Blog 3737 – 02.03.2026

Weather Prognostications, Pretty Women, Prophecies, Predictions, Proverbs, Promises and Opinions 

Completing weather prognosticators Punxsutawney Phil and Buckeye Chuck made conflicting weather predictions yesterday with Phil seeing his shadow (calling for six more weeks of winter) and Chuck not seeing his shadow (forecasting an early spring.) Yesterday, was Groundhog Day and these two famous furry weatherforecasters made their predictions known to waiting journalists and the world.

Time will tell which one got it right. The Bible test of whether someone is a true prophet or not is that their prophecies must always come true. Even one miss disqualifies them. Our two furry weather prognosticators (prophets) have long ago failed to meet that test and yet people still flock to see what they have to say about the pending weather on Groundhog Day every year. Tossing a coin to decide the forecast is about as accurate as these two.

Predicting the weather is far from an exact science. I recently wrote about a weather predicting rock that I saw once in Wisconsin that always got it right. But that rock was not predicting the weather so much as showing what the current weather was. It is much easier to write prophecy and predict the weather after the fact.

Many Bible scholars say that the prophetic predictions and their fulfillments in the Bible were first written down after the fact and that in the some cases the newer gospels added fabricated details not in the older gospels to make the story sound more believable.

I make it a practice to edit my blogs after publication to correct misspellings and errors when I find them. It is a common practice of writers.

As a boy and young man I belonged to a fundamentalist religious group that believed and taught that the Protestant Bible was the inspired word of God in whole and in part without error. That Bible is sixty-six books written by men all with an agenda to control the thoughts and actions of others. Did they get it right all of the time? Hardy and when their predictions do come true it is because the events took place before the prophecies were ever recorded. 

For all the inaccuracies and pre and post-fabrications in the sixty-six books that were picked (by men) to be included in the Protestant Bible I still think it got some things very right. Today’s picture quote was posted yesterday on Facebook by my pretty cousin Brenda. She was at sixteen and still is at seventy-five an exceptionally lovely lady. The Proverb, Promise, and Prediction that she shares is still one that I wholeheartedly believe to be true, that if we acknowledge God, our higher best self, in all we do that He/She will direct our paths. For some time I have expressed it like this: “I am so glad and grateful that everything that  I could ever want or need is already mine and coming to me at just the right time and in just the right way from my loving and infinite source.”

Thanks, Brenda, for reminding us all l in such a lovely way just Who and Whose we truly are.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White