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Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no country , it isn't hard to do ,Nothing to kill or die for ,No religion too , Imagine all the people living life in PEACE..... Imagine no possessions,I wonder if you can ,No need for greed or hunger , A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world....... You may say I'm dreamer I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us,and the world will live as ONE.. John Lennon. This was an e-mail I received from Greg Schuck and he chose to start it with the immortal words of Mr. Lennon. Greg wrote: Some of us look great today ,holding up well. Some of us ,like me ,caved immediately... Nit built for this ,can't possibly imagine the end of this night. It's emotional and physical...tired,profoundly sad and so fearful of the days to come. My greatest consolation is that the entire world is in mourning with us ...In my idiot mind I'm even the perpetrators are broken -hearted tonite .I'm needing to think their remorse is weighing so much more than even they could've imagined. The falling dominos in New York will soon reach the rest of the world,especially the Middle East ...And if you follow the columns of humanity the lie in the path of this destruction you will find no break.Someone would have to match this monumental act of hate with a monumental act of love to stop the chain of events come . I hope it happens sooner than later because the weapons get larger and larger when neighbors loose tempers.There are police who come when neighbors get out of hand ,but there are no authorities big enough when countries collide .I am remembering the night we let Bhagdad have it ...We all watched it on TV It was so cool until I realized who we were bombing..."INNOCENTS". Wen bombs drop on cities,a few men die with guns in hand.. but youngsters die with their Teddy Bears.Nothing in Nagasaki or Hiroshima is over fifty years old...including the people .I have to Pause here to admit something ....I'm thirsty for blood too. I want a law enacted to lift the humane rules we normally follow when we kill our murderers....I dream of the perpetrators suffering horrible torture for years and years . I'd like every American to have the chance to inflict a little pain on these people if they're so inclined. So I am at The State Fair and its 3 balls for a quarter ....this is gonna be great ! If you hit them and they make any sound of anguish,you win something from the top row!...But , alas, I wouldn't have it in me ...(I'm a little weak in that area),the fantasy alone gives me the release of anger I'm needing today. I started this E-Mail with the lyrics of a song that has so much meaning to me right now...I can't ask John exactly what his point was but here I am .Thirty years later,beginning to "get it ". That taking an "after life" for granted and creating its properties and inventing your own pathways to it can be so detrimental to the "Heaven" we have here on earth. No heaven ~ no terrorists...they'd be at home today God in the songs of the birds and seeing him in the faces of their children...just as God intended it to be . And the skyline in New York would look normal and lovely. We'd be worried about our economy and our politics....how we long for those biggest issues again. But God has been summoned now ...The Devil that lies inside man is kicking up some trouble . God will arrive,intime,from within us too. Will he be a vengeful God ?Or will he be a forgiving God? The days that lie ahead will tell a story of Biblical proportions....My prayer is this ..."God please show us your "Beautiful" face ...I want to see you smiling when you get here ...Not angry. I want you to help us all fix this ,not be vengeful . You are in us always,so we do your bidding ...Please .please,please help us find ourselves back on the pathway to glory,not the pathway to destruction". G. P.S. I'm getting a lot if E-Mails regarding how we're gonna "kick some butt"....It's breaking my heart to see this swell of vengeance and I needed to send a "message in a bottle " in reply,just for my own mental stability. If you are reading this ,I consider you my friend.Would you wake a friend in the middle of a beautiful dream in the midst of a reality that is so horrendous?... Please indulge me and let me sleep. No rebuttles,no straightening me out today ...I can't handle anymore "mean spirit" right now ...SERIOUSLY.
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