Happy Valentine's Day 2019! - Part 1

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Happy Valentine's Day 2019! - Part 1

2/14/2019

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYONE!

Straight out of my book - IT'S A NEW DAY! - I am going to share 7 songs that are found in a row in that work, but interwoven with essays.
If you want to see the essays, just go to my website, declared below, and link to that book and order a copy. OK? Some of you have already
been given a copy. If so, you can go to a song called "Child of the Light" and proceed through essays and songs to a song called "Wake Up."

Song has always been a wonderful friend to me. In my youth, I loved to sing the songs of others, but early on, I decided that maybe I
ought to write some of my own - simply because most of the other authors did not conceive that God is IN all of life - not outside of it to
judge or reward it - as so much religion offers. St. Paul offers in one of his epistles that "all fall short of the Glory of God." I think that is
a very sad state of mind to believe that since it is obvious to me that "all are full of the Glory of God." So, I have chosen to write songs that
declare our wonder - as well as write a number of stories and essays that teach that as well.

So, if you agree, sing it out on this Valentine's Day! Like one of my songs says, no one has to die to reach Heaven - simply because
Heaven is only being in the Presence of God - and since God is Everywhere, Heaven is Everywhere. How simple can it be?
Love Life because it is OF GOD! Don't claim to love it if you accuse it of "being short of the Glory of God."
As another of my songs says - Wake Up!

Have A Good One!

Gently,

Francis William Bessler & Nancy Shaw
www.una-bella-vita.com



Child of The Light
A Song or Poem
By
Francis William Bessler
Atlanta, Georgia
5/2001

Oh, Child of The Light, play as you will.
You have but to live to find your fill.
You can’t understand from whence you came
Just embrace it all joyfully as if it’s a game.

For a game life is, or should be for all.
Oh, Child of The Light, have yourself a ball.
Look at the earth and the sun and the moon
and know that they are all in tune.

The wonder of all of God’s great creation
should fill your mind with jubilation.
Oh, Child of The Light, you fit in well
and you ring as you should as one of the bells.

So, don’t fret and worry and live in fear.
As God is your source, It’s also your care.
Be not afraid as you go forward in time.
Oh, Child of The Light, you’ve a life that’s Divine.


Ode To The Wind
By
Francis William Bessler
5/9/2006

REFRAIN:
Clouds are in my eyes.
The wind is in my face.
The birds are flying high.
They seem so full of grace.
The wind is my friend.
It blows the clouds around.
I’m wondering as I stand -
where tomorrow I’ll be found.

Oh, what is the mystery of life?
Won’t you tell me what it is?
They tell me the secrets of the night
are found just blowing in the wind.

I’m wondering as I stand upon this hill
what are the secrets of my soul?
I think I’ll keep going on until
the wind tells me what I want to know.
Refrain.

As I stand here beneath the stars above,
my mind just keeps on asking why.
I know that the answers I can love
are found in the wind and the sky.

I’m hoping as the wind blows so free,
it will tell me what I want to know.
And I think that it’s telling me
my friend, just be grateful for the show.
Refrain.

I ask my friend, the wind, where is God;
and it tells me to look all around.
It tells me to look there because
there’s no place where God can’t be found.
Refrain (2).

FINISH:
Yes, I’m wondering as I stand –
where tomorrow I’ll be found.

Heaven
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
2/2014

REFRAIN:
Let me tell you about a place called Heaven,
a place called Heaven, a place called Heaven
where you can reside.
All you have to do to live in Heaven,
to live in Heaven, to live in Heaven,
is to know that - you are God's child.

Where is Heaven, my friend?
It's where you are.
Look up in the sky
and find a star.
Imagine you're there
and you can know
there's no more God there
than on the Earth below.
Refrain.

What is Heaven, my friend?
It's knowing you belong.
Be proud of what you are
and sing your song.
There is no room in Heaven
for a thing called shame.
If you're ashamed of yourself,
you've got yourself to blame.
Refrain.

Where is Heaven, my friend?
It's in your dreams.
It's up in the mountains
and down in the streams.
It's in the fish that swim
and in the squirrels that lurch;
and, yes, it's even in all
who praise in a church.
Refrain.

What is Heaven, my friend?
It's having an open mind.
It's knowing all are worthy
and it's being kind.
It's believing Life is a miracle
that's full of majesty.
Each is part of that miracle
and is a king or a queen.
Refrain.

Where is Heaven, my friend?
It's in yourself.
It's in all that you see,
all that you feel and smell.
It's in all the sounds you hear,
all that you love to taste.
It's knowing that all of this
is what makes Life great.
Refrain (2).

FINISH:
All you have to do to live in Heaven,
to live in Heaven, to live in Heaven,
is to know that - you are God's child -
is to know that - you are God's child -
to know that - you are God's child.


Son of God
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
10/28/2008

REFRAIN:
I'm a son of God.
You are too.
Even if you are a girl,
we share the same truth.
For God is not a Father
that belongs to only some.
More correctly, God's a Mother
that nourishes everyone.

I don’t think God’s a moral one.
It’s simply the energy for us all.
It’s up to each to choose our bonds;
but we’ll inherit what we install.
Refrain.

I can be kind or I can be cruel.
It doesn’t matter at all to God;
but it matters to me and I’d be a fool
to choose a path of pain to trod.
Refrain.

Some think God’s a person like us –
outside – to choose what he might like;
but the God I see and the God I trust
is part of all and in all is inside.
Refrain.

God’s not apart as we might believe,
but it’s for each of us to realize
that wherever we go and whatever we breathe
is filled with the Divine.
Refrain.

Some think that there’s a Heaven to come.
Well, I’m convinced that is the truth;
but Heaven’s only knowing
we’re all God’s sons.
So, I’m in Heaven right now too.
Refrain.

FINISH:
Yes, indeed,
I'm a son of God.
You are too.
Even if you are a girl,
we share the same truth.
For God is not a Father
that belongs to only some.
More correctly, God's a Mother
that nourishes everyone.


Hello, Everybody!
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
12/3/2011

REFRAIN:
Hello, Everybody,
it's time to smile.
Hello, Everybody,
your time's worth while.
Hello, Everybody,
know you are a mystery.
Whether you're a boy or a girl,
you're a son of Divinity.

TO BE CONTINUED!