Sometimes by looking at the content of pop culture we gain deeper insights and broader general perspectives of the state of humanity. This is true in art, music, cinema and so forth. For a particular piece of modern culture to be popular it has to speak to something in the soul of the masses and perhaps in our soul too.
The Song; „Boulevard of Broken Dreams“ by Green Day was part of an album they released called: „American Idiot“. In March 2006, they received the best album MTV European music award. In other words millions and millions of young people across the world like their music and their lyrics.
The lyrics to one of their most popular songs are below. You can watch the video of the song here: http://www.mp3.com/albums/642361/summary.html. Warning: If rock music annoys you, turn down or off your speakers or do not click the link. If you do not have a fast computer do not even try to watch it. Notice in the pictures of the video a post apocalyptic wilderness landscape of desolation. The video opens with a car running out of gas. We can interpret this as a symbol of the end of times. This epoch is „out of gas“…and if we don’t get Jesus Christ into the tank (in our heart) we go into the abyss.
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams“ (excerpts)
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk alone
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I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I’m the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I’m walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What’s messed up and everything’s alright
Check my vital signs
To know I’m still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone
When I heard this song…it affected me on a very deep level…for in it I hear an inkling of the anguish of humanity without Christ. The singer cries ah ah ah-aaahh ahh……anguish! This is what the young people of the world are listening to! They feel this anguish deeply; they „relate“ to it. Christ looks down on this anguish and loneliness…this wasteland our souls have become where the viper has taken up a home. In this wilderness of our souls Christ suffers to a degree almost beyond human conception. He helps Vassula understand.
I then made you understand how I had suffered in your wilderness and how you had turned My Lips dryer than parchment for thirst of love; then I made you see your insides as having become the perfect wasteland for the viper to nestle and lay its eggs without fear within you; 
March 3, 1990
In the wilderness Christ was himself confronted with the tempter:
„Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.“ (Mathew 4:2)
When our soul becomes a wilderness we also are confronted with the tempter…but in our case for many, he is not defeated! The viper lays his eggs in us!
What is this shadow the song speaks of as walking beside the singer? He sings:
„My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me“
The shadow that walks now with humanity is the shadow of death. The song is expressing what lies just below the surface of consciousness for the masses and young people are starting to sense it and expressing it in their music…for Jesus tells us in True Life in God:
„My Vassula, the shadow of death looming over your generation, a shadow that can plunge it into the deepest abyss, is covering a good part of it now…“ February 25, 1998
Notice next these words in the song:
„I’m walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind on the border line of the edge and where I walk alone…“
The edge he speaks of is the abyss…millions walk on the edge of the abyss…again I quote Jesus’s words in TLIG:
„My Vassula, the shadow of death looming over your generation, a shadow that can plunge it into the deepest abyss, is covering a good part of it now…“
The soul loneliness felt by those who do not have Christ, felt by millions, has cast them into the wilderness, outside of communion with Him. There is the sensing of an edge…The soul thinks: „perhaps I have already died…living in this hell of broken dreams?“ So the song’s author says:
„Check my vital signs to know I’m still alive and I walk alone“
He can still hear his „shallow heart beating“ – so concludes he is still alive…in other words, though he senses in a way he is spiritually dead…he hears his own shallow heart beat…so he is in fact alive, the walking dead.
I am Present and My Power heals and saves, but, look at the world today, very few responded to grace and have not taken their refuge in Me, Yahweh; very few fear Me, Vassula; death is round the corner but even so, the world does not invoke My Holy Name; this generation refuses to walk with Me;
in the land of the dead I have sent you, where havoc and despair reigns in many hearts; although the noose of the evil one is evident now, still, the world in its apathy continues to hate My precepts; My Law is constantly being broken… June 1, 2002
Jesus warns us in TLIG again:
…ahh generation! the hour of darkness is upon you now that you have embarked into the boat of death, it will lead you to death;
the danger signal was given to you now close to ten years; it had been echoing in your ear close to ten years, but you were fleeing from My Voice thundering all this while…foreigners have been more attentive and sensitive to My Voice than you, you who call My Name daily and raise Me daily; if only you could listen, if only you who are dying would see My saving help! but a veil of shadow hangs over your eyes…ah, if you only knew how utterly dead you are and how the rest of you have become grave-diggers for your own graves… March 6, 1995
What is this „city that sleeps“ that the soul walks through on the road of broken worldly dreams? By pain and anguish in a sense there is maintained consciousness…the pain keeps one awake…but the rest of the city is fast asleep.
Vassula, Satan is hounding you, so do not sleep, sleeping leads you into temptation, you become an easier prey for Satan if you are unaware, so be alert, be on your guard, when you are aware, you feel My Presence, remember My Presence… April 27-29, 1988
Jesus after the baptism…went to the wilderness. There he met temptation. In his case he overcame it and was victorious. Millions suffer in the current wilderness subjected to every temptation and succumb. They wander the city boulevard of broken dreams…unprotected. The small lights of souls awake kindling the flickering flame of Christ in their heart…shines out into the night…shines out into the city fast asleep…shines out onto the boulevard of broken dreams – the boulevard Vassula has traveled with God’s Love Hymn. The boulevard of broken dreams has been the harvest fields – where Vassula has labored all these years…many of us know the boulevard as we came from it. Vassula writes, by the Holy Spirt in dialogue with Jesus:
Let Your Words drop on them,
one by one to refresh them,
Look how they are in Your assemblies,
open-mouthed, as if to catch
the year’s last showers;
For the sake of Your great Love,
let Your rain fall on lands where no one
lives and make out of a sterile land,
gardens;
give drink to the lonely wastes,
making grass spring where
everything was dry;
The boulevard of Broken dreams are the lonely wastes… This is where everyone who reads TLIG is called to work. It’s a vast desert of the dead and dying. Not one of us these days can afford to fall asleep and if we do we have to quickly repent and get back to work. Can you hear, can you feel the anguish of humanity that lives without God?
I, who am Master of Love, will teach you to love Me fully and love one another as I love you, this will be your first step towards Me; I look upon you all as My little children, hardly knowing how to walk alone I shall offer you both My Hands and you will place your little hands into Mine, and together, together you and I will make a few steps forward…do you know how I delight already? I will progress you and I will embellish your soul leading it into perfection, if you are willing to open yourselves entirely to Me… April 5, 1989
upon My Shoulders I am carrying you; like a shepherd carrying His weak lamb, I carry you, because I know you are weak, miserable and unable to walk by yourself; I, the Lord, am pouring on you grace after grace, for your survival; I overlook all that you do not do in My favour, daughter; have confidence; I have rescued you from Death to walk by My side, I have rescued you, flower, so that you walk in My Presence,
but Jesus
talk little, shsh…listen to Me, listen: …how many have I raised up in this particular way and educated little by little?
Not many my Lord.
then trust Me…I shall bring you to fulfil every vow that rose to your lips in your act of consecration; listen…who was more determined than I and My Mother for your salvation?
No one.
no, no one;
in spite of your childish insolence I offered you My Sacred Heart to become your dwelling place; why, Vassula, I have taken you by the hand across the desert and have shown you Heaven, and your eyes saw thousands of myriads of angels surrounding Me daughter, I granted you many favours and all this from the Love I have for you, listen to Me…I have come to educate you and millions of others through these Messages, I have not come for you alone, I have not come to raise you up alone, but to raise through these writings nation after nation to glorify Me; and as I have taken you to My Banquet Hall, I intend to take soul after soul in My Banquet Hall too;
…you were uninhabited, a desert, hear Me, then, to fulfil My purpose, I came into your wilderness to pitch My Tent in you to prosper you and make out of you My Property and My Dwelling now you belong to Me and you are My Own and My Temple; for this reason I guard you like the core of My Eyes, from the Slanderer, who without cease endeavours in various methods to invade and ravage your land and make a desolation out of you like a watchman I watch over you day and night, like a sentinel I guard you from all intruders, aha! no-o, no one will be allowed to enter into My Property
I have not spoken to you only, I am speaking to every soul; so come to Me, you who are needy, I shall lift you out of your misery and press you to My Heart; come to Me you who are desolate and I shall make rivers flow out of you; oh come to Me, you who are weary and place your head on Me, rest in Me, soul; your hardships, your worries, I shall bear, give them to Me, offer them to Me and I shall relieve you, rejoice! for in your nothingness I Am Everything, in your poverty, I am King, and in your abandonment to Me I can do My Will! Righteousness and Justice are observing you, so do not fail Me, soul, Salvation is at your door January 16, 1991
None of us can sleep now. We have to wake up. We have to work and pray like never before. With every fiber of our being we must guard the „flickering flame about to extinguish.“
Jesus, lead us all out of the loneliness of the „boulevard of broken dreams,“ dreams the tempter has woven over our eyes. Dear Lord, wake us from our apathy and lethargy this lent to shout your message around the world, your message which saves. Allow us with your help…to assist our brothers and sisters…who cry out in soul anguish „for someone out there who will find me“ as they walk without you…alone. Amen
Jonathan
