MAKE A BETTER PLACE
(lyrics used from an internet lyric site – not for commercial purposes and printed here without permission from anybody)
"Heal The World"
There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow
There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...
Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me
If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living
Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...
Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow
We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares
We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...
Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me
These lyrics found their perfect way through my iPod this morning while I was working on my elliptical trainer. I was taking every circle step in honor of healing for my friend, Donna, who is fighting for her life. She’s in a serious argument with cancer and she’s saying, very diligently, “I CAN. I CAN be healed. I CAN win against cancer. CANcer will not take me from this planet before I am ready to walk away.” Essentially, Donna is working to make this world a better place for herself.
Michael’s lyrics reached to me across the decades in which I grew older with him. In so many ways, we grew up together. Over the decades I felt so poorly for Michael’s struggles in his life. I knew I couldn’t reach to his shoulder…but I did to others in place of reaching to him. I reached to people who looked like they were living according to other peoples dreams, people who measured their performance by standards other than their own, folks who seemed to have a hard time simply loving themselves for WHO they are and AS they are. Every time the media introduced some new struggle from Michael’s life – I consciously reached out in my world.
As I continued my circle step exercise, I heard the child at the introduction of his song tentatively saying of all people who care, “We want to make a better place for our children and their children’s children…I think they can make it a better place.”
And then, tenderly, sincerely, his heart sings these legacy lyrics…
“There’s a place in your heart and I know this place is love.”
I kept moving for Donna …and he reminded me,
“There are ways to get there, if you care enough for the living.”
Michael Jackson’s breath is gone from this world now. So is the breath of many other caring and troubled souls. There are many who remain with us. They populate the lines at the grocery store, sit in the middle of crowded classrooms and shuffle to their place in the lunch line in prisons and institutions. You may work with someone who shares Michael Jackson’s struggles.
(There are people dying…if you care enough for the living you can make a little space…)
How can I love on people who are within my circle of influence and within the reach of my hope and help? I know there are many ways I can make a little space to make the world a better place. And as this loss of a cultural icon draws the attention of the world to him…I draw your attention to all the “Michael’s” who live in your immediate world. People who need you. Perhaps they are not a celebrity but they are significant and you can honor the work of the life of Michael Jackson’s creative soul by listening to his lyrics and letting them have a place in your every day experience.
As he suggested, “Stop existing and start living…”
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