Finish of book - LOVING EVERYTHING
Saturday, July 11, 2015
LOVING
EVERYTHING
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
7/7/2015 - 7/11/2015
I do believe it is appropriate that on this day, July 7th, 2015, I am beginning the ending of this book. It was 49 years ago today that one of my best friends in life passed forward to his next life. That would be my Dad - Leo Peter Bessler. Dad perished in an auto/pedestrian accident on this day in 1966 at the age of 59. He was the pedestrian and was no match for the pickup truck that struck him.
That said, let me get on with it; and let my words be my "eulogy."
Gonna Love Everybody
In 1974, when my lovely daughter, Anita, was only 4, I wrote a song that I called "I'm Gonna Love Everybody." At bedtime, I made it a bit of a ritual to sing to Anita. Her mother, Dee, insisted that Anita go to bed at 8 O'clock. I thought that was too early, but I got around that too early thing by accompanying Anita to her bedroom and singing songs for awhile. I would sing mostly country songs made famous by the likes of Jim Reeves - my favorite country singer; but I would also feature a song or two that I may have written.
One of those songs was the song featured below - which Anita called "The Love Song." Anita would say, "OK, Daddy, sing The Love Song now before I go to sleep." And I would sing to her "The Love Song," though I had named it "I'm Gonna Love Everybody." Here are the lyrics to that song as I wrote it in 1974.
I’m Gonna
Love Everybody
REFRAIN:
I’m gonna love everybody
through the love I have for me.
I’m gonna love everybody.
What wonderful feeling it’ll be!
So step right up and be my love.
I belong to you, you see.
Then go out and love
because you first loved me.
Today I’m gonna take that girl
and hold her in my arms.
I’m gonna love her dearly
and enjoy all her charms.
There simply is no way
that we should feel ashamed
of loving one another
the way that we were made.
Refrain.
There’s a saying, friend,
that goin about -
says that we should all be ones
to let it all hang out.
I believe that’s the way it should be.
There simply is no way
that I can’t be free.
When I’m blue,
I look into the sky,
feel one with God
and I share with the Divine.
Then I’m convinced
and I have no doubt
We should join with Nature
and let it all hang out.
Refrain.
What is love, my friend,
that we should care?
What is love, my friend?
Why should we share?
I have the answer, friend.
I have it right here.
We should love
because we’re His
and because we are here.
Refrain.
ENDING:
Then go out and love
because you first loved me.
Almost Right
I do believe I had it "almost right" with that song, but not "completely right." My song left out having to "love everything" - not just everyone. I was on the right track, though. Don't you agree? I do think that we should love everyone because - as my song says - "we are His and because we are here."
In those days when Anita was still young - and now she has grown to be 45 and has three wonderful kids herself (Desiree, Kelisha, & London) - I believed in a Personal God - that somehow made everything from a personal wand that "He" may have waved. Presto - there they were - Adam & Eve - magically waved into existence by a Personal God Who or Which makes everything.
That was fine, too, to think that way - or was it? What did it hurt to think of God in that way? In retrospect, however, it does hurt a lot to think that way because thinking like that puts God "outside" of all "He" creates - and once more, it puts God in a position to "judge" all that "He" makes.
In my mind now, that view is not only wrong - but terribly wrong. It happens to be the "way of the world," but I don't think that way is right because I think that way and that thought is filled with injustices. By thinking that God is a Person, we have been held accountable to all sort of "persons" who have dared to claim they represent that "Personal" God; and so much chaos has been the result.
No one can challenge the rights of a Personal God. That has been the "way of the world" since time began. By placing God "outside" of all that "He" supposedly creates, we have placed God as a "Person" that can judge all that He has created; but by doing that, we have allowed myriads of people to place themselves in the position of "gods" who behave like "sons of Justice" because we have put God in a position of being a Judge and a "Commander of Justice."
Moses comes to mind. By making God a "Person," Moses could claim he had "talked with God" and that God had told him to instruct others in the way of commandments. By believing that God is really a Person, all of the subjects of Moses believed Moses really talked to God because if God is a Person, it just makes sense that God could speak to anyone "He" pleased and therefore, "direct" as "He" pleased. Right?
Now, you have a bunch of people going forward to "sacrifice" lambs to please some Personal God because that is what they were "told" to do. And today, that notion of "sacrifice" still continues because we still think of God as Person. Lots of people bow down to one they think is God and still think that something they might do might just please that God. Consequent to that, some idiot stands with sword in hand and cuts off the head of another thinking that such an act will "please" His God. Why not? If God is truly outside of us, surely God can do what He damn well pleases - and anyone who claims to be his son and his servant can "obey" some whim of his or her mind and cut off the head of another who might be seen as "offending" God.
Jesus also comes to mind. By making God a Person, we have also made God a "Father" who can bear a son - or a daughter - even though we have insisted that God is not a "father" in the normal mode. God does not "mate" with a female to make a child. God can just wave that magic wand and "create" a son - even though he may "use" a lady for her womb to do so. Mary, that selected one, though, could not "mate" with a man for God to be a "father." No, God had to be the "male mate" to make Jesus - and thus Jesus was born to be not only a "son of God," but far more importantly - a SON OF JUSTICE because as "the son of God," Jesus has to be about what his "father" God is about - JUSTICE.
There is another stupidity that has been allowed because we think of God as Person. We have put another human person - Jesus - into the fold of being a "judge" because that is really what God - the Divine Person - is all about; and yet in his life, Jesus instructed us all to not judge one another. How contradictory can you be? God can judge because God is "outside" of that which "He" creates; and if God can judge, so also must any "son" who God might choose to make. Crazy! Absolutely Crazy! And yet we believe - all because we know not what God really is - and not knowing what God really is, we have made "Him" one of us. We judge one another. Therefore, God must be able to judge us! Again, Crazy!
But it is all wrong. God cannot be a "Person" because God must be Infinite. I have said that again and again and again in my writings - and I am saying it again for one final time. God cannot be a "Person" because God must be Infinite. That means that God must be "Everywhere." It is as simple as that. If God is truly Everywhere, then God cannot be "outside" of anything that is part of everywhere - and everything. Can He! Can It?
Paradise On Earth -
Now!
I do not believe in the tale of The Garden of Eden - as told in the BIBLE - mainly because I do not believe in an "outside God" that can instruct and judge anyone. My God is an Infinite God that is Everywhere; and thus - unlike the god of Adam & Eve - My God cannot be separated from anyone. NO WAY!
But the author of the story of The Garden of Eden did get something right. He had Adam & Eve clothing themselves and hiding their nakedness upon thinking they had offended their god - as if in hiding themselves, they could persuade their god to leave them alone. Even in the story, that hiding thing did not work. The author told his tale that Adam & Eve were banished from The Garden of Eden in spite of trying to "hide from Him."
In a way, though, bless the author of the story for trying to suggest a truth - "hiding" just will not work. You cannot "hide" from God - and it is trying to hide that you do wrong. The untold story of The Garden of Eden is that it is wrong to consider yourself - as a Creation of God - evil; and if you do so by trying to "hide" what is evil, then you will lose a right to live in Paradise.
I do believe the anonymous author of Genesis got that right - that only a fool can think he can "hide from God" - but who believes that is the true story of Genesis? Who believes that it is "wrong" to hide what is good? Who believes that is the true tale of the Garden of Eden? Who reads that story, convicts Adam & Eve for "trying to hide" from God - and then proclaims that hiding from God is actually virtuous? Almost everyone.
Going back to my childhood, I know that when I first read the story of Adam & Eve, I wanted to reprimand Adam & Eve for covering their goodness and trying to hide from God. Even as a child, I "knew" that only a fool will cover his or her goodness and then go out and shout to the world that it is the right to do so. I knew Adam & Eve were wrong - not in their alleged eating of some bad fruit - but in trying to hide from God; and I guess I decided that if Adam & Eve got it wrong, this one would get it right.
Get It Right!
And so that is what I have been trying to do all my life - Get It Right. All of my writing has been intended to direct me - not someone else - to get it right. All of my songs have been intended to direct me - not someone else - to get it right. All of my stories have been intended to direct me - not someone else - to get it right; and all of my audio and video productions have been intended to direct me - not someone else - to get it right.
Now, at the age of 73, I have volumes of tales to myself - of things I have written and produced as aids for me to "get it right." When people have told me that I have to continue to fail just because Adam & Eve failed, I say to them - WHY? Why can't I get it right - especially if it is so clear to me as to why Adam & Eve got it wrong?
Say it like you believe it to be. Show it like you think it should be! I have done a lot of that through the years; but I have never set out to say it or show it to anyone but me. Still, if what I have said to myself and shown to myself is of any use to others, I have never been unwilling to share what I have done.
Indeed, I have lost track of all that I have done, but in this last article of this last book, I suppose it worthwhile to mention a few efforts that might be worthwhile. Who knows? Maybe someone will take notice of a bit of it and find it worthwhile to help me "reproduce" it to share it with a much larger audience than myself. Suppose?
JOYFUL
HAPPY SOUNDS
I have mentioned some of my efforts to tell myself a thing or two in a book that I am publishing of all my songs that I have written down through the years - to date, 197. That book is entitled JOYFUL HAPPY SOUNDS. Check that out via Amazon.com if you choose, but mentioned there is a four volume audio cassette series I produced in the '80s - with a whole lot of help from some friends in Atlanta, Georgia where I lived - called MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE. Such is a blend of commentary and song about a notion I call "Divine Naturism" - which is to say what all of my writings and productions have tried to say - that God (or an Infinite God) must be IN all things - thereby making everything Divine.
To date, I have not been successful in trying to share MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE, but who knows about tomorrow? Still, there have been attempts to feature some of the songs of that one in other programs I have produced. One of those programs is a five volume camcorder series I called LOVING EVERYTHING that I produced in 2009. In that one, I simply sang all of my songs, a cappella, that I had written to that time - about 120 - in alphabetical order; and those songs that were produced as part of MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE are dubbed onto some video footage - initially of VHS format and later converted to DVD format. It took me awhile to do that, but I had a lot of fun doing it; but what I was trying to do with the effort was to "show it like I think it should be."
That simply translates to being naked while I was singing or doing whatever it is that I was doing in a given footage. The accent, though, is on the song, not the footage - even as the footage is important too. In that one, I started at my home in Laramie, Wyoming and then went out and about in various locations of the Rocky Mountains surrounding Laramie. I was without an Eve, but as an Adam, I was trying to "get it right" by doing what I thought they - Adam & Eve - should have done. In between songs, though, I did quite a lot of ad lib commenting about some notion that a song might have been expressing - or addressing.
In 2012, I decided to do LOVING EVERYTHING again, but then I decided that maybe I should stay clothed to be able to share with those who think Adam & Eve should have tried to hide from God. So, I did another five volume effort, but at that time, I had written another 30 songs. So SONGS OF A SOLITARY SOUL featured 150 songs, not the 120 that had been featured in LOVING EVERYTHING.
I mention these two programs - LOVING EVERYTHING and SONGS OF A SOLITARY SOUL - in passing because I do believe they are quite suitable for more than an audience of one - me. Even if a song is not particularly attractive, some mountain scenery that accompanies it might be enjoyable.
If anyone who is reading this has an interest in either series, let me know. I will share what I can and reproduce what I can on a singular - upon request - basis, but ideally, both of these programs should be reproduced for a general public with the aid of some sponsor. If you are such a one, potential sponsor, that is - once you have reviewed what I have done - be my guest. You can reach me through my writings website at www.una-bella-vita.com. We can do it together; and maybe more than one of us will "get it right" and stop failing true virtue by no longer "hiding" from God - and all others.
We can get it right. I think that is what the real Jesus came to say, but unfortunately, many who believed that Adam & Eve had to fail heard a different Jesus than the one I believed really lived. In hearing a Jesus that upheld that Adam & Eve had to fail, we have been sidetracked. That is my belief; and it is a tale I tell quite often in the works I have done.
Welcome
to
My World -
If Fair is Good Enough
It is also worthwhile noting, however, that if you do want any of my video programs, know that the quality will only be fair - at best. I did everything I did for myself - and in my judgment, Fair is always Adequate. Nothing I have done has been intended to ever exceed "fair" in quality. Even though I spent over $140,000 to produce my audio series I called MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE, I think it is only "fair" in quality - not professionally fantastic - mostly because I am not a professional. Perhaps I do not know what "fantastic" is when trying to record things for my own sake. Fair has always been adequate for me because I think that life itself is "fair"; but Fair says mountains to me.
I love the "fair" - mostly because it is so easy to achieve and realize. Why want more than "fair"? I do believe that so many people go through life expecting far more than "fair" and by so doing overlook the "fine" that is here.
We look at ourselves, for instance, and think that somehow we should be "better" than we are. Fair is never good enough for most folks; and so they waste their lives looking for and expecting for some grand Heaven that is far more than fair. Well, if you want more than "fair" from me, walk on by because I am not about more than fair; and that includes everything I do - or try to do.
Loving Everything
At the beginning of this essay, I mentioned that I had written a song called I'm Gonna Love Everybody in 1974 that my young daughter, Anita, referred to as The Love Song. I said then - at the beginning of this article - that I think I almost got it right in 1974 with that song about loving everybody, but not quite. I think that the ideal is not to just "love everybody," but to "love everything." In fact, I think that we get sidetracked from enjoying life to the fullest by concentrating too much on people and failing to see everything as equally wonderful.
When I look at a wild flower, or a rabbit, or a bird, I am amazed at what I see and see nothing but divine and miraculous in all that I see. People say they want to go to Heaven - and they imagine that Heaven is a place where everything is wonderful and all who live there are in peace simply because all inhabitants are caught up with how wonderful they are. They think they are wonderful because they think they are being blessed by a Wonderful God.
Well, I happen to agree with that notion - and it is that notion that leads me to believe that Heaven can be here on Earth because there is no reason why all people on Earth cannot view all inhabitants in terms of sand, rocks, water, trees, plants, fish, birds, animals, and humans as wonderful - and equally so. In fact, it is true - if we just open our eyes. Indeed all of us are wonderful - and all things are wonderful. Living in Paradise is simply recognizing that and acting like it is so.
So, you tell me, Why Can't There Be Paradise On Earth? Why must we wait to live in a Garden of Eden? Why can't we do right now what Adam & Eve should have done long ago - though admittedly, the tale of Adam & Eve is likely a fantasy told like it was reality?
Fantasy or Reality, however, this can be a Garden of Eden - if only we started to believe it should be - and stopped hiding from God as if somehow that would turn into virtue.
Indeed, Loving Everybody is not enough. I wrote another song - in 2005 - that I do believe says it better. Let me end this article and this book with that song - Loving Everything.
When I say that we should "love everything" and within that "everything," we should love "everyone," I do not wish to imply that I should love what everyone does. Everyone is not Everything in that light. Everything is every natural thing in terms of the nature of everything; but it is not everyone in terms of all they do.
I do not love what people do. I love what people are - in their natural state. I do believe we need to separate conduct from state of being when we say we should "love everybody." I can love you for what you are - but not for what you do if what you do is injurious to another. Let me just leave it at that. OK?
Thanks so much listening! Let us all become New Adam types and New Eve types and stop eating of the tree of knowledge of evil and eat only of the tree of knowledge of good; and presto, we will return to The Garden of Eden - and at long last, finally GET IT RIGHT!
Or so, I Believe!
Gently,
Francis William Bessler
7/11/2015
Loving Everything
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
4/13/2005
REFRAIN:
I’m loving the day. I’m loving the night.
I’m loving my life with all of my might.
I’m loving the boys. I’m loving the girls.
I’m loving everything in this whole wide world.
People say, you can’t love everyone.
They say, only some are worthy.
But, as I see it, everyone’s God son,
and that makes everyone deserving.
Refrain.
People say, you can’t love everything.
They say, only some things are good.
But, as I see it, everything’s in God’s ring,
and all is a great brotherhood.
Refrain.
People say, not all is Divine.
They say, there is evil in some.
But, as I see it, if evil I find,
I just haven’t looked for love.
Refrain (several times).