Kyrie Eleison.
By: Kira Dawn
Tags: Old Age, Morality, World War II, God, Wisdom

I dedicate this to FILZA CHAUDHRY and will link her tale of elders below so that you can join and tell us how you feel.

I read your words and thought, they could not have come at a more enlightening moment for me.

Maybe it is to forward for me to say that we have lost complete and utter lack of human decency. When this goes away completely, we will stop existing. I have read so many painful, heartbreaking words from children who have the mouths of razors and the tongues of swords. “Don’t use the word God, it offends me.” “I am weaponizing God.” I didn’t know that was a thing. I will say it one last time to the youth of America and youth all over the world. You think you know the battle. You don’t. You just simply don’t. I don’t either, but never claimed to. I know stories because both of my Grandfather’s were in WWII and my poor Grandmother in Italy during WWII. The Nazi’s lined you up and shot you. They didn’t care who was watching.

I would like to finish my above statement. My Grandma is 93yrs old and is a Saint. Saint Ines (Saint for helping lost souls). Let me explain to you why I could never understand her trials and tribulations.

Her family was hiding a Jewish doctor at the time when the Nazi’s would just come in, no fair warning, if you got caught. They would shoot you in the head. Maybe after these stories you will see why I believe in God so much.

If this isn’t God, I don’t know what is. This Jewish Doctor had left, but nonetheless the Nazi’s came barging in on top of all the bombs being dropped. I don’t know how they survived without Xanax back then. Back to the story, my grandmother had saved the Jewish Doctor’s info including address, phone number, etc. I don’t know how many of you are versed on what happens if the Nazi’s even caught you with a paper having this name and address on it? Outcome was the same as when her family was hiding him. Shot in the head and killed.

This beautiful day, as my then 18yr old grandmother watched one of the SS pull out the exact book she had put the info in, she thought she was dead. He shook and flipped the book and to her shock no paper came out. They finally left. She ran over to the book and it was there. How do you explain that? God. There is no other way.

If you think that was dumb luck, just look up the SS. I highly doubt you will come back with that same opinion.

I think this was a memory I never shook. Also the hard life she had to live with bombs going off every two seconds and Mussolini, the whole thing was disgusting. I have a lot of trouble with people today who say their lives are so bad. They are not. Maybe emotionally, mentally, but then I have to think are they?

I don’t understand this new world and the sense of entitlement. I have not been through anything severe nor do I claim to have been. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Filza, you are 100% correct with this article. Listening to our elders is how we built our moral high ground. It’s how we knew who we wanted to be and didn’t want to be. How we were going to make things right again. I’m not going to blame one generation as that is ignorant and biased, suffice to say there are undertones of a similar archetype forming again. I believe we are seeing the “woe is me characteristic in the younger generations, simply because they refuse to listen to elders who can teach them. They don’t want to be taught. This will allow for one dominant to come into a power position and all will follow as sheep to their slaughter. Ladies and gents…I think pretty soon we are looking at WWIII. I hope I’m wrong.

Sorry Filza. I didn’t quite capture the essence of the topic, but this was something we have always talked about.

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