There comes a time when we need a certain call When the world must come together as one

Good morning,
I pray the day finds you well.

I am headed to the Dairy Farm again today. Today is a shorter day only a couple of hours of Chemo. I will have more time for "Y" stuff. I have a couple of good meetings today, both are centered around helping others.

Helping others is the main focus of the "Y", the hard part now is figuring out what the new way of helping others will look like.

Maybe the biggest change in our thinking will be that we no longer think in terms of "others.

There are no "others". There is only us. We are all in this together.

I had written once about not having in-laws because if I have in-laws than I must have out-laws and there are no out-laws in my family so it goes to reason that I also do not have in-laws. I just have brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers and children of various ages...

So if there are now no "others" to help, who are we helping.

We must be helping us; but wait, if there is an us then there must be a them. If there is a them then we have an us and them mentality. Ugggg this is getting difficult.

As I have said before, "These are not easy times to be a shrubbier."

Maybe the answer is in the word "We".

Lionel Richey and Micheal Jackson once wrote a song, "We are the World" (1985). It was a good song, good enough to become a "Coke-A-Cola commercial

Here are the words:

There comes a time when we need a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
Oh, and it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone, somehow will soon make a change
We're all a part of God's great big family
And the truth - you know love is all we need

( CHORUS )
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Well, send'em your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us
By turning stone to bread
And so we all must lend a helping hand

( REPEAT CHORUS )

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, let's realize
That one change can only come
When we stand together as one

I wonder if we can do this, I sure hope so.

Something to ponder.

Blessings,
Roger