Friday, December 9, 2022
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE!
December 9th, 2022
Hello, Everyone!
It’s that time again – the Christmas Season! I am not Santa Claus, but I am choosing to share a song I wrote in 2015 called ON THE LIGHTER SIDE - which I believe says it all in how we should live (see end of letter); but I am also eager to share something I call SPENDING SOME TIME.
What is it? It’s a file of the songs (mine & others) I sang in a video program of four two hour volumes for an intended audience of shut-ins that I compiled in 2004 (about 8 years before Nancy & I came together) due to Mom being a shut-in in a nursing home in my home town of Powell, Wyoming. Mom passed away in that nursing home on May 16th, 2004 at the ripe old age of 96 – and partly as a tribute to her, I produced my SPENDING SOME TIME series in June of 2004. I did it on the fly, so to speak, without accompaniment at my home at the time in Laramie, Wyoming.
As it happened, SPENDING SOME TIME languished in my video archives until earlier this year when I came upon it looking for another video I did for family & friends. My first reaction was being hugely surprised I had done such a thing, but being in a process of initiating a website called francisbessler.com that is comprised of my books and some videos, I decided immediately that I should add SPENDING SOME TIME to it; and since I mentioned another video program I did in 2004 about the legendary Sacajawea of Lewis & Clark fame of the early 19th Century in my SPENDING SOME TIME series, I decided to add my Sacajawea program to my video section of francisbessler.com website as well. If interested, you are Welcome to check it out. Just enter francisbessler.com in a net site and select the video portion and select the SPENDING SOME TIME offering.
I contrived SPENDING SOME TIME as an intended sing-a-long for shut-ins. I do not consider myself so much as a “good” singer, but rather as a good man who likes to sing. We are all “good” in that we are all Divine. That is what we should emphasize. Who should care if we can’t sing like others can? Like my song below says, “Hey , my fellow man, it’s time to celebrate all of our wonder.” Just imagine. If we all did that, we would leave no time for bitterness which leads to conflict and war. What person in their right mind would choose bitter over satisfaction?
So, if you are one like me and would like satisfaction over bitterness, come along and sing it out with me in my series I called SPENDING SOME TIME. Try it! And sing-a-long with me if you choose.
And if you don’t choose, that’s fine too. I do comment on my chosen “Divine Naturist Christian” outlook on life within my SPENDING SOME TIME offering – and that may attract or distract you from pursuing this offering; but Please consider my offering as a Gift and nothing more. Keep in mind that if you look at my Gift in whatever way you choose, and it does not appeal, just don’t do it again. On the other hand, if you like it, Enjoy it and yourself as often as you choose. I say Enjoy yourself because if you are engaging as a sing-a-long, you are really doing your own singing – and your “host” is only a tag-a-long, so to speak. OK?
Let us (Nancy & I) leave you with that song I promised called ON THE LIGHTER SIDE. Like the song says, I Believe that life should be seen from a “light view,” so to speak – and not from a dark view, as so many choose to see it. Contrary to how so many see it, I Believe we are all born in grace and holiness because an Infinite Holy God must be IN all, not outside of us as a “finite god” must be. My God is not finite and restrictive. Is yours?
LOVE YOU ALL!
Have a Wonderful Christmas Season – and Be In Touch!
Gently,
Francis William (Frank, Will, Sonny) Bessler &
Lovely Supportive Spouse, Nancy Hammond Schmalfeld Shaw
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
4/30/2015
REFRAIN:
On the lighter side,
that's how I choose to see Life.
On the lighter side,
that's how I want to spend my time.
You can choose the dark if you want,
but you'll have to DREAM what you see.
I choose the lighter side.
It's the lighter side for me.
Hey, my fellow man,
it's time to celebrate
all of our wonder
and consider that our fate.
Refrain.
Hey, my fellow animals,
I'm so glad to be one with you.
Let us all enjoy
what is our common view.
Refrain.
Hey, my fellow angels,
welcome to the Earth.
Come on down, my friends,
and let's share our common worth.
Refrain.
It's said the definition of Love
is to Live Our Values Everyday.
So let us all Love
and not one moment waste.
Refrain.
FINAL REFRAIN:
On the lighter side,
that's how I choose to see Life.
On the lighter side,
that's how I want to spend my time.
You can choose the dark if you want,
but you'll have to LIVE what you see.
I choose the lighter side.
It's the lighter side for me.
Yes, I choose the lighter side.
It's the lighter side for me.
Yes, you can choose the dark if you want,
but you'll have to LIVE what you see.
I choose the lighter side.
It's the lighter side for me.
For sure, I choose the lighter side.
It's the lighter side for me.