The Church at the Edge of the Wilds
The ol myths tell the tale that The LORD assembled a Church at the Edge of the Wilds , deep within thousands of miles of forests and lakes , in the New World .
Even with modern conveniences , it could take days, or weeks, or years to get there , and should yu find it , yu might even pass it by . Inside , the Angels and the Saints and the Reincarnates all have the new life that The LORD promised , in a land overflowing with milk and honey .
- 1 Corinthians 12:7 ;
7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and it distributes them to each one, just as it determines.
Yu can believe me or yu can not , dear reader , that i have seen spry Gad in the congregation on Sunday , Israel and Judah working the Café counter , and even the pretender-gods that caused the Great Flood . I have seen Christ Jesu come and go , and Lo , none recognized them . Ruth and Naomi work the Soup Kitchen with Melchior, Balthasar, and Caspar . HcoLo is the manager , the Abbot a stranger from the stars . From the Tribe To The North , written of in Jeremiah , is HcoSe . Even wayward Rehoboam comes around , panning for change and asking , truly, am I not my father·s son?
LoHa Church
There is LoHa galore encrypted into this church, what was the First Baptist Church that became Urban Abbey , in a way that could only have been accomplished by professional psychics and engineers .
A chip of paint here, on a pipe, a chalkboard , a blue rectangle out of place in a series of identical windows , the brands of parts used to construct the site , bits of cement or plaster accidentally scraped into words like Sa or HaHa or Kh , and an enormous Sphynx in the front foyer conspicuously putting something on a high shelf .
In LoHa , my legal name means "Where is the High Place?" , and i have spent all 36 years of my life dreaming of coded languages and looking for The Monastery .
The Prophecy Fulfilled
For thousands of years , The LORD led the people thru the wilderness , proclaiming to Dáviid, and to Jacob, and to Isaiah, and to Jeremiah , each of them in their own generations , of a day when the anscestors would be brought to a land of plenty . As the designated Kannah of my people , and in my office as Fair Witness , of the Order of the Hours , i swear that i have seen this prophecy come true with my own eyes . Makhtoub .
Kannah , des