The Story Behind This Song: I received this back in 1974 while living in Brazil, a country and people I loved immensely, and while doing what I enjoyed most: serving My Lord and my fellow man as taught by Jesus of Nazareth. I was now 2 years into my ‘honeymoon,’ very active and busy with lots of important ministering, yet beginning to find that I was missing or lacking something in my life, and coming to the conclusion that I needed to slow down ‘the work of the Lord’ and take time to praise and worship ‘the Lord of the work.’ He was, after all, the reason for everything I was doing, but I needed to take time with Him in praise and worship.

💽 [from 'New Songs In My Mouth' - Golden Anniversary Album] https://jerrypaladino.bandcamp.com/album/new-songs-in-my-mouth-golden-anniversary-album 

Life on this earth is a fight, we daily face real adversaries and obstacles in every area of our lives—it’s not a 'walk in the park' by anyone’s standard… From the moment of birth the struggle begins, and it only ends when our last breath is surrendered. 

Thank God we have a God who fights for us daily, and who promised that whatever happens, He is there with/for us and will deliver us. The promises in this song are some of my favorites on that subject! He is worthy of our praise and allegiance!

The Story Behind the Song:

It was 1975. I was living and working in Brazil with my first wife and we were visiting friends who had invited us to their place in the country, a small rural village outside of Rio de Janeiro.They were showing us around their property passed on to them by their parents now deceased, and at one point we entered their dining area where as a family they had spent many meals together. We were immediately impressed by the size of the table and all the chairs around it…I counted 15 seats! Incredible…”Why so many seats?”, I asked, and they began explaining that this was how it was ‘back in the day’ when they were kids, that this was for all the siblings sitting with their parents around that table, eating what they had grown and raised together as a family. 

At the same time, cesarean births were just becoming a ‘thing’ in Brazil, with 25% of all births delivered in that manner. It was hard to believe at the time, now so commonplace everywhere. Coming out of youth movement of that day, I was interested in natural ways of doing things, and this seemed anything but natural.

I began thinking of my own country, the US of A, and how things had changed there, in particular the school systems that originally allowed the Bible and Christian-Judeo teachings as part of the curriculum, long before these days when every philosophy EXCEPT those teachings are allowed. 

I’d say it’s safe to say that as a nation we have ‘sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind’, having ‘turned out backs and closed our ears to what the prophets all have told…”