Jesus loves the little children All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Jesus came to earth to show us how to live. He gave His life – what more must He give To teach us the lesson He came here to teach? Just love one another! Live that lesson and preach!
Preach to the world the need for compassion. Preach respect, integrity… Make them current fashion. Don’t let fear and ignorance take the reigns And infect our society and poison our brains.
White Replacement Theory? What a bunch of bunk! Don’t let such absurdity enter you. It’s just junk! God created each of us with blessed diversity. He created us equally. Believe that with certainty!
Those who fear other skin or folks from outside the USA Are showing us their ignorance by what they do and say. They don’t understand the message God sent to earth When He brought to this world His Son to give us second birth.
They don’t accept the well-known fact of Oneness, The same blood, same love, same spirit of “Done-ness.” We are were “done” by the Potter’s wheel and skill. We all were created by our God, our Savior’s Will.
No color is more beautiful; No skin is a favored one. No cuisine is more tasty. God differently flavored some. So wrap your mind around the true acts of love… Love others unconditionally – Give all hate a shove!
My heart goes out to the families and friends of the 10 who were senselessly murdered by a sick, crazed, fearful 18-year-old in NY this week. Additionally, worshipers were shot down in church two days ago… and the list goes on. It makes my stomach churn. It makes my head hurt. It puzzles my mind. I just don’t begin to understand. I want to help. I need to do my part.
So, with my left hand in a cast and my little finger throbbing, I hunt and peck with my right hand. I send my love out into the world – and I beg my readers to do what you can, too. Try to drown out hate with loud acts of love. Try to squelch fear with gigantic messages of compassion and understanding. Try to stamp out ignorance with numerous exchanges of God’s messages in His Word and through His Son. Do something. Do what you can.
Dear Heavenly Father, help us to set aside fear, hatred, ignorance, and divisiveness, and start as a nation and as a world to just love one another… Amen
See not just yourself, but what matters is that we see the best in others, too!
Faith to FEEL…
Feel their anguish and pain as well as their joy and gratitude
Faith to DO…
DO reach out in faith and love to one another!
Faith to LIVE…
Live the peace of God… sow love!
We Need Faith
Words by John Thornburg
We need a faith so color blind, So free from time-worn lies, That when we look from face to face, We see the eyes of God.
We need an ethic of respect, An honest pledge of trust, That when we share the deepest things, We feel the warmth of God.
We need to act as well as speak, To see each other’s sweat, That as we we labor side by side, We do the work of God.
Come, Christians, look for character, And not for shade of skin, That as we rend the walls of race, We live the peace of God.
In the YouTube video below, hang in there through the introduction to the song, and then let the words, the music, the interaction of the performers, and the joy of the audience and children LIFT YOU UP… “Raise you up to more than you can be!”
With FAITH and God’s help, we CAN and we will be part of the healing solution for this divided world. We WILL be part of the change we hope to see in our world. We PLEDGE to be agents of UNITY!
All you need is LOVE, FAITH, and DETERMINATION to see the eyes of God, feelthe warmth of God, dothe work of God, and live the peace of God.
Together, we can be the change we wish to see in the world. Let’s get to work!
Thanks for joining me. See ya tomorrow. Love, JanBeek
For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies:
CHORUS: Lord of all, to Thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise
Pray with me:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise This our voice of righteous rage. Hear our anguish, hear our pleas. See us down on bended knees.
We are angered and hurting now By the lack of love that somehow Has made life unfair for our brothers, Made life a nightmare for too many mothers.
The hymn says we are supposed to have Love “from our birth.” We need a salve To spread that love to ALL our kin. We all are one – and we all live in sin.
It is the sin of overlooking The hatred and the needless booking, The deaths and harassment many face, The fear and hatred in this place.
Take away our bent toward sinning. Take away our need to be winning An upperhand when we all are ONE, ONE in Christ, Your Saving Son.
Check out this heart-wrenching account of what it means to be a black man in today’s divided, prejudice-filled society. God bless R. Eric Thomas and all those who feel the injustice he experiences:
It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
On Omar Jimenez, George Floyd, Christian Cooper and the myth of being non-threatening by R. Eric Thomas
R Eric Thomas is a Senior Staff Writer at ELLE.com,
Love is power within us all – Do not let it be silent!
For the beauty of each hour, Of the day and of the night, Hill and vale and tree and flower, Sun and moon and stars of light:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise This our voice of grateful praise.
For the joy of ear and eye, For the heart and mind’s delight, For the mystic harmony Linking sense to to sound and sight:
Lord of all to Thee we raise This our song of grateful praise.
Look at the earth and all our blessings. Let us thank God:
“All things come of Thee… Help us, Lord, to be grateful And to share our love and joy freely With ALL God’s children.”
Are you in sanctuary or synagogue or temple or church today? God Bless You!
In my quiet time this morning, Carol Mackey reflected on 1 Cor. 1:10 in which Paul wrote to the people of Corinth, “Now I plead with you… that you speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind…”
Carol wrote in Guideposts’ Mornings with Jesus, “Sunday morning at eleven o’clock is the most segregated hour of the week.”
I was prompted in thinking about that statement to create this Haiku x4:
Sunday Mornings
Segregation thrives most in Sunday morning pews. Where’s our unity?
Race and culture, Ideology and thoughts Pull worship apart.
It must sadden God; It must grieve Jesus’ heart To see divisions.
Instead of focus On our obvious fractures, Focus on One God!
