In memory of a friend. Famous writer Mikhail Morgulis passed away
Mikhail Zinovievich Morgulis
(October 1, 1941, Kiev – November 16, 2021, USA, Florida, North Port) – Russian writer, founder and president of the organizations “Christian Bridge” and “Spiritual Diplomacy”, Honorary Consul of Belarus in the United States.
Posthumous announcement of Mikhail Morgulis, written by him personally, while he was still living on earth.
I have the honor to inform all friends and enemies, believers and non-believers that I – Mikhail Morgulis – passed into eternity on November 16, 2021. I prepared this message for you in advance, because I will not write to you from there, and other people on earth will write about me in some other way. So, what I want to tell you about in farewell. Probably the most important thing, that in one way or another I loved all of you. And that’s what God taught me. In one way or another, I have forgiven you. And that, too, God has taught me. I also ask you to forgive me, and I ask God to teach this to you as well. But many who read my words have already been taught this. Life would not be easy without God. But with God, even bent under the weight of life, I was able to carry it on my shoulders as my cross. Because He took most of the weight. I think God found me in this life and I touched Him. Maybe that’s why I’m not afraid of death. I have been loved and not loved, listened to and rejected, believed and not believed, but I have lived with all of you and you have lived with me. I did something in this life in America: Helped establish a Russian-language publishing house, Slavic Gospel Press (Slavic Gospel Press) in Wheaton-Chicago, USA, which translated Christian thinkers of the West into Russian, hosted the first Christian TV program in Russian, “Return to God” in the USSR, in Moscow, Channel 4 (NTV), published Russian literary publications in America, Literaturnoye Zarubezhye and Literaturny Kurier, wrote several books, including: “Longing for Paradise,” “Dreams of My Life,” “Spiritual Diplomacy,” “Return to the Red planet,” “One on One with Life,” and several others. I’ve been told that because I was releasing other authors’ books, I didn’t write enough of my own books, and so I didn’t become a famous writer. I don’t know. I took it as a decision of the Almighty. Mostly, I did not plan anything in my life, I accepted work, children, and everything else as sent to me from there. I thank God for my wife Tatiana Titova, who became Morgulis, and for my three children – my daughter Valeria, sons Zinovy (Zi) and Nikolai (Nicholas). I uttered some memorable phrases: “Love and money are never too much – there is always not enough of them”; “Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not come, we have only today”; “Faith without culture, like a bird without wings, will always be on earth, will not rise to heaven”; “All our meetings and partings on earth, – are appointed in heaven”; “Love begins with patience, and only on the roots of patience grow flowers of love”; “Do not hurry to hell, they will not start there without you”, “If you want to see God, do not look at a man”, “You should love everyone, but love differently”, and many other things he said. In my life I realized that love is the most important thing God gave us. I’ve loved good people. I loved smart people. The most wonderful times for me were when I met smart and kind people. I was able to know love and I was able to know pain, and I realized it was interconnected. And I defined love with the words, “It’s when you realize what you are living for.” I tried to forgive everyone, I hold no grudge against anyone. I learned from God that one should love everyone, but it is impossible to respect everyone whom one loves. I had a lot of friends, a lot of friends, but I had enemies and haters. I have always been comforted by the life of Christ. Although I am not an angel, I always tried to be comforted by the fact that if Christ was treated like that, how am I better? So I thank you for my friends and for my enemies. I have a lot more to say, to tell, to explain, but I know that people do not read long things nowadays. Therefore, I bid you farewell. Look for my books, articles, recordings on disks, DVDs and CDs. While watching, listening or reading, you and I will be able to mentally understand each other, and even feel. There was a parable I loved the most. I’ve told it all my life. A man of faith was walking along a mountain road. He was happy, singing, rejoicing, praising God. Suddenly his leg twisted and he began to fall down the mountain. But he was lucky to catch hold of a bush growing on the mountainside. He looked down and there was an abyss. He cried out to the heavens: -“Lord, help me! God answered, “I will, but do you trust me? – Of course I do. I’ve always donated to the church, sung in the choir. I have known you since my youth. I trust You. Help me, I’m going to fall! – Now, bear with me. Just answer me, do you trust me completely? Of course I do. I’ve built the church, I’ve traveled and ministered to people, I’ve told them about You! I trust You completely! Help me, I’m going to fall! – It’s just a little while, bear with me. Tell me, do you trust me completely? Yes, yes, yes, yes, Lord. I know You, I prayed every day, I helped the children, I praised You. I trust You absolutely! Help me, I can’t hold on any longer! And in response, the Lord said, -If you trust Me absolutely, then unclasp your hands, then let go of the bush… So I wonder, at the end of the journey, will I be able to unclasp my hands easily and with trust? Can you? Kids, I’ll tell you one more time at the end. Life is so stale and hard. Only love can make it softer and lighter. So, always remember the words, “Love one another.” Try, I want to hear these words when I am upstairs. In His grace – Michael (Michael) Morgulis.
P.S. And this is a line to my family. You had no idea how much I loved you and love you. And you, if you can, continue to love me.
“Faithful people are not afraid of death.It is the end, but it is also the beginning!”
Mikhail Zinovievich, how did you come to faith yourself?
The first time I thought about it, strangely enough, was when I was about 7. There was a Baptist church on our street. One day the guys on the street shouted to me: “Mishka, let’s go, they are arresting Baptists there. We ran out and watched. There was a row of policemen, and these arrested people… They were walking and smiling. And I thought: how can this be? They are arrested and they are smiling! I remembered it for the rest of my life. Then, when I finished university, there was a second meeting. In Yaroslavl. I went there on a business trip, I was a young member of the Writers’ Union. I was waiting for a train. It was 4 hours late. I went to a restaurant at the station. Such a terrible Soviet restaurant. Waitresses with a six-month permanent, gold teeth, and all angry. I sat there, having a drink. And a man came up to me. Well, you remember, in Russia it’s not like in America… There were so many free tables, and he sat down to me. Anyway, he ordered a traditional dish that I’ve remembered all my life: Village-style bitelets. And they brought it to him. And he started whispering something. I asked him, “What were you doing?” – He said, “I was praying.” And at that time you could get three years in prison for public prayer. So I said: “What were you praying for?” – “I was thanking God for the food.” – “That’s a mistake, warden! It’s not God you should be thanking, but the cook.” And we began to argue with him. I cited Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Marx. He said to me: “I realize you’re educated, better trained than I am. I can’t contradict you. But I have one advantage: I am not afraid of death! Believers are not afraid of death. They pass on to another life…” I replied, “That’s not true! All people are afraid of death!” And he replies: “Not all. A truly believing person is not afraid of death, because he believes that after earthly life he will continue to live in a new life!” And so we talked and talked, and then he went to see me off to the train. The train had already started, I was standing in the doorway, and he was walking beside me and said: “I will pray for you”. I was surprised: “Why for me? I’m not your son.” “No. But for God every new soul is important. And for man it is important to find God.” That was the second meeting. I don’t know the man’s name, who he was. But he served God that day.
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