We

 

We Are The World

When you're down and out
And there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well
Let's realize, oh, that a change can only come
When we stand together as one

WE are, Not I AM,  the world.

My favorite joke is “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and it's all organized by the Italians.” Heaven on Earth is the same as Heaven in the Afterlife.  But Hell on Earth is when any one nationality or individual, thinks, that they can do every job.  For example, Hell on Earth is where the chefs are British, the mechanics are British, the lovers British, the police British and it's all organized by the British.” Not to pick on the British but I am after all Irish on my father’s side.

We are, NOT I am,  the world, is the moral of the fable “Stone Soup”.  That is the theme of the song “People”.  Ben Franklin said of the Colonies during the American Revolution that “We will all hang together, or We will all assuredly will hang separately.” In the words of Dr Martin Luther King “With this faith we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s children: black men and white men; Jews and Gentiles; Protestant and Catholics will be able to join hands and in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.” That is also the lesson of Galatians 3:28 in the New Testament of the Bible.  So being Christian is not being anti‑immigrant, anti-trans, anti-homosexual, anti-feminist, anti-abortion or anyone that you characterize as “woke”.  You should be PRO-something, not ANTI-anything.  We need each and everyone of us.