‘It is a good day for a woods walk,’ Billy B said. ‘Storms are promised but not yet,’ Billy B observed. ‘Let us walk among our friends the trees,’ he explained. ‘The powerful are looking the other way as they gain from their insider knowledge of the stock market, we will hide in the sun and the shade with those who seek truth,’ Billy B poetically remarked.

‘I hear there’s a Preacher in the woods,’ JB said. ‘Chet heard him the other day and thought his voice was unique…like rushing water and whip-poor-wills,’ JB said. ‘Many are gathering to hear him in secret under the roof of the woods,’ JB winked. ‘Preacher says love each other and seek peace with all men and women.’ ‘Accept those different than you and learn from them, listen to your heart and not your anger and hurt, Preacher says,’ JB noted. ‘Preacher says that he has been bullied and called names, shunned and marginalized by the powerful and co-opted by the elite for their own political purposes,’ JB said. ‘Preacher says his mom watched him suffer,’ JB said with tears.

‘Mary, Preacher’s friend says he is misunderstood by established religion…they fear him and the message he brings of love and acceptance,’ Jane said. ‘He visited them in their church, but they conspired against him,’ Jane explained.

‘Hosannah in the highest…the Messenger is here riding upon a donkey, let us place palm leaves in his path,’ The Throng shouted! ‘Preacher has the answer for our woes and concerns…he will smite the powerful and lay low those who oppress us…he will avenge the wrongs we have suffered,’ The Throng announced.

‘Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.’ Matt 24:23