Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?

Father Mckenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father Mckenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

I have heard this song before but never have I listened so carefully and meditated on the lyrics as we did in class today. This song is related to the essay The Weight of Glory because all the 'lonely people' from the song are the people who need glory the most. They need to be reached out to and it is our responsibility, as Christ's followers, to do so. We should create a community where all the lonely people can finally belong.

I believe that everyone has the desire to belong somewhere. Professor A. Ribeiro said something that really stuck with me this morning. She said that we are all "looking for something that is not there." How true that is! We spend our lives looking forward to something and striving toward a goal that in the end doesn't even matter. We waste our days trying to look important and have all the right answers. But the truth is that none of us really belong anywhere because our eternal home is not here on earth. Earth is just a temporary stop toward eternity in heaven.

It amazes me that this song can be so impactful when it was not written from a Christian perspective. This just goes to show that not only Christians can make the world a better place. There are millions of good people in the world that are making a difference. They just don't have a direction in their lives. What are they working for? What are we working for? Where do we belong?