Blessed Assurance

[Laststraw77]

I think we are in a depression now , we dont have to wonder if faith will return people.Just look around you .

[MessiahJesusisLord]

1984 the year i was BORN :)

[buddy51]

I'm not at all a religious person, but I love this film and especially the breathtaking final scene. This opening is amazing as well.

[SirLesful]

Well look around ... we ARE in another depression!

[DickieAnginson]

Oh thank you, thank you, so much for posting this. Something fairly incredible happened to me recently involving this hymn, which is my favorite, and I wanted to share it with friends.

[mcmrfklaw]

Now this is how I like for hymns to be performed, only the choir, the organ, and the piano. That's how hymns are supposed to be done.

[JubalCalif]

@mcmrfklaw

I second that emotion! Well said!

:-)

[silverstartrucker]

I have this lovely music played by Virgil Fox on the organ.

[srgillham]

Beautiful musical opening to a great film. Thanks for posting!

[DannyLovesOregon]

Sally Field starred in this Racial-Religous movie which was my favorites to watch. The movie she won an oscar nominee from

[johnyzero2000]

Amazing this was back when they actually made good movies!

[KSCrosby]

Very moving and powerful film. I wish we all lived by faith today as people did then. Sometimes I think another Depression would do us good and build character in all of us.

[w3tno]

Thank you for your comment, although I would not go so far as to wish for a depression.

[Danandvikki1]

@KSCrosby Agreed!

[michaeldj5]

Hi. Can you PLEASE post the ending to the movie, with "In the Garden" as they sung it? I need to be able to book mark that so badly....

[w3tno]

Do a YouTube search on "In The Garden" by fer649. I believe that is exactly what your are looking for.

[michaeldj5]

@w3tno

Well, you're right, it's there. But...the parts where the preacher talks about the institution of the Lord's Supper, it's dubbed in Spanish. I want to hear that in English, in that wonderful, Southern drawl that I was accustomed to hearing when I, myself, was a preacher's son in the Church of Christ and used to wait on the Lord's Table...many, many years ago...

[w3tno]

"Ask and it shall be given you." I have just added the video, which I think you have asked for. Do a search on "In The Garden" and w3tno.

[mayoje74]

This clip gives me goosebumps each time I watch it. It's as if I'm seeing the world my grandparents knew when they were young adults. Parts of it (the hymn, the simple harmony, the dirt roads and fields) are recognizable from my own childhood. Older people often lament that no one visits their neighbors anymore. It seems this world is, sadly, gone forever.

[notahemi]

Revisting this movie. Forgotten lots of it.

Just realized that it opens with a song by a blind person.

I'm sure that wasn't lost on the writer.

[w3tno]

Thank you for your comment. What you are pointing out is that the author of the lyrics, Fanny Crosby, became blind at the age of six weeks.

[mayoje74]

The hungry man on the doorstep taking time to say Grace before he eats brought is powerful.

[w3tno]

Danny Glover is the actor you are referring to. I appreciate your comments.

[mcinamack]

I love the scenery ... it reminds me of the home of my childhood. This is a very powerful movie. I used it in my social studies class. You can tell someone about picking cotton ... but unless you have worked like that, it's hard to image. This movie does a pretty good job. It even sounds hot in that cotton field.:)

[JesusReallyLovesMe]

Sorry... deutsche Sprache... :-)  Haben wir heute morgen NOCH IN DEUTSCH gesungen....

wenn man oft in Englisch kommuniziert, wird es immer seltsamer, die eigene Sprache :-)

[JesusReallyLovesMe]

Haben wir heute morgen in noch deutsch gesungen, Mutter und Sohn.

Sehr viele Hymnen aus Amerika gibt es in Europa auch und weltweit - Hallelujah !

[liltxgal98]

Every time I take a road trip to Waxahachie I just soak in the small town spirit though it has grown leaps and bounds still my idea of perfect "little town"

[liltxgal98]

Every time I take a road trip to Waxahachie  I just soak in the small town spirit though it has grown leaps and bounds still my idea of perfect "little town"

[IoSonoUomo]

@liltxgal98 This clip would imply that. However the film gets quickly disturbing when you see a black teenager dragged to death behind a truck.

[IoSonoUomo]

It's funny how the scenery is grim (dusty town, racial divides, great depression) but it's a beautiful day and everyone seems happy.

[w3tno]

Thank you for your comment. Have you seen the movie? If you haven't, I would be most interested on your comments about the movie itself. The movie has a powerful and controversial ending.

[IoSonoUomo]

yeah, i've seen it. i know how it ends.

keep this clip up here. they kicked the movie off youtube.

[Dwaydt]

The mexican poet López Velarde wrote: My country I love you not as a mith but as a truth of blessed bread. As a catholic seminarist he was referring to Christ.

This be truth in our countries.

[w3tno]

Thank you for your insightful comment.

[sixfobrutha]

This is one of my favorite movies!!!!!

[winniesthird]

Thanks for posting! This is one of the strongest, purest, openings ever to a film. The chorus, the song, the pictures- so powerful. I still get chills!