PRAYER JOURNAL - GOD DOES NOT APPROVE OF LINCOLN IN THE B@RDO
I had posted this picture of what I thought was an interesting FACE in the clouds.
I didn't notice the 12:25 timestamp, but my friend Sara did and replied.
AND OMGOSH .. THE SCREENSHOT OF THAT HOLY SPIRIT CONFIRMATION HAS AN IMAGE NUMBER OF 0909 ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ ๐๐ป 9 IS JUDGMENT OR FRUIT BEARING.
I went back to that photo after Sara's reply to examine the timestamp. It is 10:19 ๐๐ป October 19 ๐๐ป On October 19, 2026, the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York City hosts the world premiere of Lincoln in the B@rdo, an opera based on George Saunders's award-winning novel about Abraham Lincoln and his deceased son.
George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel arrives at the Met in operatic form, with music by American composer Missy Mazzoli—hailed by The New Yorker as a “once-in-a-generation magician of the orchestra”—and libretto by Royce Vavrek. The supernatural story takes place in the “bardo,” a transitional plane between the end of this life and the beginning of the next, populated by those who resist all the powers of light and darkness and refuse to accept their fates. ๐๐
The action revolves around 11-year-old Willie, recently deceased son of Abraham Lincoln, whose grief-stricken visits to Willie’s tomb prevent his son’s spirit from moving on.
Yannick Nรฉzet-Sรฉguin conducts an ensemble cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as Lincoln, alongside a superlative group of singers as the kaleidoscopic residents of the bardo, who band together to help Willie escape being trapped there for eternity—including soprano Christine Goerke, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. Director Lileana Blain-Cruz has created an otherworldly setting for this unique and uniquely American tale, which arrives at the Met in time for the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations.
The image number on the photo of the FACE in the cloud is 742 ๐๐ป mirror 247 ๐๐ป Page 247 of George Saunders’s novel Lincoln in the B@rdo features dialogue where the ghost characters and the Reverend Everly Thomas describe fighting and hacking away at the hardening, carapace-like matter enclosing them in the graveyard. ๐๐๐
In George Saunders' novel Lincoln in the B@rdo, Catholic and Christian themes heavily intertwine with the titular Tibetan Buddhist concept of the bardo. ๐๐ The character of Reverend Everly Thomas provides a major lens for this, experiencing a distinctly Christian/Catholic-style judgment scene with Christ’s messengers before fleeing back to the graveyard out of fear. ๐คฆ๐ผ♀️
The Judgment Scene: Reverend Everly Thomas faces a self-evaluation and final judgment mirroring traditional Christian concepts of the "Last Things," where souls encounter a divine presence and are directed toward heaven or hell.
The Fear of Damnation: Unlike the neutral transitional state of the Buddhist bardo, characters like the Reverend stay behind because they are terrified of the eternal consequences they witnessed during their brief threshold experience.
The Setting and Context: Set in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, the moral weight of sin, regret, penance, and mercy heavily reflects Western theological traditions alongside the Buddhist framework of being trapped between states of existence.











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