Author: deborahlagarde

Born on Long Island, NY, in 1952, now live in the mountains of far west Texas. Began writing fiction stories at about 8 years old with pen and loose leaf paper, and created the characters in my Prodigal Band Trilogy as a teenager. From the 70s to the 90s I created the scenario which I believe was inspired. While bringing up and home schooling my two children I continued to work on the novels and published "Battle of the Band" in 1996 and "The Prophesied Band" in 1998. Took off the next several years to complete home schooling and also working as an office manager for the local POA. In 2016, I retired, then resumed The Prodigal Band, a FREE PDF book that tells the whole story to its glorious end. Hint: I'm a true believer in Christ and I'm on a mission from God, writing to future believers, not preaching to the choir. God gave me a talent and, like the band in my books, I am using that talent for His glory, not mine (and, like me, the band is on its own journey, only fictional.) I also wrote for my college newspaper and headed up production, was a columnist in a local newspaper in the early 2000s, and wrote for and edited "Log of the Trail," the news letter for the Texas Mountain Trail Writers, and wrote for and edited it's yearly catalog of writings, "Chaos West of the Pecos." OmegaBooks is my self-publishing sole proprietorship company founded in 1995. Other jobs included teaching secondary math, health aide, office worker, assembly line work, and free-lance writing and bookkeeping,much of it while home schooling.

More About My New Novel The Prodigal Band Aftermath: The Plot to Tale Over the World Using Artificial Intelligence Apps and Operating Systems (Part Two)

In the previous post about two weeks ago, a main novel character, Morwenna, who has returned to Earth as a human—the spirit being set by angels to infiltrate the evil tech company called Origin as an administrative assistant with knowledge of several foreign languages—has stated at the end of the Part One snippet that she was there to discover what Origin and its head, named Dumlat, were up to, using artificial intelligence and a new operating system that would pretty much end the privacy and freedom of humanity…for his desire to control the world and institute a ‘mark of the beast’-type system for the sake of his evil ‘god,’ Corion (my Satan-like fictional character). Further, while Morwenna has become human again, she is also able to—as the angels will it on God’s orders—revert back to an invisible spirit being such that Dumlat and his company and stock-holding cohorts would not know she was listening and watching what they do or say at a special meeting Dumlat creates to lay out his ‘plan’ to take over the world, needing approval by his cohorts to carry out his plan. The fictional ‘plan’ he is trying to enforce is based on the World Economic Forum’s ‘own nothing and be happy’ scenario: by using various artificial intelligence apps and systems, the person desiring to ‘be happy’ can create his or her own little artificial world with AI ‘friends’ and ‘lovers’ or whatever to bring about artificial ‘happiness,’ all the while being enslaved in a fake world surveilled by ‘the beast system.’ For his or her ‘convenience.’

In the snippet below (copyright © 2025 Deborah Lagarde), Dumlat lays out exactly that ‘convenience’ ‘compliance’ that he believes all if not most humans will take part in for their ‘happiness.’ Their enslavement and emptiness is more like it! The snippet ends Chapter Two of The Prodigal Band Aftermath:

November, 2025: Dumlat meets with his major corporate shareholders and department heads—The Plan

After several bouts of arguing over what would comprise the ultimate plan that Origin would impose on humanity for their ‘happiness,’ Dumlat took over the meeting with this pronouncement.

“My fellows, this is going to be the Plan, out Plan for humanity.”

Quiet.

“Our new Origin Operating System will definitely replace all, and I mean all, previous computer and digital operating systems. Since we control the updating and upgrading these old systems, we will simply announce that these old systems will not only no longer be updated or upgraded, but will be made null and void by the end of this year. In other words, we will use our artificial intelligence bots to crash these old operating systems such that every computer and digital device will have to use our Origin operating system. And this is just the first step.

“After the older devices download our systems, and our systems are set-up in new devices that contain our Origin systems through purchase, users will be forced to only download the applications, or apps, we create. And all, and I mean all, of our applications, from writing to audio to video to music to…well, everything…will utilize artificial intelligence, AI, first and foremost, and there will be no way around this. AI will become supreme, for only AI can bring about the happiness humanity will seek. AI will create their happy world. AI friends. AI surroundings. AI creations for their happiness. What they once considered reality will disappear. The natural world will become the AI world that they create. As they create their world, they will become like gods. They will forget about the God that created all-natural creation!”

A shareholder, not quite sure this ‘plan’ of Dumlat would work out as Dumlat claimed it would, spoke up. “So, Dumlat, this ‘reality’ that users create will all be fake?”

Dumlat smiled then gave a haughty laugh. “Of course! As I constantly remind everyone here, what is being created is artificial! Not real, but artificial!”

“But—”

“No ‘buts’! Artificial, but will make the creator happy! And wouldn’t happiness bring about compliance? And isn’t that our goal? Our control over a compliant humanity?”

Several head nods, with the questioning shareholder cocking his head, wondering about the stated outcome.

However, not one person at this truly secret meeting ‘wondered’ if the ‘secret’ of this meeting would ever see the light of day. For neither Dumlat or anyone else knew or sensed that a person they would not notice had attended the meeting. In secret, of course!

Yet there was ‘someone’ who witnessed every single word or action that played a role at this meeting. It was Morwenna, in secret, in her previous ‘spirit being’ state, sent by the Tooters, to witness the truth of this meeting so she could relay to myself, Joe “Agent R” Phillips, Agent P, and Swinton, the ‘Plan’ to be used to implement Corion’s demonic agenda put forth by his ‘elite’ minions.

What Bible followers might call ‘the Beast system.’

Revelation Chapter 13 claims one will not be able to ‘buy or sell’ without ‘the mark of the Beast.’

Dumlat’s demonic ‘Plan’ is simply this: without the Origin ‘operating system’ on any digital device—computer, cell phone, whatever—the person will not be able to ‘buy or sell.’ Because the Origin operating system will control the bank accounts, which governments around the world will simply have converted to digital bank accounts. Cash or check will no longer be relevant within this system; it would have to be used ‘underground.’

I had a funny feeling ‘going underground’ was going to become popular among independently-minded, freedom-loving—and God-loving—people!

Coming soon, I hope, will be Part Three, which will be a snippet from Chapter Three of The Prodigal Band Aftermath, which will explain Dumlat’s family and personal history and his development of images and videos using CGI computer-generated images and more, and why he developed an evil mindset. Part Three, that is, Chapter Three, will likely be completed in early 2026. I will be quite busy with other events the rest of 2025, including Christmas.

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More About My New Novel The Prodigal Band Aftermath: The Plot to Take Over the World Using Artificial Intelligence Apps and Operating Systems (Part One)

It has been over two months since my last post! Sorry about that, but I have been busy—camping/fishing trip, visiting a chiropractor in El Paso because I developed lower back and thigh pain while on the trip and even before it, birthdays, chores, and more. And also, finding the inspiration for the new novel overall plot with spiritual overtones as to how digital IDs and artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting life on Earth today….and all the posts online claiming we may be entering ‘the end times’….and fake this and fake that.

I had stated that it crossed my mind that the powers-that-be might be trying to configure a fake ‘rapture’ where fake bodies are seen heading into the clouds ‘to meet the Lord in the air’ (1Thessalonians 4:15-16) while believers on Christ are ‘left behind’ to wonder why they weren’t ‘caught up in the clouds.’ That way, Christians who believed in a ‘pre-trib rapture,’ not being caught up, would renounce their faith in Christ—which is exactly what the forces of evil want!

However, the notion of fake rapture is not going to be featured in the new novel. But the now infamous World Economic Forum saying telling us ‘useless eaters’ that “You will own nothing and be happy” does play into the plot.

In the novel, an evil corporation which (not too ironically considering the mess that Microsoft’s Windows 11 has become thanks to its ‘recall’ AI app which lets Microsoft control pretty much the entire computer device, and Apple’s Mac operating system isn’t much better…and Linux? Hmmmmm…..)…well this evil corporation called Origin, having designed a new operating system as the others have collapsed (remember, this is fiction…I’m not browbeating Microsoft or Apple or Linux or any other system for real…I still use Windows 10, okay?)…the collapse being fictional…has actually in fiction bought out the other companies such that Origin’s operating system was the only viable one around. The time frame in the following post is late 2025.

The snippet below (copyright © 2025 Deborah Lagarde) features Morwenna, former (and future as well) spirit being who communicates with the Tooters angels to message those she is told to message, such as the members of the prodigal band and other ‘missionaries of God.’ Morwenna, now fully human again (ordained by God), becomes employed by Origin since, having lived over 800 years as various humans in various nations, she is fluent in several other languages, thus Origin needs her as a translator and interpreter. Another woman, Rita, is her boss. Both are Christians. Then there is Dumlat, head of Origin and creator of various gaming and other applications since childhood years, and is from a very powerful ‘elite’ family. In the snippet below, Dumlat appears to consider Morwenna a key and valuable employee, not realizing Morwenna’s employment ‘mission’ was to infiltrate the company to find out what they were up to. Below is Part One of the snippet that deals with ‘the Plan’ Dumlat and his evil ‘elite’ cohorts have devised to enslave humanity into what I might call their ‘beast system.’

Origin Company, near Richmont, October, 2025

“Your resume’ speaks perfect for the job you will be assigned to here at Origin, Morwenna.”

Rita, assistant supervisor for Origin’s Human Resources Department, smiled from her desk as she told Morwenna her job as language interpreter within the same Human Resources Department was assured.

“Thank you. My knowledge of twelve foreign languages comes from my having lived all over the world my entire life.”

True, for while her time as a human instead of a ‘spirit being’ lasted over 800 years, Morwenna lived in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Turkey (the Ottoman Empire days), Russia (during the time of Catherine the Great), China, India, and Arabia, besides Britain and America.

As for her resume’, it was ‘drawn up’ by the Tooters, who also placed her within walking distance of Origin hours before the job interview. Origin was ten miles north of Richmont, California, USA.

Rita continued. “And I love the fact that both your Digital Technology and your Foreign Language degrees are from Oxford University. I spent a summer there, taking two courses in foreign language—Arabic and Hebrew.”

“Hebrew, eh?” Morwenna burst out loud. “I really wanted to learn that ancient language.”

Eyes open wide. “Bible studies?” Rita followed with her own burst.

“True, which was a reason I also learned Greek.”

For the Old Testament was originally in Hebrew while the New Testament was originally in Greek.

Rita screwed her eyes on Morwenna. “Are you Christian?”

“Yes.”

Smile. “Well, so am I, Morwenna, and likely we may be the only Origin employees who are Christian. Most here are secular. The owner, Dumlat, has no religion, either.”

Morwenna cocked her head. “Will I meet Mr. Dumlat?”

Smile. “Yes, shortly, as he will introduce himself to all new employees later this afternoon in the conference chamber down the hall from here. You are one of twenty new employees, and you need to learn more about Origin.”

“Yes.”

Rita stood up behind her desk. “We here at Origin are setting ourselves up to become THE origin of audio and visual artificial intelligence software and applications in a world where more and more humans are becoming dependent on technological artificial intelligence communication and computer-generated images and graphics. Dumlat has been producing computer-generated images and videos since the age of ten, and he and I have worked together on building this company since our teen years, beginning when we both attended Stanford University and then Cal Tech.”

Morwenna stood up. “Then you are both about the same age.”

“Dumlat is thirty and I am twenty-nine.”

“Are you both from this area?”

Laugh. “I am from Richmont, but he is from Texas—where, by the way, Origin plans to relocate to sometime next year. Less bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo in Texas.

It would be when Origin moved to Austin, the state capital, that Morwenna would resign from the company.

Later, as Dumlat spoke of Origin to the New Employees

“You all here have joined us here at Origin to partake in a mission I am sure you have all wanted to participate in—the mission being to see all of humanity in a state of happiness and ultimate satisfaction. For we are here to help humanity live fulfilled, happy lives as we provide the tools all humans can use to bring about their happiness as they participate in creating their happy and satisfied living world. No matter what state of being a person lives in at the time, we must provide the tools for all persons to create for themselves their happy world. We will provide for each individual person the tools they will need for a happy and satisfied existence, tools that being part of a social group of fellow humans cannot provide. For the person, not the social group, will choose the happiness the person seeks.

“And what are these tools? Applications that the person chooses to create the world the person chooses—images that create the reality the person seeks, amplified by sounds the chosen applications create to enhance the images. Further, social groups of individuals working together can accomplish the same ideal for their group, for their happiness.”

And on and on, until Dumlat ended his presentation thusly—

“Therefore, fellow new employees here at Origin, you are partaking in making all human individuals and social groups live in the world they choose to create for themselves using Origin applications you will help design and build—for a happier world, for a happier humanity.”

Then the thirty-year-old man dressed in a cotton-with-leather suit and leather shoes, fair-skinned with straight-dark-brown hair to the back of his neck along with facial mustache, standing at about six feet tall, greeted each new employee.

He smiled as he approached Morwenna, and then said to her, “Welcome, Morwenna—”

“You know my name?”

“Indeed. You will be a very key employee, knowing several languages. After all, my dear, our apps will be applied world-wide, and, of course, in several different languages. You, my dear, are totally essential in our mission.”

Morwenna, wanting to appear to be enraptured in Dumlat’s so-called mission, bowed her head, then said, “And I will help bring about the mission.” Father God’s mission, that is, to counter your devilish mission, that is!

Coming soon, I hope, will be Part Two, which is pretty much the rest of Chapter Two of The Prodigal Band Aftermath, where Dumlat holds a secret meeting with his cohorts and key shareholders to work out ‘the Plan.’

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An Introductory Look into My Up-Coming Novel, the Prodigal Band Aftermath

Beginning tomorrow, Sunday, September 7, 2025, I will be “away from computer” several days, so I wanted to post an introductory look into my up- and-coming novel based on both The Prodigal Band Trilogy and The Murder Rule. Broadly, the entire novel will feature the outcomes of the members of the prodigal band Sound Unltd as to their given missions-of-God, and the “aftermath” of those mission outcomes. Various so-called “end times” “prophetic” scenarios play somewhat into the novel, but I cannot say for sure what “the great tribulation” in the Book of Revelation will look like or when it will happen–only God knows for sure. I do not….but, I can speculate…. And since so many big tech oligarchs seem to be in play these days with their artificial intelligence (AI) programs, it seems to me that these folks and their programs (including that abomination called ‘transhumanism’…like the Days of Noah as Christ mentioned in various Gospels, when fallen angels mated with the daughters of men to produce ‘giants’ (aka nephalim)….not exactly human, right?)….these folks and their programs will likely play out in the actual “end-times.”

In the following snippet that opens Chapter One is included the novel’s narrator, pop culture pundit Lloyd Denholm (who narrated The Prodigal Band) and the prodigal band’s manager, Joe Phillips, under a fake name since he faked his own death in Part Three of The Murder Rule. The time-frame is the present: September, 2025. The snippet is below, and the event harkens back to the opening of The Prodigal Band, a jet explosion that the prodigal band survived–only this time, the outcome of a similar explosion was different. Below is the snippet (© 2025 Deborah Lagarde):

Richmont, California, September, 2025

I, Lloyd Denholm, was about to turn on the television for the nightly news as I finished preparing my supper of fried fish and crisps, when my phone rang—I still had a land-line phone.

“Hello,” I answered.

“It’s me, Joe,” the supposedly ‘dead’ Joe Phillips responded.

“Where are you, Mr. R?” For Joe had adopted the spy-agent moniker Agent R.

“At the usual place.” Meaning, his flat he shared with his former personal assistant, Swinton, within London.

“So, Joe, what’s happening?”

“You’ll find out!” he laughed with a shout of mystery. “I am sure the news will have a very interesting story which might remind you of an event back in July, 2001. You know what I’m saying!”

My mind reeled. Oh God, no!

“Yes, I will watch the news, and it should be about ready now.”

Joe rang off.

I nervously turned on the news.

“…over the Irish Sea on the way to Belfast where they would headline a Christian charity concert festival to aid Child Finders in locating missing children. Their Cessna was approximately twenty kilometers from the Ulster coastline when the plane suddenly exploded with debris crashing into the waters. Along with the pilots, none of Sound Unltd survived…”

Devastation clawed at me. I knew this would eventually happen! Then I heard the news desk co-anchor chime in. “This reminds me of what happened to their 757 jet when it landed at a London airport in 2001 and a bomb went off.”

Her desk mate replied, “Only this time, they would not survive the explosion.”

And on and on, as I rang Joe back up.

“So, Joe, did you suspect this would happen?”

“Yes, and the suspicion is due to their funding the Child Finder Charity at a large venue in Belfast to end all the child trafficking in Ulster by the Hellyons and Novordo Club. You know who is running that show!”

“You know, Joe, Sound Unltd’s been raising money to end child trafficking and other evil designs since they turned to Christ. For years, they’ve exposed the darkness that rules this world—”

“Ephesians 6:12, right?”

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

“Exactly. So, why now? Why, you know, ‘murder rule’ them now?”

Joe immediately answered, “Because, Lloyd, it was time to do so.”

I am still working on Chapter Two of this new novel. Chapter One is completed.

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Finally, I Am Starting My New (and Maybe Last) Novel! Been Busy This Last Few Weeks…

I finally started creating my new–and final–novel which (so far) will be called The Prodigal Band Aftermath. It will feature the ending scenario for the prodigal band Sound Unltd which harkens back to when their jet was “bombed” in 2001 but failed to do any serious damage to the band, pilots or jet. Thus begins the novel, which, as with The Prodigal Band, is narrated by pop culture pundit Lloyd Denholm. The finality of The Murder Rule also plays into this final novel (also narrated by Lloyd Denholm).

Thus, the “prodigal band” reaches its end, and Denholm suspects why it reaches its end, which he explains, backed by what manager Joe Phillips–who faked his own death in Part Three of The Murder Rule and assumes a new identity as a “commoner person” who still has connections to the “elites” who had thought they controlled the “Super Six” for many years, and know why the act with their jet happened–in 2024, the same year The Murder Rule ended.

To end this post, I will state that a key character from the Prodigal Band Trilogy, the spirit being Morwenna, reappears in this novel–her being sent back to the world from heaven by those Tooters angels was necessary to complete the novel. Only this time, she will guide Lloyd, Joe, and the rest of the “good guys” against the evil that takes place in the latter 2020s…the “end times” maybe?

Finally, that control mechanism that Big Tech invented to trick folks into thinking the world was becoming a better place, Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a prominent role in this novel…fake images, fake “messiah,” and other ways to deceive believers on Christ so that they renege on their belief and side with the beast system. Strong delusion stuff…

Sorry this post is late, but I have been very busy with activities these past few weeks, including daughter getting married…finally! To a new believer on Christ no less…

Speaking of ‘The End Times’… This Scenario is Likely to Play Into My Next Novel (and Maybe the Last One).

This post will be short, but it is something I must write as I now do scriptural research regarding the so-called “end times” which likely leads to ‘the great tribulation.’ Of course, only God knows, but still….it just seems like we are heading into this time frame.

Do not assume the war between Israel and Iran sparked this scenario; after all, the two nations have been wanting to ‘war’ each other for years now. All those videos and pictures of Israeli PM Netanyahu claiming Iran is building a nuclear weapon….since the 90s! Then you have various US officials claiming Iran does not have nukes… but they have enrichment facilities that US president Trump wants them to shut down… There are time I wonder if Trump thinks he controls the Middle East… Hmmmmmmm….. He claims to want peace but seems to be threatening Iran’s government, which, right now according to videos and news sources, is bombing the heck out of Israel! My advice to Trump (not that he cares, but still….)–let these two nations fight it out and do not get the US militarily involved in this (you know, the draft? Remember Vietnam? I do, which is why I hate war! My brother lost one of his best friends…for nothing!)

Harking back to my previous post which states that the Bible claims there will be wars and rumors of wars and nations against nations and earthquakes in various places and famines (Gaza, but maybe also North Korea, parts of Africa, and other places) and also persecution of believers on Christ (including in Israel, where Christian broadcast networks show videos of Orthodox Jews spitting on Christians there), all of this is happening now; however, these events have been going on for many, many years. Can one recall any year over the past several hundred years that had no wars, no earthquakes, no famines, no religious persecution of believers, including persecutions of Christians…by Christians? Reformation and all that…. So, it isn’t as if these events are just happening now. But they do seem to be having a more negative effect.

Finally, technocracy is rising, which reminds me of what Christ said about ‘the days of Noah.’ During the days of Noah, what are now considered technocrats were, back then, folks who messed with human DNA. Genesis Chapter Six says it all: the sons of God (fallen angels) mated with the daughters of men to produce “giants” also called “nephelim”–part human, part non-human… Or, today it might be called “transhuman,” where folks are implanted with chips or whatever that changes DNA (uh, Covid “vaccines” maybe?). To where humans merge with “the cloud” or technology to “live forever.”

And another thing which is concerning: AI, or “artificial intelligence,” which can create whatever written paper or video or picture out of thin air with some form of human guidance…or not. This AI generation can possibly even create a fake “rapture” in order to get those believers of the so-called “pre-trib rapture” of the church–who see beings being “raptured” in the air but are not “raptured” themselves–to “backslide” against Christ because they thought they’d be raptured and were not–which angers them maybe into thinking all that Biblical prophecy stuff is BS and leave the Body of Christ behind….now wouldn’t Satan or the Anti-Christ love that one! It is this “fake rapture” possibility that is causing me to do more research on end-times prophecy and a likely conclusion there is no “pre-trib rapture.” It is more likely to happen AFTER the tribulation when the “wrath of God” takes place and Christ returns, the “second coming”…whenever that will be. Only God knows, and I suspect modern-day prophecy preachers have no clue.

More to come soon…but I will be busy this week and next week. Cheers!

A Future Novel? Hmmmmmm….

It has been a few weeks since my last post, but that is because I have not been able to decide what the next post would be—another snippet post, or something completely different?

This will be something different, because over the last couple of weeks (while busy with other stuff), thoughts or inspirations have entered my mind regarding a possible new novel, but related to previous novels (most likely, another spin-off of The Prodigal Band Trilogy, as The Murder Rule is).

After completing the third novel in the trilogy, The Prodigal Band, I considered writing an “aftermath” type novel explaining what happens after the climactic events of this novel—after the band rescues keyboard-synthist Bry’s wife Mo from the evil satanically possessed Mark Besst who was about to impale her, the satan-figure, Corion, captures Besst within the evil red crystal the evil one uses to capture human souls. Further, the good spirit being used by God’s angels, the Tooters, called Morwenna, returns “home” to heaven, her missions having been accomplished, as she lets her employers, singer Erik and his wife, Ger, know via a note she left for them.

But, then what? Is there more to this story? The narrator of this novel, pop culture pundit Lloyd Denholm, surmises at the end of the novel that the prodigal band members, given “missions of God” by the Tooters, will complete their missions and spend eternity in Heaven, being “good and faithful servants.”

Thus, I have been thinking how this “aftermath” plays out. The six band members complete their missions, and pass on at some point, souls in Heaven. However, what is Heaven really like? Is it that “void” I’ve had them in, a white, timeless, soundless, sight-less, void that contains “dots” or “lines” as they move through the void? (Note: refer to Chapter Eleven of The Prodigal Band.) The Bible mentions “streets of gold,” “crystal seas,” and other beauty, but still…what does it look like for sure? What does God look like…after all, the Book of Genesis says God made man in His—actually, “our” image—while the Gospel of John Chapter One says “the Word” (Christ) was with God and was God. Thus “our” image…but still, what do these “images” look like? What does the Judgment Seat (Book of Revelation) look like? What does the “accuser,” Satan, look like…and does he have “devil horns”?

The other possibility is an “aftermath” predicting the “end times” narrated by one of the novel characters, possibly one from The Murder Rule, with a scenario of how the next few years historically and spiritually plays out, for we do seem to be entering what looks to be very dangerous times, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in diverse places…for instance, several in my area north of here, possibly due to oil fracking (after all, north of me is the Permian Basin, where the oil producing industry is huge, likely the largest in the US). And all those preachers predicting end-times events (such as the timing of ‘the rapture,’ and more…only God knows, right?).

So that, hopefully soon, I will be inspired, somehow, to begin writing the next novel, for it seems to me that time is getting short.

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Happy Resurrection Day, Easter, Passover…Call It What You Will

Or what God wills…

This will be a short post, but I wanted to tell the reader the message in the title of this post. Because the message really is this: look to the Man who died on the cross and then rose from the dead for salvation, in a world where any other salvation is hard to find, where depression is rampant, where sickness abounds, and where there are many who need a guiding hand. Where politics seems to screw everything up, because politics will not save you. US president Trump is doing some good things…seems all presidents and national leaders do some good things, but they also do bad or wrong things and maybe a wrong spirit is guiding them. A fanaticism, and religious fanaticism is part of that as well. That’s one reason I do not support “Christian nationalism.” And was our Lord and Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ political? He was anything but! That could be a reason Roman governor Pontius Pilate found no wrong in Him, but King Herod and the religious leaders of the day, the Sanhedrin Pharisees and Sadducees, found lots of wrong in Him…which was why He was crucified instead of rebel leader Barabbas.

I will pray for the readers of this post and any other post on this site, and I will pray for anyone who has bought and/or read any of my novels, as well as the “guide for Christian authors,” Talent for a Mission, which I have posted chapter-by-chapter on this site.

Of course, I have my doubts as to the righteousness of the national, state, and local governing bodies, executive, legislative, or judicial, for corruption is rampant, but I will pray for these folks anyway.

And the media as well, the same media that is pushing the notion that Trump will go to war with Iran even though he is supposedly meeting with Iranian officials. War with Iran? God forbid! We’ve lost only God knows how many young men in these God awful wars for no reason other than to enrich the military-industrial complex. Some in the media say Trump will go to war against Iran on behalf of Israel, Iran’s main enemy.

My opinion? If Israel wants war with Iran, let them go to war with Iran, and leave us Americans out of it! They don’t need us, and they have nukes. And, oh yeah…the memory of what Israel did to the USS Liberty in 1967, murdering 34 American sailors and admitting this crime in their media in 2011 (while the US govt. continues to cover this up…I guess this truth is “antisemitic”….) And, while I cannot support Iran’s theocratic radical Shiite Muslim govt. which persecutes Christians there, guess what? Iran, due to its theocracy and persecution, is turning to Christ! Underground, of course, and the same with North Korea. Would be nice if Israel did as well, but those Talmudic extremists have too much fun spitting on Christians…and not just Palestinians ones, either… Go to former Israeli-now-American Jewish extremist-turned-Christian Stephen Ben Nun at his YouTube Israeli News Live channel for proof of this. And regarding Israel, I pray that these folks and especially their far-right govt. turn from their Talmudic anti-Christ ways and seek His salvation…and all the world doing the same thing!

So, Happy Resurrection Day…or Easter…or Passover…and blessings to you and yours!

The Influence That the Prodigal Band’s Women Had in the Repentance of the Prodigal Band, Part Five: More of the Likely Conversion of the Band’s Wives, Continued

As stated in the previous post, Part Four of the influence that the band’s women had in the repentance of the band and accepting Christ as Savior, this post features snippets where synthist Bry’s wife Mo has her say in this influence and also guitarist-producer Mick and drummer Tom discuss this issue. The snippets, also from Chapter Ten of The Prodigal Band, © 2018 Deborah Lagarde, are below.

Meanwhile, walking along Altuna Beach near Jack’s in the moonlight

“Are you still queer, Mick?” Tom asked.

“No.”

The drummer and guitarist planned to leave for their respective homes the next morning.

“We all have a lot of things we need to ask forgiveness for.” Mick stared straight ahead. “Not just me, you know.”

“I know that, but some sins are harder to deal with than others.” Looked at Mick who was still staring ahead. “And mine is thinking I’ve committed fewer sins than the rest of you.”

Pordengreau stopped. “Really, Tom? I think each of our sins are equally bad. That’s because most of our sins were against ourselves.”

“Yeh, but the greatest sin was us thinking we were gods and being idols to millions. I’ve glanced through the Bible from time to time, and the sin God really hated the most was when people worshiped other gods. I mean, whole nations were destroyed because of it.”

“You really, really think even one of our fans actually worshiped us? And even if they did, that’s their problem, not ours.”

“Mick, Mick, Mick, we promoted ourselves as ‘the greatest band ever.’ If that’s not actually promoting ourselves as gods, it’s pretty bloody close. I’d say close enough to incur the wrath of God.”

“What ‘wrath of God’? Don’t you think that would have happened by now?”

“The crisis Mick, remember?”

The other rolled his eyes. “For bloody sake, we got through that one, eh, without death and destruction. In fact,” Mick got in Tom’s face, “why would God give us a mission if he thought we were some kind of abomination?”

Tom thought a minute.

“I think we were close to becoming something close to the worst thing, but because through all the ‘greatest band ever’ shit, we kept our perspective. Every time it looked like we’d act like gods, we did something to screw that up. At the height of our fame and fortune, we went into seclusion and then everything went to hell.”

“Yeh, Tom,” Mick sighed, “but we still have a lot to answer for.”

Then Tom stopped though Mick walked straight ahead. “Yeh, but I have a question that needs answering now.”

Yet Mick, though hearing him, kept on walking, not wanting to hear it.

“And that question is,” Tom went on, “are we really doing this mission or are we just gonna go through the motions?”

No answer.

The following morning, at the McClellan ranch house, Texas

Mo McClellan strolled out of the ranch house to meet Bry, who was exiting the SUV he’d driven home from the airport.

“How was it?”

He slammed the door. “It sucked, actually. But we did get the song.” Sarcastic grunt.

Wonderful, she thought as he briskly passed her by. Followed him into the house where she saw him thrash the overnight bag onto the leather couch halfway across the thousand-square-foot living room, nearly knocking over a spittoon.

“Guess what, Mo?” he yelled out in disgust. “Now we’re gonna have to be Jesus freaks.” Another grunt. “Let’s see now,” knocking over furniture, bounding to the bag that he was preparing to toss into the nearest hallway, “we’ve gone from totally irreligious to pagan religion to heretics to ‘unless we accept Christ as our Savior we have no business doing this song that we have to do because some stupid statue gave us a mission of God and some stupid witch told us to do the song as part of the mission.”

“Bry—” Mo tried to calm him.

“And the rest of the band is in denial. They’re all thinking of ways to get on with this mission without having to become Christian. They,” turning to face Mo, “they really think that it’s okay to do a song that just might convert a few million fans to Christianity, and not do it themselves. Do you know what that makes us?”

Mo answered, half in jest, “Hypocrites?”

“Right.” Bry then stomped over to another couch and flung himself on it. “I mean, the whole trip sucked. We were hiking up this trail to Bobby’s, and the first thing you know Erik collapses from exhaustion. What a weakling! So Bobby has to bring him up in a four-wheeler—well, actually, he brought us all up!” Laughs. “There we are, six of the richest guys on the planet, and none of us in shape. None of us is healthy enough to make a one mile hike at an altitude of about six thousand feet. We might as well be Chinese Empress Dowagers being hauled around in a litter all day!” Another loud laugh as he threw his arms out to her. “We are such bloody fat cats, eh?”

She sat down opposite him, holding back a laugh of irony.

“So we get to his place, dying of thirst, and he tells us a witch—oh, and, by the way, that witch is now working for Ger.”

”Morwenna? A witch?” Mo was more shocked than surprised.

“Right. Morwenna. She told him to get his song to us any way he could do it, and that we have to perform this song as part of our so-called mission, which we agreed to do. Erik—who may have had a slight heart attack on the hike yesterday for bloody sake—says he really wants to do it, but he for one doesn’t sound like he’s converting to Christianity any time soon. And neither is anyone else in the band. I don’t want to, either, but at least I don’t think we can get by not doing it.”

All Mo could say was, “Then you do have a problem, eh?”

“Yeh,” he smirked, then went upstairs to the master bedroom, thinking. It’s gonna take an act of God to get us to believe.

The next post is undecided, and when it will be posted is also undecided, but I hope I have something to post before Easter, aka Resurrection Day, April 20.

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The Influence That the Prodigal Band’s Women Had in the Repentance of the Prodigal Band, Part Four: The Likely Conversion of the Band’s Wives Continues

The previous snippet post from Chapter Ten of The Prodigal Band features singer Erik’s wife Ger admitting to accepting Christ as Savior. The novel does not state that the other women converted, but it can be implied that they have considered it, what with them trying to get their men to fully accept Christ to do their ‘missions of God.’ The snippet post below, also from Chapter Ten, begins with the ending of the previous post, with Ger telling Erik she has accepted Christ. This is after he and the rest of the band return from a trip to now-Christian Bobby, a former band roadie and occultic cult member, who had composed a song for the band to help them begin their missions, called “He is the Way.” He being Christ.

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The Influence That the Prodigal Band’s Women Had in the Repentance of the Prodigal Band, Part Three: The Conversion of the Band’s Wives Begins

As stated in the previous post, the conversions of the wives of the members of the prodigal band begins in Chapter Ten of The Prodigal Band with Morwenna, formerly a Godly spirit being, now human, influencing the women to accept Christ. This begins with singer Erik’s wife, Ger, who had hired Morwenna as her personal assistant. While Erik (as well as the rest of the band) was away meeting with a former roadie who composed a song for the band to perform, Morwenna is meeting with Ger after she and the rest of the band’s women had met in the atrium of Ger’s estate, as posted in the previous post, Part Two. The snippet related to this is below:

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