Love Is

¹ Though I command languages both human and angelic -- if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.
² And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains -- if I am without love, I am nothing.
³ Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned -- if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
⁴ Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,
⁵ it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.

⁶ Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.
⁷ It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.
⁸ Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done away with.
⁹ For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly;
¹⁰ but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will be done away with.
¹¹ When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways.
¹² Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known.
¹³ As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love

Incoming

 

 

Maybe it is true that music is the God of the world. 

They come in sacred ways before the sunlight They come through sacred worlds in stories full of real life They come in sacred moves that send them flying over you They come in sacred moves and purpose slowly take like fire like too 

 

With every mountain they invite the sacred song Within the very lore of being now, now... So full of wisdom so descend upon this mantra life

They come in sacred moves that turn around and touch you closely They turn the sacred way the thought is of the first time knowing 

 

So reach out when they are calling Take the time to even notice they are part of you For the finding of the secret you can always rediscover it true...

They come in moonlight all the more because they like to Soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon, soon... 

 

Of all the takes and dances of the bitter stone Of all the fixes and corruption we are ever to see How the bridge now delivers, the breaking of man All ever to the sinner life ever total time

Take a drink from this better life Take a drink from this better life Better by far...

 

They call it seeing of the children's life thirst for love They call it take away the children's fear of life Call it 'this time' first time, changing the signs They call it seeing the children for the very first time Call it 'that, that river of eternal bliss' Call it quintessential time Call it 'everything is light' Call it this time, this time... 

 

Discovery of the silver moonlight turning too Discovery of the days of happening through to you Discovery of the days of happening close to you Discover all the things are coming coming round They call it days of wonder They call it every day is calling calling round 

 

They call it 'children of the diamond life' For giving us light Forever changing our design Forever to be sung For all we see, for all the savior, they're calling us Sent us giving love, sent us giving love...

It's coming now, it's coming, it's coming now... It's coming now, it's coming now..

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Save love, save love, given to us, Save love, save love, given to us Save love. Save love...

Discovery of the reason of it all Discovery of the reason of it all

Yeah yeah, Who do you believe in giving?

Jon Anderson-Survival and Other Stories 2010

Our Children's Keepers

 

 

“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”

This "line" comes from the movie Spotlight, that depicts the incredible Boston Globe investigation of predatory priest's sexual abuse of children and cover up by bishops as delivered by Stanley Tucci in the role of crusading Boston lawyer Mitchell Garabedian

,It might take a few minutes for the meaning and power of this observation to sink in. Let's keep it simple. Doesn't it allude to the disturbing number of people that participate in turning their heads away from and/or covering up indications and manifestations of child sexual abuse (physical abuse, and/or emotional abuse). And it's so much easier to deny or cove-up the rape and abuse of children than it is ignore victimized adults who have an ability to call for justice and arrange for necessary medical-emotional treatment.

Perhaps the best way to measure the health and virtue of a country or entire culture is not just to look at our prisons as Nietzsche suggested but to examine how well or poorly we do protecting our children from various forms of abuse and coming to the assistance of those who have been abused.

Reminds me of another line-the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. And how do we justify that ?