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http://www.billycobham.com/forums/index.php?topic=2914.0I'm only repeating here with the following text; and only for those interested in responding.
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http://www.johnsussewell.com/2Reconcile.mp3 This is just one song that I wrote and play keyboards on during a moment of undisturbed silence. Silence from a woman crying after help when Ambilify would have done better for her; silence from a child crying after attention when parental support might have made a difference. What will become of this compilation is not in my hands; though I wrote and played it on the keyboards as compiled (c.2008 & c.1978-9, respectively): and I’m a drummer by skill level and track record in 2008. I’m also a minister (servant) of good news (Gospel) that pits mankind against mankind far more times than any of us are either alive or those within our traceable genealogies (even our families) will restrict us to. Many would be surprised with what you will come up with: especially in America (USA). We are not in a war of nations and personalities, but ideologies. We’re all equal and on the same footing: Earth! I’m secured with a clean conscience… are you? Go figure and listen…please! Such is why I write… shouldn’t someone write instead of grafting after a “grade” or “acceptance?”
I Used to Believe In justice and equity.
Opportunity for both the competent and competitive;
Community among the different in spite of our differences.
I don’t believe that anymore…
Certainly not, if only, on face value.
What we know should produce…
Yet the harvest is being hoarded somehow.
Someone, or some people, are holding something back in dishonesty and untruthfulness.
I don’t believe that anymore…
No more than the left foot being out of step with the right,
No more than a breath of air can be taken in without exhaling,
No more than blood without the veins to convey it back to the lungs,
I don’t believe in everyone’s right to justify their own spirituality and politics rather than say: “May we speak about this without violence?”
What I believe is this:
I believe in the compassionate…
In the willing to be sober and sensitive to others.
In the teachableness of us all since we’re all students in Life.
In the empathetic… and this is why:
Lies have become truths, and truths lies.
Who discerns the difference?
Who still believes in this ping pong game
We play with each other in public forums…
Even governments of nations and sovereignties beat around the burning bush?
Who are the students and who are the teachers,
Among faiths beyond the sole person looking for hope among his destitution?
What is actually being said to make a difference
To plumb the power of each person?
What we do is most important with what we believe.
“I don’t know,” is no longer an excuse anymore.
To say something is not known is willful ignorance among those reading this.
To say that “I have read and understand” is paramount.
Aren’t we all meant to believe with
Hope and cooperation instead of degradation,
disgruntlement and discouragement sufficating
This undeserving and unqualified humanity we now euphemize as “global economy”?
We’re justified far more than in the lie of Santa at Christmas.
Our parents lied to us and We are lying to our children.
My belief is just to forgive each other and move on.
My belief has always been to grow with each step… tell the Truth!
My belief is in sussing it out for ourselves...
My belief is for the greater charity of love unfeigned among brothers:
Busting the bubble between religion and politics
And making it real for everyone:
Making it even understandable to the children we are raising.
Get understanding, for upon getting it,
Any knowledge and wisdom will support it.
Apart from that understanding; keep learning while striving for the meat:
It still will evade us however smart we become.
Wisdom is the flower sprouting upon the branch of knowledge and understanding.
Artforms stem from that growth, and relationship provides seed down the road
For those unprincipled…
Government is desired among the disenfranchised;
While hoarded among those empowered to know better.
Yes, I believe.
I only speak from experience…
In that truth and principle I will abide…
Yes I believe… though some know me as Suss, I’m nobody.
… yet I dream for the Day when Psalms 113:7 becomes reality rather than actuality for mankind in our context of things:
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Psalms 113:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
I’m both fulfilled and frustrated at the willingness and unwillingness of intelligent folk these days to understand what is going on beyond our own personal pursuits in the name of survival and supporting families. Where is the name of our God in this scenario? Go figure… get in touch with your own pain (as painful that certainly will be)… then reach out to others. Why I had to go through it again is beyond me… except to say that everyone walking the face of the earth must come to know who God is, rather than who others say he is.
Thank you for your patience in reading this and listening.
Sincerely with unconditional love… (Agapeo)
Suss!
http://www.johnsussewell.comhttp://www.myspace.com/johnsussewellLove ya... for real!
P.S. Something new from a dear friend, artist and guitar player that I'm playing on. The CD, etc., will be release within the month.
http://www.johnsussewell.com/all_cdmaster.mp3Musically, this says it ALL for me.
Subject: Suss' Soundscapes 
Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:58 pm
