oppression, all the weighed down, all the sad, all the unfortunate, came to hear the wonderful tidings of God, who out of love for men had given Himself to be crucified and redeem their sins. When they found a God whom they could love, they had found that which the society of the time could not give any one – happiness and love.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: In the Time of Nero
Stocks were off to the races later in the day as John McCain suggested he could support the tax bill currently being debated.
It is so kind of Wall Street and the wealthy being enthusiastic for a ‘middle class tax cut.’ Not.
Notice that VIX continued to climb today.
Towards the abyss – step by step, inch by inch.
Gold and silver have gotten smacked around post option expiry as I had suggested that they might be.
This post was published at Jesses Crossroads Cafe on 30 NOVEMBER 2017.