THE DEATH OF SCARCITY

I begin where the prophet Jeremiah heard the weeping. A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. Behold, I have heard that voice again. It rises out of the cities of the earth in this our year, two thousand and twenty-six, and it does not weep over swords only, nor over famine of bread only. It weeps over a lie. It weeps over the doctrine that there is not enough.My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, saith the LORD by Hosea. Not for lack of bread, not for lack of gold, not for lack of land. For lack of knowledge. The earth is full, and the children sit down empty, because a spirit has taught them to call the fullness of God a famine. This spirit has a name, and the name is Scarcity. And I have come to write its obituary.Verily I say unto thee, scarcity is not a fact of the world; it is a fiction of the pit. It is the first sermon the serpent ever preached, and he has preached it in every school, every market, every parliament, and, God forgive us, in many a pulpit. He has bound it in the textbooks of economists and crowned it in the policies of kings. And the children of Rachel sit in the rubble of his lie and ask why heaven is silent.Heaven is not silent. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. This is the seventh Psalm of the hundred and seventh, and it is the hinge of this whole book. The Word came. The Word still comes. And where the Word comes, the kingdom of lack is overthrown like Dagon before the ark.I write therefore two tablets, as Moses bare two. The first tablet is an indictment: one hundred and fifty and three verdicts against scarcity, nine orders of seventeen, that the lie may be dragged from every hiding place and judged in the open court of the Word. The second tablet is a revelation: one hundred and fifty and three openings of the Double Function, the law of God whereby one seed becomes a harvest and one loaf feeds a multitude, that the best life may be poured out for all and not for a few.

Pages: 129, Paperback, Independently published