Category: Human Life

Thanks to God for My Suffering and Cross

“I can be made whole in Him,”

I believe and feel in my heart that I’m truly blessed to be suffering.  I thank God for my suffering here in my sinful life, here on earth.  For over a decade I’ve been suffering more than I did in all the years of my prior life in totality.  They say God never gives us more than we can handle but He does give to us what we need most, as He is our heavenly Father and knows with absolutism what each of us needs specifically in order for us to complete this earthly journey intact, that is our souls being worthy of being in His presence on our judgment day.  And just like the Good Shepherd knowing his lost lamb when found and it knowing the Good Shepherd we will know our Master and Good Shepherd Jesus and He will know us as His.  Then we pass through the narrow gate with Him in all of His glory into eternal paradise.

I know through this suffering now as difficult as it has been and is that all of my suffering only scratches the surface of what suffering Jesus withstood just on His journey to the cross, being hated, ridiculed, beaten and spat upon; then nailed to a cross to die slowly in agony!  My suffering is so little yet it is a heavy burden which I struggle with only as a mere sinful man to get through it to hopefully better days ahead.  After all who am I that I shouldn’t suffer, I’m like any other sin riddled human being and should suffer, especially if I want to be deserving of an eternal glorious existence.  By giving me this suffering God is reminding me of what waits on the opposite end or wrong choice if I so choose, of the God man paradigm that must be soul based on faith and obedience.  I have been faithful all of my life, but not strong enough in that faith at all times as I should have been.  And why, because I disobeyed my heavenly Father who knows all things and always knows what is best for me, but I thought I knew better at times and went off on my own not consulting with him or perhaps being even half-cocked and unprepared for the subsequent consequences of my own foolish actions and even stupidity because I was foolish enough on my own to think I knew what I was doing.

Then there were quite a few other humans that attacked me or in the least antagonized me in my suffering but remembering and seeing now that all of it was nothing compared to Jesus and what he must have felt.  We must realize when he took up His “everlasting covenant” he was here as a man, a perfect one but still a man with flesh and all the accompanying pains and sorrows that come with being human.  To that was added all the sins and death from sinful behaviors of all kinds by all humans which was dumped upon Him, He who was the supernatural God Almighty, but also for a time an earthy man carrying that entire load and burden of sin and suffering!  And through it all He called out to His heavenly Father consistently and directly asking for strength and “divine providence” in each step he resisted all temptations to follow His own will as a man avoiding and conquering every human sin that we have committed making Him blameless, so that He could carry out His Fathers will, not his own even though he was a flesh man and could have resorted to His own devices or stray from the mission; no instead He faithfully called out to His Father to help Him get through it all and complete His one soul mission, saving all of mankind His children, the lost lambs.  He loves us that much and more than we can imagine!  He is so happy to give this gift of eternal life to us, as long as we are willing to be obedient and faithful to Him, allowing Him to lead our way.

Today I suffer greatly my heart sorrowful and my body is wretched; but someday maybe soon or many in many years to come that will all pass away and “I can be made whole in Him,” a complete and perfect child of God, that is what He promised me and you!

Lawrence  Morra

John 1:16 “Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.”

 

John 1-6

The Word Became Flesh

1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

6 “There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.”

9 “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”

John 1: 26-27 “I baptize with  water,” John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know. 27 He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”

Just Because; How Much is One Man Supposed to Take!

Just Because; I’ve got a Cause

There’s only one thing worse than a Rebel without a cause; a Rebel with a Cause!

“I’m a Rebel and I’ve got a Cause!”

Lawrence Morra

Update: This is the Deal!

Not all rebels are cut from the same cloth.  Wasn’t Jesus Christ the ultimate rebel!  He came to show everyone once and for all that the old ways were in need of revision and that the time had come to set things on the right path out from the drudgery of the daily material routines and rituals that had served their purpose of establishing some order among men who had come out of the wilderness raw and naked.  Now he would show them a new way and in a sense transform them from the earthly chrysalis in which they were trapped to be truly free and able to fly off into the heavens like the butterfly.  He told us all that we have that capacity and gift within us that is ours for the taking if we will accept it by acknowledging Him by our devoted faith in Him.  That in the end is what it all comes down to is a question of faith, and if we are looking to Him to guide us we can never lose!

Some rebels I’ve actually met told me they were born to lose and even had that tattooed on them.  But they, are surrendering to failure and sin totally missing the point or tossing a gift of opportunity beyond imagination aside, to be instead a defeated one.  Why do I even allude to this idea of being a rebel of any kind you still might wonder and I tell you it’s simple.  The ways of the world grow darker all the time and many are caught up in the vortex of worldly affairs which cares nothing about you or me.  This world is falling away and the system by which we live is very corrupted and not of God or His heavenly kingdom.  Emphasis is being placed on so many foolish and even wicked practices and behaviors diverting so much attention and energy away from where it should be focused.  When I say I’m a rebel I’m talking about being one who tries to point out these failures by all of us to make the best of all we have before us; to serve Him and make a difference in everything we do and not slip into this complacency of accepting the status-quo, or as someone once told me, “to just go along for the ride!”  Don’t be swept up in the frenzy of technology and an overabundance of information (TMI too much information or information overload) that is at times so titillating and alluring or in the very least extremely distracting, which is just like those captivating sirens In Homeric mythology of Ancient Greek literature beckoning to those at sea, leading the seafarers to the rocky coast or quagmire drawing them in closer to their doom, not seeing clearly in the fog or haze what danger lies in those treacherous waters beneath them.

We don’t have to accept the circumstances or follow all convention; we should always discern and ask questions in order to understand clearly all things that encompass our lives.  Then where change or improvement is needed it can and should be applied by all those involved doing what they should to make things right, never sacrificing justice but to instead see that it is served.  We are the stewards of this earthly world while we inhabit it and should never take that responsibility lightly.  The old adage of “do the right thing,” certainly applies to all, so the more of us that follow that precept the better the world becomes.  “I’m not my brother’s keeper,” but I can at least watch his back and ask that he do the same for me.  By just doing that we can all make life more compassionate with fewer unnecessary pitfalls along the way.  Being a good minded rebel in this way can serve our best interests, just by not “going along to get along;” you see a problem or concern then find a way to highlight it and address it!  Much too often too many people just “blow it off,” and say “it’s not my problem” which is the exact opposite way to look at things if we really care about our lives and the state of affairs in our daily activities.

Yes, instead we must be next to “still waters” as often as we can be to restore our souls with the light of love from the eternal, which shines down upon us always if we will seek it in our hearts.  Because it is there in our purest heart that lays the connection to the Great One, the Most High, which is the source of all wisdom and eternal love.  Don’t be so caught up in this material life that you lose sight of this, because it is plain to see how dangerous and unkind this earthly man-made system is, especially if you are seeking the “light of truth and justice” that only God can provide, nothing else can or will.  Trust in Him, “as you move forward in your day, a day of promise and hope.”

Lawrence Morra  8/11/2019

 

Have We Gone Past the Point of No Return?

“off the wall leftist behaviors”

I’ve observed over the last 20 years as well as spoken to many fellow citizens that agree that the Dem party is nothing but a scourge of corruption and hideous ideology that now even promotes same day full term moment of delivery abortion in many states as an OK thing to do to an innocent human baby child; which only someone that is diabolical or completely screwed in the head and heart could even think of doing such a thing; along with so many off the wall leftist behaviors; including how Facebook now has 51 gender options to play with; and of course their drive toward socialism!  Mass manipulation, apathy and indifference, with people’s heads spinning by a constant bombardment of their minds with sex, lies, moral decay, deceptions of all kinds along with a variety of targeted intolerant hate crimes that I believe are being instigated by Satan himself to trigger anarchy or civil war; all of which should convince anyone who cares that the human race has spun totally out of control and is headed toward a cataclysmic event like nothing ever witnessed on earth before!  I can only see that wicked forces are at work literally in many of these Dem politicians, and more difficult to deal with is the fact that there are so many people that make up the population that are this way, and love to vote in such derelict despots.  You can vote out a POS politician but what can we do when millions of citizens are gonzo!  Yes, I assure you; that “you just crossed over into the Twilight Zone!”

Lawrence Morra

Two Men;One a Servant of God the Other a Minion of Satan

“your salvation waits just as I know mine does, if we remain vigilant and faithful in Him”

Appearances alone will not tell the true story, as we can see by photographs of these two men who were born 40 years apart but more importantly there was a chasm of difference that was earth shattering between their souls!  Billy Graham led a life serving Jesus Christ doing so much good for other human souls leading multitudes of people to Christ the Savior while Joseph Stalin with his brutal rule butchered and put many human beings to death; but he also got many others to do his bidding so he in turn led many souls to perdition and hell.

In my reaching out to a fellow Christian who had noticed a striking decline in the number of parishioners attending her local parish church apparently brought on by what seemed to be some internal conflict of the local church hierarchy, causing the church to lose its former inspirational appeal so she was greatly troubled.  But more shocking yet was the fact that at the same time came the news of the startling revelation regarding the shake-up around author and former pastor Joshua Harris’ retreat away from the teachings of Christ; and that Harris announced his total departure from Christianity.  So, then she and her family began a quest to find a new church to attend weekly which I commended her on for not losing hope or faith and being vigilant to seek God’s guidance; all of which I tried to sum up in the following outlook I share here for anyone who might feel they are in a similar situation.  As you read on here please bear in mind the contrast of these two men; one who led people to the path of righteousness, love and freedom; the other to wickedness, hate, and enslavement! These polar opposite men!

This was indeed some sad news to hear about, though not unlike the turmoil throughout the world which is so prevalent, and I believe we now live in the unprecedented time that Scripture spoke to regarding the time period before the final conflict and Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  For many years I’ve felt like I don’t belong and in fact the system as well as many people around me seemed to be much less connected or interested in each other as community and more apathetic!  The lack of compassion and indifference is appalling these days with so many giving lip service to one thing or another but inside not caring at all about their neighbor; this is so different than how it was when I grew up which isn’t ancient history!  Here is something Billy Graham had said that I believe speaks volumes about this current time and he referred to a particular scripture that came to my mind immediately upon reading your Blog Post; which is Isaiah 5:20.

“Many of our news magazines carry stories of immorality.  Theologians and pastors are quoted as condoning sexual immorality under certain circumstances. The Bible says through Isaiah the prophet:

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).

“Humanity has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam and Eve’s problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear good, there would be no such thing as temptation. It is in their close similarity that the danger lies.

Modern social righteousness often differs from the righteousness of the Bible. Someone has said: “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.” By this principle we can see our standards shifting from year to year according to the popular vote! Divorce was once frowned upon by society, and laws against fornication and adultery were strictly enforced. But now divorce is accepted by society, and fornication is glorified in our literature and films.

The Bible says: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.” God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin, and the Bible says God is going to judge it.

Honesty was once the hallmark of character. But it has been set aside with an “It’s all right if you don’t get caught” philosophy. Only when we are in court are we required to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

 https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/june-2012/confusing-evil-with-good/

I hope you are helped by my thinking about this and looking into this source of wisdom and insight that I came upon which quotes the late Mr. Graham.  I do know and have faith that our Lord is fully aware of your difficulties and you are on the right path, so keep trusting in Him, your salvation waits just as I know mine does, if we remain vigilant and faithful in Him alone and not to be fooled by the ways of this world which is falling away! 

God Bless You and Yours.

Brother in Christ,

Lawrence Morra

Everything Running Toward It’s Expiration Date

“make this present life be one of honor, integrity, quality and love!”

Youth is a time of exuberance and exploration while its father and mother becomes reflective contemplation.  Yes, I want to admit that I’ve noticed through life that getting old is no fun and our cultures promote youth and physical beauty way too much because there is money to made; the keeping youthful and fit or good looking business paradigm is a lucrative industry, and who after all wants to lose their life or newness!

But, I’ve also learned this world is a failing one with nothing escaping the ravages of time and decay, so what is there to gain in trying to hang onto this world beyond an expiration date?  No I won’t eat meat, cheese or vegetables that have exceeded their removal date and I won’t expect my own life or its current capabilities to go much beyond its built in longevity; all of which teaches me that it’s not how long we are here but how well we live while we can and what we leave as our lasting legacy to others; because what matters most for any of us is if we made some positive difference, and that our true prize awaits us in eternity!

I hope to see you all there, so make this present life be one of honor, integrity, quality and love!

Lawrence Morra

4th of July Message from a Fellow Patriot

“what the Great Generation did for all of us who live Free!”

Normandy Beach Landing

The Blogger Equipping posted this fantastic piece which dovetails perfectly with this 4th of July, so much so  that I wanted to help spread his  beautiful overview of what the Great Generation did for all of us  who live Free!

Have a Blessed 4th of July and please follow the link to his post as soon as you have time!

Thank You!

https://equippingblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/04/the-greatest-generation/

Lawrence Morra

The Unseen Silent Rage

“in a sense living with us, but cloaked within a spiritual force like being enclosed in a powerful impenetrable envelope”

Photo by Robert Penn – © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox

The annihilation was almost complete he thought as the drone of the eardrum shattering horn rank out for miles!  Growing up he always thought that such science fiction like nightmares if ever possible would be directed at humanity here on earth by some alien race of highly sophisticated methodical more robotic beings that would have no feelings for such simplistic emotional attachments to say a puppy dog, or enjoy the tactile gentle sensation of a fresh picked daisy caressing your cheek the way they did when as a child his mother often did to him brushing a fresh picked bouquet  of them against his cheek and telling him to smell how nice, when taking those strolls in the meadow by his family’s home in Centerville a peaceful small country town at the edge of an old granite quarry long since abandoned when it had been exhausted of its prize decades before he was born.

But now, fear and abject horror gripped his mind and with absolute panic knowing that these beings with all of this highly sophisticated what seemed to be technology, were not aliens from some other star system thousands of light years away but were actually what biblical Scriptures had specified as existing just beyond our earthly view of fleshly material existence, that we humans got so caught up in becoming so much more secular and pagan as the generations continued on into the modern digital age.  Pop culture and entertainment had pumped more of this false conceptualization into the minds and hearts of people until they truly had become “sheeple,” thinking and doing things that bring them closer to base animal glorification and further from “saintly better angels of our nature” and closer to benevolence!  That was why this takeover of human collective consciousness was so much more shocking in that it was complete and abundantly clear that this race of beings called earthlings were now doomed to what was unfolding around the planet!  These invaders or conquerors were around all along but just masking their appearance and existence in a sense living with us, but cloaked within a spiritual force like being enclosed in a powerful impenetrable envelope that would be opened eventually when the time was ripe; for conquest!  The “abomination of the innocent” was the final nail in our coffin and had been so warned of in Scripture as being the “unforgivable sin” of mankind that would bring on the end time!  Yes now it was that time and this new age Pandora’s Box was blown open with a mighty vortex of destruction straight from the pits of hell!  These were no aliens from far off they were the demons and being led by Satan himself, all the fallen angels and they spawned demonic beings that were now going to pull all the human souls into hell to be eternally tormented!

Hey, are you listening to me what’s wrong with you Charlie?  Look at me don’t you recognize your own brother?  Wake up, you look like you lost your mind and seem to be in some trance!  I told you this would happen when we opened that damn thing last week, see we should have gone for help first; now look at this shit we’re in!  Come on, I can’t do this alone you have to snap out of it and try to survive we can’t just give into this evil.  Charlie, like when we were kids and I would kick that Tommy Harris’s ass for bullying you and Mickey remember, I told you back in those times that we will always stick together and nobody takes us down we are a team and will fight to the finish!  You have to come out of it man, we have no time for this damn shit, get with it and fight for your life now; you hear me!

So, as these two brothers Charlie and Frank were facing the new reality one that had been warned of for millennia they like countless others were frightfully aware of what hellish nightmare had befallen the entire human race and there didn’t seem to be any hope or stopping any of it!  This was all too much for most individuals to wake up to on this accursed and dreadful day, the day of reckoning when humanity was being devoured both physically here on earth and spiritually as human souls were being sucked from persons like drawing the life sustaining juice from a plant but here the blood from the flesh along with the spiritual essence of these thinking, breathing flesh and spirit beings called humans!  This consuming of humanity had begun long before this cataclysmic day though, many decades earlier when humanity was cheapened and discounted to astoundingly immoral levels; beneath the dignity of even scuttling claws upon the floors of the deepest seas, by none other than we ourselves!

Now I Frank, always a survivor standing here in this world of hurt, thinking how just the other day when all of this was not even a hint of potentiality in my wheelhouse of reality I was sure I saw how my life had been going and looking back I knew where and when I screwed up!  But, regardless there was always some kind of a hierarchy.  No matter how hard some people try to be part of the game, even to be the proverbial good guy, it wouldn’t matter, because you still are relegated to being the oddball by default.   It’s like some of us are preprogrammed to just walk through a maze of circles within circles, so that just when you seem to get started and feel as motivated as the next person you end up right back where you started broken and misplaced.  Round and round in these endless, almost meaningless circles, having the desire to find the higher purpose for all of this, the reason to carry on in spite of the absurdity or stupidity of it all, but, never quite getting over the perpetual hill in front of you, your personal obstacle course, yet always moving forward thinking that just maybe you will get over it tomorrow.

More to come, much more!

Lawrence Morra

Cont. 6/24/2019

I thought like so many people waking up to such unimaginable horror and to this point in human history unseen devastation that dwarfed anything we humans had unleashed upon each other.  This had all the markings of being annihilation but was actually the preemptive strike upon humanity that would usher in the second coming just as Holy Scriptures had told us for over two thousand years when Jesus no doubt being who He said He was said with His own lips as one of us only the only perfect example of what we could and should be.  Just days before this all was happening I knew something was going on that registered in my subconscious perception as significant when out of the fake news feed, obviously called feed for one reason but really being for another because the New World Order had taken over the entertainment and journalism industries many years ago to do just that, which was to feed the masses a steady diet of propaganda filled with subtle and some more in your face messages to alter minds over time in preparation for all of what was now here.  Now I could see the connection to the five Buddhist monks who had burned themselves alive last week in Tibet which was a statement along with an indicator that just like Scripture had said that in the end time people would be wishing to die over choosing life or trying to carry on!

Yea while all the lip service and political posturing was going on for decades something I had gotten caught up in for a short time, just recently the writing was on the wall, that was why I was making these statements both within my own close circles and outside of them via the internet.  Here is some of what I had to say to a very astute operative in the political jungle.

Mark, the large problem with this Article XV approach is that in an effort to decentralize government power allowing the individual states to follow their own Modus-Operandi, in my home state that would be a field day for the “crony capitalist criminals” that have had a fascist like stranglehold on the people for many years to just crush any local opposition like me that they have attempted to crush and yes even nefariously kill.  The mob cabal mind-set of a state like California have already been getting away with screwing the public over for decades; they just put their operatives like Pelosi, Feinstein, Schiff (Soros Family), Crazy Maxine and others right in Washington to play both ends against the middle basically sewing it all up the way those low life toilet material have continually proven!  The GALLOWS needs to be reinstated is all, then start summarily executing by hanging in public all of these mutinous, traitors for their high crimes against the American People and watch how fast we can whip this country into shape electing Real Patriots and God fearing human beings into office and keep that kind of momentum going; because the message will be out that CRIME DOESN’T PAY!  These present scum have gotten away with far too much!

But, realistically let’s start with when you figure out how to get the “Crony Capitalist Criminal Machine” in my state to relinquish their stranglehold on the system with their many tentacles of power both politically and physically; they having the National Guard and State Police in the ready to smash heads, then if necessary use bullets to stop any up-rise you let me know and then we can talk turkey; outside of that this Article XV appears to be a turkey or DOA!  How do I know all this you may ask!  I have only made a verbal gesture to the top commanders of my own State “powers that be” asking for help in a serious matter, and in a very polite conversational way on the telephone; but the very next thing I see is them at my door saying no charges just want to talk outside of your home here; while they armed, Tasers in the ready egg me on!  Now take that play with even vast numbers of me together as a unit and what sort of response do you think would be brought out to greet such overt declarations, by those that LOVE their power and might, who are corrupted to the core?  As I see it, too many people in this country sat on their asses or even on their hands far too long and allowed the snakes to slither around the apparatus of “We the People” and get ready to constrict the freaking life out of any such hope ever being implemented again!  A systematic takeover of very stuffed pigs which is us; ready for harvest!  My fellow American it appears to be “too little too late!”  All that will do a fraction of good now, is more likely to be complete collapse and anarchy; then when the dust cloud settles “to the victor goes the spoils!”  One only need to look at other major powers and their countries like say Russia or China; Tiananmen Square protests ring any bells, or have you noticed how much traction any dissent in Russia actually gets while the people live under the supreme rule of Putin in his fourth term, the oligarchs and Commie Party?  All heavily rigged and wired for sound just like we fools allowed our corrupted scum to take us over too!  Look at Pelosi or Feinstein and Maxine the crazy machine, Schumer, Nadler, Blumenthal with so many others continually being in office and that should tell you about the collective consciousness or condition of the voting public!  The old days motto of New Hampshire says it all; LIVE FREE or DIE; how many are ready to be that these days?  As I see it; not many!  Or in any event “not ENOUGH!”

So as it appeared that our own governments were marching to the New World Order drum beat and “We the People” were just pawns to the wealthy and powerful elite, it was all only a smoke screen to divert attention away from what or who was really getting a grip around our proverbial throats!  All of this led most to think or believe, what is the point of caring or of any hope that our doing and trying anything to resist these forces in our lives mattered!  This all distracted most to not see the forest for the trees that what we really were in need of fighting was not anything visible or material of this world; but was something we could fight as surely as we breathe if we focused on the truth and most powerful tool we have as “human spiritual beings joined with flesh” which was given to us by God!  Of course that was the need of the enemy to divert our attention from our real strength, and focus on pagan folly or even madness!

So much more to fill in the blanks and account for: SOON!

July 4th Eve what a time to tell you more:

I had finally slept for a few hours straight from sheer exhaustion in days, and when I woke I was still so shocked how things had gotten this bad so quickly, because last year was just like any other year in the post 9/11 era; the public had started getting more numb to all the occurrences of human caused carnage it seemed while being apathetic and more self-focused which dovetailed with all of the digital device and social media obsession!

I had been slow to warm up to all the flurry and really I actually wasn’t interested being a guy that longed more for the simpler times and how it was back in the day; people overall were more real and tuned in to things that really mattered and had substantially more moral integrity as I recalled it.  My brother Charlie was just the opposite and was a total geek and had been since the digital age began.   I always warned him about how much he was sitting around tapping into a fake or fantasy world and that the way we were back when kids finding all kinds of great things to outdoors all the time!  This turned out to be a double edged sword for sure as my brother got so deep into cyberspace and the cloud!

As it turned out there was a sinister force behind it all and that force was not looking out for any humans best interest, oh no just the opposite as it turned out.   I really had feelings over time that something was out of control with all of this cyber technology and not just all the data breaching going on or even the nefarious sorts that had found ways to use the medium for all sorts of criminal activity!  A war was being waged between the enforcement or security side of all of this and the other side of those that are always up to something and working hard to get around all security!  Charlie would tell me things that were going on or something that just happened that most of the general public had no clue about and I would tell him are you crazy making up shit like that!  He said, “no joking brother, this is the edge of the new dawn,” he would go on to say, “the new age has begun and it will move faster and deeper than anything in all of previous human history having tremendous consequences  that up till a few years ago no one would believe possible.”  I would figure he meant things like AI and would ask him about that from time to time.

It was getting almost unreal it seemed to hear even a little about how far that whole area of intelligent machines had come but he told me what the public knows is still only the tip of the proverbial iceberg!  I should have figured things even more diabolical were in motion when he told me about a clandestine project that even most people on the dark web couldn’t find traces of but that certain governments including the US and China were working together to develop something I couldn’t believe when he told me, but that it was a new dimension that had been discovered and time and space continuum didn’t even apply in this realm tapped into by the highest digital technology and AI.  The AI had been able to go beyond human capacity to understand or work out the complex but yet simple reality that there had always been way more than the eye can see!  It’s like we humans living in our flesh bodies with this material physical plane and even though many of us believed we have an immortal soul something was going on akin to say being sent into a building that you have never seen or had any clue about and with total sensory incapacitation no hearing, sight, smell or tactile sensations, but nevertheless there was plenty to see that we just weren’t!   All of that restricted capability literally and figuratively had kept us in the dark throughout human history and now in this time and age the codes of the unseen realms were being broken or cracked, but not just by human ingenuity or any genius for that matter, but by higher more powerful thinking processes than any human is capable of!

Now I can refer to all of that as to what I started out telling you in my explanation of what is going on now; them or those beings that we might have been told about from a religious context and Holy Scriptures or even science fiction writers over the centuries along with all the UFO sightings.  The very hard part for me to face now is that inadvertently I through my brother Charlie’s vast involvement in all of the cyber world technology had been manipulated or in a sense silently recruited by those forces and beings!  We both became painfully aware when just last week a special type file way beyond Trojans and the like appeared in his email and even though he had some awareness something wasn’t right along with getting some cyber security indicators in both his general connections along with all of his work in the cloud he asked me what I thought.  And still he went ahead and opened it which led to a series of events that most people would never contemplate or even believe possible outside of made up fantasy!  I assure you all this is no whimsical fantasy or contrived histrionic I’m giving you!  I told Charlie don’t dare open it unless you can get the best of experts you know  who perhaps know even those at the pinnacle of all this technology and that I would stick with him on this all the way; just so long as he wait!

Charlie being the kind of guy he is thought for sure he could wrap his head around this and you guessed it I’m sure, that was the reason he went ahead and opened this damned thing and now we are literally screwed as I see it, no taking this Pandora’s Box he opened and reversing it as he had tried initially to do just that; which only led to a multitude of sequential events like a chain reaction unfolding no matter what he tried; it kept over powering all of his knowledge and ideas!  Like some enormous mind was able to think in light speed while we humans are using in comparison bottle rocket technology and speed that won’t even get us to first base in trying to out maneuver this sinister thing!  I contemplated how many others in the cyber world had been lured into doing the same thing my bother did and how this was like a raging forest fire racing across the planet now!

What was triggered in my mind by all of this was a Holy Scripture that always stuck in my head since first hearing it read to me with my family in church as a boy.  In Daniel 10 it says, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.  But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days.  Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.  Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.”

And of course now with all that was happening so fast that Scriptural reference tied right into another perfectly as I could see being manifest now in real time while I live and breathe what these words foretold in Ephesians 6:11-13,  “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.  Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

Now it was obvious that “Virtual Reality” devices aided by AI had tapped into another hidden dimension of the unseen world if you will; that coincided with the worst sins or man-made transgressions that all fit perfectly with the Devils ultimate plan of conquest being exponentially morphed by the digital age!

Don’t try to go away, it won’t do any good; but I’ll return soon to fill you in further!

 

 

Sexuality and Humanity

Does “Sex Rule” our lives making us false idol worshipers?

To a large extent absolutely!  You’ve heard the expression SEX SELLS, and that is how many entities in corporate America have been alluring and selling product to consumers since before I was around and over the years I’ve seen that manipulation increase exponentially via printed, visual and pop culture mediums to an actual sickening level when you come right down to it!  People are being bombarded and titillated with very powerful psychological messages that grab them where it counts in our basic instinctual motivating animal sensory behaviors that are part of our basic human drives to procreate and continue as a species of temporal physical beings; which leads them the mass manipulators to the ultimate prize “of reaching into our pockets,” and getting our money!  But that is only a part of us and not the part that we should be allowing to dominate our outward or inward behavior toward one another.

Someone like the former Hugh Hefner built up a cottage industry over the years whipping into shape an “empire” worth billions all revolving on “exploitation of female sexuality and sensuality” that got many a man sucked in as a continuous paying customer to be mesmerized by the physical allures of a woman’s body.  This rapidly expanded the pornographic industry to a shocking and really unbelievable level as the modes of delivery went from primarily the printed page in magazines decades ago, which then rapidly grew to the present digital age technology where anything one might imagine is at the fingertips on demand making it far too easy for anyone to be tempted and actually become poisoned by the powerful intoxication of desire and pleasure effects that are coaxed within the minds pleasure center by a myriad of lust adventures played out in the current available imagery.  In a sense it’s getting nearly impossible to escape this tool of exploitation being deployed upon a “sheeple” public which has grown even way more permissive and secular over the last several decades!  What I’m saying here is the “cat is out of the bag” or the modern “Pandora’s Box” has ben opened; making for a huge problem or even mess in our culture and civilization as a whole, feeding right into all manner of depravity and actual criminal intent or behavior of the very twisted and sick minded that will even be more encouraged to be violent.  Priorities have been allowed to disintegrate making this a multifaceted problem of great consequence in our modern era!  Because of this selling tool human sexuality is now being used and abused daily!  Those without discipline or who are too weak to resist become slaves to this monster or machine of manipulation!

All of this that I speak of has led to this explosion of twisted thinking and even radical departure from what was always considered to be proper appropriate behavior with regard to human sexuality; not just based on religious or philosophical thinking but even purely from a common sense standpoint!  Now the time of anything goes has arrived and is it any wonder while people have been turned into slaves being led by their noses to do this or that with the narrative being as long as you feel good that is all that matters type of mantra being deployed these days!  A very sick world is what we see!  People thinking they are fine doing what they do now with even gender bending and they most certainly are not fine at all.  The decline of humanity and civilization looks like THIS!

So then, YES Sex Sells, and many people will even sell their own souls!

Lawrence Morra

A Post Script thought of in referring to a comment on a similar post.

I noticed just now one of your commenters said God is very merciful and accepts us all with love, which is bending the truth of what He has taught humanity and is very misleading in that; God has stated clearly in His word to us that in the end time there will be all manner of perversion and that is what this Pride nonsense is, all a selfish twisting of the gifts God gave humanity, using them to please one’s self and do his or her own thing!  Abusing what God intended only for loving couples to share in procreation and making a family or more “children of God” has now become I can love who or “what” I want and get all the pleasure doing it that I want!  Me, me, me is all this is, and these people have lost their way but by intentionally choosing these twisted worshiping behaviors over truly loving God and His plan for Humanity!  They in essence say we know better than God!

Deception abounds and in no way will God accept that type of thinking or behavior nor the manner of perversion that is being propagated; as it is clearly what Satan did in his challenge of God’s absolute authority in all things!  This is all work of the Devil.  Yes God loves us but demands that if we Love Him back it will be reflected in our abiding in His teachings and not the worlds or Satan’s!  Nowhere in Scripture or even in sensible logic does it say that two men or two women can do as they please using their sexuality to pleasure one another and that will be just beautiful to God and fit right into His plans for we His children!  Sin and corrupting of what God intended is not part of the plan.

Rebellious children are in trouble and homosexuality or gender bending are learned behaviors; and there is nothing natural or befitting in them when it comes down to how humans should behave and live!

Remember End Times, the signs will be quite evident! “The Blind Leading the Blind!”

 

On Father’s Day another blogger had responded to my comment which then triggered and inspiration to add these words not only to that post but I could see they dovetailed with both that one and this one today as well!

Post Script on Father’s Day:

Hi, the biggest stumbling block before the human race and there are many as I see it; and just confining this discussion to the good old USA  for now, is that too many people in all walks of life think they can go it alone; leaving God completely out of the equation or trying to fake it with the Almighty in some half heartened faith in Him alone to lead us to any resolve and ultimately to Heaven; because after all these lives of ours are very short as I’ve had to learn to appreciate this fact for myself regardless of how many times I had been warned of that by loved ones and of course the Holy Scriptures!  It became far too easy to get caught up in the heat of the moment or, just thinking as long as I’m maintaining the status-quo I was doing a good enough job according to any Divine plan for my life!  I was sadly mistaken and know even now after some horrible trials in life over the last dozen years that I’m a hopeless mess without putting my best effort into loving and worshiping the Lord!  I’m still not right and most likely will never be as long as I’m an imperfect flesh being here on earth, because after all how could I ever think to rise above my own shortcomings when indeed God Himself showed us His unfathomable endless love for us that, “He had to come here Himself,” to salvage our flawed and totally inept, corrupted souls burdened with weakness and sin that left to our own devices would surely sink to the lowest pits of hell.  I did many good things and kind deeds throughout my life as I know I was and still am a good natured big heart of a person; but even with that I have failed miserably and dropped the ball so many times not doing better or even close to my best; which even if I did still falls short!  The Scriptures point it out so clearly, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23; “there is no one righteous, not even one.” Romans 3:10.

Jesus Christ took upon Himself the judgment that “we” deserve.  God in His grace offers us the gift of eternal life.  But like any gift, it becomes ours only when we take it.  I’ve read and witnessed how we must repent from sin but repentance is not so simple because it carries with it first genuine confession and sorrow for our transgressions or doing what we know to be wrong but nonetheless often still do!  To make the commitment and real pronouncement of our truly turning away from sinful acts or behavior; this will then allow our changing or transformation to occur being made anew.  We shouldn’t be asking forgiveness over and over again but yet returning to those sins and still expecting God to forgive us.  We humans or children of God made in His image must turn from our practice of sin, making our best effort possible, and by faith in Christ as our Lord and Savior we can and will be redeemed or found worthy.  “It is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

God has promised, “To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” John 1:12, I see now as I look back that I may have at times thought I was on the proper path and doing a pretty good job of following God’s will for me; but, in spite of all the many good acts and gestures I still fell short badly because in order to attain discipleship there is the cost of renouncing self; self-will, self-plans, self-motivations which I never really did in spades and I’m now painfully aware of this fact while at the same time happy I still have this opportunity to awaken more fully to His plan for me and pick my cross back up and follow Him to my salvation that He so lovingly is holding in His shed blood and body on His cross which He gave to all freely who will believe in Him as their only hope of salvation from all iniquity; He is our Lord, Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ!

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23                                                                                                                      Jesus doesn’t say to us seek a life of selfish comfort and ease but He instead calls us to a battle, to face all adversities of this life and material world that is so heavily influenced by the Devil.

He says clearly to us to give up our own plans and to follow Him without reserve or any discount; even to death.                                                                                                                Apostle Paul reminded us, “whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.” Philippians 3:7-8

Salvation by faith means commitment and trust and saying I commit my life to Jesus Christ and trust Him alone as my Savior and Lord.

I’m bringing all of this up now because your comment triggered a flood of thoughts and feelings I’ve been pondering and praying on for some time; so I decided right here and right now I would bring this out to you and whoever else will heed these words for their own good!  This all adds poignantly to this Blog as I see it in a most compelling way, as I asked the Lord to inspire my words for His sake and Glory!

God Bless You and Yours! Amen

Lawrence

Additional pertinent Post Script the day after Father’s day!

This again because another blogger had a vital point to address which again dovetails here in my humble opinion!

YES, now you said it there in spades!  I too had to take many years of being a good guy but still not seeing the forest for the trees like I should have!  But, God through my real faith in Jesus Christ was merciful to me and gave me many chances to wake up and face the music!  I wasn’t an arrogant self-centered egotist but I was still serving self, and my image even;  actually very sinful and most of us do it or have because it is far too easy to be concerned with the here and now and what we are feeling in the moment as a person and even an actor!  Shakespeare said quite keenly,

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.” 

One must pay attention not to serve one’s own ego, which can be so easy to do.                    I say much vanity is induced by our seeking too much favor of mankind, as we know from the lives and work of the saints that they were too “selfless and humble in our eyes,” we who take pride in our full measure of self-worth according to the man-made world!

Simply we can see by the example of Jesus Christ what we should strive for in being true to our purpose; and I love this Scripture which applies here!   “So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.   For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work” (Philippians 2:12-13).

 

“This statement stands in stark contrast to a popular misunderstanding of salvation as a single complete act—a sort of bolt of divine lightning that changes us instantly and forever. It also militates against a widespread contemporary tendency to view the issue of salvation in completely rosy terms, minus all those things that are inconsistent with a modern therapeutic mentality—things like hell and fear.”

“In an important way, Paul’s words also affirm a vital plank of traditional Christian doctrine on salvation—that good works belong to the economy of salvation, that some effort, some element of cooperation on our part is necessary. Listen closely to his words. Paul is surprisingly explicit: “work out your salvation.” The translation here is an accurate one of the Greek katergazomai, whose root ergon means work and is the source of our words energy and ergonomic.”

“Of course, the next verse makes an extremely important clarification: “For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.”

“We work, but it is really God who works through us. Here we have an extraordinary affirmation of the traditional teaching on the relationship between God’s grace and our free will. Here is St. Thomas Aquinas’ brief synopsis in the Summa Theologica:  Free-will is the cause of its own movement, because by his free-will man moves himself to act. But it does not of necessity belong to liberty that what is free should be the first cause of itself, as neither for one thing to be cause of another need it be the first cause. God, therefore, is the first cause, Who moves causes both natural and voluntary. And just as by moving natural causes He does not prevent their acts being natural, so by moving voluntary causes He does not deprive their actions of being voluntary: but rather is He the cause of this very thing in them; for He operates in each thing according to its own nature (Question 83, Article 1, Reply to Objection 3).”

“The last line is the key to the whole. “He operates in each thing according to its own nature.” In other words, God moves inanimate things lacking free will according to their nature. The rock falls due to the immutable laws of gravity: it has no choice in the matter. His operation on the rock does not change its nature. Likewise, He operates within us without changing our nature, which includes free will.”

“This is exactly what Paul seems to be saying (as Aquinas himself points out). He states not just that God works through us, but that he works through us in a way that we too work. And not only that but also his working through us causes us to desire His goodness. That word, desire, is also sometimes translated as will, which is a valid translation of the Greek thelein. (This word may be familiar to some readers in the term Monothelitism, a seventh-century heresy which held that Christ had only one will, thereby denying the fullness of His humanity in what was essentially a throwback to the older Monophysite controversy.)”

(catholicexchange.com)

I see that true humility is what I had lacked at times perhaps not being strong enough in a given moment or too deluded and mesmerized by the trappings and allures of the world and flesh!  I was wrong to not try harder, and I only hope and pray that my Lord Jesus Christ will forgive me and allow me enough time to get my act together, as I even cry now in sadness, thinking of His unfathomable love for me but yet I didn’t try hard enough for Him my Savior and only Salvation from the world and myself; but I’m still a work in progress begging as I rightly should for his mercy once again!

God bless you and all who read these words to be in God’s good graces and that you will always seek His Divine Truth!

Lawrence Morra

Yes we are all works in progress;

Indeed we are but to me we are more like the flickering flame of a candle that surrounded by a massive world of conflicting energies that flame has no chance of overwhelming anything as it could be flickering away and in a millisecond be no more; making it obvious that as any of us move into the future toward our individual journey’s end, one should be concerned with one paramount question of will the work be completed in time.  I’ve seen many an individual racing toward something but before it appeared they completed anything or had a chance to adjust course it was over.

That is why to me it becomes more imperative to address worthiness daily because as I said; I thought I was doing fair to midland in how I lived my life looking back, and now see how I was so lucky and blessed to have not been taken back then or have my flame extinguished, because I had no clue about what I see wrong in myself now; and how much better or more I could have done.  I guess what I’m saying is that staying in the good graces of God is not as simple and as clear as one might think.  When is my good, good enough; or is my best really my best!  Being here, in the here and now I can definitely do much better than before, which is a great blessing and opportunity!

 

Additional relative thoughts and information that presented itself just after the above:

Look all this Pride nonsense is just that nonsense just like all the PC crappola or what they teach kids in public schools now; that everyone is a winner for just showing up because saying anything other than that, someone is going to be a snowflake and get offended!  Sorry in the real world things have to get done and people have to grow up to know the difference between right and wrong or how to be successful in anything takes hard dedicated WORK not holding hands and pretending black is white and white is black; it won’t cut the mustard at all one must see and know reality, and deal with it head on or you will lose every time!  Like Ben just said, SIN is SIN!

To the minister in London; I don’t know what teachings you have had in Holy Scriptures but it is abundantly clear what God expects of His children in order to enter heaven with Him, and same sex marriage and same sex sex is not tolerable at all.  In fact any and all perversions of what God intended something to be or how it should be looked upon is an abomination straight from Satan!  He Satan was the leader of all rebellion and that is what all this nonsense is REBELLION!  Just because the Scriptures don’t spend an exorbitant amount of time on these topics doesn’t mean it is not a big deal, or if it was a big deal God would have made sure it was in many books of the Bible; that too is a false assumption!  No need for the topic to be elaborated on extensively because again what is SIN is SIN and He did say clearly that these behaviors are a departure from what His purpose of sexuality was meant to be in the first place; and no arguing the point is going to change it!  Read on some of the evidence I have gathered for us to examine!

“What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Leviticus 18:22 says, “[Men] shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” Leviticus 20:13 says, “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act.” God’s Word says the homosexual act is detestable; it is an abomination.

Some people say, “You Christians pick and choose which verses of the Bible you want to obey. The book of Leviticus also prohibits what you can eat and prescribes animal sacrifices.  Why do you disregard those rules but adhere to these rules?” There is a simple answer.  The only rules of the Old Testament that apply to us today are the rules that are repeated in the New Testament.  We don’t live under the old law. We live under the new law of God. The New Testament says nothing about dietary restrictions or animal sacrifices, but it does repeat the commands about adultery, premarital sex, and homosexuality.

In Romans 1:26-27, Paul said, “For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.” The Bible says homosexuality is against God’s natural law with severe consequences.  You can be forgiven of homosexuality.  You can be forgiven of any sin. But to be forgiven of a sin, you must admit you have sinned.  The Bible prohibits homosexual behavior.

The New Testament also prohibits homosexual marriage. Jesus talked about this in Matthew 19.  The Pharisees said, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” (v. 3).
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate” (vv. 4-6). Jesus was saying, “If you want to know the answer to the divorce question, then let’s look at God’s original plan for marriage.  Genesis says marriage is one man with one woman for a lifetime.”  By affirming God’s standard, Jesus was saying that any deviation from that standard–not just gay marriage but any deviation, such as adultery, premarital sex, or unbiblical divorce–is sin because it doesn’t measure up to the perfect standard of God. Jesus said marriage is one man with one woman for a lifetime.”

firstdallas.org

Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble but if you live by the sword you die by it and if you sin in God’s eyes then you have transgressed God and will be separated from Him and all that is good for ETERNITY unless you admit your sins and REPENT!  This is all so simple but these days people are trying to pretend that truth and reality are not so, and that they can be what they want it to be!  The BLIND leading the BLIND is all they are!

And to those that were posting comments saying that all religions have their own take on what is best or right for mankind; there is one truth you need to open your eyes to which is Jesus Christ said “He is the Son of God the Creator of all things and none come unto the Father but through the Son.”  Jesus said, “I am the way the path and the life.”  Follow who you want to in whatever religions you might but this is the only one that will bring you to Eternal Life with God; following Jesus Christ!

Lawrence Morra

 

Yet a most direct and to the heart of this Blog Post Comment led to this:

Yes Sir to your commenting on my post, 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’s man-made system all the while fighting difficulties of a chemically imbalanced brain that was triggered by powerful medications wrongly administered producing  more severe seizures triggered prior to that by a severe trauma to the head in the military.  That injury was so severe in fact he required and received an honorable discharge, but to then be tossed into a severely inadequate system of bureaucracy and red tape, all of which added difficulties and circumstances that were heaped upon him by that inferior man-made system, which made life a maze of difficulty!  This then allowed him to be at the mercy of and abused by corrupted individuals in it; but just imagine all the while still remembering how you were a fine student in the university with high hopes and full of promise, and 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 all of this whenever I watch the Passion of the Christ each Easter, when I again fall to pieces crying my heart out throughout the movie, realizing He God loves me so much that He did that to save my soul and all others from eternal damnation which we all deserve, and not being pure and worthy to be in His absolute perfect presence.  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 our 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

 

Also to you Sir in regard to your additional comment:

Sir, as far as some aberration or things that animals are observed doing in nature in rare instances, it is simple, God made man in His image and likeness we are human beings having an immortal soul with the higher capacities of thought, intellect and knowing or understanding the difference between right and wrong or good vs. evil.  It is our task and responsibility therefore to discern and make choices based on our capability and knowing full well what God expects from us in our behavior and love of Him, always wishing to do His will and serve His purposes; say just like as a child we learn to follow our parents lead or rules that they teach us to keep us safe, happy and more importantly to survive, while along the way showing us what morality is and the higher purpose of our human lives.  If we as humans and children of God know a certain behavior is not appropriate, wrong or not compliant with what our Father in Heaven intended something to be, we are then deliberately transgressing His will and that is SIN!  Animals are all beautiful creations and creatures of God’s too, but they are not made in His image or meant to be acting in accordance with the same framework that God intends us to operate from or by, they are innocent not having the capacity to know God’s will and make a decision based on that and they don’t therefore have any of the burdens and responsibilities that are placed upon humans; they only function on basic instinctual mandates or principles to carry on and survive in accordance with nature and the environment that they are part of!  Here too we can say that people that go awry and not act in accordance with the will of God may very well be subverting to basic animal instinctual behaviors that we possess being partly animal beings to live here in the physical material plane that we now occupy.  Just because we can act on those basic impulses and pervert the purpose of them in the first place doesn’t make it right or good by any stretch but is instead transgression because we then break away from our responsibility to discern and act in accordance with God’s will for us His children.

So don’t struggle with this, you have the capacity and good will without a doubt in my eyes to try your best to see things as they are and as God intended them to be!  Discern and let your own conscience be your guide!  While maintaining this Scriptural edict: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

Lawrence Morra

 

Yet more inspiring dialog arose to which I had to add this:

Blogger friend, yes I agree with everything you said here and great minds do think alike but where else does that come from but from God!  Most important though in this revelation is that the Holy Spirit works in mysterious ways and we imperfect immortal children of God still not fully in the spirit only catch glimpses of  it working in our lives, so even of greater importance is staying tuned into the proper frequency, God’s!  Right now God Himself is speaking to us by means of the Comforter who will come to us whenever we ask or are in tune with God and especially abiding in Him, trusting and allowing His will to be accomplished in our individuals lives!  “To let go and let God” is really spot-on and I realize that now more than ever before as I just told you He is speaking to us now while I write this message from my heart and soul, and you being attuned to that same will of God are on the God plane of revelation and consciousness, transcending time and space and all possible barriers, nothing can stop God’s will for each of us except we ourselves with  a closed heart that is cold and seeks no Comforter but instead darkness and confusion.  This is why I’m led to say this:

“Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.” Matthew 6:19 (RHE)

“All the deeper realities of life are conveyed to us by intimation rather than by demonstration.”  “They come to us by other roads than those of the senses.”  “It is the unseen things that give meaning to the things which are seen.  A man who studies the universe without his thought outrunning his eye, and his heart distancing his thought, is like a child who fumbles over the letters in his primer without drawing an idea from the word in which the letters meet or an inspiration from the sentence in which the words combine.”  “Jesus Christ is the clearest evidence as well as the fullest interpretation of the unseen. It was not possible for the Jewish race of that day by any principle of evolution to have produced Him.  He came from elsewhere.  No one has ever lived after His fashion, with such becoming perfection. He belonged to elsewhere.  Death did not bury His life; it remains unto this day the chief moral energy in the world.  While He moved among men He suggested that other world where the hopeless ideals of this life are fulfilled.  His biography breaks the bonds of sight; it lays the foundation for faith.”  (Laws and Landmarks of the Spiritual Life)

I just read this after sitting to write this commentary

“We’re meant to use possessions and love people, not love possessions and use people. Our eternal perspective affects our earthly priorities.”

And I say my friend, isn’t that what the majority of people seem to be doing these days!  Chasing more bucks and things stepping on whoever they have to just to get to the top while trying to be one of those guys that say, “he who dies with the most toys wins!”

“Jesus asks what good it is for a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

“We can choose to focus our lives on temporary wealth, but God offers us treasure that lasts forever: a relationship with Him that begins here and continues for eternity in heaven.  What will we benefit if we give up on what really matters to get a few more possessions?  Nothing’s worth more than knowing Jesus.”  (newspring)

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9

I will conclude with what I have memorized as a favorite mystery and truth from Him; Jesus Christ who said back when He walked this earth a real living human, “ Verily I say unto thee there is more in the unseen world than there is in the seen.”  Now you know how they had very little knowledge of science or any such thinking back then in the land where he lived his profound life.  That leads one to wonder who was this man that said such things and wasn’t a scientist or an alien from the stars?  Einstein knew many of the things He Jesus said having been a Jew but his parents sent him to a Catholic grade school for better education with the nuns.  And so much of what his work revolved around was the UNSEEN, or that which all of this originated from; even dark matter and dark energy which scientists now know with scientific certainty exists and it is greater or more powerful than everything else in the entire space time continuum or actual physical existence!  And these are the things Einstein continually worked on, of course in material concept and theory but always pointing out that the truly inexplicable is what lies beyond our farthest reaches of mind, time and space!  Things to think about as we seek God’s will through His Comforter, the Holy Spirit. But, keeping in mind that He made His plan and will for us, “so the simplest of minds can understand;” all else we can gain insight into is icing on the cake!

Yes, I think I’d like a big piece of cake after being so good making and drinking all that lemonade!  What do you think?

Lawrence Morra

 

 

 

 

 

 

EYE of the TIGER

My thoughts to share with a Blogger, a Commenter and all of You!

Yes indeed fine Lady, bravo for this strong and vital message!  A noteworthy attempt to keep in mind the “eye of the tiger,” as I do realize even though I know I’m aware of what’s happened to our country and the world, that it is far too easy to be diverted or distracted from the task at hand or the imperative to not only be aware but to be an active positive force in this battle to keep what is most important in focus 24/7; because we are all indeed in a battle or fight to the finish to turn humanity into a putrid sewer of debauchery and sin or to rise above the base, vain and egocentric malaise of being another captive fool for the NWO machine and freakish left that is in place to prepare the human race to be enslaved by Satan!

Every minute of every day the conscious and subconscious thought processes are being bombarded with mixed messages and outright lies to mold minds and the masses to react like a school of fish to whatever stimuli are introduced, in order to maintain a captive audience while in a true sense creating a herd of human cattle or as many refer to such animals in the current vernacular SHEEPLE; to be driven off a cliff or whatever the anti-Christ will desire to do with them.

I truly appreciate those individuals like you who keep the imperative in focus and in my face, I too am just an imperfect sinner who needs the light of God and His truth made stronger or encouraged while all the clamor or background noise increases.  And, simply put; I admit I can always use a kick in the ass!

Amen.

Lawrence Morra

Mirror That Kind of Giving That Jesus Christ Gave to Us

My thoughts to share with a Blogger, a Commenter and all of You!

Thank you Blogger, very interesting and timely piece you wrote here in my eyes.  I want to speak to you in particular commenters especially the one who saw the Bloggers story in a negative way, and to all others who care to listen to my perspective.

You’re dead wrong and trying to soft sell Abortion and that the Left has no agenda which they most assuredly do, which is to promote radical and liberal things and squelch conservative traditional values and living.  In many cases so they can be victorious in telling the world that they can do as they please even if it doesn’t fit into the conformity of thousands of years of civilized behavior or modus operandi and accepted culture that is not only based on religious context but on common sense in your face reality!  This is something the fallen angels did when they transgressed God putting them above God!  All this gender bending and saying be what you want to be is straight from hell and most sane truly honest people know that.  You are born male or female and that is it, and sure there are rare aberrations but that is an extreme minuscule number of humans out of the billions that have walked this planet.  The radical left would want the status-quo to be the minuscule minority that should be leading the way for all human standards and behavior or a justification to bend reality and say that it is fine to change what sex you are!  Poppycock and stupidity have been allowed to take the driver’s seat because of very wrong and bad court decisions having been made over the years and a cultural shift was allowed to exacerbate becoming what we have now a diametrically opposed confrontation in world populations that’s grown into a feud of unrelenting attacks upon each other or the opposition!  This should never have been allowed to happen but it did and I say because too many humans have put themselves above God and what life is and should be; “radical thinking gone amuck and out of control,” just what the evil one wants us to be doing, killing innocent babies and wanting to do the same to each other.

Infamous abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell had no problem with abortion just like Joe Biden a professed Catholic said he has no problem with same sex marriage during Obama’s 2nd Presidential campaign!  Many of Gosnell’s patients were “given anesthesia by untrained assistants; patient’s died on the operating table from an anesthesia overdose; abortions were performed on babies older than 24 weeks; and some babies were delivered alive, after which Dr. Gosnell cut their spinal cord with scissors.”
This by a doctor who did take an oath to “do no harm” obviously did every day and each time he terminated a pregnancy and that is the “heart of the matter” when life is life, and who if anyone can take a life and for what reason.  In war we must do or die its kill or be killed and sadly the human race hasn’t found a way to prevent such war killing or major out of control disputes with each other!  Now we have this “abortion war” that was allowed to grow to a point of having a global impact creating industrialized wholesale abortion, most of which would not be happening if humans found a way and inner strength to behave in a proper responsible manner; to leave sexual relations to a devout love relationship and procreation between couples in order to produce a family and wanting to have a child together.  In other words living morally, not like pigs or self-indulgent lustful flesh beings which pop culture and the like are promoting!

Similarly, we might say that priests are working directly for God Almighty and take vows of obedience to Him and when ordained as a priest they must stay above sin or reproach which is a tall order and big boots to fill!  This Blogger is seeing that objective clearly and understands the great commitment these men have made and how much they have to love God our Creator to do such a thing, and they surely deserve respect and appreciation for doing so, just like any great doctor who fulfills his duty to “do no harm” and works every day to save life, any life, even that of a criminal shot in a gang war or any other man-made sinful behavior!  We are all wreaking with sin inherently just by virtue of being human and imperfect beings at this stage of existence!  God promised there is much more to come beyond this life and will give us that gift of Eternal Life if we will follow some simple requests of Him!  Of course some will fail big time in this life and that is sad, and even priests fail at times or ministers, soccer coaches and gymnastic teachers or those failed individuals in any other group where there is always going to be opportunity for sin and failing to enter the equation.  Instead of all people now recognizing the fact that we are in such an important battle of Good vs. Evil and calming the turmoil while we peacefully face the facts and reality as to what has gone wrong and what is continuing to run us off the precipice; we instead as an imperfect planet of humans seem to be more interested in perpetuating the clamor and fight to win out or beat the opposition, over really fixing and curing disease that riddles us.

The Blogger graciously pointed out a great good that took place, a pure example of humility and love that Jesus Christ expressed to all of us and how that is what all of us should strive to do each and every day, the “oath of the living” should always be to do that, and we’re obligated to try OUR BEST; if we fail, God will understand but we MUST try our best, not be fakers and liars!  That is called true FORGIVENESS!  We must all forgive each other and show that we will try our best to do that in all situations, but that is another tall order, nonetheless we must try; or will we be deserving and given forgiveness when it will really count standing before our maker?  No; we will not and God has made that clear through His example as Jesus Christ who took all the sins and filth of this world that any and all humans have or will commit and took that unbelievable burden upon his own spirit to suffer its “full consequence,” an act mind you that obviously only God could perform; and all because He loves us more than we can imagine; allowing us all an opportunity to be FORGIVEN outright for any sin, and enter the Kingdom of God as pristine as the driven snow, His Heavenly Paradise for Eternity if we will hold up our end of this most precious “Everlasting Covenant “with Humanity!  We must try very hard and with his grace and Holy Spirit the Comforter that we can depend on, this burden and difficult task can be made easier to carry as our own personal cross in our personal relationship with Him; but we must carry that cross or we will never succeed.

I hope anyone reading my words will be inspired by God as I am to find Him in their hearts and act upon His will to do the right thing, be strong in his overpowering Love for you and submit to Him, He will never let you down!  I did go to the Ascension Mass last night and when I got home I found the email notice about this Blogger’s new Blog Post and I was drawn to the fact that she does the Rosary which is a practice I wrote about recently for Easter and also that her rosary is made with wooden beads.  I have the same type of rosary which I wore around my neck last night in Mass, and this rosary was given to me by a special good servant woman of God, who was in a hermitage for many years serving God there while of course helping the nuns. She had thought of becoming a nun herself but eventually her path was shown to her and it was to do as she did.  She got this rosary at Medugorje which was blessed with Holy water there.  She had gone there for a healing and when she got back home her illness got worse in time.  She remained faithful and continued doing her rosary each day then when rushed to the hospital she had her rosary with her and died on the operating table.  But she was revived and was shortly after cured miraculously.  Around this time I had just been through a horrible industrial chemical inhalation injury and was trying to deal with the difficulties of fighting the damage and illness that was caused by that injury, along with having to finally fire my lawyer and take charge of my own workers compensation case in the court system.  I used to see this lady in church many times and one Sunday she had told me all about her history with the nuns and then her illness.  It turned out that I too had the same endocrine illness when I was very young and was eventually cured not by doctors but by God I believe, because just as mysteriously did I too become afflicted with this disease I got well again just as mysteriously, because I believe that I was tested and God wanted me to move on from that difficulty to the many more that were coming my way up the road; and all to serve Him and His will for me just like all of you should. Again, on another Sunday I was in church and this nice lady came over to me after the mass and said, “here this is for you my dear friend,” and placed her “precious rosary in my hands.” I’m crying now telling you all this, because I try to keep most of my problems and pains to myself, but this was one issue where I felt I need to forget myself and give it all to the Glory of God and thus to all of you out there to hopefully make a difference for any of you who will see the light of God and follow Him.  I do it out of love for God; I want no pat on the back, nothing.

Understand please; it takes a lot to open up to virtual strangers for me about such personal things that are so deep in my heart and soul.  That was the rosary I had with me in mass last evening, and I had it with me in court over an extended period while I fought my way through the legal system Pro Se, where eventually the judge at the closure of my case said I did as good a job if not better than any attorney could have.  See with God you are going to make it; as He gives to us we must “mirror that kind of giving,” because, “that is the point this Blogger made here;” you have to understand and don’t be self-centered or weak in your sight.

Look beyond yourself, far beyond; to where God has prepared a most unbelievable place for you to be with Him and all that is good forever. Amen
Lawrence Morra