The song is called: "IT'S ABOUT TIME".
There's a full moon over India and Gandhi lives again.
Who's to say you
have to lose for someone else to win?
In the eyes of all
the people, the look is much the same,
for the first is
just the last one when you play a deadly game.
It's about time we
realize it, we're all in this together.
It's about time we
find out, it's all of us or none.
It's about time we
recognize it, these changes in the weather.
It's about time,
it's about changes, and it's about time.
There's a light in
the Vatican window for all the world to see
and a voice cries
in the wilderness and sometimes he speaks for me.
I suppose I love
him most of all when he kneels to kiss the land,
with his lips upon
our mother's breast, he makes his strongest stand.
It's about time we
start to see it, the earth is our only home.
It's about time we
start to face it, we can't make it here all alone.
It's about time we
start to listen to the voices in the wind,
it's about time
and it's about changes and it's about time.
There's a man who
is my brother, I just don't know his name.
But I know his
home and family because I know we feel the same.
And it hurts me
when he's hungry and when his children cry.
I too am a father,
and that little one is mine.
It's about time we
begin it, to turn the world around.
It's about time we
start to make it, the dream we've always known.
It's about time we
start to live it, the family of man.
It's about time,
it's about changes and it's about time.
It's about peace
and it's about plenty and it's about time,
It's about you and
me together and it's about time.
This song did not conflict with my spirituality, but it
matched my soul when I suddenly realized that, in our human bodies, we are all
in this together on this planet called Earth.
From what I've
been through, I have come to know through faith, that we are created by God and
that God has control of all, allowing us to follow our own feelings and
egotistical energy to rebel and to act out so many undisciplined, childish,
behaviors just like children in adult bodies.
One of the primary things that recovery from alcoholism
has done for me has taken my self esteem, that was the lowest on earth, way up
to a level equal to anyone else in a human body on this earth, knowing that
there is only 1 creator and that we all are accountable to this creator whether
we know it or not.
For if we refuse to believe, it may give us an excuse to
not be accountable to anyone but ourselves, unless you are a victim and can
easily blame anyone else for your undisciplined lifestyle.
And, I don't have to be a Bible thumper on this subject
because I believe that this creator has placed a conscious and a knowing when
we are doing right or wrong in our hearts already. And, if we are really honest with ourselves,
we know our own motives for the things we do.
I know that we all have flaws, including myself, which
enables us to "do our own thing", and with "my own thing", undisciplined,
almost destroyed me.
I really didn't know that I had a hidden, unrecognized
God called self-centeredness in me that usually always placed the focus back
onto me, in all of my self pity, depression and loneliness growing up.
And although we didn't have hardly any money growing up,
my parents were a wonderful set of models of family when it came to
unconditional love and acceptance, a little glimmer of what God offers us if we
so choose to accept it.
Having to choose where my bottom was, then choosing
recovery, I was introduced principals to live by in a 12 step group, and by
living by them, helped save my life, help to get out of that self-centered
bondage, and learned how to give to others outside of myself.
By living by principal and not necessarily my thoughts or
feelings, I am living a very different life now. A life that rewards me by doing the right
things by principal that do match with the right or wrong conscious I have in
my heart.
By living this way, the awe inspiring thoughts and
feelings follow these principals instead of the other way around.
The principals that I am referring to are not religious,
but are totally spiritual. Though they
are derived strictly from the Holy Bible, the life saving principals were
simplified for a life changing chance to be able to get to a "poor
wretch" like me.
One of the principals that I was instructed to live by is
lifting up others, to consider who they are, respect them and to seek out how
to better their lives in an other centered mode. For I had lived the opposite for many years.
I am also instructed to lift up others in prayer, to the
God that saved me, especially to pray for the leaders of the world, for that is
the right that he gives us, now knowing that I am no longer in charge.
I have lifted up our world leaders, current and previous
by principal and not by feeling, as anyone who knows me, how I love to debate
politics with my friends!, NOT!
I don't know why I was chosen to be saved, but the fact
is that I was saved, and now, with the ability to be able to share my
experience, strength and hope with others instead of that self-centered bondage
that I was so terribly stuck in.
Therefore, being able to recognize my own selfish
motives, and then choosing otherwise, I also have gained much insight with
recognition with motives in others, especially those in power and influence of
money.
I have lived in both worlds, self-centered and recovery,
though recovery is slow, I want to choose recovery as it is a much better life
for me and now I wish this for America, the land that my children and
grandchildren are inheriting beyond me.
Now I see the world with constant, deceiving power
struggles that causes only division, anger and destruction, and as a nation, we
claim to be free.
My good friend Ross gave me his thoughts on the
difference between a leader and a victim, that I can also equate along the
difference between self-centered and God centered.
THE
Difference Between LEADERS AND VICTIMS
Leaders make mistakes and say, "I made a mistake,
and make up for
it. Victims make mistakes and say, "I'm Sorry,"
and do the same
thing the next time.
Leaders say "I'm good, but not as good as I can be,
yet."
Victims say "I'm not as bad as a lot of other
people.'?
Leaders get compliments and say 'Thank you."
Victims get compliments and make excuses or jokes.
Leaders affect others.
- - Victims are affected by others.
Leaders would rather be admired than liked, and wind up
having an
abundance of both.
Victims would rather be liked than admired, and wind up
having
little of either.
Leaders respect others and try to learn something from
them.
Victims resent others and try to find their faults.
Leaders stand for something and are willing to fight for
it if
necessary.
Victims stand for nothing and either fight about
everything,
or nothing.
- There are essentially two categories of people in the
world...
leaders and victims. Leaders are those whose purpose
seems to be
to inspire and motivate victims until the become leaders.
Victims
are those whose purpose seems to be to criticize and
resist
leaders until they become Victims."
Ross
Q.
The word "politics" is actually derived from
the Greek meaning, "many blood sucking creatures", look it up on
Google.
And though our elected leaders are only human themselves,
there is so much deceit, manipulating, controlling, money hungry, power
grabbing, self centered behaviors going on continuously.
But the main thing that is going on right now is
rebellion against God and each other in Washington.
These people were originally elected and hired to serve and represent the people of the
United States as all people, including Washington had the power and decision
making to dictates what happens to America as a whole.
But, another quote I heard comes to mind.
"The end of democracy is when the politicians can
start voting for them selves."
I don't believe that lobbyist and special interest groups
and stroking of egos started with the declaration of the United States of
America.
to me, buying off politicians
is nothing less than prostitution, for selfish gain.
Even down to the judges and lawyers, do you have injury attorney
TV commercials in your state? I'm sure
that they are laughing all the way to the bank while lives of accident victims
are destroyed.
Their form of control is like underground, never brought
up in the public eye.
Now we have people coming to a rally or protest wearing a
mask and carrying baseball bats? Anger
that is trying to wipe out our history, pulling down statues?, huge violent
protests that leave a mess for the community to clean up?
Original laws and constitution that are twisted for a
special interest group because of money?
Suppose God is in charge of all things, and that God is
letting us do our own thing. God has in
place spiritual laws, then claims that if we don't follow these laws you are
going to have to pay your own consequences.
I know this from first hand experience and now, I take
responsibility for it, detaching myself of blaming others for my sorrowful
life.
When a law is in place, we are to obey that law. If you don't have a spiritual life, go on
your merry way, but if you do, did you ever consider what they really are?
And no way do I follow the spiritual laws perfectly at
all, but I do want to learn more and treat them with respect as I claim
spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
I try to consider spiritual laws like physical laws, like
the law of gravity. If I know I am near
a ledge, I have learned that if I step
off, I am liable to get hurt.
And myself, now knowing that spiritual laws are in place,
I can now see that God is allowing us to do our own thing, despite the fact if
we know the difference whether we know right or wrong.
Even though we know we are doing the wrong thing, we
still do it. Especially when we feel no immediate
consequences at the time.
I think the turning point
for my life was coming close to the point of destruction, facing reality
and choosing otherwise by seeking out and trying to live by these life saving
principals.
I now feel the same about America, losing hope in an
ideal peaceful world, getting so fed up with people called politicians telling
outright lies without knowing the facts, having people believing the lies and
having the lies work.
For one of my good friends said, "the human mind is
stupid, it will believe anything".
That hit me like a ton of bricks, and yes it's true.
And, in my bar sitting days, I can admit that I told lies
trying to impress people for my self centered motives.
Wondering most of my life, not understanding politics as
I was not interested, I have recently heard why there is a division of power in
our leaders in Washington DC.
This principal was put into place to prevent
dictatorship. To enable a working
democratic system with the members to be working for the people of the United
States of America.
This is where I will quote 1 verse from the Bible that
pertains to so much destruction and pain.
"The love of money, or power, is the root of all
evil"
This has been the downfall of all democratic societies in
all of earth's history.
We only have one president at a time.,
There has never been a president that has had as many
world problems as he has in our world history.
I not only pray for him, but all of the world leaders as
I believe that God is in control of all things on this earth.
For we all are in this together, even our current President.
I believe that the solution for this corrupt sinful world
is a collective God centeredness and to let go of the self-serving,
self-centeredness that is controlled by evil and that the world knows so well.
A true humility I believe is what God wants, to come to
him for true answers of all problems, for God says in scripture, "Suffer
little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the
kingdom of heaven"
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