In response to "The Sorrow" in our March '88 issue, Robert Trott of Salem MA writes;

Dear Mr. Jimmy Swaggart, The poem "The Sorrow" by Gerald Polley is saying it like I feel deep within me. Sin is sin, so says the good book, and go and sin no more, for no sin is greater than another. We can not put sin on a scale and rate it from one to ten, where number one is at a level where we can throw out the first stone. That at level ten, this type of sinner we can nail to a cross. Just the same when one sinner takes from another sinner the food out of his mouth, clothes off his back, fuel from his or her home so he or she along with children go to bed hungry and cold so man made religiousness can live the fast life, and all that goes with it, we will have to bring in here a right and wrong,
Why is it that I am being grabbed up and put in prison just for stealing a loaf of bread? Why is it that I am being grabbed up for sleeping in doorways, and begging for coins upon streets, while holy people rob and steal millions of dollars each year? Is it because dollar, cent and banks have become father, son, and holy ghost???? Or is it like they say, where there is no honor among thieves, or a sucker born every movement?
As the saying goes "Father forgive me for I have sinned," just the same dear God, I am a sinner who never took money out of a baby's mouth, and may you have mercy on the sinner who does.

Greetings! My name is John. Before I came to Spirit I was a military officer, and served that duty for many years. But what I always wanted to be was a sheep rancher, and I read anything and everything about sheep raising, so I came to know sheep inside and out! So, when I came to The Spirit World it was only logical that I started raising sheep. Now, you can't raise real sheep in Spirit. You can't slaughter and dress what's already dead! What we really consume is energy, and what I do is put that energy into a form that people can recognize and enjoy.
If a person is hungry they can think of a lambchop, baked potato and peas, and it is there, but it might not be all that tasty. But if you have someone like me that raises the sheep, fattens them on the grass until they're nice and plump, then you have someone else that does the butchering just right, and someone else that cooks them just so, then you have a really good lamb chop, a really good baked potato, and really good peas. It is all energy, but that energy has been put together into a form that is pleasing and enjoyable, and is much more readily consumed.
My work isn't necessary for the continued existence of spirits, as the work of the farmer is for the material beings, but people like me make The Spiritual Existence more enjoyable, and we enjoy doing it.
That's the thing about Spirit. Strangely enough, each person can do what he or she enjoys doing most, and find that what they do is of benefit to all around them. There never seems to be a surplus of persons in one field or another. And no one in Spirit ever seems to be unhappy with their chosen occupation. I'm sure many of you will say 'If it was only so in The Material World!'
I hope you have enjoyed hearing about me and what I do, and will ask me some questions. 'Til then I wish you peace and prosperity.