What is happening to my neighborhood and its people is now seen for what it is, EVIL. There’s been an orchestrated effort for many years now to get me out of here because certain nefarious persons knew I was the tiger of the neighborhood who would put up a fight or resist their plan and if they got me to take their lousy offer to move or, in essence, get the hell out of their way, then most others around me would fall in line with their nefarious plans to dominate the community with a fake home or property acquisition program. This so called program neither takes into account the constitutional rights nor the lives of the individuals that call this neighborhood home. They are using tactics and an approach that can be considered a form of assault or warfare upon me, and other people here along with the natural environment. The trees, animals and fauna are being stripped away like so much chaff, which diminishes the value and integrity of the neighborhood, thereby disrespecting the lives of its people. So one could say the lives of certain people are being stripped away as well! I’m one of those people and I know for a fact that my life, liberty and pursuit of any happiness that I’ve had here in my neighborhood for my entire life has been cheapened, discounted, marginalized, threatened and slowly but surely destroyed by this attack.
The airport people, otherwise known as AC [Airport Corporation], even have an employee that is an Army West Point grad who is one of their main players in this developing story, who obviously knows much more than he lets on about the plan or tactics that were used, are now being used and will be used to attack me along with this community to accomplish their goal. This onslaught has been bought and paid for by the people of my community and sold by the media, who are puppets for these same nefarious individuals that want me and others gone. Just like the over 600 trees that once gave the area life-sustaining oxygen that have been stripped from the Earth here recently, they also want to strip away human lives along with a way of life that interferes with their nefarious plans.
What is happening here is not unlike Arthur Miller’s the Crucible in tone and plot, along with similar strategies or tactics that were also used in the Tennessee Valley Authority project and story, which we know from the historical account that it too involved stripping away the lives of simple everyday people for and by the powerful in our society because they were in the way.
I started out in my dissertation here by saying this is EVIL, and that is absolutely true. The pope in Rome has explained in many of his writings that we now live in a “culture of death,” and this activity that is occurring here in my neighborhood is a prime example of that kind of corrupted, destructive culture we now live in because the people continue to allow the wrong individuals to tell the rest of us how we have to live or get out of the way!
I woke up in the middle of the night today because of this harsh ugly treatment my life was and is being subjected to, then suddenly I had an epiphany of how I’ve been lied to or given a smoke and mirrors explanation whenever I called to ask questions about what they are doing here by this certain employee of AC yesterday. He’s been the go-between for me and actually the only person that will give me the time of day when I seek answers, but now I realize his job has been to keep me at bay as they, the enemies of the community, go about their nefarious plan. They want nothing more than to extract me and others from this area any which way they can, as long as it keeps the cost to a bare minimum for them, no matter how costly or unfortunate it will be for me and the community. My life is meaningless and valueless to those same nefarious persons that have their big agenda! Well, God is going to trump them and their plans along with chastising each and every one of them when it is time! It appears that, meanwhile, they are being allowed to show themselves for what they are and take their ugly plans to the limit, so they will eventually not only expose themselves for what they are but will convict themselves as well of all the crimes of which they are guilty! Crimes against other people, nature, and God!
I also just realized that I’m not going to get anywhere with my concerns by talking to my local politicians, media and others here in the community, but I will rather need to seek out divine intervention! This fact does give me some solace to know that we, the people, will always be heard and considered as human beings with lives of value and purpose that can ultimately never be discounted by the man-made world, but will rather be held up as having great significance within the Creator’s most high and ultimate plan.
Lawrence Morra (This was my original article printed in the
newspaper here on September 1st, 2015)
PS It’s becoming quite apparent that this entire unnecessary project was nothing more than a group of Crony Capitalists scheme to ingratiate themselves at the expense of the Tax Payer and the ruined lives along with a piece of the environment, which I will have much more detail and evidence to write about in the near future.
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Mr.Lawrence Morra,
I am copying and pasting your last comment from BBB, Beauty Beyond Bones thread “Are We Worshipping Our Sexuality’, so as to continue our discussion. I really enjoyed your comments, ideas, experiences, and wanted to continue and not at the expense of BBB’s site.
For all the readers here is Mr.Lawrence’s comment below:
Yes sir, very good I say and kudos to you for speaking your mind and sounding the alarm or ringing the bell of truth! I like that you are genuine in your tone and intent! I hear you, this coming from a guy that grew too weary of people over the years because I experienced way too much self-serving manipulation from pretty much everyone outside of a handful of core individuals which were my parents and a few of their siblings my aunts and uncles, all of them coming from a time or era gone by! Then came the betrayal, as those core persons in my life either became very ill or died I felt very isolated or boxed in by a world that was growing way too selfish and secular or even going off the rails as we know is the case with all of the insanity going on around us every day. Why do I bring up betrayal; well when my place of employment and various government officials including of course politicians conspired against me to do me real harm by using all the tricks of our modern political system which to me is akin to what was say going on back in the time of William Wallace the Scotsman warrior who fought for freedom as you and others are either aware of by knowing history or at least the Mel Gibson film Brave Heart; as I see it our system and culture has arrived at a similar crossroad of those times now where our leaders and officials are just as gloated with power and madness or let’s face it EVIL as they were back in Wallace’s time. Compassion, and righteousness are either taking a back seat or out the window all together these days because as you have pointed out many people in this society are paying lip service to many a conversation or cause while in their hearts only concerned with one thing, self!
Some of what was done to me should have killed me or in the least cause me to go off the rails and do something stupid which they who were and are my enemies would have loved for me to do then the hammer would come down to crush my skull and put my lights out along with my passionate heart! Like my Dad once told me when I was a younger fella, “son they can torture or destroy my body but they can never have my soul it belongs to God!”
My Dad was a man of great faith in God and not afraid of anything or anyone in this world, but would never boast and had great humility; a genuine best of the best human beings you would ever want to meet, and I owe most if not all I have of any great good and strength in me to him and of course Jesus Christ who I always had faith in since I was a boy and started to get it. But I have had to learn how faith really words and what it really entails, not some of the mimicry that I partook of or practiced.
Let me just say this here because I can tend to go on talking almost to myself which can distract most people from what I’m about or trying to offer to them! I can honestly tell you and for that matter the world right here and right now, I can’t see anything better to do with my life than to be even way more humble than I am which I improve on each day I hope, while snapping back at the world and like you speaking my mind boldly; but I know from experience and from the lives of many and the most important life ever lived on this planet Jesus Christ that being as humble as one can be is of paramount importance and is in a way submission to God’s Will if genuinely seeking it from Him in prayer, thought and action, which I never have done to my best ability and that is a failure in my mind. And to your point that, “God gave us a spirit not of cowardice, but that of power, love, and soundness of mind.” I couldn’t agree with you more and you have shared a most important observation that cut’s to the chase as to what the hell are we even here for to begin with! One tandem reason, “to love and serve God!”
I knew that truth but never quite to the degree I did until a very close relative just days before his passing after his having suffered in this world and system far beyond my suffering and I would dare say without knowing you even any of your own suffering unless you can tell me you rode the rails and got beat to a pulp by people and this world all the while fighting difficulties of a chemically imbalanced brain, and still remembering how you were a fine student in the university with high hopes full of promise, but yet this man kicked to the curb and then some said those words to me; I break down and cry even now, as I realize his suffering was the beginning of “real suffering and sacrifice” that “Jesus did for us on that cross at Calvary” and that I see, feel and contemplate whenever I watch the Passion of the Christ each Easter, when I again fall to pieces crying my heart out throughout the movie.
Nobody can tell me that He isn’t God and all of what He said isn’t true! There is no other person or religion that can lay claim to what Jesus Christ did for all of humanity and offered to each of us to have a personal relationship with Him, to then bring us home to Him and the Kingdom of God the Father in Heaven! And in all of what you said here along with your saying you don’t want to offend me I say fantastic to be so thoughtful of my feelings like that, but actually to me all that matters is another person be honest with me and if they offend me in the process so be it, I have to take it because I sure dish it out at times too! Your thoughts and true feelings are appreciated by me personally in a most profound way, I like the fact that you are working to see clearly what is going on around you and in the bigger picture which brings me to say in regard to your outlook, and how Scripture tells us:
1 Peter 4:3-5
“For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles’ when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”
2 Peter 3:3-4
“knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
And here a few of the translations of what we must all take to heart; especially if my dear departed one with all the adversaries and sufferings heaped upon him for many years was able to profess those words to me and impart that focal point of what our lives are about, “to love and serve God!” I love him for saying that in his final hours to me what a gift and I feel so much of his pain and loss now, it is part of me and I appreciate it, because he may have actually saved me with Jesus Christ in that special way and moment of his offering up to me what all his agony became in the end a gift to me! I cry now again knowing I’m not worthy but I want to be, I do love them all those who went before us in the name of the Lord because they helped bring us closer to our Savior and Father in Heaven, they acted as our guides even when we were so unaware of them doing so as they weren’t seeking recognition but merely doing God’s will, yet it all became so clearly evident after the fact that God does have a plan and it is the most amazing and perfect of plans for those that will believe in Him even unto death!
1 Peter 4:7
“But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober minded, and watch unto prayer.”
“The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.”
“Because everything will soon come to an end, be sensible and clear-headed, so you can pray.”
Peace be with you my Friend and Brother in Christ Jesus.
Lawrence Morra
My reply:
First and foremost what a pleasure it is to meet you Mr.Lawrence. Thank you for taking your time, energy, and spirit to share your personal experience, sufferings, and thoughts with us.
Second, Amen, Glory be to God
Third, I send you a warm brotherly greeting and embrace.
Fourth,
You spoke on many things, powerful messages and points. As I read, I identified and saw parts of myself and my own personality as a reflection of what you speak and write. I in effect saw myself in you.
#1
‘ I experienced way too much self-serving manipulation from pretty much everyone outside of a handful of core individuals which were my parents and a few of their siblings my aunts and uncles…’
You are not alone in this, that’s for sure. Which is now why I say Blood dont mean shit. it dont amount to squat. Many times blood is worse than strangers for they manipulate, hurt, strategically plan your demise all the while living under the same roof. I love that you mention your Father. I do the same, and our Fathers on Earth, sound very much the same kind of man, Honest. Who taught and instilled morals. Even if I havent always followed them, because they instilled them, they have been my ground zero, always gauging my life and actions based upon them being instilled as a line to begin with.
My dad always said the following : Son, you dont have any real friends, Im the only friend you got. And he would also say
Son, you can count your real friends on one hand.
The truth. My family now doesnt go by blood, it goes by those who love Christ and are striving to serve them, I dont hang out with all my family because I have better things to do than sit around at a bbq drinking beer and gossipping and talking about shit, banter, that doesnt do nothing for me.
I’d rather sit at home and study, or surround myself with Christ like individuals who are striving and are on FIRE for God.
#2
‘Some of what was done to me should have killed me or in the least cause me to go off the rails and do something stupid which they who were and are my enemies would have loved for me to do..
Before I reply, thank you for sharing and testifying with so many examples of God’s Word. I like that about you. Today as I was speaking to a close brother of mine who I have never met, close because I know his heart is with God, we got into a discussion about perfection. I was attempting to convey to him look brother, we strive to emulate after Christ, not perfection. We begin to realize if we allow ourselves to chase perfection, the more we chase it the more our imperfections arise to make it crystal clear that we are NOT perfect, and that we do NOT chase perfection, we CHASE instead how to do the Will of CHRIST who was perfect.
Now as with all things, some things LIFE must teach you, because when your younger, you just cant get your head around it… as today he could not get his head around this..he continued pressing that we should be striving after perfection.. he couldnt understand that .. im NOT saying we do not strive to eliminate sin, we do not rejoice in sin, we try to eliminate it, but with the understanding that I WILL NEVER BE PERFECT as long as i have this corruptible body. I said all that, because I sense you do quite understand this…
You see brother, that’s my the apostle paul was giving a thorn, you to keep him humble, too many times prophets, or those that have had a wonderful amazing experience and have been taking to heave to see wonderful things, or extraordinary things, and then come back with a powerful ministry or message or work, because of the amazing things they have seen and experienced they fall prey to thinking they know more than others, when in reality they know more about SOME THINGS< those things that have been shown to them and not others, but they sometimes fail to budge or see that others who have not had these experiences can still show them something.
that's part of WISDOM, experience, life, and only life can teach you this… which brings me to mentioning it to you.. i believe you have this wisdom. and Glory to God for it. Many times I have set across the table with a bible in my hand from other believers as we all sat around debating LOST IN SCRIPTURE as i like to call it, no longer seeking TRUTH, but rather seeking to out do the other by demonstrating who knows more, or whose interpretation is better or right or wrong which TRUTH will never be found in.
GOD, GRANT ME AND MY BROTHER LAWRENCE CONTINUED WISDOM To excel at doing your will, your plan, and your commands, in JESUS NAME, WE PRAY AMEN!!
one scripture that comes to mind about your sufferings, is this one, because i too can completely identify with the suffering and being a target.
1 Peter 4
12 Dear friends, don’t be bewildered or surprised when you go through the fiery trials ahead, for this is no strange, unusual thing that is going to happen to you. 13 Instead, be really glad—because these trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering, and afterwards you will have the wonderful joy of sharing his glory in that coming day when it will be displayed.
14 Be happy if you are cursed and insulted for being a Christian, for when that happens the Spirit of God will come upon you with great glory.[d] 15 Don’t let me hear of your suffering for murdering or stealing or making trouble or being a busybody and prying into other people’s affairs. 16 But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being in Christ’s family and being called by his wonderful name! 17 For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God’s own children.
Can this scripture say it any better? I remember when I was going through alot and felt like a target, and got sick and all these awful things were happening.. alot was simply out of my own disobedience and stubborness, however, this scripture is so important to remember during our trials… no matter how weird, or alien, or sickness infiltrates our lives, we must remember the words… DO NOT BE BEWILDERED as some strange thing is going on.. they outcasted JESUS, and they will outcast us, not because we are special.. because we are a minority living in the majority.
Lights shines in the darkness, whether the light even knows its a light yet because he /she is living in darkness, the Light of God still shines form within them outwardly and these cowards men and spirits seek to smother it, dismantle it, and strike it down and put it out.
but like you said and as it says in Matt 10:20
"Do not fear those who can kill the body, instead fear HE who can kill both body and soul in Hell"
#3 Wisdom is – being able to hear anything, any critique, any feedback, anybody's opinion, or perspective of our personal actions and NOT being offended, but rather seeing it for TRUTH.
I am not saying, simply accepting it, but rather than being instantly offended which causes temporary blindness and stunts any room for growth, actually hearing what they are saying and realizing, I am weak, but when I am weak HE IS STRONG IN ME, and then being humble, and if your humble , you cant be offended..
you simply realize, i am full of imperfections, i am always ready to hear what i am doing wrong, tell me, i tell others this very thing.. tell me how to be better, if you see me doing wrong, tell me… because i know it will make me better, and there are things i cannot see that you can see… that's why we all need each other.
May this message bless you, as yours has blessed me, in Jesus name, Amen.
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Thanks again Lawrence Morra, for sharing the Truth that God has apportioned out to you. Continue lighting up the path before you, and carrying the Torch, may it burn brighter and brighter each day by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, Amen.
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U a magician, or philosopher v different way of writing
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Thank you nitinsingh, I only say what I know to be truth and much from my heart which I ask God to guide me with His Holy Spirit! I do it sometimes well enough but I know I’m not perfect and miss the mark at some point in time; this is why we can comment and try to adjust and make the story more perfected!
I hope I may inspire other people to try their best here in this life to do as much good as possible, which is the best contribution I can make toward saving souls.
God Bless You and Yours. 🙏
Lawrence
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Lawrence,
Sounds like you are dealing with a terribly trying situation. I pray that justice prevails. One of my favorite movies dealt with a similar situation. The Castle (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/). You may find it uplifting.
God bless!
Craig
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Hi again Craig,
I found your words to be quite strikingly profound and they immediately registered as important to ponder or meditate on which turned out to be accurate. As the evening went on I grew much more tired and had to retire sleeping only a few hours I woke and decided I needed to see what you had written earlier again then things started to happen and my thoughts crystallized and these specific words reminded me of something here when you said, “the devil is defeated and on a short leash, and the only evil that can befall me is that which God has ordained to help conform me to the image of Christ and accomplish His purposes. I thank God for His Word in which I read that Christ said things such as these would happen,” which I know is a huge part of what is and has been going on with everything that happened over the last several years! You wrote these words which reminded me of a small pocket book version of “My Imitation of Christ,” which a man I knew from that government job gave to me not very long before the major injury calamity happened and this man had studied in seminary to become a priest which he ultimately found wasn’t going to be his own personal destination in serving the Lord. An interesting footnote here is that on the first text page or Foreword at the bottom of the page it says, “ Feast of Our Lady March 25 1954.” But I hadn’t looked at this book in some years and you brought my attention to it by your words and I want to read a short passage from it that is located at the beginning. “But he who would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ must study to make his whole life conformable to that of Christ. What doth it avail thee to discourse profoundly of the Trinity if thou be void of humility, and consequently, displeasing to the Trinity? In truth sublime words not make a man holy and just: but a virtuous life maketh him dear to God. “Vanity of vanities and all is vanity.” Eccles 1. 2. Except to love God and serve Him alone. This is the highest wisdom, by despising the world to tend to heavenly kingdoms.
Often remember that proverb: “the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear filled with hearing.” Eccles 1. 8.
Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible.
I skipped a few sentences but the focus of these words for me is that which you mentioned how our time is short here! Think of that, we don’t live long really at all here. And tragedy or an accident could befall anyone at any time and this is over in a flash. When we are younger sure we tend to not think of such things because we feel brash and full of promise but even then it can be over in a heartbeat. So, it really is so vitally imperative that any person hopefully learn that these words I just typed here are ideas that focus on a key directive that has been given to us and again by what you said earlier and now these words clearly tell us, “that serving and loving God” is all that matters my friend.
God Bless You Craig. And thank you for this inspiration as well as insight.
The movie you mention here looks great and I will have to get on EBay when I wake in the morning to see about ordering it! I’ll explain another time; but my situation has some distinct similarity to that story but some other very complex corrupted overtones as well as perhaps a hard lesson that you can’t fight city hall; or the ways of the world are truly crooked and wicked.
Lawrence
PS Thank you for the consideration!
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Hi Craig, I hope today has been a good one and I wanted to thank you again for the fine gentleman, Christian support you showed for our sister! The Blog dedicated to her today, I had to push out late this afternoon and I went back finding text errors and typos which I’ve now corrected. So if you do have time to check it again I hope any noticeable glitches or breaks in thought will be now completely gone.
Thank you very much. God Bless You and Yours.
Lawrence
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Reblogged this on The Searchlight and commented:
What a piece! It makes an interesting read.
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Thank you sir, for that; perhaps it can give some insight to others or help in some way to avoid similar recklessness or greed driven political programs. We all face so many difficulties in today’s conflicting world but the worst of it is when our fellow humans are so blinded by greed and will stop at nothing to get what they want, damaging and even killing unfortunately. Our faith is our greatest strength and we know this was all prophesied long ago by the word of God.
I will look to see more of you here soon.
God Bless You and Yours.
Lawrence
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Thanks Lawrence. You have stated the obvious and it is a travesty of genuine leadership responsibility. Across the globe, politicians have come off as not exactly for the people but for themselves – greed. Thanks for your thoughts.
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Yes Matthew, I’ve experienced this kind of massive global corruption in my own backyard in a most personal way; when my own representatives moved against me to do severe damage with little or no recourse than to try filing law suits, which I did alone without any help and still have hanging in the wind, going on three years since the travesty. The system is rigged and extremely biased so even the lawyers won’t touch it, unless of course I were able to heap large amounts of cash on the matter but that would be no assurance that even the one I hire to help me achieve justice wouldn’t sell out to the highest bidder, leaving me in the dust. I’m sorry to say that if this happened to me in my locale where I was born and raised; I’m sure it’s running rampant or much worse in other locations around the globe; as you said! Greed can be the only reason people would do harm like this to each other and their societies willing or so wantonly with such impunity. The Scriptures make it clear that money is the root of all evil. I would say all of this is a clear sign that the human race has moved away from God much too far now.
! — ‘When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.’ -Ayn Rand
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Absolutely and I can’t agree with your thoughts less. You’re spot on. Let’s keep at such discuss and see how the thoughts of others could be galvanized into wider awareness.
God bless and keep you.
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Brother in Christ Jesus; so beautifully said, and as perfect or true to the “Blessed Heart of Jesus” as any man can put into words! Thank you very much for that, and we should allow ourselves to do as you say; “seek to galvanize others to be of like mind and heart!” All Glory and Praise to God Almighty! Amen.
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Again, thanks very much
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More than happy to help Matthew! 🙂👍🙏
God Bless You and your Family, as well your people and Nation. 🙏 Excellent and informative articles you present sir!
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Amen and amen. Praying God to strengthen your hand and preserve you to continue blogging for the good of humanity. Happy Sunday!
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Amen to you; and that is a very big blessing from you so I can only say now I will try even more to do His will.
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Very well and so will His blessing of grace increase in you.
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Hi there, this is my first time to visit your blog. I hope that everyone always carry a pure heart every time. God bless us all and our families.
By the way, I am new in blogging and just recently, I made a challenge on myself to visit at least 10 blogs everyday for the next 21 days. In each visit, I will leave comment on it and put the link on my blog as well. Hope you can support me on this by visiting my blog too.
I followed your blog too.
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Hello Vanessa! Well you came to my blog with a great attitude and nobody else ever introduced themselves quite the way you have to me! I like your thoughtful consideration and I also agree with you about having a pure heart with people which isn’t possible with all of them and hopefully you will meet the ones who are like you and the odd sorts will not be because there are some nice people around for sure and then there are people with issues and problems that I want to avoid! The most important think is what you said about God blessing us all and our families because we all need that so much these days with the world being very chaotic and in some ways way out of control in very serious ways so please be careful you seem like a nice person and one must always take care! I grew up with younger sisters and learned from an early age to watch after them and be protective because I didn’t want anything to go wrong and I also didn’t like how some of the guys talked or what crazy ideas they had at times. I just talked via telephone with one of my sister tonight and brought up the subject that was and still is extremely important with me which is respect! I told my sister you know how I used to say that if anyone doesn’t show respect to my family or me I will be very upset with that person and I still look at this matter the same way! I even want my sisters of course to show respect and I must do the same! So anyway I got blabbing here but I wish you good luck and success in your blogging! God bless you!
Thank you for visiting mine and I will check yours and we can keep in touch for sure!
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Hi Lawrence, thank you for your kind words. May God bless your heart and your family as well.
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Hi Vanessa, you’re welcome and thank you again!
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Sì, ho letto con il traduttore 🙂 Ciao, grazie a te!
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Certo Simona questa è una buona cosa leggere con il traduttore; col tempo ci aiutiamo entrambi a capire queste lingue molto di più! Ciao! 😉 👍 🙏⭐🕊✝️🕊🌟🙏
I hope so! 🌷🌹🌈🌞
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That’s right, we live in difficult times, especially for those of us who have other moral values. Evil is ubiquitous in everyday life and has been a constant for a very long time, maybe centuries or even millennia. But now it has worsened. It is enough to watch what is happening in the world, on a planetary scale!
God bless you!
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I agree with all you said here for sure and your right! Very well stated and I add that the evil has been around as a constant always, but now the cold apathy or indifference I believe is much worse, which means humanity is waning to say the least. The amounts of temptation have exponentially increased and let’s say for example the proliferation of just pornography which is an abomination to God for sure, and I mean it, it’s horrid to God! But yet it’s like second nature to the human race now all over the place, and all age groups; but most vile and shocking is how its gotten to the children and steals their innocence and perverts or warps their minds with something that was meant to be very personal between a couple that love each other and are committed to one another; but not just an act of selfish twisted gratification.
I’ve grown to understand this more as I got older how my parents told me these things when I was growing up but as you alluded about the corrupt world all-around; which was looking for ways to get me to see it differently than how my parents taught me! Now I see it absolutely for what it is, very sick and ruined in our civilization because of way too much lack of morality! I say the old days were better because there was more respect and innocence for many things were held as sacred; but today I look and say where is there anything being adored as a sacred thing and kept pure? People don’t even have shame, and that is a shame, how so much was tossed into the swill bucket of life! It’s actually scary to me what this world has become, or I should say what people are like, it’s not so good overall, but there is thank God, still many good people in the world too; and those that are dedicated to holding up virtue and respect.
The other aspect of this denigration of civilization is that life has been cheapened to a very fractional level of what or how it was revered in the not too distant past. Then added to that there is so much opportunity for people to do wrong and sin; so the dynamic of life is upside-down in my eyes! Especially because vast majorities don’t see various sins as such anymore; and just it as acceptable behavior!
All we can do is try our best to live the way God expects us to, and pray for the world; that many more will awaken.
God bless.
Thank you.
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I’m so sad you are going through this and am praying about it. The removal of trees/flora/fauna for concrete corporate business is one of the big reasons why we are having extreme weather from climate change that is just going to get worse if this kind of thing doesn’t stop. The good news is more and more people are becoming aware and taking action. I know this was a prior post of your situation and hope things have improved by now, but assuming it hasn’t.
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Hello and thank you for the insight and concern! I’m a tree huger so let’s get that out of the way immediately! I have a friend who studied forestry and had a government job for many years but now has operated his own orchard and tree advocacy program working with Universities and other educational platforms; who agrees that trees are an amazing organism but he also says there is something spiritual about them.
I figure they are on a very slowed down time space modality than we so that is very interesting but I also figure God’s creative energy and mind is in them too from creation! I love trees and think of all the CO2 they suck out of the atmosphere and then all the gift of life sustaining oxygen they give us in return; what a deal that is! We get to live because they live! I’m so happy they love my CO2!!!
But to the point of what happened it was horrible that for a crony government insider designed self-serving mission to use tax payer funds for personal enrichment and career promotion they wiped out hundreds of healthy even huge trees some perhaps over two hundred years old and at least one hundred or more in my vicinity and even on my property too! But I was devastated for a long while. Having to then even be my own legal counsel and seeking justice!
What had happened with time passing is I finally realized that nature and my love for it along with “time heals wounds” as they say, and, “when life gives you lemons make lemonade,” which in my case is having allowed a once shaded area by a huge canopy to just propagate and now I left every little tree that wanted to shoot up to the sun to do so allowing them to grow unabated in very rich soil and with no interference. So now I have a sort of mini jungle with loads of trees and wild plants filling in gaps, so that I can walk into what is like a jungle albeit under 30 feet high each day laying out bird seed for the huge number and variety of birds, rabbits and squirrels that love my set-up; and all wait for me much of the time to come around at the crack of dawn! You do what you have to do in this life because there is always something or someone that wants to mess you up sooner or later! What’s that adage for fighters; learn to roll with the punches, well after a few other massive heartaches from battles tossed at me; I guess I qualify by now at least as a punching bag of sorts! Trying to roll with the damn punches!
Thanks for your interest in the trees too!
See you later!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence
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buona domenica
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Grazie Simona! Spero che tu stia molto bene e ti vedrò presto di più qui! 👍 🙏⭐🕊✝️🕊🌟🙏
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Un saluto, un sorriso 🙂
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Ciao Simona! Assolutamente! Grazie!
Arrivederci ❤🌹🌈🌞 🙂
Lorenzo
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People I have known for years, bakers, butchers, other businessmen, my neighbors, all turned out to be fascists.
If this cup ever passes us by, I think I will leave the town where I live now.
I can’t go shopping with these people anymore. That is an impossibility.
I’m just in despair about the political developments around the world.
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This word Linda, “despair” really bothers me as I worry when people say it to me! I’m glad you did, so maybe you can tell me more about things at the appropriate time; and I do have email listed at the bottom of my posts, so feel free to use it! I did open a Proton if you are one who uses that, but I haven’t been using that lately at all.
You keep praying to our Lord He is watching over you carefully; you are one of His for sure! Those people are sad but it is their own doing in most cases, and many do not want to relent or change! Here too, they are here!
Big hugs and blessings to you Linda!
I will say a prayer for you now and again tonight!
Thank you very much!
Lawrence
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The world has become a terrible place where people don’t care about the things that are truly valuable anymore… I am proud of you … stand and keep on doing you good job
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WOW! I just got this comment after sending you a long one! You just advocated for me and the world to do our best! But sadly you’re right too many people have gone off the rails and the things that were important are not to them anymore, especially these globalist manipulators that are playing all of us! They truly are cannon fodder from Satan’s hell canons!
Good for you too Denise! Keep plugging away and hit me up on this anytime or zip me an email too, if you have anything to say!
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Hi Lawrence!
Where I live in Colorado, I don’t like the way this state has anything good. I only live by God’s grace & through him I can do all things! I am blessed by all the replies to your post of evilness & the way others can’t live without messing things up. This only means that those people who want to go to other planets don’t seem to think about anything but what they are doing! Does it take someone to virtually or physically destroy what they have to wake them up? Does it take an army to release a virus like the CoVid-19 to really bring some back to a world where they live in instead of going to other places that make them think they can do the same thing elsewhere? I believe in God & his holy trinity as I have been in poor health when I was growing up & having to move a lot! I only live here & let God move me where I will do my best for my Saviour! Jesus has come down to give himself through dying on the cross and still there is evil lurking there that keeps changing events as we have seen or heard. Right now I live in a neighborhood where there are guns, druggies & people who don’t care enough about anything but what they do. I see it a lot! There are only us who believe to change others by our actions & let the words drop where they may. Life is short & that’s why we are led to go where God wants us to go in order for us to keep passing the word everywhere, even online as we find others to share with. I also have been sharing about my health issues through my entire life that bring me closer to others that have no idea about what to do with their lives but to just hang their head & fall over flat. Each problem gets solved with more problems lingering & we just sit & forget the basics in life as if they were too ancient of us. I love what you wrote about the politicians & people everywhere who are greedy & can’t think otherwise. Thanks for your post & may God bring you the peace, joy & love throughout where you are at today & forevermore!
Rodney Gottier
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Hi Rodney! Well thank you first of all for this poignant and heartfelt deeply moving meaningful response to my blog essay! I have to say this is one of the best, and I think deepest sincere comments I’ve ever received, and to the essay that was the first about a very tough nut I had to crack that led to many hardships, but, though I feel sad about some of the changes or struggles I had to endure, I like you know that I have to do what I can to my best ability for God’s will and be a faithful servant while I’m here; because what can this temporary trial amount to even if having all the best advantages, when what comes next is eternity which will go one of two ways for each human soul! So we had better try our best to make sure we are heading on the right path, the narrow path! And just doing Our Father’s will is all that matters, we need to get this right so we can be with Him and Jesus forever!
It sounds like you’ve had many struggles and much pain; and I don’ want to be contrite about what I say or not be more prepared to speak about that which I don’t have enough to go on yet; but, I can say this! That the Saints truly suffered and I love them, I get teary eyed thinking about any of them; and I remember my mother many years ago telling me what they did to Saint Lawrence and it really hit me then; how this life is no joyride or anything we can decide to make it just because we want to! We have to seek what God says we should do; and I have a lot more improving to do in that yet, I’m sure I’ll not be able to get it perfect while living in the flesh but I have to try hard to do my best!
I will leave it there for now, but, I say what you said so kindly and pray it for you!
May God bring you the peace, joy & love throughout where you are at today & forevermore!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
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Wow! This situation sounds just so incredibly trying and difficult. I am so grateful that our lives are in the hands of the Just Judge of all, whose notice none of this escapes, not even the tiniest detail!
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Hi Sister Jennifer! It’ so good to hear from you and be inspired by your insight and words of kindness! Oh yes as you know full well we are fighting a “spiritual warfare!”
Ephesians 6:11-13 “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.”
Dear Lord, a dozen years ago did I ever really and truly begin to see how this Scriptural Verse is so absolutely true, and how we are all being attacked in one way or another! I remembered how things used to be when I was a kid and “justice” or even “kind consideration” were more of a given, but then, the paradigm flipped and the Devil was out to get his due using so many people in this high-tech age as tools to his evil designs, even more troubling while many of these people being so deluded or lost, give into this diabolical design. I had to fight an uphill battle, but, “only through the grace of God and our Lord Jesus Christ” being there for me to show me the way through this quagmire of difficulty tossed into my path, was I able to overcome, and then have all of that behind me, while using the whole hardship as a lesson to see more truth and things as they really are now!
It’s not easy at all, but, then I’m happy, so very happy to see the reality and even my own weakness that needs to be addressed more all the time as I’m only a sinner like any fallen human being! Yet I do know God loves me more than I can fully appreciate, and it brings tears to my eyes often, to feel that love, which is beyond any human love and truly into the realm of the Eternal. Amazing that you bring up this “judge” matter here as just yesterday in the late afternoon as I was walking my dog I ran into one of my neighbors and as we hadn’t spoken in a while I got into this very subject of how my legal battles that I had to fight on my own, because I know that was the only way I could be given a fair shake, and how God sent me a few key persons that ended up providing the “expert knowledge and reputations” to back me up as I argued my cases, for years even; but prevailed and I said, its only because God provided all the right answers for my need through these few special persons, along with the gifts He gave me when I was formed in my mother’s womb!
I told my neighbor how I happened to have the best “Judge” above, watching over me, but also He made sure I had the best one in the whole system presiding over my case, who gave me so much opportunity to pursue what was right for my case; and while all the others in that system would have shut me down from the get-goes! You are so right about “every detail,” and that reminds of how my dad was always telling me as a kid, “God has the final say in everything!”
Thanks again Jennifer, and though I don’t write any new Essays per-say I still add to the last one of October 15, 2022 all kinds of things that come to mind or are going on that interest me, when I’m so inspired to say something; as well I have been writing responses to news articles at a few sites I like, where I typically leave some pertinent Scriptures too! And staying in better contact with a few of the most important people out there like you; is very important to me, so let’s try to keep a strong connection if you are OK with it! Again I’m very happy to hear from you!
God bless you and yours!
Lawrence
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Patriot; the Criminals have stakes in power and control systems in media, tech and government!
Satan made his big move a long while ago, now this is the result the guilty walk free laughing at the world while the innocent are persecuted! All this tragedy continues while the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Do you see it now?
God has the final say in everything, don’t ever forget it! Satan is having his hour, but, “God Almighty will have his day to judge the living and the dead!” Think of the old analogy of how enough rope is given to the criminals to hang themselves; (“Giving someone enough rope to hang himself”), free will works both ways for good and evil! This is why there was a fall from the Garden to begin with! Time is running out fast now! All was foretold in the Holy Scriptures which is a great “Gift of Truth” to the world in that Jesus Christ made sure there would be no misunderstanding by means of “His New and Everlasting Covenant;” so there is verification through prophesy and God’s own Holy Words!
Amen.
We cannot dictate to God or try to rush His ordained covenant with mankind!
Be humble and seek His will! “The Holy Spirit” is always available! But many get too used to the “crooked ways of the world” and expect results based on that system of imperfection and sin!
Psalm 125:4-5 “Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart. 5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.”
Amen and Amen.
John 16:32-33 “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. 33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
Matthew 14:27 Amplified Bible “But immediately He spoke to them, saying, “Take courage, it is I! Do not be afraid!”
God bless.
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