LEAVING a MARK ~ RELATIONSHIP GIFT

Each person in your life brings something. Many leave a mark that never goes away. It becomes a part of you. Even those that needed to leave your life, for you, for him, for....some reasons that finally made you realize fighting so hard to make it work, was not as life-worthy, as reasons that weighed in and made it known to you, that it had to end. Even though, you know this, it is still hard. And one day at a time, of just taking a step after a step, you get through the thicket of emotional stresses, that come with change. It's most likely a good human characteristic, that it is hard to say good bye, even though, it is the healthy, right thing to choose.  

 

A past one, that had to end, though I hung on trying so very hard to make it work, now, after 15 years of much necessary intertwined life, but not together - it feels so right. To be alone. Without him in my life. So happy I hung in there and made the separation work. But, the marks that are left linger on. And I am so grateful for the parts that became me. What becomes you, needs you to welcome it, accept it. Music is pretty much my life. But he introduced me to music, I didn't have in my experience, yet. Now, it is mine. Though, he is not a part of my daily life. ~ No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Mauriac

     

In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies
And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I remember, I remember, don't worry, how could I ever forget
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, oh no you don't fool me
Well the hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.

  

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MUSIC IS LIKE WATER ~ SANDRA HAMMEL

I like to feel at one with anything that is good. 

And when I do, it is a feeling that I am in a sacred space, 

a feeling of communion with the universe.

Music makes me whole.

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INSTEAD OF CHILDREN GROWING UP WITHOUT A SENSE OF WORTH

IT WOULD BE WISE TO HELP EACH CHILD KNOW THEY ARE WORTHY 

Many TV ads and many facebook posts are for the kind treatment of animals, pets. Those who have been mistreated, neglected, abused, abandoned. I agree that animals and pets should be treated with kindness and loving care.

But at the same time, I know that there are thousands, probably millions of children who are mistreated, neglected, abused, witness things that no child should be witnessing, they are abandoned, are sold (some by their own parents), are sex slaves (some by their own parents), are married off when only 8 years old or younger, are taken from their parent(s) forced to be child soldiers and forced to kill others, the list could go on and on. Much of this happens in the USA. And I think probably most countries have children who suffer childhoods of great voids and survival needs that aren't met.

But, we don't see ads, explaining the lives of these children. We don't post about them on facebook. Because children legally that are in foster care, for example, cannot have their lives laid out for public consumption, notice. It is called "right to privacy". But in many ways, these children continue in damaging lives, because this so-believed saving of their "rights to privacy", means that we, the public, don't know, don't do anything to help just one of these human beings, don't witness the hell that these children live 24/7. I know personally stories of a few of these children. As a teacher for 30 years, I got to know some of these children. I adopted one of them. I have read the file. It is excruciatingly painful for me because of the empathy that I feel.

And I know that many of these children don't get one posting for them on facebook, a posting at a Huffington Post, an article in a newspaper or magazine. They are simply unknown to us. Their pain is not even conscious often to themselves, because it is called "Life" for them. They know nothing else but the need to find ways to survive daily.

I ask you personally, if you have gotten this far in this post, to at least think of these children today. Tomorrow. And each day after, say a word in your heart for them. Apparently, trusting that God will take care of them, isn't enough. Peace won't come until we give our children on the planet the basic needs to eat, sleep, dress warm in cold weather and have at least one person in their young lives who thinks they are worthy. We say we don't want abortions, but we allow "this" to happen to those children who weren't aborted, but they certainly are invisible to us in our hearts and minds.

Many older foster children who are free for adoption, don't get adopted because people prefer to adopt babies. In this video, are older foster children who were adopted. But many never have a home, know love, or a sense that they are worthy for anyone to love them. I send out love to them, each one and all.

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