Selflessness is Devoid of Selfishness = Saint

“Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible”

I just decided to add or insert this music here for it’s tone which to me is about caring enough to say you’re sorry and meaning it!  Forgive and Forget!

I posted this in June about a week before this huge announcement rippled with lightning speed around the planet!

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark Roe V. Wade

“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness—helping a friend, ministering to a spouse, caring for an ill child, etc. Jesus extends selflessness far beyond normal expectations—we are to love our enemies, even, and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). Jesus taught that it’s easy to love a friend or a spouse—even unbelievers do that (Matthew 5:47). The Christian is expected to love the unlovable, because this is how we become more like God, who gives blessings to everyone (Matthew 5:45). It’s a difficult thing to lay aside hurt feelings and wounded hearts, but that’s part of being selfless.”

“The characteristic of being selfless is one of the most important traits any Christian can have. It’s so significant that Jesus said it is the second most important of all God’s commandments: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31; cf. Galatians 5:14). Jesus wasn’t creating a new law here; He was merely agreeing with and expounding on an Old Testament law (Leviticus 19:18). James calls this the “royal” law to emphasize its supreme value to God (James 2:8).”

“Do you want to be a saint? Then place your faith in Jesus. Believe that he is making you into a saint. Drink deeply of his grace, and take possession of your inheritance. Take hold of Paul’s prayer that “your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.” By God’s grace, you can manifest his love to the world as one of the Lord’s saints. You can shine as one of God’s holy ones.

“Father, thank you for giving me a share in the fellowship of your saints. By your Spirit, empower me to embrace Jesus and his life in me. Empower me to be a saint.” catholicexchange

So if you do get around to reading this rather long essay; know that I do say there is obviously hope for humanity far above the tone I projected in this previous writing, but that due diligence is required and there can’t be any resting on our laurels! So let’s keep praying and doing our best daily!  Just yesterday I sent this out with a rather long comment to another bloggers posting and I happened to have mentioned this title and content to a very special woman I met yesterday during our conversation!  Time to repeat it!

I found that a Christian brother’s posting today to be exactly on the same track that I’ve been on while doing some writing also, which to me proves that we are on the same wavelength or frequency; which is to say we are listening to the Holy Spirit! Here is one sample of a quote I used contained in my extensive dissertations today which is exactly to the heart of what he was writing about selflessness and what people value most in these perilous times!

“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness.”

As Saint Gianna states the respect of human life is the paramount factor that can’t be denied, but, as I see it mankind has virtually ignored this God given Truth and not only turned its collective back on one another and basic moral decency too extensively, but has by doing so, turned its back on “God our Father” in heaven, to instead go on and live like decadent heathens and materialistic selfish gluttons, as so many “live to take and only for their own pleasure;” which we can see in plain site by just looking again at that hellish nightmare of a Congress, which now in unison with an equally diabolically corrupted Vatican have signed, sealed and delivered their pact with the Devil.

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St. Gianna Molla is so beautiful and I adore that woman! This article starts off with a horrific and sad historical event about the demonic possession of Anneliese Michel; of the movie title “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” upon whom the film is actually based.

Give Pause and Recognize How Far We have Fallen!

There are saintly persons living and devoting their entire lives to serving God’s will in the fostering or the many needs of the Church Body! If you or I really look around and see what is truly going on there are very few real saintly persons living that way and I see most Christians if they are really that as servants of God seeking to know and do His will in their daily lives! There have been many actual real saints living such lives but when they die their work doesn’t necessarily end in helping God’s plan to bring the Church Body together and save souls! Do you know you have a guardian angel and angels are in the ready always to serve God in the unseen world and at times in the seen world where we dwell? Same with saints who have been elevated to that special place God prepared for each of them as Jesus promised He does for any of us  if we believe in Him as our Savior but those saints are still very special and God didn’t invent such a thing as saints to just be a passing purpose that ends with physical death of the body. Again, we have potential to be saints, but let’s be real; the majority of human beings are far from any such classification.

“However, when Paul used the word “saint,” he used it with a small “s” not a capital “S.” and thus meant all Christians-even us today!

In one sense, everyone who is baptized into Jesus’ death and resurrection is a saint. This is not to diminish the special role of the canonized saints but to highlight the immense gift that is all of ours in Christ. Because of the power of the cross, each Christian has the same inheritance in heaven as the great saints whose lives we commemorated in a special way on All Saints Day.”
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That isn’t who or what I wish to emulate or try to model my own life after, “just another Christian,” who is given this label, no God forbid I could be another Biden sort of fake Christian devil; but instead I pray to be a “genuine saint in the fullest terms possible,” is more of what being a saint is about as far as I’m concerned! With this other soft and loose definition, a Joe Biden is a saint or any number of claimed Christians, but, I see sainthood as a “great sacrifice of material life and pleasures” and one who is only interested in being “a footstool to God and His will.”  Mother Teresa of Calcutta carried out that type of saintly duty; but the crybabies I see all around and who pose in photos thinking they have something to offer in service to sainthood or even a true servant, is rubbish. Today few people have what it takes, nor the desire to sacrifice to any great degree like that, and are fully too wrapped up in gaining fame, fortune or praise of one kind or another, self-worship, and you know that for a fact I’m sure, if you are a general internet surfing person seeing what it’s all about! Unless you’re deluded or ignoring Truth!

Martin Luther did a lot of damage and Protestantism is still helping that degenerating cause as its even part of the Catholic Church now since the Second Vatican Council manipulation which led to a heretic now Francis who is really doing evil.  Freemasonry, Marxism, Satanism and all manner of blasphemies have infiltrated most to all churches now with evil people within the inner workings of these Christian organizations.

“…the final secret of Fatima was not given to the world, because it revealed the Truth of satan’s evil sect entering the Vatican.”

I read a comment that spoke about where Christian households are “undefiled by paganism” when at least one parent is a Christian then they are saints for God; but what I’m driving at is that the majority of the human race today because of “rampant materialism and self-worship within this culture of death” are “defiled and pagan” in this “secular world by default,” and there is much less to no excuse for it today than in the past prior to the industrial revolution, because the mentality is there and educational opportunity is light years ahead of where it was for the common folks of long ago!  What I’m saying is most people today take way too much for granted, and are very vile when you look into the tradeoffs they make daily and in their overall lives, because “gain and getting things or somewhere in this world” the “Ways of The World” is far outweighing “any great merit or inner virtue” that they exemplify continually through painstaking dedication and “sacrifice of self to God” and the service He compels them to do while in this world!  I worked in Mass Media News and jumped off that crazy ride when I saw the “plastic lying phonies” who were only looking for “self-promotion and bigger dollars” not truth or humanities improvement, just like most movie stars and the like, so now this is many years later and look what these current trolls are doing with our system of government and a once great Nation under God; “making it a dirty rotten lie and evil,” and they don’t care or bat and eyelash over it; so I know from whence I speak! “Saints are hardly around in this toxic poison soup everyone is being conditioned and told to eat up!” I just see the failure and desperation of it all more than many and most average folks or other people in this toxic man-made hell, which nearly killed me with intent. I don’t quietly accept dictates from hell. Believe me when I tell you I’ve been around the track more than several times and all around that track I’ve seen far too much horse shit and it’s not getting better its getting “exponentially worse,” so some of you folks out there can try to prove how saints are on the increase in this environment, and I’ll “eat some” for breakfast!

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The world is right now on the precipice and on its way to hell in a hand-basket and far too many people maybe even you or some that you know personally, think it’s not so bad, and hey it will work out somehow; “that is conditioning” and “lowering standards until there are none,” and America is almost as far down that slide into the cesspool as it can get! No it won’t get better but it will be far worse than now in the not too distant future!  Evil experiments are taking place right now on human beings to create other species by the most sinister derelict non-human persons that have ever lived, the truly diabolic, and that is in Holy Scriptures; this has all been prophesied, so that is why I say people let’s get freaking real here, and stop the jive turkey limp noodle nonsense of playing games and kidding ourselves!  Apparently some fools are backpedaling like there is no tomorrow with their antichrist anti-life agenda!

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Abortion since 1973 worldwide has produced 1.5 billion destroyed unborn human babies, and I know it’s from conception that a human soul and body are created; this is so serious and God is going to judge it hard; and look how evil is fighting to keep it all going, that action alone speaks volumes as to who is behind all of this mayhem and evil, it’s clear as day to me! And in the US it’s now 63 Million alone that have been destroyed, and look at the animals ready to kill judges and screaming like filthy demons in public or walking into houses of  Christian worship stripping naked while saying “it’s my right to kill it!” We all need to look at reality hard and not through any “rose colored glasses feel good Christian jive,” in order to see it right; as far as I’m concerned! Like I say, People Get Real!

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So many people on this net are so self-glorified and deluded it’s numbing to my mind to hear and see it, so I tune them out now, block many of these game playing imbeciles and they are adults?!  Follows mean jack to me, and so many think the opposite, so you tell me where these multitudes of saints are that some Christians seem to characterize most if not all professed Christians as being! Do you think for one minute the majority of these people you contact even on this silly internet are saintly?  If so why?  Are they saving souls or stopping any of this evil running rampant throughout?  Do you even really know any of them personally and well enough to know what they are truly all about?  I know people in person that I’ve known for decades that I’ve become aware of as people that I don’t really know for sure what they are anymore; because they say or do nothing to stop anything that’s wrong in our society, so they are content to follow sin?!  The blind leading the blind!

“Do you want to be a saint? Then place your faith in Jesus. Believe that he is making you into a saint. Drink deeply of his grace, and take possession of your inheritance. Take hold of Paul’s prayer that “your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.” By God’s grace, you can manifest his love to the world as one of the Lord’s saints. You can shine as one of God’s holy ones.

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“Father, thank you for giving me a share in the fellowship of your saints. By your Spirit, empower me to embrace Jesus and his life in me. Empower me to be a saint.” catholicexchange

Check this out because this is explaining this absolute essential crux of the matter I’m talking about which I see is far less in people in this modern age than in past ages; it’s becoming extinct!

“The characteristic of being selfless is one of the most important traits any Christian can have. It’s so significant that Jesus said it is the second most important of all God’s commandments: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31; cf. Galatians 5:14). Jesus wasn’t creating a new law here; He was merely agreeing with and expounding on an Old Testament law (Leviticus 19:18). James calls this the “royal” law to emphasize its supreme value to God (James 2:8).”

“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness—helping a friend, ministering to a spouse, caring for an ill child, etc. Jesus extends selflessness far beyond normal expectations—we are to love our enemies, even, and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). Jesus taught that it’s easy to love a friend or a spouse—even unbelievers do that (Matthew 5:47). The Christian is expected to love the unlovable, because this is how we become more like God, who gives blessings to everyone (Matthew 5:45). It’s a difficult thing to lay aside hurt feelings and wounded hearts, but that’s part of being selfless.”

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“As in so many areas, Jesus is the ultimate example of selflessness. In coming into this world, “he made himself nothing” and took upon Himself “the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). Now, as followers of Christ, we are to “have the same mindset” (Philippians 2:5). Jesus came not for His own benefit but for ours. He came to minister to us and die for us: “Even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

“Humanly speaking, Jesus gave up His will for God’s will (Luke 22:42)—and this is another salient point: selflessness involves more than putting other people first; it is putting God first. As John the Baptist said concerning Jesus, “He must become greater; I must become less” (John 3:30). More of the Lord; less of us.” gotquestions

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I’ll leave with this; “Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible.” My Imitation of Christ.

“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.”

The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi), first published in 1418 by the German-Dutch monk and scribe, Thomas Hemerken of Kempen, better known as Thomas à Kempis (1380 – 25 July 1471).
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.” ― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

This is what being a human being that works at being saintly is really like not this poppycock nonsense people try promoting all over the place!

Know That the Lord Has

Some say they know and are following “God’s standards,” but I see this is exceedingly far beyond any such thing, and is clearly in the territory of transgression, an abomination; total blasphemy! People should be shamed strenuously!  I just recalled my dear sweet good grandmother decades ago saying to me “people today, many have no shame!” I say a lack of conscience or even love.

Matthew 7:22-23 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!”

I was told by a fellow Christian how this world needs so badly to be purified now, and I added it needs to be FLUSHED; as in even more now than in Noah’s time!

And you brought out the crux about “what people put value in now” and anyone with a brain that functions can get a clue by just looking around anywhere; but more importantly if they have a genuine heart with love in it for God in and through the sacred heart of Jesus they can realize God’s Truth easily! Here is what I was thinking today!

I meant to emphasize this, “discern what is of value” in that passage, because I see it as “the crux of the problem” with most people in this “Culture of Death” world where people scream bloody murder to say, “leave our bodies alone we can kill a baby in us because it’s only a fetus,” and yet where is the responsibility in that, are they saying we can do what we damn well please, have out of wedlock sex all we want and get knocked up by the millions, because we didn’t even have the responsibly to use a birth control; but best to abstain, in other words, shut up I’ll do what I want, and Lucifer said the same way back in the time of his getting booted out of God’s kingdom; blatant rebelliousness and transgression!

So we can see clearly people have so “many things they consider of the greatest value and importance, and all of them are not the right thing!”

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit”

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke

Check out this previous posting and at the end the video presentation that talked about Taylor Swift’s portrayal of Lucifer.  Society has really turned its back on God Big Time!

Time To Pause and Reflect

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A Republican Senator triggered leftists with one statement about Taylor Swift

I really would like know who the saints are being called to duty by the Lord in this group of ministers of the faith?  Christians?

Presbyterian, Baptist Churches Join New Coalition of Churches to Promote Killing Babies in Abortions

Former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson Slams Abortion: Killing Babies “is Demonic”

And this where an appointed not elected New York governor a cohort of Satan; blasphemes God doing her best to support evil!  From her own mouth and tongue! The video is quite clear!

WATCH: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Proclaims Unvaccinated People ‘Aren’t Listening to God’

The Ways of The World are beyond crooked I must say, and are now abominable!

God bless you!

Brother in Christ Jesus,

Lawrence Morra III

Why are We here; Is it Worth Being Born?

“Total humility is the beginning of acceptance and understanding”

First this life and my thoughts now aren’t about believing in Santa Claus or not!

A year passed and have things changed; not really the same game but worse!

Let me ask you; do you really prefer to think that not being born would be better for you and your children? Because I can absolutely guarantee you that is exactly what the Devil wants you to believe, that master of all lies wants any of us to think we are defeated before we start.  Start what you might say with; how about the greatest and most magnificent journey that the brightest of minds couldn’t imagine in a million years! A way for everything to add up and come out perfect! Who else can sort all of this out, but the author of existence, certainly we mere inklings of a shadowy concoction of energy, matter and substance don’t have a fart in the winds chance of coming up with The Solution to all that has, is and will be happening on this planet our home we call earth.

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You see I’ve learned that God absolutely exists and God’s purposes and Plans are all that matter not we free willed sometimes foolish, silly or arrogant creations of; His. Total humility is the beginning of acceptance and understanding” that we are here for a God given reason not our imperfect sometimes self-righteous thinking or vision of what this has to be about living among the dead as we do; for I say to you this isn’t really living not with a price on all of our heads that says nobody gets out alive! We are looking with eyes half shut or in many cases wide shut in which case even though we think they are open they see nothing, not the Truth of God; never really seeing the length and depth of all that is really going on, and is always beyond our grasp; yet it’s as plain and simple as the morning turns to night and after the night a new dawn comes. No degree in rocket science required, only a genuine humble heart on bent knee which will open not only your heart to God but will open up the ultimate world of possibility and endless love!  Something must bridge that enormous GAP for us, and that can only be the One who set this all in motion to begin with! Being BORN into this at times so chaotic and even rotten world is I assure you a Blessing, and no matter who it is or what they have or don’t have, being able to exist is our one sure ticket to the Ultimate Destination.  Which is to be with God the One who made this all possible and is always waiting first for our recognition of Him to acknowledge we know we are helpless babes in the woods and need Him above all there is in this existence! That He must be our primary focus and then to learn with His unrelenting undivided help and attention; to Trust in Him!  If we are making this connection as individuals that I’m speaking about to you placing Him front and center in our lives, then that will ensure us of our lives being worth something and a whole lot more than we can ever come up with or concoct on our own for being here in the first place!

Life is the most beautiful incomparable gift and blessing of absolute LOVE! We are suffering here and some so much more than others;many through NO fault of their own but the world is riddled with sin and evils that effect even the most innocent among us!  What’s fair and fun about that you might ask, and I say not much, that at times to me really sucks, that so much pain and suffering is going on and so many dreams and hopes getting dashed or crushed under the enormous weight and burden of sin, imperfection, stupidity, hate and the list goes on as you are well aware I’m sure! But for this to all get sorted out and for any of us to make heads or tails of it all, is a fool’s  errand, unless we have God on our side, you hear that; God on our side. He actually is, that is why this whole damned world didn’t get wiped away like so much chaff in the wind long ago, to our concept of time; but really a flickering flame to God which He hasn’t extinguished yet!  We are absolutely at His Mercy and He wants us with Him in His Glory!  How do we get that you might wonder here; we start by wanting Him so badly that it becomes our life force and breath our very REASON for LIVING, so we can be a part of His heavenly eternal Glorious and totally wonderful kingdom! I see it clear my friend, we are so lucky to be here and each of us will be nothing but dust, these bodies in the end, with our souls damned to oblivion or complete separation from God’s glory, his eternal kingdom; not even being a memory without God setting the record straight and bringing absolute Justice to all things in His good time when it is appropriate for any of us!

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Now that was coming from my own heart that God has opened and restored countless times because due to my own errors and shortcomings, He knows I belong to Him though I don’t deserve to in a sense, yet I do;  because I decided with my Own Heart that I want to and must if I’m to be worth anything after it’s all said and done and this carcass I occupy is eventually in the dirt where it belongs, “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak;” but my soul belongs to Him my Maker, who Gives, who gives all things; to those who love Him back! But how much grander is what comes for us if we stay strong in our faith no matter what, and “keep Jesus Christ front and center in our hearts and minds!”

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The star-forming region NGC 3603 – seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image – contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603’s centre.

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9 But as Scripture says:

“No eye has seen,

no ear has heard,

and no mind has imagined

the things that God has prepared

for those who love him.”

Love must be a two way street and we can never give a fraction of what God is giving or ultimately offering!

Saint Dismas a scoundrel of a man and bad dude before he met Jesus Christ who was nailed to the cross next to his, he Dismas to the right side of Jesus saw all that transpired that day his final day, when his heart opened up like never before watching this man who said He is the Son of the Father in the heavenly Kingdom saying things like, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do!” Dismas was so rapt in awe he asked this dying man the Savior to just remember me when you join your Father in Your kingdom. He as then in that moment being honest and humble having admitted he deserved every bit of what he was getting being tied to a cross and crucified for all of his crimes against men, as well wasting his life being a scoundrel, but, then surely as Dismas correctly said to Jesus, in essence his meaning being; you deserve none of what they have done to you, you have to be who you say you are, just by how you are forgiving these same people doing this to you, you have shown not even one complaint or modicum of anger or hatred, you are praying for them instead!

“One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

    —Luke 23:39–43 (NIV)

And so Dismas then asking Jesus in all humility and heart felt compassion not thinking in the slightest that he deserved even this opportunity to ask, the Messiah; “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (verses 42-43).

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“As Jesus was hanging on the cross, paying our penalty for sin, He made a promise to a dying, repentant thief.  By the grace of God and the power of Christ, that promise was kept. The thief’s sins were washed away, and his death that day was his entrance to paradise.” gotquestions.org/today-paradise.html

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What does “if God is for us, who can be against us” mean in Romans 8:31?

Romans 8:31 says, “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” The “things” are the dozens of amazing proofs of God’s unfailing love listed in the preceding verses. Romans 8 contains many of the cherished verses that comfort us, such as “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (verse 1). And the one that gets us through difficult times: “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (verse 28). Verse 31 of Romans 8 is a culmination of all those wonderful promises. It reminds us who God is and how He helps us. When we grasp the truth that God is for us, we have nothing to fear.

God is “for” us in the sense that He is on our side; He is working on our behalf and for our good. He has proved His benevolence in that He has adopted us (Romans 8:15), He has given us His Spirit (verses 16–17, 26–27), and He has determined to save us (verses 29–30).

The follow-up question, “who can be against us?” is rhetorical. It’s another way of saying, “There is no one who could possibly be more powerful than God” or “No one can destroy us.” The idea is not that we will never face opposition; it’s simply that our opposition is doomed to failure. They may be against us, but not successfully against us. Since God is on our side, we have nothing to worry about.

Romans 8:31 is an echo of other passages that say the something similar:

Psalm 118:6 says, “The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”

2 Kings 6:16: “‘Don’t be afraid,’ the prophet [Elisha] answered. ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’”

Psalm 56:9: “My enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.”

Hebrews 13:6: “So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?’”

Psalm 27:1: “The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”

Sometimes our hearts respond to verses like this with consternation: “I’ll tell you who can be against me! The IRS, my in-laws, terrorists, corrupt politicians—” and the list goes on. Our real-life enemies seem to overshadow the ideas conveyed in Romans 8. Despite spiritual promises, we still have to endure physical, mental, and emotional struggles—so much so that we may wonder if God is truly for us.

The man who penned Romans 8:31 (Paul) faced the same struggles we face and many more. He lists some of his sufferings in 2 Corinthians 11:22–28 as proof that he did not write from a plastic bubble of ethereal peace. However, his intimate relationship with the risen Christ had become his all-consuming passion. He said he considered everything else “garbage” compared to knowing Christ (Philippians 3:7–9). He had learned the secret of contentment, whether he was celebrated or imprisoned, and he stated that secret: “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:13, BSB).

So when Paul writes, “If God is for us, who can be against us,” he is comparing earthly opposition to the eternal power and presence of Almighty God—and he declares the winner. No one can overcome God’s love for us.

Jesus taught the same thing. In Luke 12:4–5, Jesus said, “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.” His point, as was Paul’s, is that, no matter what may happen to us here on earth, there is a higher reality. There is a bigger war than the one we think we face, and God is the ultimate winner (Ephesians 6:12). If we are on His side, then we will win, too. (Revelation 21:7–8, 27).”   gotquestions.org/if-God-is-for-us-who-can-be-against-us

I Lawrence say with absolute confidence God is with us right now and never leaves our sides but we do have crosses to carry while here which is absolutely worth it! He Jesus Christ overcame all of this conflict and suffering and did it out of “Pure Absolute Love” and I tell you as I look around this world, me an imperfect nobody, I see so much I wouldn’t want to be any part of, yet I’m so happy to be dealing with the blood, sweat and tears of it all; because I have a shot through Jesus Christ of making sure that my life a gift from God was and is all worth it because He overcame all obstacles to Paradise; our path is to follow Him our Lord Savior and Redeemer. Amen.

I knowing through and by my own heart with Him Jesus Christ that we are going to make it there to the Promised Land, Hallelujah!

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God bless you brothers and sisters!

Brother in Christ Jesus,

Lawrence Morra III

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Selflessness is Devoid of Selfishness = Saint

“Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible”

I found that a Christian brother’s posting today to be exactly on the same track that I’ve been on while doing some writing also, which to me proves that we are on the same wavelength or frequency; which is to say we are listening to the Holy Spirit! Here is one sample of a quote I used contained in my extensive dissertations today which is exactly to the heart of what he was writing about selflessness and what people value most in these perilous times!

“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness.”

As Saint Gianna states the respect of human life is the paramount factor that can’t be denied, but, as I see it mankind has virtually ignored this God given Truth and not only turned its collective back on one another and basic moral decency too extensively, but has by doing so, turned its back on “God our Father” in heaven, to instead go on and live like decadent heathens and materialistic selfish gluttons, as so many “live to take and only for their own pleasure;” which we can see in plain site by just looking again at that hellish nightmare of a Congress, which now in unison with an equally diabolically corrupted Vatican have signed, sealed and delivered their pact with the Devil.

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St. Gianna Molla is so beautiful and I adore that woman! This article starts off with a horrific and sad historical event about the demonic possession of Anneliese Michel; of the movie title “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” upon whom the film is actually based.

Give Pause and Recognize How Far We have Fallen!

There are saintly persons living and devoting their entire lives to serving God’s will in the fostering or the many needs of the Church Body! If you or I really look around and see what is truly going on there are very few real saintly persons living that way and I see most Christians if they are really that as servants of God seeking to know and do His will in their daily lives! There have been many actual real saints living such lives but when they die their work doesn’t necessarily end in helping God’s plan to bring the Church Body together and save souls! Do you know you have a guardian angel and angels are in the ready always to serve God in the unseen world and at times in the seen world where we dwell? Same with saints who have been elevated to that special place God prepared for each of them as Jesus promised He does for any of us  if we believe in Him as our Savior but those saints are still very special and God didn’t invent such a thing as saints to just be a passing purpose that ends with physical death of the body. Again, we have potential to be saints, but let’s be real; the majority of human beings are far from any such classification.

“However, when Paul used the word “saint,” he used it with a small “s” not a capital “S.” and thus meant all Christians-even us today!

In one sense, everyone who is baptized into Jesus’ death and resurrection is a saint. This is not to diminish the special role of the canonized saints but to highlight the immense gift that is all of ours in Christ. Because of the power of the cross, each Christian has the same inheritance in heaven as the great saints whose lives we commemorated in a special way on All Saints Day.”
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That isn’t who or what I wish to emulate or try to model my own life after, “just another Christian,” who is given this label, no God forbid I could be another Biden sort of fake Christian devil; but instead I pray to be a “genuine saint in the fullest terms possible,” is more of what being a saint is about as far as I’m concerned! With this other soft and loose definition, a Joe Biden is a saint or any number of claimed Christians, but, I see sainthood as a “great sacrifice of material life and pleasures” and one who is only interested in being “a footstool to God and His will.”  Mother Teresa of Calcutta carried out that type of saintly duty; but the crybabies I see all around and who pose in photos thinking they have something to offer in service to sainthood or even a true servant, is rubbish. Today few people have what it takes, nor the desire to sacrifice to any great degree like that, and are fully too wrapped up in gaining fame, fortune or praise of one kind or another, self-worship, and you know that for a fact I’m sure, if you are a general internet surfing person seeing what it’s all about! Unless you’re deluded or ignoring Truth!

Martin Luther did a lot of damage and Protestantism is still helping that degenerating cause as its even part of the Catholic Church now since the Second Vatican Council manipulation which led to a heretic now Francis who is really doing evil.  Freemasonry, Marxism, Satanism and all manner of blasphemies have infiltrated most to all churches now with evil people within the inner workings of these Christian organizations.

“…the final secret of Fatima was not given to the world, because it revealed the Truth of satan’s evil sect entering the Vatican.”

I read a comment that spoke about where Christian households are “undefiled by paganism” when at least one parent is a Christian then they are saints for God; but what I’m driving at is that the majority of the human race today because of “rampant materialism and self-worship within this culture of death” are “defiled and pagan” in this “secular world by default,” and there is much less to no excuse for it today than in the past prior to the industrial revolution, because the mentality is there and educational opportunity is light years ahead of where it was for the common folks of long ago!  What I’m saying is most people today take way too much for granted, and are very vile when you look into the tradeoffs they make daily and in their overall lives, because “gain and getting things or somewhere in this world” the “Ways of The World” is far outweighing “any great merit or inner virtue” that they exemplify continually through painstaking dedication and “sacrifice of self to God” and the service He compels them to do while in this world!  I worked in Mass Media News and jumped off that crazy ride when I saw the “plastic lying phonies” who were only looking for “self-promotion and bigger dollars” not truth or humanities improvement, just like most movie stars and the like, so now this is many years later and look what these current trolls are doing with our system of government and a once great Nation under God; “making it a dirty rotten lie and evil,” and they don’t care or bat and eyelash over it; so I know from whence I speak! “Saints are hardly around in this toxic poison soup everyone is being conditioned and told to eat up!” I just see the failure and desperation of it all more than many and most average folks or other people in this toxic man-made hell, which nearly killed me with intent. I don’t quietly accept dictates from hell. Believe me when I tell you I’ve been around the track more than several times and all around that track I’ve seen far too much horse shit and it’s not getting better its getting “exponentially worse,” so some of you folks out there can try to prove how saints are on the increase in this environment, and I’ll “eat some” for breakfast!

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The world is right now on the precipice and on its way to hell in a hand-basket and far too many people maybe even you or some that you know personally, think it’s not so bad, and hey it will work out somehow; “that is conditioning” and “lowering standards until there are none,” and America is almost as far down that slide into the cesspool as it can get! No it won’t get better but it will be far worse than now in the not too distant future!  Evil experiments are taking place right now on human beings to create other species by the most sinister derelict non-human persons that have ever lived, the truly diabolic, and that is in Holy Scriptures; this has all been prophesied, so that is why I say people let’s get freaking real here, and stop the jive turkey limp noodle nonsense of playing games and kidding ourselves!  Apparently some fools are backpedaling like there is no tomorrow with their antichrist anti-life agenda!

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Abortion since 1973 worldwide has produced 1.5 billion destroyed unborn human babies, and I know it’s from conception that a human soul and body are created; this is so serious and God is going to judge it hard; and look how evil is fighting to keep it all going, that action alone speaks volumes as to who is behind all of this mayhem and evil, it’s clear as day to me! And in the US it’s now 63 Million alone that have been destroyed, and look at the animals ready to kill judges and screaming like filthy demons in public or walking into houses of  Christian worship stripping naked while saying “it’s my right to kill it!” We all need to look at reality hard and not through any “rose colored glasses feel good Christian jive,” in order to see it right; as far as I’m concerned! Like I say, People Get Real!

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So many people on this net are so self-glorified and deluded it’s numbing to my mind to hear and see it, so I tune them out now, block many of these game playing imbeciles and they are adults?!  Follows mean jack to me, and so many think the opposite, so you tell me where these multitudes of saints are that some Christians seem to characterize most if not all professed Christians as being! Do you think for one minute the majority of these people you contact even on this silly internet are saintly?  If so why?  Are they saving souls or stopping any of this evil running rampant throughout?  Do you even really know any of them personally and well enough to know what they are truly all about?  I know people in person that I’ve known for decades that I’ve become aware of as people that I don’t really know for sure what they are anymore; because they say or do nothing to stop anything that’s wrong in our society, so they are content to follow sin?!  The blind leading the blind!

“Do you want to be a saint? Then place your faith in Jesus. Believe that he is making you into a saint. Drink deeply of his grace, and take possession of your inheritance. Take hold of Paul’s prayer that “your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.” By God’s grace, you can manifest his love to the world as one of the Lord’s saints. You can shine as one of God’s holy ones.

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“Father, thank you for giving me a share in the fellowship of your saints. By your Spirit, empower me to embrace Jesus and his life in me. Empower me to be a saint.” catholicexchange

Check this out because this is explaining this absolute essential crux of the matter I’m talking about which I see is far less in people in this modern age than in past ages; it’s becoming extinct!

“The characteristic of being selfless is one of the most important traits any Christian can have. It’s so significant that Jesus said it is the second most important of all God’s commandments: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31; cf. Galatians 5:14). Jesus wasn’t creating a new law here; He was merely agreeing with and expounding on an Old Testament law (Leviticus 19:18). James calls this the “royal” law to emphasize its supreme value to God (James 2:8).”

“Jesus had much to say about selflessness during His earthly ministry. In the Sermon on the Mount, He goes beyond what some may think of as selflessness—helping a friend, ministering to a spouse, caring for an ill child, etc. Jesus extends selflessness far beyond normal expectations—we are to love our enemies, even, and pray for our persecutors (Matthew 5:44). Jesus taught that it’s easy to love a friend or a spouse—even unbelievers do that (Matthew 5:47). The Christian is expected to love the unlovable, because this is how we become more like God, who gives blessings to everyone (Matthew 5:45). It’s a difficult thing to lay aside hurt feelings and wounded hearts, but that’s part of being selfless.”

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“As in so many areas, Jesus is the ultimate example of selflessness. In coming into this world, “he made himself nothing” and took upon Himself “the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). Now, as followers of Christ, we are to “have the same mindset” (Philippians 2:5). Jesus came not for His own benefit but for ours. He came to minister to us and die for us: “Even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

“Humanly speaking, Jesus gave up His will for God’s will (Luke 22:42)—and this is another salient point: selflessness involves more than putting other people first; it is putting God first. As John the Baptist said concerning Jesus, “He must become greater; I must become less” (John 3:30). More of the Lord; less of us.” gotquestions

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I’ll leave with this; “Study, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of visible things and to turn thyself to things invisible.” My Imitation of Christ.

“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.”

The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi), first published in 1418 by the German-Dutch monk and scribe, Thomas Hemerken of Kempen, better known as Thomas à Kempis (1380 – 25 July 1471).
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.” ― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

This is what being a human being that works at being saintly is really like not this poppycock nonsense people try promoting all over the place!

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Some say they know and are following “God’s standards,” but I see this is exceedingly far beyond any such thing, and is clearly in the territory of transgression, an abomination; total blasphemy! People should be shamed strenuously!  I just recalled my dear sweet good grandmother decades ago saying to me “people today, many have no shame!” I say a lack of conscience or even love.

Matthew 7:22-23 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!”

I was told by a fellow Christian how this world needs so badly to be purified now, and I added it needs to be FLUSHED; as in even more now than in Noah’s time!

And you brought out the crux about “what people put value in now” and anyone with a brain that functions can get a clue by just looking around anywhere; but more importantly if they have a genuine heart with love in it for God in and through the sacred heart of Jesus they can realize God’s Truth easily! Here is what I was thinking today!

I meant to emphasize this, “discern what is of value” in that passage, because I see it as “the crux of the problem” with most people in this “Culture of Death” world where people scream bloody murder to say, “leave our bodies alone we can kill a baby in us because it’s only a fetus,” and yet where is the responsibility in that, are they saying we can do what we damn well please, have out of wedlock sex all we want and get knocked up by the millions, because we didn’t even have the responsibly to use a birth control; but best to abstain, in other words, shut up I’ll do what I want, and Lucifer said the same way back in the time of his getting booted out of God’s kingdom; blatant rebelliousness and transgression!

So we can see clearly people have so “many things they consider of the greatest value and importance, and all of them are not the right thing!”

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit”

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke

Check out this previous posting and at the end the video presentation that talked about Taylor Swift’s portrayal of Lucifer.  Society has really turned its back on God Big Time!

Time To Pause and Reflect

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A Republican Senator triggered leftists with one statement about Taylor Swift

I really would like know who the saints are being called to duty by the Lord in this group of ministers of the faith?  Christians?

Presbyterian, Baptist Churches Join New Coalition of Churches to Promote Killing Babies in Abortions

Former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson Slams Abortion: Killing Babies “is Demonic”

And this where an appointed not elected New York governor a cohort of Satan; blasphemes God doing her best to support evil!  From her own mouth and tongue! The video is quite clear!

WATCH: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Proclaims Unvaccinated People ‘Aren’t Listening to God’

The Ways of The World are beyond crooked I must say, and are now abominable!

God bless you!

Brother in Christ Jesus,

Lawrence Morra III

Who is Jesus Christ to You?

God Bless This Real Woman and Child of God’s in the Most Precious Holy Name of Jesus Christ! Amen and Amen.

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Deborah I was so touched and moved by this posting of yours, and even got tears in my eyes; thinking of the young girl you were back then having to feel such shame or ridicule in such a tender, gentle, innocent heart with so much love in it!

Yet you carried on with God’s Holy Spirit guiding you and giving you courage, as you would not let go of that one hand of Salvation that you held onto regardless of what this mean and ugly “Ways of the World” was saying; you would not let Jesus be taken away from you, so you endured the pain and sadness brought on by others so that you could be right where you are now; doing God’s will! Amen!

Thank you for your courage and most of all for your abiding, beautiful Faith in our Savior Jesus Christ who will save anyone that turns to Him in humility on bent knee and asks to receive His gift of eternal Love! Amen.
God bless you and yours!

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Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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Don’t hide it. I remember when I was in high school, I felt too ashamed to carry the Bible. Most of the Bibles we had back then were big ones. You can’t carry one inconspicuously. Yes, I felt too embarassed to carry a Bible. Most of my friends did not carry the Bible along and seeing one wih a big Bible on hand gave a kind of different impression. They all tend to think you are that godly, angelic, holy saint. And then they would treat you like one until you make one mistake. It puts a great social pressure plus some laughs at you for carrying a Bible. I was definitely hiding my faith. Scared of what people thought of me. As for my beliefs, I wasn’t assertive about it either. I was not the kind who talks about Jesus unless a friend asked me about God and what…

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BREAKING: Another Federal Judge Deals Blow To Biden’s Vaccine Mandate, Issues Nationwide Injunction

Thank you from the bottom of my heart Louisiana Western District U.S. Judge Terry Doughty! God bless you and watch over you with Saint Michael the Archangel as God continues to bestow upon you great blessings of Virtue and Truth strengthening you to do this great work you do for the Nation and indeed the world!

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God Bless Judge Doughty and America!
Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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Ryan Saavedra

A federal judge in Louisiana blocked Democrat President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers on Tuesday, issuing a nationwide injunction on Biden’s order.

The Daily Advertiser reported:

Louisiana Western District U.S. Judge Terry Doughty’s decisionfollows an identical ruling Monday from Missouri U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, but Schelp’s decision only covered 10 states.

Doughtyruled on the lawsuit led by Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and joined by 13 other states, but Doughty added a nationwide injunction in his ruling.

“If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands,” Doughty wrote. “If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry praised the ruling…

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Before Thanksgiving Fades into Memory, Hear the Words of Abraham Lincoln

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Excellent and for me so timely and powerful a message coming from the past from this former President who is since grade school was one of my top 3 iconic historical figures of all time; and he lived right here in our beloved nation under God!  Or so it was, until the evil crept in and so many allowed it to devour their souls along with their advocating the destruction of so many others, with this Great Nation under God!

I just wrote this commentary for a another fine blogger who brought it out but now as soon as I saw your posting here I said, OMG this is what and whom I’m relating to now in this most unprecedented crisis for America; this is all so fitting so I want to share these words of mine here, but, more importantly this message contained in your posting, which is from my favorite American Abraham Lincoln; I’m teary eyed and I hope and pray something in this that I’m doing here will touch someone’s heart as well.

You hit it on the proverbial head! All these BLM , Antifa or radial left anything are only being used as useful tools or as they say useful idiots until not needed anymore then the hammer comes down hard and swift! Russia doesn’t have a Hammer and Sickle as Flag Icons for the reasons they state openly! Marx was an out in the open Satan worshiper and caused his own two daughters to commit suicide, so how would such monsters feel about anyone else? That is what these evil insane power gloated Democrat Socialist Radical Party have brought to our shores but the Republicans are only a step away from being as nefarious having allowed so much decay in America, they even had the House and Senate on a few occasions and did virtually nothing to abate it all, because they care about themselves and lobbyists! Lindsey Graham is a rotten two-faced minion of hell! Loves Biden he said during the early stages of the election right on NBC one Sunday morning saying I love the guy! Guess Graham got the guy he wanted in the White House! Birds of a feather no matter how evil or dirty; my Grandmother would say no shame! I say yes Grandma no conscience either!

By the way I’m a wildlife rehabber took the certification courses and used to belong to the Sierra Club went to some big seminars but when they went hard left and played a scam to just take down conservatives and didn’t mind all the radical evil the Left was up to along with catering to the Big Tech Globalists I cut them all loose just for the reason you stated they are so dumb ass to think they will win out for anybody including the animals by sticking up for the Agenda of the Corporate Machine and Establishment like the Bush family, Obama, Hollywood and so on, they joined the Nazis of America and lost me for good which bothered me for the animals sake but like you said if we lose control of the government completely which is close to happening then nothing will matter anymore anyway; the whole thing will turn into a hell in no time just like Banana Republics and other Dictatorships; and then the agony for animals and people will really begin as they rip everything apart for evil and ill-gotten gains! Called cutting off your nose to spite your face!

If the left had smelled the coffee a little while ago this would not be happening and We the People would have a stronger Citizen’s Government that the forefathers intended and be moving in the right direction!

2 Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first and that man of sin “lawlessness” be revealed, the son of perdition.”

Keep hanging in and praying we have hope on our side and God answers faithful prayer!

These additional thoughts are repeated from recent commentary but do apply now too!

It’s the bad seeds and ugly underbelly of humanity that is being separated from the whole and that which will pay the full price for all of this suffering as well as the injustice; none of that will get by God, absolutely not going to happen and peace will come to those who deserve it! I can say with and have confidence that its much bigger than we can grasp onto to with our limited faculties and reasoning capabilities but that the final analysis is profoundly beautiful not sad at all!

“What Is the Origin and Source of “Good Things Come to Those Who Wait”?

Abraham Lincoln is most famous for using this quote. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

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However, the former president did not originate the quote either. This quote actually began with a writer who lived during the 19th and 20th Centuries. Her name was Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie. As when Christians use the phrase, the meaning in her words was also to encourage the listener to exercise patience. She used the phrase in her poem “Tout vient a qui sait attendre”. In this work, Lady Mary wrote under the pseudonym Violet Fane.

The passage from her work goes as follows.

“All hoped-for things will come to you
Who have the strength to watch and wait,
Our longings spur the steeds of Fate,
This has been said by one who knew.”
And it continues into the phrase, “Ah, all things come to those who wait”.

However, while the Bible does not use this phrase verbatim, we can see through a number of passages in the Bible that those who wait on God are indeed blessed. Good things do come to those who wait. The Bible with all its various stories has a plethora of examples where people waited for good things following a bad event. And no matter what form it took, the good thing was always a blessing from God.

Mary waited for a child. Job waited for restoration. Joseph waited in prison. The Israelite’s waited to find the Promised Land. There was a lot of waiting for believers then, and the same is true now. While one suffers, waiting does not feel like a good thing, but God does promise a good outcome in the end. Scripture speaks to this truth.” crosswalk.com

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“18For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things. 20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.” Philippians 3:19

“The Hope we have today and eternally.” That is the point isn’t it! We’re really only here such a short time it isn’t even funny how short as I see it now! So what else can or should matter more or near as much than knowing Him, and following best we can in order to do the Father’s will if even a bit inadequately at least during our short stay here we prove ourselves worthy by revealing our true heart and intentions to Jesus who will make us acceptable to His Father! He is the master potter isn’t He! Thank you Lord for being there is all I can say! I often have thought of the scene of Jesus on His cross while Dismas to His right actually speaking to Him and admitting how miserably he failed in this life, as I’ve watched The Passion of The Christ many times each time I have wept at this scene and most of the movie but this scene is the most powerful to me as it’s all about Redemption and how Jesus will redeem the lost sheep if they will turn to Him in complete humility and contrite heart laying prostrate at His feet in a sense like Mary Magdalene had; and yet what did our Sweet Lord say to Dismas in spite of his failures!

Luke 23:43 “42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!” 43And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you today, you will be with Me in Paradise.” Jesus knows the heart absolutely so no one that deserves to be with the father will miss the bus!!! And no one can fool Him either! This is why this whole plan is so perfect and true it’s hard, but the only plan that would in the end truly separate the wheat from the chaff! The genuine article is found in all of this mayhem! My favorite word, that I added parentheses to here in the Scripture, that the world lacks too often and especially in today’s mad high tech hurry gimme mine world!

“Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and BECOME as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven..whoever, therefore, shall “HUMBLE” himself As this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”~Jesus Christ –Matthew 18

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Absolutely is truth calling to us from the past regarding this additional comment I made today which has the potential now to be the final nail in the coffin of not only America but the entire human race which is hanging by threads as it were for all of its many abominable transgressions against God! So just by what has happened since 1973 1.5 Billion Abortions worldwide and over 62 Million here in the US alone, I ask what the hell has happened to human beings. World War II Auschwitz when millions of Jews were slaughtered and the world said never again; but yet now industrial scale abortion is a way of life and selling the body parts is fine? This world is on the edge of HELL! Mark my words if this world (humans) doesn’t wake up fast the horrible burning end with God’s Wrath will be upon it soon enough! Time is running out fast and Biden America’s Man of Perdition who appropriated 467 $Billion dollars during his first 100 days in office to exclusively be used to kill babies; half a TRILLION!!! And so many Americans and others around the world are talking like everything is just hunky-dory and no problem with this evil! We are in the realm of Diabolical Evil on an Unprecedented Scale now! This is going to end one way or the other!
God help us to help ourselves through Jesus Christ the savior! Amen.

God bless you and yours!
God bless America!

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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Thoughts to ponder before we say goodbye to Thanksgiving this year…

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Walking with Jesus Christ

“You’ll never walk alone”
“The Sweet Silver Song of a Lark”

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To Mom for all your efforts and love as a Devoted Mother!

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The Story Behind Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Beloved Song of Hope—“You’ll Never Walk Alone”  WRTI

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This is my personal story behind the song!

Mom when I was a boy you made me aware this song was your favorite contemporary classic and I always loved hearing you sing it with your beautifully trained God given talented Soprano voice!  Now no matter where I am or what condition I’m in I can recall those days hearing you sing this song that always brings tears to my eyes, and I know God meant for you to teach us with your devotion as our Mother and with your beautiful voice, what is most important in this life, as I feel it deep in my heart and soul now!  Just like this song says “you’ll never walk alone” and no matter what crisis or difficulty we may be going through as long as we have Faith in Jesus Christ, we always walk with “Hope in our Hearts” that will protect and guide us home to the Lord!  But as we walk through any storm, we should hold our heads up high, being brave and courageous, knowing that “He is always walking with us!”  I found this to be so true on those few occasions when I could have died; but was spared for His reasons or purposes!  And when I had to fight a huge battle on my own your support, comfort and prayers along with Lord Jesus was what really made the difference in finding my way through it all; to a day of rest, where I could hear “The Sweet Silver Song of a Lark!” Thank you Mom!  I love you!  Thank you Jesus for bestowing these miraculous gifts and opportunity upon us!   All the Glory is yours our Savior Jesus!

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Mom your Loving Son in Jesus Christ,

Lorenzo

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Andrea Bocelli – You’ll Never Walk Alone (Believe Studio Session)

Elvis Presley “You’ ll Never Walk A lone” best version, with beautiful slideshow

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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir:

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“You’ll Never Walk Alone” Virtual Choir/Orchestra 15 Countries: 300 People  (During Lock-downs)

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Brother in Christ Jesus,

Lawrence Morra III

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Thoughts on… {Gratitude}

Hey Allison! I see we are both card carrying members of the same club!! “The Worriers Club” or otherwise known as “The Worrywarts!” Of course there is that other genre of Warriors that are adept in the heat of battle but this category that I admit to be quite proficient in are also quite capable in other or certain kinds of battle fields; the more cerebral arenas! Straight out of the gate I can say how my more worrisome hesitant attitude did keep me out of situations that would have otherwise sucked me in just the way they did many others, even many persons that I grew up with! I remember clearly the peer pressure by buddies wanting to get high all of the time and saying how smoking weed is nothing, so why not; but I was always leery of it, first because drawing any breathe laden with toxic chemicals or smoke of any kind into my lungs was too weird! Then there was the fact that Pot does have specific chemicals that do give a buzz to those that enjoy that transition to being stoned and attempt to escape reality, but, at what cost once a person becomes psychologically and biologically dependent to this induced effect; and truth be known Marijuana is a psychoactive drug! It actually contains upwards of 500 chemicals, one of which is the well-known THC, which is a proven mind-altering compound that absolutely causes harmful health effects over time; perhaps not as risky as using LSD which has been known to damage a person’s mind with one use, but, nonetheless any damaging effect should be avoided if a person plans on taking care of their life in a responsible manner; we after all get only the one body we are born with!!

I was always top grades in chemistry and knew that chemical reactions are a natural occurrence in this existence but not all of them are good. So my being very selective about this matter kept me away from any interest in Pot or any drug including alcohol, “Alcohol, sometimes referred to by the chemical name ethanol, is a psychoactive drug that is the active ingredient in drinks such as beer, wine, and distilled spirits” (Wikipedia), which can be very addictive as we all well know someone that became an alcoholic or still is one!

Fortunately for me my being a guy that according to many friends worried too much which was true as compared to them and others at least, I didn’t end up with some drug hang-up or habit that led to very serious, as my dad would say, “consequences for doing something that wasn’t right,” or “good for me!” My grandfather had a strong motto; “Avoid Trouble!” So I did and some of the guys I grew up with got deep into drug or alcohol habits and sorry to say most damaged their health or lives in a variety of ways or are already departed; having lived a much shorter life because they weren’t being prudent or a perhaps a bit of a “worrywart!”

The only thing I want to add as a caveat of caution for now about being such a worrisome person, for me as an example, that it tends to create a stress that I’ve had to try to recognize and find ways that are sensible to avoid being too much like the squirrel that gets all of his nuts in a bunch, and starts to get a bit nutty in the process! In other words, worrying taken too far can make a person neurotic and even a basket case or bundle of nerves; so one must learn to monitor their own need to be careful and sensible with being overly concerned and a bit paranoid! It comes down to having one’s mind aware and being capable of assessing the “risk/benefit analysis” moving forward in any behavior or action to keep things on an even keel! More simply put perhaps we can say that extremes in any direction are generally never healthy or wise and maybe not going to get one wealthy either; of course there are different kinds of wealth aren’t there! Blessings!

Allison! Goodness me I slipped and forgot the crux of my message to you and anyone that cares! Here is the whole of it in a nutshell; maybe a squirrels one special nut, like me I’m a special nut! At least to who it matters to!

https://lawrencemorra.com/2021/07/19/i-am-the-way-the-truth-and-the-life/

Bless you! ✝️
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence

Allison's avatarAllison Marie

This Thanksgiving, I am grateful for fear. That’s a strange statement, I know, but it’s true: I’m grateful for what worrying has taught me. I’ve struggled with anxiety my entire life, and this year I’ve realized that as frustrating as that journey has been, I wouldn’t trade it even if I could. It’s been an incredible blessing in disguise, and today I wanted to explain why.

Here’s a little piece of my story. 🙂


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Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789

George Washington

First US President, Commander of Revolutionary Army

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Man and citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity…Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?”

Sep. 19, 1796, “Farewell Address,” Philadelphia’s American Daily Advisor

George Washington

“[W]hile just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.” Oct. 1789, Letter to the Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church of North America “Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”

Oct. 20, 1792, Letter to Edward Newenham

God Bless America!

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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Thanksgiving Proclamation

[New York, 3 October 1789]

By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of…

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Especially to All the Lonely People from “Eleanor Rigby”

“It is more blessed to give than to receive” “He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life”
“Don’t give up Until you drink from the silver cup”

On Thanksgiving here in America let us thank God for our lives and the greatest opportunity it provides which is to serve His plan and purpose while we devout our love to Him our Father in the Holy name of Jesus. Amen.

As we share our love with family during holiday festivities remember to pray for all those who are alone or in any difficult unfortunate circumstances, those multitudes that are suffering; that they are blessed to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who wants to lead them home!

“To me the lyric of a song is secondary, but the song in question is a welcome departure from the usual, overworked theme of love, but also it has a good melody and expresses sympathy for the lonely.” Bernard says: December 24, 2020 at 5:40 pm

Like anything in this life truth and facts must be ferreted out so carry on from here listening to the tune then read all of the text, there is a second version of the story behind the song, and then another song that nails down the significant all encapsulating meaning of “Lonely People!”

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie
Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working
Darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby
Died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie
Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all belong?

Bitrok 997

4 months ago

“This song makes me feel something that I can’t express with words”

Jerry Solis

1 month ago

“It’s the cello. The full haunting sound that reaches inside you. I heard a cellist in church play once and I wept. That haunting full enthralling sound. It pulls at your soul.”

Robert Davis

2 years ago

“Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name.” One of the most famous and hauntingly poignant lines in all of rock history.”

SoldierWombat

 13 days ago

“Best song from the Beatles and one of the best scenes from Yellow Submarine.”

The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” Lyrics Meaning

by SMF · Published February 18, 2020 · Updated February 19, 2020

“Eleanor Rigby” is a certified Beatles’ classic, indeed somewhat of a cultural phenomenon in and of itself. And as such, certain information should be established from the onset.

First is that for all intents and purpose it is safe to say that the titular character, Eleanor Rigby, was not a real person. This seems to be an idea that many fans of the song have a hard time accepting. But throughout the years, for the most part Paul McCartney, the primary writer of the tune, has contended that Miss Rigby is indeed a fictitious character. Yes, at one point he did acknowledge that his conjuring up this name may have been the subconscious result of being influenced by a particular tombstone in a graveyard he used to hang out in during his youth. But he has also contended that she is a totally-fictitious character, one whose people’s insistence to prove is real has to some degree confounded him.

Indeed at the end of the day, the factual consensus is that he got the first name of the character from an actress (Eleanor Bron) who was associated with the Beatles at the time. And the last name was derived from a liquor store (Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers) he was familiar with in the UK.

Father McKenzie is not real!

And the same also goes for the second character we are introduced to in this song, Father McKenzie. In fact he was originally named Father McCartney after Macca himself. But to Paul personally, this appellation invoked images of his father. And upon realizing that his dad is nothing like the character portrayed in the song, he decided to rename him.

“Eleanor Rigby” is partially based on Reality

But with those facts being established, this is not to imply that “Eleanor Rigby” does not have any basis in reality. Rather let’s say that the titular character is a composite of a number of different elderly ladies Paul McCartney used to hang out with when he was a child. Indeed he even used to run errands for them. So you can say that his sympathy for the type of person Eleanor is depicted as is real.

Narrative

Now as for the narrative itself, it centers primarily on the Beatles acknowledging “all the lonely people”. More specifically it depicts Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie as lonely souls themselves. And the first of the two we are introduced to is Eleanor. Interestingly enough her age is never specified. However, one peculiar characteristic she has is her tendency to ‘pick up the rice in a church where a wedding has been’. And despite this being somewhat of an unorthodox statement, it does effectively relay the fact that she is indeed lonely, perhaps even suffering from some sort of mental issues or poverty as a result.

Father McKenzie is also an interesting case. We see that he is in fact a priest of some sort or a head of a church. However, his congregation is nonexistent.  Thus his loneliness is manifest by him being akin to a leader with no followers. Yet despite this, he stays committed to his profession.

Climax of the Story

So the way the story climaxes is with Eleanor Rigby eventually passing away.  And sadly enough, “nobody came” to her funeral. But furthermore it is Father McKenzie who actually buries her. And so the story ends, with the Beatles apparently lamenting for “all the lonely people” throughout.

Now it’s debatable that they are trying to relay certain messages, lessons if you will, via this tale. For instance, it has been speculated by some fans that the case is presented as ideally Eleanor and Father McKenzie would have met when she was still alive, became friends and thus served as the remedy to each other’s loneliness. There is also a peculiar, ambiguous line at the end of the third verse, after Rigby is buried, which reads “no one is saved”.

Now at the time this song was dropped, the Beatles, particularly John Lennon, was going through an anti-Christian phase, so to speak. So it is honestly quite-feasible that since the church is one of the settings of this song, as well as a priest being one of its central characters, that the band is actually taking a jab at the organized religion. And if so what they would basically be pointing to is the idea of Christianity failing some of its adherents in the most-fundamental way.

Conclusion

Verily, if a listener wants to look for additional meaning in this song by examining the rich history of the Beatles, combined with the symbolic nature of some of its lyrics, there is definitely enough there to lend to varying interpretations. But by and large, the narrative featured within “Eleanor Rigby” is straightforward and easy-to-follow. That is to say that most people who appreciate the tune lyrically do so because of the parts of the song that are simple to understand. And in that regard, it is fundamentally a sad song. It is a sorrowful song centered on an old lady who lives with no one to care for her and dies with no one to bury her.

In other words it’s the type of track to invoke sympathy for those who may actually be living under such circumstances, i.e. a humanitarian tune. And at the end of the day, “Eleanor Rigby” is one of the reasons why many people feel that the Beatles were musical geniuses. They were pop artists who were able to write and recite a hit song about such thought-provoking and heart-wrenching subject matter as care for the elderly and sympathy for the lonely.

Facts about “Eleanor Rigby”

The credited writers of this song are Paul McCartney and an entity known as Lennon-McCartney. The latter would be a combination of Paul McCartney and his Beatles’ bandmate, John Lennon (1940-1980). Furthermore it is noted for being the first song which Mr. McCartney had written which was not centered on the theme of love.

The musical score of this song was composed by another Beatle, George Harrison (1943-2001). None of the Beatles themselves actually played instruments on this track. And in that regard, “Eleanor Rigby” is said to be one-of-a-kind. In this case what they did do was employ session musicians consisting of two violists, two cellists and four violinists. And

due to the complexity of the instrumental, the Beatles never played this tune live.

The producer of “Eleanor Rigby” was the Beatles co-worker on most of their hits, Sir George Martin (1926-2016).

This track originally came out on 5 August 1966 as part of the Beatles’ album entitled “Revolver”.

“Eleanor Rigby” was quite-successful. It topped the UK Singles Chart and performed likewise in Canada and New Zealand. In fact it is noted for being the top-selling song in the UK for 1966.

Moreover it peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Apparently it was not promoted as heavily in the United States as it was in the UK due to the religious references in the song.

“Eleanor Rigby” also earned Paul McCartney in particular a Grammy Award. This was in 1966, and it was awarded in the category of “Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance – Male or Female”.

Moreover as of 2011, Rolling Stone has ranked this track at number 138 on its list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.

Popular Covers of “Eleanor Rigby”

A number of prominent artists have covered “Eleanor Rigby”, especially during its heyday. Amongst them are:

     Ray Charles (1968)

    Aretha Franklin (1969)

    John Denver (1970)

    Tony Bennett (1971)

    José Feliciano (1992)

    Pearl Jam (2005)

Paul McCartney also did his own remix of this song and featured it on his 1984 solo album, “Give My Regards to Broad Street”.

The Eleanor Rigby Fascination

Despite Paul McCartney acknowledging, as aforementioned, that Eleanor Rigby is not a real person, fans of the tune have still been obsessed with tracking down a real person by this name who fits the character described in the song.  Indeed sometimes their efforts are borderline comedic. For instance, the aforementioned headstone in Liverpool, England (i.e. the Beatles’ hometown) which cites an “Eleanor Rigby” has accordingly become somewhat of a tourist attraction. Said headstone is even depicted on the music video to the 1995 Beatles’ track “Free as a Bird”. Moreover a document from 1911, which Paul McCartney at one time personally handled, which references a Eleanor Rigby (more specifically “E. Rigby”) was auctioned off for a whopping £115,000 pounds (approximately $250,000) in 2008.

Interesting to note is that there is also a real Eleanor Rigby statue located in the English city of Liverpool. It was erected in the aforementioned city in 1982. And interestingly, it is directly based on the character from the song.

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Songfacts®:

Paul McCartney wrote most of this song. He got the name “Eleanor” from the actress Eleanor Bron, who appeared in the 1965 Beatles film Help!. “Rigby” came to him when he was in Bristol, England, and spotted a store: Rigby and Evens Ltd Wine and Spirit Shippers. He liked the name “Eleanor Rigby” because it sounded natural and matched the rhythm he wrote.

McCartney explained at the time that his songs came mostly from his imagination. Regarding this song, he said, “It just came. When I started doing the melody I developed the lyric. It all came from the first line. I wonder if there are girls called Eleanor Rigby?”

McCartney wasn’t sure what the song was going to be about until he came up with the line “picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been.” That’s when he came up with the story of an old, lonely woman. The lyrics “wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door” are a reference to the cold-cream she wears in an effort to look younger.

The song tells the story of two lonely people. First, we meet a churchgoing woman named Eleanor Rigby, who is seen cleaning up rice after a wedding. The second verse introduces the pastor, Father McKenzie, whose sermons “no one will hear.” This could indicate that nobody in coming to his church, or that his sermons aren’t getting through to the congregation on a spiritual level. In the third verse, Eleanor dies in the church and Father McKenzie buries her.

“Father Mackenzie” was originally “Father McCartney.” Paul decided he didn’t want to freak out his dad and picked a name out of the phone book instead.

After Eleanor Rigby is buried, we learn that “no one was saved,” indicating that her soul did not elevate to heaven as promised by the church. This could be seen as a swipe at Christianity and the concept of being saved by Jesus. The song was released in August 1966 just weeks after the furor over John Lennon’s remarks, “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now.”

For the most part, the song eluded controversy, possibly because the lilting string section made it easier to handle.

A string section scored by Beatles producer George Martin consisting of four violins, two violas and two cellos were used in recording. Paul may have been inspired by the classic composer Vivaldi.

The Beatles didn’t play any of the instruments on this track. All the music came from the string players, who were hired as session musicians.

Paul McCartney recounted this song’s origin story in a 2018 interview with GQ. He said: “When I was really little I lived on what was called a housing estate, which is like the projects – there were a lot of old ladies and I enjoyed sitting around with these older ladies because they had these great stories, in this case about World War II. One in particular I used to visit and I’d go shopping for her – you know, she couldn’t get out. So I had that figure in my mind of a sort of lonely old lady.

Over the years, I’ve met a couple of others, and maybe their loneliness made me empathize with them. But I thought it was a great character, so I started this song about the lonely old lady who picks up the rice in the church, who never really gets the dreams in her life. Then I added in the priest, the vicar, Father McKenzie. And so, there was just the two characters. It was like writing a short story, and it was basically on these old ladies that I had known as a kid.”

In Observer Music Monthly, November 2008, McCartney said: “These lonely old ladies were something I knew about growing up, and that was what ‘Eleanor Rigby’ was about – the fact that she died and nobody really noticed. I knew this went on.”

There is a gravestone for an Eleanor Rigby in St. Peter’s Churchyard in Woolton, England. Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool and Lennon first met McCartney at a fete at St. Peter’s Church. The gravestone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby shows that she died in October 1939, aged 44.

However Eleanor was not like the lonely people in McCartney’s song, as she was married. Another of the gravestones there has the word “McKenzie” written on it. McCartney has denied that that is the source of the names, though he has agreed that they may have registered subconsciously.

This was originally written as “Miss Daisy Hawkins.” According to Rolling Stone magazine, when McCartney first played the song for his neighbor Donovan Leitch, the words were “Ola Na Tungee, blowing his mind in the dark with a pipe full of clay.”

The lyrics were brainstormed among The Beatles. In later years, Lennon and McCartney gave different accounts of who contributed more of the words to the song.

During recording, microphones were placed very close to the instruments to create an unusual, vaguely distorted sound.

Ray Charles reached #35 US and #36 UK with his version in 1968; Aretha Franklin took it to #17 US in 1969. A year later, an instrumental by the group El Chicano went to #115. The song reached the chart again in 2008 when David Cook of American Idol fame took it to #92.

Because of the string section, this was difficult to play live, which The Beatles never did. On his 2002 Back In The US tour, Paul McCartney played this without the strings. Keyboards were used to compensate.

This song was not written in a normal chord, it is in the dorian mode – the scale you get when you play one octave up from the second note of a major scale. This is usually found in old songs such as “Scarborough Fair.”

Vanilla Fudge covered this in a slowed-down, emotional style, something they did with many songs, including hits by ‘N Sync and The Backstreet Boys. Their version of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” was a #6 US hit in 1968. Fudge drummer Carmine Appice told Songfacts: “Most of the songs we did, we tried to take out of the realm they were in and try to put them where they were supposed to be in our eyes. ‘Eleanor Rigby’ was always a great song by The Beatles. It was done with the orchestra, but the way we did it, we put it into an eerie graveyard setting and made it spooky, the way the lyrics read. Songs like ‘Ticket To Ride,’ that’s a hurtin’ song, so we slowed it down so it wouldn’t be so happy. We would look at lyrics and the lyrics would dictate if it was feasible to do something with it or not.”

In 1966, this song took home the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Male. It was awarded to Paul McCartney.

In August 1966, the long-defunct British music magazine Disc And Music Echo asked Kinks frontman Ray Davies to review the then newly released Revolver album. This is how he reacted to this song: “I bought a Haydn LP the other day and this sounds just like it. It’s all sort of quartet stuff and it sounds like they’re out to please music teachers in primary schools. I can imagine John saying: ‘I’m going to write this for my old schoolmistress’. Still it’s very commercial.”

The chorus of this song was sampled as part of Sinead O’Connor’s 1994 song “Famine,” which is based on the story of the potato famine in Ireland.

In 2008 a document came to light that showed that McCartney may have had an alternative source for the Eleanor Rigby name. In the early 1990s a lady named Annie Mawson had a job teaching music to children with learning difficulties. Annie managed to teach a severely autistic boy to play “Yellow Submarine” on the piano, which won him a Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. She wrote to the former Beatle telling him what joy he’d brought. Months later, Annie received a brown envelope bearing a “Paul McCartney World Tour” stamp. Inside was enclosed a page from an accounts log kept by the Corporation of Liverpool, which records the wages paid in 1911 to a scullery maid working for the Liverpool City Hospital, who signed her name “E. Rigby.” There was no accompanying letter of explanation. Annie said in an interview that when she saw the name Rigby, “I realized why I’d been sent it. I feel that when you’re holding it you’re holding a bit of history.”

When the slip went up for auction later that year, McCartney told the Associated Press: “Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up. If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that’s fine with me.”

This was released simultaneously on August 5, 1966 on both the album Revolver and as a double A-side with “Yellow Submarine.”

The thrash band Realm covered this song on their 1988 album Endless War. It is a speed metal version of the song that got them signed to Roadrunner Records.

McCartney told Q magazine June 2010 that after recording the song, he felt he could have done better. He recalled: “I remember not liking the vocal on Eleanor Rigby, thinking, I hadn’t nailed. I listen to it now and it’s… very good. It’s a bit annoying when you do Eleanor Rigby and you’re not happy with it.”

Former US President Bill Clinton has stated that this is his favorite Beatles song.

Richie Havens covered this on his 1966 debut album, Mixed Bag, and again on his 1987 Sings Beatles and Dylan album.

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About Lonely People

“Lonely People” is a song written by the husband-and-wife team of Dan Peek and Catherine Peek and recorded by America.

This is for all the lonely people

Thinking that life has passed them by

Don’t give up

Until you drink from the silver cup

And ride that highway in the sky

This is for all the single people

Thinking that love has left them dry

Don’t give up

Until you drink from the silver cup

You never know until you try

Well, I’m on my way

Yes, I’m back to stay

Well, I’m on my way back home

This is for all the lonely people

Thinking that life has passed them by

Don’t give up

Until you drink from the silver cup

She’ll never take you down or

Never give you up

You’ll never know until you try.

God gave so much by His expression of love when he created us and all of this the seen and the unseen; then even gave Himself as the Redeemer to bridge the chasm between imperfection and corruption unto Holiness and Eternal Perfection in God’s glory for those of faith through Jesus Christ the Savior and Good Shepherd!  During the Holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas as well throughout the year we must do our best to remember these facts and truth that tells us so clearly how it is better to give than to receive!

God bless you.

Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesians

“34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. 35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” 36When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.”  Acts 20:35

“John 3:16 is one of the most well-known verses of all time. It says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”

“In the very presence of Jesus, God demonstrates that He is love—and love gives. If we truly want to be like Jesus, we’ll give.” pushpay.com

  • Giving reflects God’s character
  • Giving is commanded
  • Giving makes you happy
  • Giving makes you healthier and live longer
  • Giving expresses your trust in God
  • Giving advances the Kingdom of God

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Brother in Christ Jesus,

Lawrence Morra III

If You Need More After All That and You’re Not Crying Already Like I Am; An Extra Grand Exit Song…

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