SOLITAIRE!
DFO 1064
12/80
--An Inspiration while watching an Andy William's Show video!
1. "Solitaire" is beautiful! Listen to this, it's beautiful! This is the kind of music I sang with heartfelt emotion:
"There was a man, a lonely man,
who lost his love through his indifference.
A heart that cared, that went unshared,
& slowly died within his silence.
Now Solitaire's the only game in town,
& every road it takes me, takes me down.
And by myself it's easy to pretend I'll never love again.
And even to myself I play the game,
without your love it always ends the same.
While life goes on around me everywhere,
I'm playing Solitaire.
Another day, a lonely day,
so much to say that goes unspoken.
And through the night, each sleepless night,
the eyes are closed, the heart is broken.
Now Solitaire's the only game in town,
& every road it takes me, takes me down.
And by myself it's easy to pretend you're coming back again.
And even to myself I play the game,
without your love it always ends the same.
While life goes on around me everywhere,
I'm playing Solitaire.
Solitaire's the only game in town,
every road it takes me, takes me down,
I'm playing Solitaire." (Weeps.)
2. When you hear that song, think about all those lonely old folks that you see in those vacation resorts, you see them playing Solitaire & old folks' games & things like that. How can you love the World unless you can feel their heartache & their loneliness?
3. Don't you folks ever weep for the World? Jesus even wept for the Jews, think of that! He wept over Jerusalem.--Luk.19:41. The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept".--Jn.11:35. You know why He wept that time?--Because of their lack of faith. The Lord had compassion. He had sadness & sorrow for the World, "a man of sadness & acquainted with grief".--Isa.53:3.
4. You need to hear the heartcry of the World! You need to be sensitive to their sorrows & their sadness, or how are you going to have compassion for them? How are you going to have love for them unless you feel their loneliness & their lack of love & their sadness?
5. Songs that really get through to you, I think, are great songs, songs that move you, music that really moves you emotionally & really has genuine emotion. Even though it be sad & lonely & loveless, it's great music, it's beautiful.
6. I don't know how you could love the World or how you can feel the love of the Lord without feeling sorry for them, feeling compassion for them. Jesus was tired once & He didn't even want to go out, but He saw the multitude that needed His help, & it said that He had compassion upon the multitude. (Mk.6:34) He wanted to escape but He had compassion on the multitude, He was sorry for them, He had to do something about it, He had to help them, so He went out to them.
7. That ought to break your heart! If you don't have a broken heart you're never going to be any good for anything, you're never going to know how to love the World or want to reach somebody like that with the Lord. It ought to break your heart! It's so true, it's so sad, they're so lonely & every road they try is down because they don't find Jesus.
8. Wouldn't you like to reach somebody like that with the Lord? This song just touched my heart so when I first heard it. It's a heartcry of the World, so sad! They're so lonely & playing Solitaire.
9. Can you remember when you were lonely without the Lord & everything seemed to take you down, & there seemed to be no love, no hope? It ought to break your heart & make you pray & do everything you can to try to reach them for the Lord. Jesus help us, Lord!
10. It's such a sad song, but it's so true! The Greeks had a word for it called catharsis, in their Greek tragedies. They said tragedy was better for you than comedy because it created a catharsis, a purification, it purged you & it made you pure:
11. Like deep emotion & weeping washes away the impurity, the silliness & foolishness & makes you honest. Catharsis, purification. The tragedy helps to purify. Like that little poem I've often quoted to you: "I walked a mile with gladness, she chatted all the way & never a thing I learned from her for all she had to say. But I walked a mile with sadness & never a word said she, but oh the things I learned that day that sadness walked with me!"
12. (Tongues & weeping:) "Would that we could reach them with the Love of Jesus." Amen. TYJ! Lord, help us to reach them. Jesus was willing to die to help people so lonely & sad, heart-broken! Are YOU willing to die for'm? Well, you may some day. I think it's worth dying to help people like that, sad & lonely & without the Lord. Are YOU dying for them? c
13. This is like the song of the lonely old, you know? So many of them have lost their mate, theirs died & they're alone, & it's too late in life for them to find somebody else. Nobody to talk to, nobody to share with anymore, nobody to sleep with, just so alone without the Lord!
14. It should break your heart! It should make you want to do all you can to try to reach them with the Love of JESUS, amen? O Jesus, help our kids to reach those lonely lonely people, Lord! They can't do US much good, Lord, they can't do Your Kingdom much good, they can't leave their old folks' homes & go out & be witnesses; but Lord, at least we can save them in the end, on the threshold of death, from their loneliness & their sadness & their solitaire. Jesus help us, Lord! g
15. O Jesus, help us! Help us to reach those poor lonely people who are playing solitaire so alone, so sad! They know they've hurt others & they've lost their loves, lots of times through their own fault & their own neglect. Help us, Lord, to reach them with Thy Love, Thy Message. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! Oh Lord, help us!
16. Help Thy little children, Lord, to have such love for them, to cheer their hearts. They just look at THEM & they know there's a better World, Lord, that they came from Heaven, & they're bound for Heaven, so there must be a Heaven, to cheer & encourage their hearts.
17. Help us to bring them the love that alleviates their loneliness, Jesus! Lord, we don't know how to say it, we don't know what to say, but we just ask Thee to give us the love & give them the love, that they need to see them through. Even the old folks, Lord, those who are playing Solitaire, sad heart-broken World, lonely, loveless, lifeless & so all alone playing Solitaire.
18. Help us in Jesus' Name to reach them, Lord, with Thy precious love & the good news of happiness & love that lasts forever! Break our hearts, Lord, ache our hearts, melt us, break us, make us compassionate, make us long to help those poor old folks!
19. I know what it is to be a parent, to love a child. I love you, so I know how much THEY must love you. Even if they didn't know how or weren't right or didn't know how to show it & couldn't give you Jesus, at least I believe they loved you.
20. Have you showed them love? Have you written them? Have you tried to tell them how much you love them, that you miss them, you are sorry to be away but you have to be away. Some of you don't have very far to go & you can go home for a few days for Christmas.
21. Some of you would have an awful long ways to go home, it's too far, but at least you could write'm a loving letter, send them a little remembrance, a token of your love, & tell'm that you're sorry, you wish you could be with them but you're serving the Lord & that Jesus is with them. Someday you'll be with them forever if they'll love Him. PTL? Amen? Will you do that for me?--Or phone'm?
22. I know what it is to be a parent & what it is to be out of touch with your children, & children who never write you, you don't even know where they are or what's happening with them. They once lived with you & once you enjoyed their fellowship & their presence & you once did everything you could for them.
23. You really should write, & be a testimony, a witness & encouragement & let them know you're happy. Let them know you're serving the Lord & try to tell them how to love Jesus. Don't you think you should? Some of them already know the Lord but they're not following Him, they're not serving Him.
24. Some of them don't understand what you're doing, they don't understand why you're here, they don't know why you'd rather be away from home & live with us instead of them. They just don't understand the Love of Jesus & the Love of God & His Service, they don't understand it. But I think you ought to write them & try to explain it to them, try to help them understand it. The Lord can give you the words, He can give you the wisdom.
25. They started you, they prepared you. The Lord chose you, so they must have done SOMETHING right, they must have done SOMETHING good. I think you ought to give them credit for it. I think you ought to honour them. I think you ought to tell them & thank them & write them. I do! I love you! But I love them for making you & starting you & getting you started & aiming you--they must have aimed you the right direction somehow!
26. Why don't you show them a little love & thanks & appreciation for at least trying to do what they thought was best & starting you in the right direction. They put you in church or Sunday School or they tried to teach you right. I think you ought to honour them, God's Word says so. (Ex.20:12)
27. I think you ought to write them & tell them that you love hem & thank them for all they did for you & the sacrifice they made for you & getting you started, & that you love them & that you appreciate them, & you just wish they could understand what you're doing. That you love Jesus more, that's all, you just love God more.--Not me, it's the Lord, it's Jesus. PTL?
28. Think about it & pray about it, OK? Did you think about your parents when you were hearing that song? That song really moved me, it really touched me for the poor, especially old folks. You so often see lonely old folks playing Solitaire. Their love is gone, their wife or husband's gone, their mate is gone, life is gone & they're just waiting to die. It's really sad, it's pitiful.
29. What have your parents got to live for? They lived for you to begin with, right? For years! Now you're gone & your brothers & sisters are gone, the children are gone, they have nothing left. Probably all the children are gone & they're home alone & with nobody, nothing.
30. All that they lived for is gone & all that they built for is gone, all they saved for is gone. It's just like life is gone. It's just like they're just waiting to die, just playing Solitaire. It's sad. You ought to have compassion for them & love for them & really love them & write them, & if you think it's necessary, even visit them. Please pray about it. I mean it, I really wish you would. (Prays:)
31. Help us never to forget that, Lord, & be faithful to continuously give our love to others, in the Family & outside the Family, wherever we go. We don't have to identify OURSELVES, Lord, we just need to show Thy Love to others, encourage & help them, heal them & lift them. In Jesus' name we ask for Thy glory.
32. See, if He can just break & melt your heart, then He woos & wins it & warms & melts it & makes it bright & burning & happy!--And no longer SOLITAIRE!--Amen? PTL! TYJ! Amen!--Now go share His Love & comfort & companionship with OTHERS!--Amen?--So they'll no longer be solitaire! GBAKYAMYAB! WLY! Do it NOW!--Tomorrow may be too late!
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