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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, October 10, 2026 – It wasn’t God’s will; it was God’s permission. God permitted it to happen; he never wanted it to happen. It was never his will. You can never convince me that what happened to all those people all those years ago was God’s will.
But they do that, those people; they mix up God’s will and God’s permission. They’re always mixing it up, muddying the waters (some of them on purpose). They point to people in pain and say: “See that? That’s God’s will”, but they’re wrong. God is good and only good. In the Gospels, Jesus tells a man: “Don’t call me good. Only God is good.” He could just as well have said: “God is only good.” It means the same thing.
I remember, as a newbornagain, being attacked by one of the mixed-up people who tried to convince me that God was evil. I can still see her standing there at the party, a drink in one hand and a “Gotcha!” sneer across her face. “It’s in your Bible”, she said with barely contained glee. “God made evil. That means he is evil. Look it up.” I was too young then spiritually to know how to refute her. I could only stand there in silence, repulsed by her sly smile and the obvious pleasure she took in shocking me. Mixed-up people can be like that sometimes. Not all of them, but some. They take particular pleasure in bullying Christians, not seeming to know that the evil they wrongly attribute to God is working through them instead.
And yet those same bullies will then turn around and lament: “Look at our suffering!”, so over-the-top dramatic they become caricatures. Decades pass, and still the lament. “Look at our suffering – JUST LOOK AT IT!” But we have looked, all of us, looked and looked – in plays, in books, in movies; in painstakingly accurate museum exhibits, in annual solemnities. We’ve looked and looked until we could look no more and then were threatened if we dared look away. Yet not once in all the drama did I hear the lament: “We had it coming. We deserved it. It was our fault.” Not once did I hear a call to repentance. Only blame and self-pity, and again self-pity, and a constant worrying of the open running wound so that it never heals.
You cannot lead a soul to repentance. If God is good and only good (which we know from scripture that he is), then any punishment he permits cannot be evil. They mix up God’s will and God’s permission just as surely as they mix up good and evil, and they do so because they won’t accept punishment. They refuse to suffer.
I would rather suffer the world’s injustice than reject God’s justice. I would rather be falsely accused by the world and suffer for it than to attribute to God anything but good. How can anyone who knows God attribute to him anything but good? You can’t know God and attribute to him anything but good.
In the end, they’ve become a cautionary tale, the mixed-up people. We’re to suffer them and learn from their mistakes. And what are we to learn? To accept our suffering. Accept it and endure it, not try to avoid it and/or blame it on others or on God. There is no peace in refusing to accept what you’ve earned.
We are purified in the fires of affliction if we allow ourselves to be. We’ve stoked the flames with our sin. Better to go through those fires now and be healed than to wait for the flames that never go out.
NEARER, MY GOD
… And then, every once in a while, the world does something like this:
WHY PARABLES?
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 12, 2026 – Why did Jesus teach in parables? Why did he not, like the Old Testament prophets, just blast out a “thus saith the Lord” and then proceed to proclaim precisely whatever was on his (and God’s) mind? As bornagain believers, we sit at Jesus’ feet (or on God’s lap) and are taught in plain speech, but for those who are not God’s children—that is, for those who have ears to hear but hear not, and eyes to see, but see not—other teaching methods are required. Parables fit the bill perfectly.
First and foremost, though, it needs to be stated that Jesus taught in parables because it was prophesied that the Messiah would teach in parables. Teaching in parables was one of the sure-fire signs of the Messiah. And so, being the Messiah, Jesus could therefore not not teach in parables. In other words, it would have been impossible for him not to teach in parables and still be the Messiah.
Secondly, teaching in parables was a way of getting the Gospel message across to the spiritually deaf and blind, who would otherwise be unable to receive it. God withheld spiritual hearing and sight from these people, but they still needed to learn right from wrong (or, for some who would later convert, to learn about the Kingdom). Parables helped to override spiritual disabilities.
Then there were those who, from the get-go, wanted nothing to do with God. This was a whole different level of spiritual blindness and deafness. Parables “hid” the presence of God in engaging stories, much like puréed broccoli can be “hidden” in spaghetti sauce to get kids to eat their veggies. The broccoli by itself they might outright reject, but the spaghetti sauce with the hidden broccoli – YUM! Similarly, talking about God under another guise can draw in the spiritually challenged without them even knowing they’re learning about God. They just think they’re eating spaghetti! ;D
Additionally, among the spiritually deaf and blind in Jesus’ day were those who deemed the Gospel “hate speech” (blasphemy) and a direct attack on the governing authorities. Teaching in parables afforded Jesus protection from arrest, and so he candy-coated his message for public consumption. Even so, he was banned from public discourse in many parts of Judea, and he accordingly avoided those areas. But in private discourse among his disciples and other close followers, Jesus dispensed with the coating, serving the Gospel straight up with detailed explanations, like he still does for us today.
Finally, the parables, being story-oriented, paint a vivid picture using strong and recognizable characters doing relatable things. We recognize the characters in our lives and even relate to some. If we aren’t the father of the prodigal son, we’re the prodigal son; if we aren’t the father or the prodigal son, we’re likely the resentful older brother. If we aren’t the father, the prodigal son or the older brother, we probably know people just like them. Being able to recognize these characters in our own lives helps to personalize the message, which then helps us to relate to the parable, making it easier to recall, retell, and absorb.
Whether because it was prophesied, or because it worked around spiritual challenges, or because it afforded a level of protection from authorities, or because it was just a handy way to tell a good story, teaching in parables was God’s chosen way for Jesus to preach the Word in public. Following Jesus’ example, we should still be preaching parables in public today, serving up “plain broccoli” for believers only.
BILL C-9 AND THE WINDING DOWN
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 20, 2026 – Bill C-9 is now law in Canada. If I were to shout from the rooftops certain Bible passages, I’d be arrested, fined, and imprisoned for “hate”. I can still (for the time being, at least) read those passages to myself or whisper them to others in private, but the minute I take my show on the road (or to the rooftops), I could potentially be accused of a hate crime. How did Canada, once a staunch Christian nation, fall so far, so hard, and so fast? By turning away from God. By opening the floodgates to demon-worshipers. By choosing evil rather than good.
A nation is safe from demon-inspired laws like bill C-9 as long as it maintains a certain quota of God-fearing souls. Once that quota has slipped below the threshold (and only God knows that threshold), demons take over. So, you see, it’s not the fault of the politicians (a.k.a. lawmakers) who propose, craft, and pass the laws. It’s easy to blame politicians because their corruption and almost comical levels of incompetence make them easy to blame, but it’s not their fault. All they do is take orders from the demons that rule over them. They earned those demons when they took the oath and sold their souls for their ambitions, but if they hadn’t done that, they wouldn’t “win” elections and be in the position of authority to make laws in the first place. So, no, it’s not the fault of the politicians that we have poisonous laws like bill C-9. It’s the fault of the people they pass the laws for.
Being under the thumb of worldly powers, politicians can only do what Satan permits. Satan himself is under God’s thumb and can only do what God permits. If God, through his perfect justice, permits laws like bill C-9 to exist, then those laws have been earned – not imposed, earned: Spiritually earned. This is a hard truth that even those who call themselves Christians have a difficult time accepting. God has permitted his Word to become illegal in Canada because the demons have won that spiritual turf here fair and square, thanks to the godlessness that now reigns in the souls of most Canadians.
This would never have happened in earlier iterations of this nation. Up to and including the time of my grandparents’ generation, most Canadians were God-fearing and lived their lives accordingly. But one by one, as each God-fearing soul went to his or her reward, Canada began to spiritually slip and slide, slowly at first and then precipitously, until finally landing where it is now with a whump. This ain’t Kansas anymore. This ain’t even (not to my mind) Canada anymore. It’s the devil’s turf, and we’re to play by the devil’s rules or pay the devil’s price.
Knowing this is the devil’s turf doesn’t make me any less a child of God. Living in Canada under laws like bill C-9 doesn’t make me any less a child of God. The whole world (as Jesus told us) is under the authority of Satan, but the Kingdom isn’t. The Kingdom will never be under Satan. I may be in the world physically, but spiritually I’m in the Kingdom. Satan has no hold on me here.
While I am yet in Canada, I will pick and choose my words carefully, taking my cues from God. The early Church also had to pick and choose their words when out in the world. In this, we’ve come not full circle but full spiral, with the peak of the bell curve behind us, not before us. Our numbers are dwindling, not growing. The world grows darker, not brighter. We are the winding down of the Church, not the beginning.
But still we’re here. Jesus promised us he’d be with us until the end of time, and so he is. To the great chagrin of those who hate and vilify God’s Truth, Jesus is still here and his Church is still here. And no matter how much they loathe us—no matter how much our presence torments them—we will remain here to the end.
No law on Earth can change that.
PASSOVER INCOMING!
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 31, 2026 – Just a quick reminder that Passover starts tomorrow evening (April 1st, at sundown) and continues into the Feast of Unleavened Bread, ending at nightfall next Wednesday. So if you haven’t yet bought/made your unleavened bread and wine (or wine substitute [I’m using grape pop lol]), now’s the time. Jesus directed us to observe the Passover in memory of him, and to do it as he showed us, so do it we must. It’s obligatory, not optional. Obligatory. And God directed us to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread throughout our generations, so observe it we will. Yeast out, matzah in!
Now’s also the perfect time to dig back into the Exodus and read the entire account of Moses in Egypt, up to and including the children of Israel’s flight into the wilderness. We bornagains live in that spiritual wilderness; and like the children of Israel, we too are protected by the constant presence of God’s Holy Spirit. They had God’s Spirit without; we have God’s Spirit within.
So, Hallelujah, God Bless You, and Bottom’s Up!
NEVER SILENCED: ON BILL C-9 AND OTHER SIGNS OF THE COMING GREAT TRIBULATION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 29, 2026 – One of the most definitive signs that we’ve entered the Great Tribulation will be the death of the worldly church. That means no more casual Christians, no more denominational Christians, and no more Christians-of-convenience (i.e., people who claim to be fleeing persecution as Christians in order to gain the generous asylum benefits of Western nations). During the Great Tribulation, the only people openly professing belief in God and claiming to be followers of Jesus will be genuine bornagain believers – that is, those who would rather be killed than deny who they are, because killed they will be, and brutally.
We can see from the ongoing presence of the worldly church that we’re not yet—thank God—in the Great Tribulation. We’ve been in the end times now for nearly 2000 years, but we haven’t entered the final stage. We’ll know when we do because, as I’ve mentioned, every vestige of Christianity will have been wiped from the earth, other than for the very rare and increasingly rarer saints, all of whom will have a bounty on their heads.
The end will be very much like it was in the beginning. Public preaching will be outlawed, and we’ll be forced into hiding and hounded from place to place until finally being arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Once the worldly church has been universally banned—like it is already in North Korea—only genuine believers will remain. No-one else will want to suffer for The Name.
The Canadian government is in the process of enshrining into law a bill (C-9) that removes the “good faith” protection from Canadians when they openly express what they sincerely believe, if what is being expressed is considered “hate speech”. Canadians were granted carte blanche permission by law to openly express what they sincerely believe back in 1970, but when “hate” laws were later thrown into the mix, stating your beliefs and using scripture to back them up started to come under scrutiny, especially when those beliefs concerned the “alphabetization” of Western society or the mass arrival in the West of demon worshipers claiming to worship God. That scrutiny has now turned into a clawing back of the permissions that I and most Canadians once took for granted. When this bill is passed into law within a month or two, much of what I’ve written here in this blog may be cause for me to be fined and/or thrown into jail for promoting so-called hate (otherwise known as God’s Truth).
The push-back to this looming law started as soon as the bill was introduced in Canada’s parliament last fall, but none of it will be successful because the bill has God’s permission. In other words, God himself – not parliamentarians and not even the devil – has deigned that Canadians have forfeited their “good faith” protection. As a nation, Canada has, in its “words and doings”, fallen so far away from God that it’s no longer recognized spiritually or geopolitically as a Christian nation. When a people remove themselves from God, God removes himself from them, and the demons rush in to claim the vacated spiritual turf.
We know that the world is under the authority of Satan, but Satan can only do what God permits him to do, and God will only permit him to do what has been earned either as a reward or a test. God is all-knowing and his justice is perfect; the Canadian parliamentarians aren’t pulling the wool over God’s eyes by sneaking through a law that targets his Word. Jesus reminded Pontius Pilate that he had power over Jesus only because God gave it to him, that God permitted Pontius Pilate to have power over Jesus for a time and for a reason because “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”. The power referenced by Jesus didn’t come from from Pontius Pilate but from God, just as the removal of the “good faith” protection under Canadian law doesn’t come from Canadian parliamentarians but from God.
The imminent passing of bill C-9 into law is yet another sign that we are nearing the start of the Great Tribulation. Other nations formerly known as Christian have passed (or are in the process of passing) similar bills into law. With their passage, the threat of fines and/or imprisonment will so constrain the application of God’s Word to everyday life—will so water down what can be shared publicly—that preaching will soon become little more than a feel-good pep talk made agreeable even to unbelievers. This reward, sadly, has been earned. The worldly church will persist for a while, but in such an increasingly emaciated and bloodless form to be nearly inconsequential. When the church is finally outlawed in the name of cultural diversity or some other doctrine of devils, it will be a mercy killing, as the late-stage worldly church will be Christian in name only.
We, however, the Church founded by Jesus Christ and empowered by God’s Holy Spirit, will continue until Jesus comes back to take the last of us Home. We in the Kingdom cannot be silenced, any more than the two anointed witnesses prophesied to preach during the Great Tribulation will be silenced. We may be banned, yes; fined, yes; outlawed, yes; hounded, yes; imprisoned, yes; and killed, yes, but never silenced, because even in our death, the Word God spoke through us will resound.
No law on Earth can stop that.
“Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
Matthew 24:35
THE BIBLE IS NOT ENOUGH
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 3, 2026 – I love the Bible. I’ve written here and here and elsewhere how important the Bible is to me. I carry one with me wherever I go, and at home I’m surrounded by them. I favor the King James version, though I’m open to other translations.
But the Bible alone is not enough. The Bible alone can’t take you where you need to go. Just before he went Home, Jesus told his followers that there were so many more things he needed to say to them, but they weren’t ready to hear them yet. So he promised he’d send God’s Spirit of Truth to teach them when they were ready.
Jesus’ promise to his early followers is also his promise to us. Jesus didn’t say to make an idol of God’s written Word and bow down to it as the sole authority. No; he never once said that. He himself contradicted the Old Testament on occasion, such as when he overrode Moses’ permission on granting divorces or when he directed us to love our enemies rather than to curse them. This wasn’t just a radical reinterpretation of accepted scripture; it was a whole new Word.
Those of us who are genuinely bornagain are still being taught by God’s Spirit of Truth. This was Jesus’ promise to us, his followers, and Jesus never breaks his promises. Still, there are those who claim that private revelation must accord with scripture, and if it doesn’t, it’s not from God. What would those same people say about Jesus’ private revelations forming the basis for the Gospel, seeing how in so many instances those revelations defied scripture?
We are constantly being taught by God through his Spirit of Truth. We are directed by God, informed by God, cautioned by God, chastised by God, humored by God, and most of all loved by God, all through his Spirit, as promised by Jesus. We all received a measure of God’s Spirit at our rebirth, and it is through this Spirit residing in us that we’re able to receive God’s revelations, which are actually just God’s teachings, which are actually just God talking to us, one-on-one, as our Father, as any loving father would talk one-on-one to his beloved child. Each of us receives God’s words according to our individual abilities at any given time, just as Jesus promised.
As I said, I love the Bible and I enjoy reading it every day. But I love my one-on-one time with God more. I cherish his private revelations to me just as much as I cherish his public ones in scripture. In some cases, I cherish the private revelations more because they’re so deeply personal and show God’s overwhelming love for me. Some of these revelations I share; most of them I don’t, depending on God’s guidance. Jesus shared some things publicly, other things he shared privately (among his disciples and friends), and some things he didn’t share at all but kept them just between him and God. Jesus promised us we’d have that same intimacy with God—the same access to private revelation—when the time came.
Thank God it’s come.
I love the Bible, but the Bible alone is not enough.
I love God’s Word, but I love God more.
LET THERE BE ART!
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 18, 2026 – That moment when you realize that Jesus was an actor and God’s Word his script…. All prophets of God are actors. They don’t speak their own words; if they did, they wouldn’t be God’s prophets.
This is actually good news within the Good News, because if prophets are actors and actors are artists, preaching venue options are almost limitless. Even better, since artists are getting a free pass these days when it comes to offending audiences, we wouldn’t have to worry about being shut down for being offensive. The more provocative the art, the more “edgy” and “artistic” it is (allegedly). So let’s provoke with God’s Word! Let’s offend with the Truth! Let’s get our audiences howling with rage over prophecy! We are, after all, highly dedicated artists. It’s our duty to push the artistic envelope.
Imagine if art galleries and performance spaces were secretly reimagined as pop-up pulpits. Imagine if in between the “To be or not to be” and a Harold Pinter monologue we sprinkled in a few verses from Matthew or slipped in a psalm. And if we offended anyone by doing so – so much the better! Art, remember, is meant to be provocative. It’s meant to spark debate.
Imagine if an art installation were nothing but words from the Bible, presented and arranged “artistically”. Imagine God’s Word in every language of the world, stylized in 8 to 800-point multicolor multi-type font and filling an entire exhibition space from floor to ceiling (including the floors and ceilings [and doors!]). But we don’t only have to imagine it – we can do it, if we call it “art” (and maybe even get a government grant to fund it lol ;D).
Artists have been co-opting God’s Word into their art for millennia. Think Michelangelo. Think the German passion plays. Think the highly theatrical stations of the cross. Only in the most recent of instances has God’s Word suffered mainly derogatory inclusions and adaptations. But I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander: If it’s fair game nowadays to co-opt God’s Word in a negative way, then let’s re-imagine Hamlet as a prophet of God. Let’s script Snow White as a persecuted Mary Magdalene and the dwarves as new converts. And if anyone’s offended by the adaptations – so much the better! Art, remember, is meant to offend.
The best part of all this (besides the possibility of reaching a massive new audience) is that artists are rarely arrested for being offensive. Art exhibitions are rarely shut down because someone’s nose is out of joint. Preachers, however, can be shut down, can be limited in where they preach, can be arrested for “hate speech” and being offensive. So let’s rebrand our preachers as artists (not “Christian artists”, just artists) and let our artists ply their trade wheresoever they will.
It was trendy a while back to “Christianize” the lyrics of popular tunes. Let’s Christianize public and private spaces again under the guise of art.
WE NEED A PANDEMIC
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 17, 2026 – We pray wrong. We see a drought and pray for rain. We see a broken nation and pray for healing. We see ungodly people doing ungodly things, and we pray for God to forgive them. But what we should be praying for is an outbreak of righteousness, an epidemic of doing good, a pandemic of people choosing what’s right in God’s eyes, even when it flies in the face of what the world thinks is right. At the same time, we need to pray for God to strengthen us to levels he hasn’t strengthened us before, so that we can persistently and under every circumstance model godliness, model godliness, model godliness, until it spreads like a holy contagion to everyone around us.
We need a pandemic of godliness.
You can’t change God’s justice. You can’t call for a review of God’s terms just because you don’t like them. God sent Jonah to warn the Ninevites that their city would be destroyed in 40 days. When the King of Nineveh heard Jonah, he didn’t ignore him or mock him. He didn’t try to silence him. He didn’t threaten to arrest him for hate speech or for creating a public disturbance. No, the King responded by instituting a nation-wide emergency. All Ninevites were to drop whatever they were doing and immediately sit in sackcloth and ashes, including their animals. And they were to fast until the king told them to stop. No arguments and no exceptions. They couldn’t even drink water. The King believed that if Nineveh did this, God might change his mind about destroying them.
Note that the King didn’t simply pray to God to forgive the Ninevites’ sins. Nor did he curse God for the threatened destruction. He instead took the most drastic godly action possible and used his authority to make sure that everyone else did. “But, Charlotte”, you might be thinking, “People today aren’t going to this. They’re not going to stop whatever they’re doing and go along with whatever the government or other authority tells them to do.” You might be surprised. During the last “pandemic”, whole populations stopped whatever they were doing and donned masks. Whole populations obediently stood six feet apart. Entire industries were shut down, schools and businesses were shuttered, people self-isolated at home – some welded in from the outside – until they were given permission to leave. Whole populations complied with the most drastic of decrees without question. And they did all this for months – even years – because they were afraid to catch a cold. You’d be surprised at what people can be persuaded to do under the right authority.
When God saw the Ninevites’ collective show of repentance, he called off the planned destruction. Note that God’s justice didn’t change; the Ninevites changed, and in changing their behavior, they changed their due reward.
All nations today are on the fast-track to destruction. We need a pandemic of godly behavior to stop the destruction or at the very least to delay it. Praying for God to forgive us and save us is not going to cut it this time. Like Nineveh, it’s too late and we’re too far gone. We need instead to pray for people to make godly choices – to choose what’s right in God’s eyes. And we need to pray this prayer while making godly choices ourselves, every day, all day, without exception. Our prayers will only have authority if we ourselves model what we’re praying for.
We urgently need a pandemic of godliness. It begins with localized outbreaks of making good choices.
Let’s get that pandemic started now!
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
(Jonah 3:5-10)
GOOD BONES
By landing the quad axel, [Ilia] Malinin may have maxed out the boundaries of human performance. Most sports scientists agree that the speed and amplitude necessary for five-revolution jumps truly is impossible…. 1
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, February 16, 2026 – I loved figure skating when I was a kid. I was no “contender” (as Marlon Brando famously put it2), but I loved skating nonetheless. I took it up again briefly a few years ago as an enthusiastic adult. Still no contender, but men would occasionally follow me around the arena and ask me to teach their kids (lol).
I finally had to give up skating altogether following an unrelated knee injury. Resigned to being sidelined at arenas for the rest of my time on Earth, I still love to watch figure skaters and to dream about when I’ll be skating again in Heaven. Really skating. Contender-level skating.
I was watching a video of Ilia Malinin a few weeks ago, marveling at his jumps (especially his trademark quadruple axel), when God told me I’ll be able to do that and more – at least ten revolutions – in Heaven. Surprised at his comment, I asked God if that’s because it’s Heaven and everything’s possible in Heaven. And he said no, there are still limits in Heaven and I’d still have to learn how to skate properly; I wouldn’t arrive in Heaven already knowing how to do jumps and spins. I’d have to learn things in Heaven just like I do on Earth. The difference is that Heaven has different “natural laws”, which means that our bodies are different, especially the bones.
“The bones?”
“Yes. Your bones in Heaven will be more like birds’ bones – hollow and light. Only unlike earthly birds’ bones, your heavenly bones will be unbreakable.” He went on to explain further that the birdlike lightness of my heavenly bones, combined with my heavenly body’s zero fat and infinitely flexible joints and strong muscles, will enable me to propel myself high up into the air, completing a dozen revolutions or more and covering a vast distance. It will almost be like flying.
“Good bones”, God repeated. “It’ll be in your good bones. You’ll see.”
Meanwhile, back on Earth, scientists report that
[a]n ideal quadruple jump spans around 0.6 seconds, wherein the skaters have to first take off, then spin four and a half times…. Studies estimate that for an ideal quintuple jump, the athlete has to have a jump duration of around 0.8 seconds…. This requires humongous heights and distances which can only be achieved by ‘pencil’ thin bodies and about 90% rotation efficiency, meaning that only 10% of the total airtime should be used for take-off and landing while also starting off with greater forces to increase angular momentum.3
And yet according to God, our jumping ability is not just in the “speed and amplitude”1 or in having a “pencil-thin” body or maxed-out angular momentum3 – it’s in the lightness of the bones. Our human bones are heavy and solid and also depend on fragile ligaments and joints that are prone to stiffness. None of these issues will be a factor in Heaven. If scientists can figure out a way to hollow out skaters’ bones (and do away with ligaments and joints), they might just make it past the current quadruple human limit.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to test-run my new body on my local skating surface in Heaven. It’ll be one of the first things I do when (and if) I get Home.
So move over, Ilia (and Marlon)! There’s gonna be a new contender in town….
1 Led by Fairfax’s Ilia Malinin, figure skaters push limits of human performance | FFXnow
2 I Coulda Been a Contender – On the Waterfront (6/8) Movie CLIP (1954) HD
