Someday this world is gonna all make sense,
But not in a way that will need recompense
The children will all have fathers and mothers
No one will ever take advantage of their brother
For money or power or the little girl next door.
Someday, when it all becomes right,
There will be no guns or bombs used to fight
No starvation caused by an enemy's hand.
When anybody learns about a problem
They'll be rushing over to help you solve it
There won't be slaves whipped and beaten across the land.
Your life will be more important than your money
We'll all be willing to share our milk and honey
With the people next door - nobody will stop us
No dictators or secret assassins there to drop us
Because they won't have to be made to understand.
You won't strike out in anger, he won't lash out with his tongue
She won't put you in danger, we'll all care for our young
And the young of the people across the world
Will know that we care with a love now unfurled
And not hidden behind policies and politics and "right now it can't be."
Then no one will talk about the starving children in China
Wishing they could help, but unable to decide on
How and feeling consigned to just feel sorrow and pity
For the people in the distant lands and cities
Where their hearts are always, but their money and food can't reach.
There will be no need for war, between countries or gangs
Because they'll try to understand the ways they find strange
And work out a solution based on what's better for the other
Rather than what we want or what we can stand
Or even what we feel we have a right to demand.
If I stop worrying about myself and spend my time for you
And you stop worrying about yourself, too,
Because you know I'll be there to take care of you.
Somehow we'll understand, somehow we'll make amends,
Somehow, someday, we will.
It's up to you to decide when. It's up to you to give in
To the feeling of love you know you want to give
Even when someone has marred you past repair
We all can use forgiveness, to end all of the terror.
It's only naive if the whole world won't try it,
Too bad people think they're too smart to buy it.
It's not impossible. Someday we will
Have the courage to say
That we'll try.
We can't do it alone - we don't know how
To end this pain and horror right now
But God does. He knows. So why
Can't we all to turn to Him? Ask him how to forgive?
Ask him to soften our hearts to love our slavers?
Ask Him to help them see the light of truth
The world shouldn't revolve around people owing favors
And who's stronger than who and do it or I'll kill you.
He's your brother and your friend
Deep down. If you can just help him rediscover that
He's a child of God, just like you, and you're not
Gonna escape that fact.
Even if you say in your heart they deserve it
Even if you say in your mind they're not worth it
Even if you focus on yourself and dismiss them
The world's become complicated, but that truth is not.
We all need cleansing, we all need love
We all need to rely in God above
Because who's to say what is right in this world?
Who's to say what is wrong or indecent for sure?
The maker of us all has it all,
If we turn to Him, He'll help us all
To dig ourselves out of this hole
To mend his heart and heal your soul.
If we're honest with ourselves,
We all want respect,
We all want love
Our anger comes from neglect
Or our feeling that we deserve more than we have.
But if we turn to His way, He'll love us day by day,
And we'll feel what we've wanted all along.
It's not as simple as in the movies - there are bad guys
But it's not that they couldn't change
If they'd let the Lord help them see the world through different eyes
Maybe it all would change.
But we must start with ourselves.
Yeah, we must start with ourselves.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Copyright 2011. Jennifer Rollins. (Last quote by Mahatma Gandhi)
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