Another week has gone by as work continues and the days seem to be speeding up. Indeed, they are subtly growing shorter, as summer presses on toward the fall, even the earth’s rotation is speeding up, as Jesus said it would, though imperceptibly. All that to say, it’s been another busy week in the Melbourne Tunnel.

I’ve been doing a lot of research for chapters 19 and 20. Of course, that leads to rabbit trails on which I have to be careful not to fall down the hole. Sometimes I do, and what I find there is often astounding. Do you know what a Carnyx is? I do, and I’ve been wondering all week if it could be used to conjure the Templar Grail, a mysterious vortex of energy. That curiosity somehow led to Ubaid lizard people and the Brotherhood of The Snake. (Ooo, creepy). And then there’s Tom Tobin, the first professional bounty hunter in the Old West, and his pursuit of the Bloody Espinoza Brothers. (How in the world did I get here?) In between all this comes the daily dose of life, and, oh yeah, I’ve been listening to an interesting lecture on the validity of the scriptures given by Dr. Daniel Wallace. Did you know that those who criticize the Bible, often citing ancient, classical Greek texts, do so from a poverty of source material, usually one manuscript written hundreds of years after the original? Sometimes they might have two, or three older, partial manuscripts to use as reference. But the New Testament Bible comes to you from a wealth of source material, more than 5600 ancient, NT Greek manuscripts. That’s a thousand times more source material than any other ancient document. You can be confident in the scriptures you hold in your hand today based on these ancient texts.

As the week comes to an end, I’ve finished reading Tosca Lee’s “The Line Between“. If you’re not familiar with this author, I highly recommend her, and this work of fiction. Tosca Lee is one of my benchmark authors, and I’ve already started her latest work, a collaboration with Marcus Brotherton entitled, “The Long March Home“, which I also highly recommend. in spite of all the diversions, The Rift manuscript stands at 68,504 words as I work through chapter 20. So, I’m making slow progress against the tide of life. Until next time, Press on regardless, and do good work.