Here I Am, Lord I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry. All who dwell in dark and sin My hand will save. I who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright. Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send? Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart. I, the Lord of snow and rain, I have borne my people's pain. I have wept for love of them. They turn away. I will break their hearts of stone, Give them hearts for love alone. I will speak my word to them. Whom shall I send? Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart. I, the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame. I will set a feast for them. My hand will save. Finest bread I will provide Till their hearts be satisfied. I will give my life to them. Whom shall I send? Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.
@michaelpeel3888
2 жыл бұрын
It wants more of itself Part 1 Now in my 63rd year, I have seen a great many ideas of my youth fall to the reality and truth of this life while searching to understand my own humanity. Plagued by a few traumatic brain injuries as a baby, youth and even more head injuries as a young adult I quickly fell behind my age group’s normal development while developing unhealthy ways of compensating for my deficits. I remember thinking, about 30 years ago, how I got such a raw deal in life. My younger brothers had families of their own. Many of my childhood and young adult friends had moved on while I was still stuck in a world that made little sense to me. I felt hopeless and just wanted it all to end. Much like everything else I wanted; however, I was even denied a speedy dispatchment from this world regardless of my many attempts to get someone pissed off enough to do me in. I became stuck in a hopeless cycle of hatred for myself. That cycle would see me through years of self-mutilating debauchery by day, and pitiful sorrow while bitterly weeping in my bed at night for the end. No one understood my suffering because on the surface it looked as though I was insane. Those still close to me, and claimed to love me, could not help either because people simply don’t help the insane, they only try to manage them. I had no idea that I was all alone back then. Was not until all my real family died did I begin to understand I was truly alone. Those that still claim to love me only do so as one might expect someone to love a still insane sibling. This stigma still follows me to this day. Now-a-days, I am nearly 8 years sober. Many of the insane behaviors have succumb to more wholesome behaviors. I have had the time to catch up, in a way, to my contemporaries. At the beginning of my sobriety, I was offered a promising career at my local VA hospital, a wonderful job with the local establishment that has been a cornerstone of my sobriety, opportunities that promised management, and a variety of other positions that could raise me from a lower to a higher socioeconomic status as well as become an esteemed member of my community. All attempts failed because they all had one thing in common. I would need to, at some point, make my happiness by confiscating the happiness of others. The cruelty of this world is something I thought I knew. For me; however, the cruelty became my inability to tear down anyone else for my better income or higher esteem in my community. This had been done to me my whole life and I would be damned for sure if I did this to another simply because I now had the tools to do so. All those years behind my age group has given me something many of my contemporaries have failed to see. A thing begets more of itself. My desire for a higher status in life is my desire for equality; yet I must also seek that equality at all cost to anyone that may get in my way. Those that hold the keys to raise me to that higher position will not let it be any other way. I am still stunned by that revelation. So many years running in place and going toward nowhere had caused a form of weariness I had never known; yet, it has also given me a form of strength not yet expressed. Simply stated; there is nothing I could have ever done to change my life that could not have easily been undone by those that see me as a threat to their way of life. The higher socioeconomic status as well as being an esteemed member of my community would have always fallen to the waist side because this is who I was meant to be. It just took all these years to find me in the mess and I am grateful it took so long because I now have all these years of experience that now make sense. I was guarded from the rat race for a purpose that is yet to be defined while having no memories of legally getting what I want at another’s expense. This process I went through has excluded me in many ways so I don’t claim some higher morality because if I had been caught up with or even surpassed my age group, who knows how I might have taken advantage of that luxury. And please don’t get me wrong. I did, and still will, infringe on someone elses happiness when they try to infringe on mine; so, I am no saint. I’ve just learned that my early head injuries, supposed insanity, underdeveloped cognitive, social, moral and communication skills were just part of the process that make me the man I was always meant to be. And with that, I have great insight to the human condition which also includes the idea that a thing begets more of what it is. Power begets power, control begets control, hubris begets hubris. A thing begets more of its self. I really don’t know why this happens save that people are hopelessly flawed when it comes to perceived self-preservation. However, love begets love, freedom begets freedom and humility begets even more humility which tends to also attach itself to the idea of our collective humanity being an expression of perceived self-preservation as well. I have seen good things grow as well as bad in our society; and, through it all, the bad is winning simply because the bad is more prevalent. We are taught, from a very young age, that to stay in control of our own life we must seek an education, we must find a good job, we must seek the group of higher esteem and the list goes on. And if we are successful in our pursuit for independence it will help keep us in control of our own destinies. This process lends itself to the idea of accumulating more knowledge, wealth and self-esteem; which in turn, lends itself to the idea of a class system of who and what group is better than the next. We live in a society that frowns on the open expression of the class system for we have come to learn that it is not congruent with our ideas of freedom and fair play here in the United States. However, that expression is alive and well and mostly expressed covertly making it unseen as it continues to grow in epic proportions while demanding more of itself to continue to live. This process affects us all and without this process seeing the light of day it has grown darker throughout the generations. This is nothing new, however. Every generation throughout the history of societal control has some form of expressing their lack of empathy for those of a lower class. I am simply saying that, in our times, we have mastered the process by keeping it silent and just provide for those not able to survive in our shark tank any other way. I am not saying that are desire of accumulation of wealth or greatness is wrong. I am simply saying that the things we do to continue in our pursuit of self-preservation feeds on itself and is growing unchecked in the dark place in which we now find it living. Without full disclosure of this process, it becomes perverted, actually suppressing our desire for self-preservation for which that process first attended. We are destroying ourselves in our pursuit of more because a thing seeks more of what it is. There is nowhere in our collective history of our desire for more that can better illustrate our current dilemma but in those corporate bodies of the authorities that helps keep everything on an even keel to ensure the status quo. No one is perfect and no man an island so regardless of our stand as individual Christians we fall into this same process if we desire to keep up with all others trying to acquire more. This desire to keep up with others make us rife for gleaning by the current corporate bodies of the Church as well as all the other authorities that have say in how the collection of taxes and donations are used. These benefactors of our taxes and donations tend to present themselves as our servants; yet, they are truly our masters. Most of them; yet not all of them, have found ways to remove themselves from oversight these days as they reside, on varying levels, in clandestine alternate realities we commoners are only aware of on a near subconscious level. This out of sight out of mind proposition will prove to be our complete undoing and it has happen in the past as our Holy Scriptures tend to support. Even our most cherished characters in the Scriptures were hopelessly flawed and they all fall to their own selfish desires sooner or later. We identify with them as being chosen by God, and they are, however some are also discarded by God when God is doing something new in their generation. Looking at a few of these spiritual giants and the corruption of the authorities in their times can provide a better understanding of how the darkness is growing in our own generation. But before getting deeper into the past generations, we will take a good look at one flaw we have in common concerning God’s Creation.
@antonialopez6737
Жыл бұрын
This song is so beautiful it make me cry everytime. It feels my heart knowing God is there. Beautiful presentation and voices.warm my heart 🙏🕊️💜
@colleencarroll6101
9 ай бұрын
One of my favorite hymns, and I love this version!!
@egprojects
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Thank you. I'm also reminded how much I missed prayer through song at church during covid times; let's sing louder and prouder to our Lord!
@adrianevenson7553
3 жыл бұрын
My wife
@geevalreyes5139
3 жыл бұрын
Perfectly Done for the Lord on Easter 2021! Well done Our Lady of the Rosary Choir! Good Job John Dandan!
@reginedandan1435
3 жыл бұрын
Wow you guys nailed it very proud of everyone to God be the glory.
@yvarra27
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! Truly a glorious celebration of Easter! I miss OLR where I was assigned for 17 years. Alleluia! Praise God 🙏
@normaconaway4341
3 жыл бұрын
Simply amazing. One of my favorites. But never heard this way!! Thank u all
@gerisundararaj399
3 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful thank you ,I needed this today from 🇺🇸 US
@joanbray6753
3 жыл бұрын
So beautifully sung. Miss my Church. Tx. Be safe. Regards Western Cape SA
@michaelpeel3888
2 жыл бұрын
Part 2A AMOS 8:11 “ Yes, days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send famine upon the land: Not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the LORD.” We share a common belief that God has endowed us with choice. The idea that we must first turn our lives over to Jesus is so empowering to the believer and the idea is handed down through the generations. This idea gives us the ability to see the nonbeliever as stubbornly rejecting the truth that we Christians have chosen to believe. Our stand on this idea of choice is reinforced by many of St. Paul’s writings and is also preached in all the local congregations. Not to get too deeply into St. Paul’s writings, but we will look at a few to give us clarity for the reasons St. Paul made so many statements concerning choice in believing in Jesus. And, the reasons will point to our faulty thinking concerning choice in our current beliefs. Saint Paul is one of our most celebrated Saints and a great many of the secondary teachings hallmark within the many denominations of today are a direct result of the dogmatized indoctrination of the Saint to the Gentile. Saint Paul, however, is at times very difficult to understand, as a great many of his ideas were a direct result of his intense desire to uplift a leadership class from the Hebrew Christian ranks so that he might then regain his ethnic identity lost to him by way of his Conversion Event. This is not to say that his desire for being part of a Hebrew leadership class was not scripturally sound. Yet, he became obliged to try and enact that leadership position through deceptive means when his initial ideas were rejected making him, at times, very difficult to understand. Saint Paul’s writings are difficult to understand. Even our most celebrated Saint, Saint Peter, the leader of our Holy Catholic Church, admits Saint Paul is difficult to understand (2Peter 3:16). Saint Peter says: “He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” Yet, Saint Paul’s difficulty lies in his inability to understand himself and the motivating forces behind many of his writings. He very simply desired to enact a Royal Priesthood through his understanding of Scripture. When his ideas concerning the Royal Priesthood were initially rejected, he started down a path of subterfuge to try and achieve his initial mission, which led him to try and achieve that end through deceptive means: even if his deception was perceived by him on a near subconscious level. He will further become confusing as he begins to fall under the spell of his own subterfuge: a thing for which he is not totally aware as his selfish desires blind him to that reality while pushing him onward to achieve his personal agenda. This highlights a process of self-affirmation for which Saint Paul’s desires becomes the hinge pin to his subsequent discernments of his Lost Powerful Kinship, the reevaluation and inaccurate usage of old testament Scriptures, the purpose of past covenants, the redefinition of his Hebrew ancestry and how the Gentile now fits within the new family of God through Christ. Saint Paul’s self-affirming and self-edifying righteousness comes through by way of his evaluation of the wrath earned through his Lost Powerful Kinship’s rejection of Christ. Romans 1:18-32 talks about those that reject Christ: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Paul reveals his truer target group, his lost powerful kinship, by the time we get to chapter 2. Romans 2:5-11 shows Paul favoring and admonishing the Jew over the Gentile. But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism. However, in Paul’s vainglory, he does show favoritism. Paul clearly points to the Jew as being more important in Christ than the Gentile because he identifies with the Jew, as he is a Jew, he raises himself up over the Gentile as being in the group that will be either admonished or favored first and the Gentile will be added as an offering of grace by God. By his writings in chapter 1 and 2 of Romans it is clear that the Jew was chosen through heritage whereas the Gentile were added through an undeserved gift of God.
@renpilak6048
9 ай бұрын
Beautiful ❤ Thank you all for sharing your talents 🙏
@april0647
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful production. It feeds the ears, eyes, and soul.
@davidking9945
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a beautiful and moving rendition. God Bless you all from Durban, South Africa
@dandanmusicstudio
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! God Bless you, from California
@clintonsukal5753
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing people and music glorifying God. A truly beautiful and uplifting performance. To God be the glory.
@susiegarcia7773
3 жыл бұрын
Wow , Thank You to all who participated, this video so refreshing brought tears of joy to my heart
@suecarroll5064
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you from Australlia. Beautiful.
@willmandu
2 жыл бұрын
It really is a wonderful arrangement!
@dandanmusicstudio
2 жыл бұрын
Good singing everyone as well!!!
@lynlockrey7372
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a really beautiful presentation of, "Here I am Lord". Lovely harmony, soloists, and orchestra. One request though. Why not include these great lyrics into captions so the deaf and hard of hearing can see the message while watching the video. One in five people have a hearing disability and need to have the same access as we all have to the greatest messages the world needs.Google's auto-captions spoil the message. Please include correct captions on your videos as they make such a difference. God bless your endeavours for Him. Lyn Lockrey, downunder Australia.
@deborahmichellemsander4123
2 жыл бұрын
I agree totally Difficult but not impossible Handicapped people, due to our variety, are the majority
@lavernecruz8605
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing😍this is my one of my favorite song😊thank u guys for the wonderful hymn💜🇵🇭
@bettyspearns8341
3 жыл бұрын
Beyond beautiful, thank you! ❤️🙏
@dandanmusicstudio
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it
@tina.a.59
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this wonderful song 🙏 God bless you all ♥️ take good care from Sweden 🤗
@reynanpaultamondong7082
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful arrangement and I love this song so much.
@owietjantik
2 жыл бұрын
beautiful song
@dominicsavioarockiam3221
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! God Bless you!
@nancysimmons3678
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you . I needed to hear that tonight.
@debbrooks3598
3 жыл бұрын
a pleasure to warch thank you all.
@laurawhite9861
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. So beautlfully arranged
@katiadecareau-NashuaUSA
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@patriciahilaire9071
3 жыл бұрын
Kathleen this is truly so beautiful. More so you are all in it. Happy Easter dear cousin and thank you for my lovely card.
@christinanagy5062
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@ericcarolus1340
3 жыл бұрын
AWESOME.
@CITASENAUDIODELLIBRODEURANTIA
2 жыл бұрын
Sublime….
@konkatijoseph6635
3 жыл бұрын
Nice songs
@user-vy1ur8xz6w
3 жыл бұрын
Great
@davelongenecker649
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent work, Mr. John Dandan! Your arrangement is an excellent arrangement, and you were able to get an amazing performance from all singers and instrumentalists! I see that you were the arranger and producer - did you do the extra synth and drum programming and mixing as well? I see you've got an L22 mic in stereo on your piano - COOL! What a delight to hear such an amazing song, with such a fantastic arrangement, performance, mix , harmonically very interesting and fantastic mix elements. - and oh - I forgot to mention the video and editing - well, top notch there too! Congrats, Mr. Dandan!
@joseabenojar4226
2 жыл бұрын
Hellow. Goodmorning. Everyone Godblss. you. all. and. to. your. Nation!! thank. so. much. Everybody. happy sat. 🕊️🕊️🌈🕊️🕊️
@GilmoreDon
3 жыл бұрын
I know for a fact that it is hard to put together a virtual choir production. Certain choices must be made based on the talent available. Overall, this is a good presentation. My only criticism would be that the tempo seemed a little slow. It made the song syrupy sweet in places.
@seanthomas3644
3 жыл бұрын
😭❤❤
@woadispatch3923
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!! Touching to the core. Happy Easter to all.
@michaelpeel3888
2 жыл бұрын
Part 2 B The favoring of the Jew over the Gentile is not the important part. Showing that Paul is just like everyone else is; because, it shows his very human response to rejection by his powerful kinship. He is hurt and wants to strike out at them and in doing so uses scripture as a smoke screen to get it done. There are many scriptures covertly showing Saint Paul’s frailty; yet, some Scripture point directly at his powerful kinship. Acts 23 to Acts 24 shows Paul’s affiliation with the Jews. In Acts 22:3-5 Paul says: “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.” Paul is trying to tell the Jew that he understands their problem as he once worked as a high official sent to bring the Christian to justice before his conversion event. This speech will get him arrested and the next day he will face the Sanhedrin. In Acts 24, Paul sees that the ruling bodies of the Jews are about to have him killed so he started a little ruse to get them arguing among themselves to take the focus off of him. Acts 24:6-8 Paul says: Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.” When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.) Paul tried his best to testify about Jesus to the Jews in Jerusalem as a man of authority in that group. This nearly got him killed. They plotted to kill him but he managed to escape to eventually preach the word about Jesus in Rome. The time in between his preaching in Jerusalem to Rome he became hardened against the Jew. It is my opinion that this is where the idea that choice in choosing Jesus was born onto this world when the truth is clear. Paul chose nothing. He was knocked off his ass to the ground, blinded and told to wait for further instructions. Acts 9:1-6 clearly shows he had no choice. Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” The Lord said to Paul “you will be told what you must do” not what you can do if you want to be in my club. You see, Paul is just like any other man full of pride. He created an illusion of choice in choosing Jesus: a choice even he did not have. Paul will come to understand his own weaknesses concerning the flesh as we see in Romans 9: 19, 24 and 25. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Here Paul is describing salvation through Grace not choice; a grace he would write time and time again that would be denied to those who did not choose to be converted. He was God’s man, but still a man given to the full array of human frailty. Our Biblical Commentators and Scholars have simply confused content with the context for which it was originally used. Saint Paul was simply trying to win a battle and confused easily understood ideas to get it done. We have taken Saint Paul’s battle out of contexts and given it completely over to the content for which we find it has been used even to this day. So why do we continue in another man’s battle with his powerful kinship as though the bad fruit of that battle is the very truth? How can we understand that God created all things and all things from the beginning while also believing we can change any part of that creation by a choice we can make concerning Jesus as the Lord? The answer is simple. The Church continues in this bad teaching to hold us hostage to grow more powerful. Power begets power. It is just that simple. More to come!
@RawDaDa
3 жыл бұрын
Why so gloomy? I expect to see genuine smiles and tears of joy. Looks like you all hate doing this, or feel uncomfortable. Sorry, but that's what I see.
@williamdouglas1912
3 жыл бұрын
I had to watch again when I read this! Ummm
@richardespanto8459
3 жыл бұрын
What you see in others is actually what you are. Just saying....
@daretoliveinhim
2 жыл бұрын
Don’t know what you see bro but I don’t see it. They are focused and concentrating
@daretoliveinhim
2 жыл бұрын
When it comes to music, it takes concentration and focus, especially when it comes to virtual productions.
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