We tend to think of 'I' as an identity on its own. This may be because we experience the center of ourselves as a continuum, or because we put too much emphasis on our ego. But in reality, the definition of 'I' cannot be given without considering what is around me.When i am alone i feel different than when i am among people. When i go over the street back to my safe home, i feel different than when i would be homeless. When we are surrounded by friends, we feel different than when attacked by enemies. I certainly believe that 'I' exist as an individual identity, but that identity cannot be understood without awareness of my surroundings. This is significant for the sake of our restoration. It is through reaching individual maturity that we should learn to be independent enough to know God's will for our lives under all circumstances. But even as a mature or perfected individual, we change continuously while engaging in relations, by getting married, getting children, relating to friends and taking care of our house and belongings and the earth, animals and plants around us and the spiritual world.In our lives we need to build up a reliable and good environment, in the form of good relations to God and people and human spirits and angels, and to the living beings and things of creation. It is by learning to do this in a good way that we can improve the well-being of ourselves and of others. We can live healthily both spiritually and physically only when we build a good relationship to all that is around us.How do we build such a good relationship? It is by learning to love, or by caring in the right way. This is a process that sets foundation upon foundation. We need to keep our good relationship to God and take care of friends (who could be called spiritual children or archangels in other terminology). We also need to build a safe home, a place of a secure and beautiful and harmonious environment around 'I' and my family. 'I' am not just I. I exist by my relations. My spiritual and physical health depends on how well i manage my relationships with God, other people, the creation, the spiritual world.
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THE FATHER’S HEART
ReplyDeleteKenny Bickford
Portsmouth, VA.
June 18,1992
(Father’s Day)
Something awoke me at 2am and pushed me to the dinning room table to write this down as fast as possible
It was flooding my mind faster than I could write! When it was completed, I read and cried. Something was pushing me. I took last $50, had 2000 copies made and was pushed to hand them out to 2000 people on Virginia Beach, VA. People tried to have me arrested but, I wasn’t selling anything! Since then I felt it was a gift to all those loosing a loved one. My desire is that it might speak to your heart.- Thank you, Kenny B.
(bobkenbic1@aol.com)
DADDY? WHY DO PEOPLE HURT SO MUCH? AND WHY’S THERE SO MUCH PAIN?
WHY DO PEOPLE SCREAM AND SHOUT AND FIGHT AND FEEL NO SHAME?
WHY IS THAT MAN CRYING AND THOSE FAMILIES HAVE NO HOME?
AND WHY IS THAT CHILD DYING WITH NO FOOD JUST SKIN AND BONE?
WHY DO PEOPLE SERVE THEMSELVES WHEN OTHERS ARE IN NEED?
AND WHY DO OTHERS TURN THEIR HEADS PRETENDING NOT TO SEE?
WHY DO I SEE ALL THESE THINGS AND WHAT IS RIGHT FROM WRONG?
WHY DO SOME GET PUNISHED WHILE OTHERS WALK ALONG?
WHY DO MEN AND WOMEN HURT EACH OTHER IN SUCH WAYS?
AND WHY DO SOME HATE OTHERS WHEN THEY KNOW THAT’S NOT THE WAY?
WHY ARE ELDERS PUT IN HOMES THEIR STORIES NEVER TOLD?
AND WHY CAN’T PEOPLE GET ALONG IT SEEMS THEY LIKE THE COLD?
NOW DADDY I’VE BEEN ASKING WHY WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
MY DADDY WHY’D YOU HAVE TO GO AND WHY’S THERE SO MUCH FEAR?
MY PRECIOUS SONS AND DAUGHTERS YOUR WHY’S THEY INETREST ME
IT’S TIME TO HAVE A HEART TO HEART THAT’S ALL THERE IS YOU SEE
IN THIS WORLD OF HEART-ACHE WHERE”I” IS OVER “WE”
YOU MUST REMEMBER MANY THINGS THAT LIGHT YOUR WAY TO SEE
ONE IS THAT OF FAMILY THE NUCLEUS SO STRONG THERE’S NEVER”I” THERE’S ALWAYS “WE” WITH THIS YOU CAN’T GO WRONG ONE GOD ONE WORLD ONE UNIVERSE ONE COSMIC FAMILY ONE IS NEVER SINGLE BUT PLURAL TWO AND THREE
TWO AND THREE AND FOUR AND FIVE COME ON AND COUNT GROW STRONG SIX AND SEVEN EIGHT AND NINE IT’S VAST AND NOT ALONE
SO WHEN YOU THINK THAT I’M NOT THERE PLEASE KNOW YOU’RE NOT JUST ONE
I’M IN YOUR MIND AND IN YOUR HEART COUNTING ON AND ON
COUNTING ON YOU WITH YOU COUNTING DAY AND NIGHT
GUIDING YOU TO FREEDOM FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
THOSE YOU SEE WHICH HAVE NO HOME NO FOOD NO CLOTHES NO HEAT THE MAN THAT CRIES THE CHILD THAT DIES THE ELDERS IN THEIR SEAT
I HAD TO LEAVE YOU NOT MY CHOICE IT WAS MY TIME TO GO BUT JUST REMEMBER THIS ONE THING I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU SO YOU SEE THESE THINGS ‘CAUSE YOU ARE YOUNG YOUR HEART IS PURE AS GOLD GOD WANTS TO USE US IN “HIS” PLAN THAT’S WHY WE SUFFER SO WE WANT WHAT WE WANT NOT OF “HIM” IT’S HERE WE GO ASTRAY IT’S IN OUR PAIN THAT WE REFRAIN RETURNING BACK TO HIM
SO KEEP THIS MESSAGE CLOSE AT HAND IN YOUR MIND AND HEART THERE’S NEVER “I” THERE’S ALWAYS “WE”
WE’LL NEVER BE APART!
God bless all parents everywhere for it’s in loving that we suffer and it’s in suffering that we learn the HEART OF GOD!
GOD BLESS YOUR HEARTS THAT SUFFER AS CHILDREN WANTING YEARNING and WAITING FOR THE TRUE MASTER OF LOVE TO RETURN!