Hello All
Happy Friday to you!
Tears are the silent language of grief – Voltaire
The last time I sent a Godsign was a month ago. That was not my intent at the time but lousy stuff certainly happens. Hurricane Harvey had just drowned large areas of Houston and Texas and ended up being just the beginning of soooo much more.
Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc on Florida for a week, Puerto Rico received a one-two punch, first Irma, then Maria within two weeks. And then a human hurricane spread devastation and destruction in Las Vegas in less than 15 minutes. More grief and sorrow sometimes just seems to keep bringing more . . . sometimes it does.
More leads to more . . .
More love leads to more love.
More hate leads to more hate.
More kindness leads to more kindness.
More divisiveness leads to more division.
But hate, division, destruction – darkness – is what makes the Lights stand out and shine much brighter. You see the stars because of the darkness surrounding them.
You are made of star dust. You are made from the elements created from exploding stars – literally. You are a star!
Many people and areas of Life are being Lit Up in the hopes we will see the Lights in the darkness. When destruction and darkness happens so many heroes shine big Light and you can also see the answers that are High Lighted.
There was Light shining through more heroic Americans than we will ever know who are police, fire, hospital, emt, first responders and military folks that stayed on their job instead of being with their own families as they all faced different hurricanes ravaging their cities, communities and homes. They will shine their Lights in the years of rebuilding to come.
There was Light shining through more heroic Americans than we will ever know who fix utility and electricity poles, cut down trees, clean up and repair roads from all states and military services that left their families and homes and headed to Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands before, during and after the multiple hurricanes hit. These giving individuals will continue to shine their Light every time the storms hit.
There was Light shining through more heroic Americans than we will ever know in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands as they endured not one but two direct hits from hurricanes. Their dark nightmare brought to Light their beautiful grace and indomitable strength. Their people and mayors continue to work non-stop against enormous odds and in some cases had to fight with their own American leaders to get help. They shine the Light of real Strength and Love for others and will do so for as long as it takes.
There was Light shining through more heroic Americans than we will ever know as they ran toward bullets and terror to help others who faced a domestic terrorist at a concert in Las Vegas. All the complete strangers, police, firemen, emts, doctors, nurses, hotels, staff, restaurants and taxi drivers that helped keep as many as they could alive and get them whatever help was needed. They will continue shining their Lights for the rest of their lives and the lives of those they saved.
Those Lights – those Heroes – they are the Lights of Love that keep us all going.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break – William Shakespeare
There will always be a Sacred Light in humans, and the darkness in our lives can make it shine all the brighter.
Fortunately, there are times when what causes the darkness and destruction can be lessened if not stopped altogether . . . which then brings even more Light.
But it takes courage – as displayed by all the American heroes shining their Lights through the darkness this last month.
More destruction of land, more pollution, poisoning and dumping of our wastes into our Earth’s ecosystem where we live has led to more destruction where humans live. We have made more and more areas of our planet sick and Earth is now running a fever. We have been warned for more than 2 decades that our collective dark pollution and waste would cause destruction. It will continue if we don’t quit.
The warming of our planet is quickly costing billions of dollars. Because of these recent hurricanes more people, more insurance companies, more big and small businesses and fortunately the military and more government entities see the Light and truly realize we have to stop the madness. We have to stop the pollution, poisoning and dumping. NOW – not a decade or two from now when it can be too late. I wish that they saw the Light because it is the right thing for our planet and all of humanity instead of seeing the Light because it is costing them money – but Mother Earth and humanity will take that Light anyway we can get it. I truly know that our planet, our Earth is a sentient Being and very much alive. She wishes for humans to be here with her. But if we don’t see the Light, she won’t be able to do much to stop the destructive cycle we are responsible for.
More weapons, more guns, more ways of killing one another brings more killing of one another.
Period.
The sale of guns has increased in the US for my entire life. Each year there are more sold than the year before. More and more research and statistics are showing that more young people are now dying from guns than from traffic accidents. Many say that more guns keeps us safer. That has not proven true. Violence has not decreased in the last 50 plus years, it has increased in direct correlation with the amount of guns sold. I am not safer, you are not safer, WE ARE NOT SAFER because we are free to own as many guns as we desire.
It doesn’t, it hasn’t and it’s not going to work like that. More ways of being able to kill people brings more killing of people . . . children, moms, dads, loved ones. It will not only continue, but increase, if we don’t stop.
I am not talking about huntin’ rifles used to hunt quail, or deer or whatever animal a hunter chooses to kill and eat. That is not what was used by an evil, sick human hurricane – an American terrorist that struck all of us in Las Vegas.
A semi-automatic weapon’s sole purpose is to hunt and kill as many humans as possible in a very short time. They are not used to hunt animals because of the massive damage they do. Why is it possible in 2017 for an individual to own a weapon that is only meant to slaughter people quickly and en masse?
When do the rights of the many, the rights of all the children, outweigh the rights of the individual when maintaining the right of the individual creates so much darkness and destruction – not safety – to the many?
People no longer have the right to ‘own’ another individual. There was a time a person did have that ‘right’. It never made it correct but it was considered a ‘constitutional right’. Now the rights of freedom for all outweighs the rights of a few to own people.
Women now have the right to vote. There was a time a woman didn’t have that right. Woman were also property and ‘owned’. That belief never made it correct.
For too long a time the color of your skin determined what bathrooms you could not use, what parts of the bus you could not sit in and which restauarants would not serve you. It was never ‘constitutional’ nor was it ever correct but a majority believed for too long that it was their ‘right’ to say it was okay. It wasn’t.
Many of our rights have changed over time as we evolve into better, brigher and more Light-filled human beings. Our ‘rights’ to pollute and poison our planet, our ‘rights’ to possess as many weapons as we desire – those ‘rights’ are causing massive destruction and profoundly increasing the ‘wrongs’ in our world.
How many wrongs before we get to right?
How many deaths before we have the duty – not the right – to fix the serious problems causing the death and destruction to so many? How many of God’s children must die before we realize there is nothing ‘right’ about it?
More love brings more love, joy, laughter, giving and sharing of more love.
More kindness, patience and helping others brings more kindness, patience and help from others through more love.
More questions, concerns and dialogue leads to more answers, serenity and communication through more love
More listening, smiles and hugs brings more understanding, laughter and sacred connections with each other through more love.
That is how it is supposed to be. Find a way that you can shine and be the Hero Light that YOU ARE on our planet Earth!!!
We need you to Shine your Light soooooo BRIGHT!
Shining Star
Earth, Wind & Fire
Yeah, hey
When you wish upon a star
Dreams will take you very far, yeah
When you wish upon a dream
Life ain’t always what it seems, oh yeah
Once you see your light so clear
In the sky so very dear, yeah
You’re a shining star, no matter who you are
Shining bright to see
what you can truly be
What you can truly be!
Shining star come into view
Shine His watchful light on you, yeah
Gives you strength to carry on
Make your body big and strong
On adventure of the sun, yeah
Yeah it’s all awake and just begun
Yeah, thought I had to stir the mood, yeah
That’s it now I got my own oh yeah
So if you find yourself in need
Why don’t you listen to His words of heat
Be a giant grain of sand
Words of Wisdom: Yes I can
You’re a shining star, no matter who you are
Shining bright to see what you can truly be
You’re a shining star, no matter who you are
Shining bright to see what you can truly be
You’re a shining star, no matter who you are
Shining bright to see what you can truly be
Shining star for you to see, what your life can truly be
Shining star for you to see, what your life can truly be
Shining star for you to see, what your life can truly be!
Maurice White, Phillip Bailey & Larry Dunn
©1975 Saggifire Music
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Man In The Mirror
Michael Jackson
I’m going to make a change
For once in my life
It’s gonna feel real good
Gonna make a difference, gonna make it right
As I turned up the collar on my favorite winter coat
This wind is blowin’ my mind
I see the kids in the street with not enough to eat
Who am I to be blind, pretending not to see their need?
A summer’s disregard, a broken bottle top
And one man’s soul
They follow each other on the wind ya know?
‘Cause they got nowhere to go, that’s why I want you to know
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
I’ve been a victim of a selfish kinda love
It’s time that I realize
There are some with no home, not a nickel to loan
Could it be, really mean, pretending that they’re not alone?
A willow deeply scarred, somebody’s broken heart
And a washed out dream
(Washed out dream)
They follow the pattern of the wind ya see
‘Cause they got no place to be that’s why I’m starting with me
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make that change
I’m starting with the man in the mirror, oh yeah
I’m asking him to change his ways, yeah
(Come on, change)
No message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make the change
You gotta get it right, while you got the time
‘Cause when you close your heart
(You can’t close your, your mind)
Then you close your mind
With the man in the mirror, oh yeah
(That man, that man, that man)
I’m asking him to change his ways
(Change)
No message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself then make that change
I’m gonna make a change
It’s gonna feel real good
Come on
(Change)
Just lift yourself
You know, you got to stop it yourself
(Yeah)
Make that change
(I gotta make that change today, oh)
(Man in the mirror)
You got to, you got to not let yourself, brother oh
Yeah, that man
(Make that change)
(I gotta make that make me then make)
You got, you got to move
Come on, come on
You got to stand up, stand up, stand up
(Make that change)
Stand up and lift yourself, now
(Man in the mirror)
Make that change
(Gonna make that change, come on)
(Man in the mirror)
You know it, you know it, you know it, you know
Change, make that change
© Writer(s): Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard
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Hero
© by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff
There’s a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don’t have to be afraid
Of what you are
There’s an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you’ll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
It’s a long, road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you’ll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don’t let anyone
Tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time you’ll find the way
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you’ll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you