Dear Congregation, please turn with me in your Rock & Roll Bibles to the Rolling Stones chapter 3 verse 16.
And it was said ….
“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find, you get what you need.”
I sometimes start to cry when I hear beautiful songs and poetry. I know I am sensitive and when you have experienced pain and heartbreak and the emotional mania of life, you can be easily touched when something strikes you. I was raised to view people with such judgment. I was raised in an evangelical Christian Church. I don’t blame the church per se. I blame the judgment I was raised around. To look at people as bad. To view people as sinners that are going to hell. I can even specifically remember seeing the Rolling Stones on TV as a child and being told by my mother how Mick Jagger was terrible person and was in a mental institution which I believe is totally untrue … as if we should poorly of that. It is so sad how people and especially children will color someone’s viewpoint with our hatred. I was often told that everyone that didn’t believe as her church does will burn forever in hell. This included Catholics who “worshiped Jesus’ mother” and not Jesus. Rock and roll was evil and there were whole seminars at our church as a child denouncing anything other than Christian music. It never made any sense to me even though at times I tried to comply. It sickens me to this day how much hatred has come out of religion. Most wars are based on judgment and hatred based on someone’s religion or customs. It is disgusting and corrupt.
I view all people as children of God. I tear up and thank God for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the entire Rolling Stones band. These people have given our world art that is profound. We have all had our issues in life. We have all made mistakes and most of us have grown to some extent. Like my former blog about Snoop Dogg, we all can change. Mick Jagger has become enlightened. I don’t know him, but don’t forget that he was with the Beatles when they went to India and studied under the Maharishi. He has had plenty of life experience to understand the contrast our world gives us. The words I started out this blog with our incredibly profound. I completely believe that we are given what we need. We are given everything that we create with our thoughts. We manifest what we think and what we believe we deserve. If we deserve difficulty and sadness and that’s what we believe, then we get it. If we know that we’re always taken care of and we’re given love and affection and gifts and truth and happiness, then that too is what we deserve and receive. I am thankful for where I am and the blessings that come to me daily. We are so blessed and we live in a playground of heaven here on earth. I have lived where I believe that there is only suffering and sadness on this Earthly plain. However, this is far from the truth if we understand how wonderful this world is. I am thankful for the beauty, the love, the kindness and all things we are given. Mick Jagger is a child of God and my brother. I am blessed to receive the gift that the Rolling Stones have given us with their art. I have love for every person and I do not believe in hell or a devil because how could a God that is only love create such things. We are not punished and judged, although there is Karma. We are only Loved. We are all One … One Love. If I do not Love my brother and judge him then I do not love myself or God. I am One with you and the “criminals” and God. We are not separate. We are so blessed.
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