Love

Love is a great thing ,a good about all others,which alone maketh every burden light,Love is watchful,and whilst sleeping,still keeps watch;though fatigued,it is not weary; though pressed,it is not forced.—Thomas A. Kempis

Love isn’t just a feeling, Love is a truth filled with forgiveness and kindness. It’s a gift that’s bursting with generosity and honesty. Love is the willingness to serve and protect,to cherish and respect,to honor and to be strong.You don’t have to be in love to feel love,you simply need to embody it. That means that while you might not have feelings of love for everyone you meet you can love them nonetheless.

Have you loved those around you today? Have you shown them that you accept them and love them just the way they are? Have you given this love freely and willingly,with no expectation to be returned in kind?

From now on ,concider that you can love more people in your life than you’re in love with.To do so, see love as separate from the feelings of falling in love. Love is really part of everything and everybody!!!

EXERT TAKEN FROM PLEASANT DREAMS-AMY E. DEAN

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DEAR MICHAEL WE LOVE YOU!!!

ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE MICHAEL IS STILL WITH US THE TOP PICTURE  IS A GOOD ONE!!!

Being Close to God

I’ve looked up at the night sky and beheld the stars so intimately close, it was as if my grandmother had made them for me. “How rich, how sumptuous,” I thought. In that moment I saw God in His creation. I could as easily have seen Her in the beauty of a rainbow, the grace of a deer bounding through a meadow, the truth of a father’s kiss. But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me. We are one.

The One in the Mirror

I wanted to change the world, so I got up one morning and looked in the mirror. That one looking back said: “There is not much time left. The earth is wracked with pain. Children are starving. Nations remain divided by mistrust and hatred. Everywhere the air and water have been fouled almost beyond help. Do something!” That one in the mirror felt very angry and desperate. Everything looked like a mess, a tragedy, a disaster. I decided he must be right. Didn’t I feel terrible about these things, too, just like him? The planet was being used up and thrown away. Imagining earthly life just one generation from now made me feel panicky. It was not hard to find the good people who wanted to solve the earth’s problems. As I listened to their solutions, I thought, There is so much good will here, so much concern. At night before going to bed, that one in the mirror looked back at me seriously, Now we’ll get somewhere, he declared. If everybody does their part. But everybody didn’t do their part. Some did, but were they stopping the tide? Were pain, starvation, hatred, and pollution about to be solved? Wishing wouldn’t make it so – I knew that. When I woke up the next morning, that one in the mirror looked confused. Maybe it’s hopeless, he whispered… Then a sly look came into his eyes, and he shrugged. But you and I will survive. At least we are doing all right. I felt strange when he said that. There was something very wrong here. A faint suspicion came to me, one that had never dawned so clearly before. What if that one in the mirror isn’t me? He feels separate. He sees problems – out there – to be solved. Maybe they will be, maybe they won’t. He’ll get along. But I don’t feel that way – those problems aren’t out there, not really. I feel them inside me. A child crying in Ethiopia, a sea gull struggling pathetically in an oil spill, a mountain gorilla being mercilessly hunted, a teenage soldier trembling with terror when he hears the planes fly over. Aren’t these happening in me when I see and hear about them? The next time I looked in the mirror, that one looking back had started to fade. It was only an image after all. It showed me a solitary person enclosed in a neat package of skin and bones. “Did I once think you were me?” I began to wonder. I am not so separate and afraid. The pain of life touches me, but the joy of life is so much stronger. And it alone will heal. Life is the healer of life, and the most I can do for the earth is to be its loving child. That one in the mirror winced and squirmed. He hadn’t thought so much about love. Seeing problems was much easier, because love means complete self-honesty. Ouch! Oh, friend, I whispered to him, do you think anything can solve problems without love? That one in the mirror wasn’t sure. Being alone for so long, not trusting others and being trusted by others, it tended to detach itself from the reality of life. “Is love more real than pain?” he asked. “I can’t promise that it is. But it might be. Let’s discover”, I said. I touched the mirror with a grin. “Let’s not be alone again. Will you be my partner? I hear a dance starting up. Come”. That one in the mirror smiled shyly. He was realizing we could be best friends. We could be more peaceful, more loving, more honest with each other every day. “Would that change the world?” I think it will, because Mother Earth wants us to be happy and to love her as we tend her needs. She needs fearless people on her side, whose courage comes from being part of her, like a baby who is brave enough to walk because Mother is holding out her arms to catch him. When that one in the mirror is full of love for me and for him, there is no room for fear. When we were afraid and panicky, we stopped loving this life of ours and this earth. We disconnected. Yet how can anybody rush to help the earth if they feel disconnected? Perhaps the earth is telling us what she wants, and by not listening, we fall back on our own fear and panic. One thing I know: I never feel alone when I am earth’s child. I do not have to cling to my personal survival as long as I realize, day by day, that all of life is in me. The children and their pain; the children and their joy. The ocean swelling under the sun; the ocean weeping with black oil. The animals hunted in fear; the animals bursting with the sheer joy of being alive. This sense of – the world in me – is how I always want to feel. That one in the mirror has his doubts sometimes. So I am tender with him. Every morning I touch the mirror and whisper, Oh, friend, I hear a dance. Will you be my partner? Come.

World Abounds in Magic

My idea of magic doesn’t have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic. When a whale plunges out of the sea like a newborn mountain, you gasp in unexpected delight. What magic! But a toddler who sees his first tadpole flashing in a mud puddle feels the same thrill. Wonder fills his heart, because he has glimpsed for an instant the playfulness of life. When I see the clouds whisked away from a snow-capped peak, I feel like shouting, “Bravo!” Nature, the best of all magicians, has delivered another thrill. She has exposed the real illusion, our inability to be amazed by her wonders. Every time the sun rises, Nature is repeating one command: “Behold!” Her magic is infinitely lavish, and in return all we have to do is appreciate it.

THE MAGIC OF MICHAEL

Very often, in interviews done with him and in some of his writings, Michael Jackson describes things he finds amazing as “magic”. It was a word that Michael used often in interviews to describe something, be it music, animation or a starry night, that he felt was really special.  He often said that he loved to create “magic” and seemed in awe of things around him that so many of us just take for granted.

In a very early interview done with him after the success of “Thriller”, he mentions his love of the outdoors and coming outdoors in the evening and just viewing the stars.

Michael had an amazing gift of being able to see “magic” in everything.  It has made me think long and hard how much more precious life would be if we took the time to enjoy every single moment and to see things with the intensity, curiosity and awe in which he viewed them.

Every sunset and sunrise, every bird singing it’s own beautiful song.  Drops of dewy rain and the beauty of fresh-fallen snow.  The crunching of leaves beneath our feet as we walk in the cool, crisp autumn air, the scent of flowers, pumpkins, spice.  Being able to revel in and see the beauty in the striking colors in each piece of art and in nature itself.  We all need to slow down and take in all of God’s beauty, as Michael did.  We could all use more of that child-like awe and wonder when looking at the world.

Michael was a musical genuis, the greatest entertainer we’ve seen, an amazing dancer, an inventor and a humanitarian, and most importantly, a fellow human being.

He thrilled us with his talents, he showed us how love and a gentle spirit could help to change the world.  He cared about and helped hurting children.  He gave his time and money to charitable causes.  He used his God-given talents and gifts to not only entertain and captivate, but to truly make a difference in this world.

Michael was, indeed, magic.

Debbie

http://www.reflectionsonthedance.com/Magic.html

MICHAEL IS LOVE AND MAGIC………

“I think my image gets distorted in the public’s mind. They don’t get a clear or full picture of what I’m like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn’t get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.”

MICHAELS MISSION OF LOVE AND HOPE!!!!

Michael’s message was all about love, and his mission here on earth was one of spreading love, to all people, around the world.  To helping heal people and families, through love, and helping to heal our world through being more conscientious in how we care for our world, our earth, and all that is in it, and caring for our fellow neighbor.

Love was at the very heart of Michael’s message, and that branched out to include peace, hope and healing.  He accomplished that end through using his gift of entertainment, as well as through his humanitarian and philanthropic efforts.

Michael did this through his charity, Heal the World, through his love and care of thousands and thousands of children throughout the world, through his support of many other charities and charitable causes, through his visits to hospitals and orphanages, through his messages of peace, and through his music and the talent that he acknowledged, came from God.

http://www.reflectionsonthedance.com/His-Mission.html

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