This hummingbird chick getting ready to leave the nest in the Davids' back yard

is my photograph for today.  It has nothing at all to do with this day's journal writing. 

Pentecost commemorates the early church’s receiving the gift of the Spirit.  Throughout Christendom many sermons will declare that the gift of the Spirit is Love. One wonders what Pastor Charles Worley of Providence Baptist Church will say in his sermon today.  He's the North Carolina preacher who proposed in a sermon a couple of weeks ago that all the world’s homosexuals should be put in to big pens and left to die.  He said,  “I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers.  Build a great, big, large fence — 150- or 100-mile long — put all the lesbians in there . . . do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. “Feed ’em, and you know what?” Worley continues. “In a few years they’ll die. Do you know why? They can’t reproduce.” http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/north-carolina-pastor-calls-death-gays-lesbians-trapping-electric-fence-article-1.1082160

Something the now notorious Pastor Worley in North Carolina has obviously failed to understand... a critical failure that almost surely cripples all his relationships...relationships with his family... with his church... with probably just about everybody in his present and especially in his past life. Pastor Charles Worley's failure runs deeper and is more damaging especially to himself because it involves an idea, a concept, on which his professional life depends.  Worley misunderstood the most important idea, the central theme, the very heart of the Gospel.  He thinks love and sex are the same thing.  His problem is not a mere linguistic confusion.  He thinks love is something like a kiss or a connection of other body parts.