GO IN PEACE/HAPPY LABOR DAY!
Know God Within to GO IN PEACE!
Monday, September 7, 2020
Monday, September 7, 2020
GO IN PEACE/HAPPY LABOR DAY!
9/7/2020
Hello, Everyone!
Just to wish us all a HAPPY LABOR DAY! I realize it is not a particularly happy time with our dealing with a double crisis of suffering from a universal pandemic and consequent to that – a major employment and education crisis. How can we safely go to work if we have to worry about spreading a pandemic – and how can we safely go to school if we have to worry about spreading a pandemic? That is just the start of this being a very “unhappy” time in our lives.
I wrote a song I called GO IN PEACE in 1983. For what it’s worth, I sing it to myself every now and then just to put my mind on the right track of remembering the wonder of life itself – and then upon being reminded of the goodness of life, a pandemic or whatever might be causing me some distraction is diminished.
So, let me “distract” you for a spell and share with you that song. It is a bit controversial in that I do not put God outside of us like so much religion does, but maybe you can get by my notion that we must all be ONE IN GOD to be mindful that whatever life is, with all its subtractions, it should add up to a WONDERFUL BLESSING. Without it, where would we be? Tell me that. So, attend to its wonder to be happy and by doing so, HAVE A HAPPY LABOR DAY. Ok?
Thanks!
I mentioned that I wrote it in 1983 for an audio cassette album I produced called MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE, but later added a 4th verse in 2006. Enjoy it as you will – and wish. Alright? Also, I dubbed the songs from MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE to several VHS camcorder programs I would produce and later convert to DVD format. If you like my song, and want to consider my rambling about life in DVD format, you can find GO IN PEACE in many of them, including THE MASTERY SERIES, TEN VIRTUES OF GOING NATURAL, and THE STORY OF LOVE. You can access any of those through my website – www.una-bella-vita.com – or by putting in my name “Francis Bessler” in an Amazon search bar.
Once Again, HAPPY LABOR DAY!
Gently,
Francis William Bessler
& wife, Nancy Shaw
GO IN PEACE!
(From my audio cassette album I call
MASTER OF YOUR OWN FATE,
Later dubbed to DVD video albums
THE MASTERY SERIES,
TEN VIRTUES OF GOING NATURAL,
&
THE STORY OF LOVE)
by
Francis William Bessler
Atlanta, Georgia
1983; 4th verse added 4/18/2006
REFRAIN:
Go in peace, my brother.
Go in peace, my friend.
Go in peace, my sister –
with a love that will never end.
People are walking around this town,
trying to fit their key,
but many of the doors they’re tryin –
are completely outside themselves.
Passing the first door of self,
they never will succeed
to find any door but those –
that will eventually lead to hell.
If you want to find the door to peace,
turn your key upon yourself.
Look at the world through your own eyes –
and make your love felt.
Refrain.
God did not make us free,
just so we should concede.
He did not make us to fit any law
completely outside ourselves.
He made us to know and love Him
through His creations tree –
to accept Him with gratitude –
without any guilt.
If you want to find the door to peace,
turn your key completely inward.
The door to God is through your heart –
and joy will be your reward.
Refrain.
Christ said to deny yourself,
but from yourself, don’t turn away.
You still are your own best friend –
so don’t lack in self respect.
You should deny yourself by helping others
find the light of day,
but don’t deny others as self denial –
and say with God you connect.
If you want to find the door to peace,
give yourself as a friend.
There’s nothing better than the gift of self –
the gift of your own hand.
Refrain.
People are walking around this world,
missing that they’re Divine
and act like they are lost fools,
wandering in the night.
If God is truly Infinite,
then God must be in you and me,
and that would make us all members
of God’s wondrous Divinity.
If you want to find the door to peace,
know All as God’s friends.
Then you’ll find the love of All –
Divinely easy to the end.
Refrain (2).