GOD CREATED THE WORLD TO SIMPLY BE A SIMPLE ONE WHERE EVERYONE LIVE SIMPLE LIVES……………..

HE BLESSED IT WITH ALL THE PURITIES TO PERFECTION WHICH CAN AFFORD US LIFE FOREVER FREE OF SICKNESS & HARDSHIP.

HE PLACED BEFORE US ALL THINGS IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMFORT & THE COMFORTS OF OTHERS

HE PLANTED FOOD ON THE LAND, PUT ANIMALS TO LIVE IN HARMONY  AMONGST US ,  PLACED FISHES IN THE OCEAN AND ALL THINGS THAT CAN FLY IN THE SKY.

GOD GAVE TO US EACH OTHER AND EMBEDDED MANY TYPES OF EMOTIONS INTO OUR HEARTS AND GAVE US THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT OF ALL……….THE GIFT OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES…..THE GIFT TO RATIONALIZE AND MAKE DECISIONS……….THE GIFT TO CHOOSE BETWEEN RIGHT & WRONG & THE GIFT OF LOVE, LIKE ALL OTHER CREATURES OF HIS WORLD WITH THIS DIFFERENCE:

THE WISDOM TO CHOOSE HOW TO SHOW LOVE .

WE HAVE CHOSEN TO POLLUTE THIS PERFECTION OF GOD’S PUREST CREATION, AND MISTREAT ALL THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR COMFORTABLE CONTINUED EXISTENCE………………………………………………………

WE HAVE CHOSEN TO ENDLESSLY DESTROY AS MUCH OF EARTH’S LIFE FORMS THAT ONCE GAVE US ENOUGH TO EAT SO TO SUSTAIN US AND PREVENT US FROM HUNGER AND STARVATION………………………

WE HAVE CHOSEN TO USE THIS GIFT OF HOW TO LOVE IN WAYS THAT BRING US THE SADNESS & TROUBLES THAT ENGULF OUR ONCE PERFECT WORLD ………………………………………………………………………

WE HAVE CHOSEN THE TO TURN BLIND EYES TO THOSE WHO ARE POOR , WEAK , SICK AND WHO ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE A LITTLE OF WHAT WE MAY HAVE IN EXCESS:

NOW WE CAN CHOOSE TO BE DIFFERENT AND STOP DESTROYING WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP US ALIVE AND HEALTHY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

WE CAN CHOOSE TO CHANGE THE WAY WE LOVE AND OPEN OUR EYES SO THAT WE CAN RECOGNIZE THE ONES WHO NEED A LITTLE FOOD TO EAT, OR A BIT OF CLOTHES TO WEAR, OR A SOME SHELTER FROM THE COLD OR EVEN A FRIEND TO TALK TO …………………………………………………………………………………………

WE CAN CHOOSE TO CHANGE THAT PART OF THE WORLD WHICH IMMEDIATELY AFFECT OUR EVERYDAY LIVES BY DOING JUST THIS,

CHOOSE TO BECOME A PART OF US HERE AT                                        FREDDY & LITTLE MASSI CALLING CORP WHO CHOSE TO  DEDICATE OUR TIME & EFFORT IN DOING JUST THIS…….

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IF NOT YOU, THEN WHO? IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN?

It’s amazing where you can be led by researching something. I wanted to philosophize (BIG word) on the above quote, and out of sheer curiosity started looking to see where it came from. Well, this led me to a maze of sources, though the most often-cited is the 1st century Jewish scholar Hillel the Elder. Just for the record – he is also cited in WIKIPEDIA (always remember this is open web sharing, *smile*) as being the one who came up with the “Golden Rule”. I’ll let you guys Google, it’s a fascinating journey. Kind of like in the days before Internet (hrm… you did not hear that, did you?) when you’d start looking up a word in the dictionary (these are not extinct) and spend a little while there because you kept finding other really cool words you did not know, and in the end you forgot what you were looking up in the first place, but it didn’t matter any more… But I digress…

The abovementioned quote has obviously been around for a long time, probably tagged on crumbling walls since tagging was thought up and pasted on websites maybe since the beginning of the social network epoch, until it has become so familiar that a lot of us read it and nod and maybe don’t think about the meaning of it. So what brought it to my mind? Another Facebook post by a friend of some words by Leonard Peltier (thank you for posting, Bear Gonzales!) which reflected this idea very well.

Thing is, what does this quote mean to most of us? Well if I had to put it into a few words it would probably boil down to “service – duty – loyalty – abnegation “. I was blithely going to expound on this when I came across the link below, written a couple years back by a guy in the Army. I’m not Army myself, but well, this guy said what I had planned to say, and he said it quite well IMHO, from his point of view. So I’m not about to be presumptious or pedantic enough to try to improve it. Give it a read if you like…

http://waldogalan.blogspot.fr/2008/05/if-not-you-then-who.html

OK, so what does it mean to you? let me go hang out some wash and then make us some coffee and tea while you think about it… 

Blessings and love

~Michelle

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