Weighed, and Found Wanting - Ubi Sunt

"Jesus asked him a third time, ‘Do you love me?’  And Peter said, ‘Lord, you know all things—  you know that I love you.’ And Jesus said, ‘Feed my sheep.'

'Verily, verily, I say to you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you liked.  But when you are old, you will stretch out your your hands, and another will dress you, and take you where you would not like to go.' 

Then he said to him at last, ‘Follow me!’"

John 21:17-19


"For whoever desires above all to serve his own life will lose it, but whoever is willing to lose his life for My sake will find it."

Matthew 16:25


"Where are the princes of this world,  and those who lorded it over the creatures of the earth?  Those who made sport of the birds of the air, and hoarded up riches in which they trust, and for whom there is no limit to their greed, those who schemed to get wealth, and were always anxious about their possessions.

But now there is no trace left of them. They have vanished down into the bowels of the earth, and others have risen to take their place."

Baruch 3:16-19

And where is he who would be the god of this world, the Emperor Nero?   Ubi sunt principes gentium?

At most he remains as an unpleasant memory, returned to the dirt and dust beneath the soles of the common peoples' feet.  Perhaps he survives only as a remnant of this world that he served, caught up on the fingers of a young child at play, to be brushed off and discarded with a 'tut tut' by a doting mother.

Stocks were able to move higher, adding to their new highs from Friday.

Gold and silver were off a bit as the Dollar rose.

Factory orders came in worse than expected.

The lying in Washington DC is reaching epidemic proportions.  But the rabid elite and their followers of the right and of the left do not care about the truth anymore, only winning.

Winning.    But what does it profit a man...

Have a pleasant evening.