“An eye for an eye
will make us all blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
After all the cheerful Christmas posts I have been writing and reading, I remembered this video – Happy Christmas (War is Over) from John Lennon.
Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 and so it is obviously many years since he sang this song but what has changed? War is still being raged around the world; people are dying; children are being maimed; people are starving; people are being punished for their beliefs; bombs are still being manufactured by countries who deny this; prisoners are being inhumanely treated…. Will we ever learn?
And compare that video with the words of Imagine
YES JUST IMAGINE
Wouldn’t that make for a Very Happy Christmas
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Indeed it would. 🙂
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Thanks Stacia.
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imagine is one of my favorite songs ~ love all of John Lennon’s music. unfortunately, you are right ~ nothing’s really changed.
may you find some peace and joy in the coming year!
♥
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Thank you Dani for stopping by. May you too find peace.
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Yes. It’s almost hard to imagine, really. But I too, am a dreamer.
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Yes, you may say I’m a dreamer… And I am proud to dream.
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Ghandi is one of my great heroes. I’m always touched and moved when someone quotes him. And Lennon. What an imagination and perspective he had. Both being were flawed, of course, but their insights continue to inspire me, and you I’m glad to see. Perhaps we need more dreamers and less “realists”
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A few more like Gandhi and perhaps we could move closer to Lennon’s imagine. Thanks for the comment Peter.
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The violence seems to be getting worse, as we here in the States know well. It comes from so many directions, we can’t feel safe anymore. We haven’t in a long time.
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Isn’t it awful how a few can intimidate so many. And fear is pervasive. Take care my friend. 🙂
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Well said, Judith. Have a great holiday season!
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Hi Thomas – looks like the weather might just hold for Christmas Day this year. Have a good holiday season too!
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“You have to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream then how you gonna have a dream come true ?” 🙂
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We all do need dreams Sallyann. Take care.
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Reblogged this on I choose how I will spend the rest of my life and commented:
I just found this from 2012 and have to ask the same questions 5 years later. Nothing has changed
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Yes nothing changes but we still have the promise of our Savior’s birth. Merry Christmas Judith!
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Thanks Jena. How sad that nothing changes. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
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