When I think back over the life of Michael Jackson, I become saddened. Why? Because I see a man who was thrust into the world as a very young child, too young to understand what manner of evil lay in wake for him. He was from the very start a bright, exuberant, enthusiastic, self assured child whose trust came naturally. He was inquisitive, determined, happy, and remarkably talented even then. He was a prodigy. He was born with everything he would ever need to carry him above and beyond. He worked hard, yes. But he also perfected everything he set out to do. It was always excellent. ALWAYS. Yet he never felt it was as good as it could be. Unbelievable! Michael Jackson was God’s gift to humanity. I believe that. Never before and never again will there ever be one whose light was so bright that it shone in everything he touched be it music or dance, art or creative writing, speaking or singing. God granted him everything he woud require to hone his craft and he gave him a heart big enough to hold so much love that it simply oozed out of him no matter how people tried to persecute him. He never hardened. He just wasn’t made that way.
I will always love him. Nothing can ever sway my belief that he was purposely put in our midst to save us from ourselves. So many just didn’t get it and never will. Their loss. Yet it doesn’t change the facts. He was given a Judas who lived in his midst. He was criticized and ostracized and lied on and denied the life, love, liberty and pursuit of happiness promised to every human being, by human beings, who are fallible and ever changing. He was rediculed, persecuted, prosecuted and then he was crucified. Same story. Different time.
How long will it take for the world to heed the messages: Know your history lest you be forced to re-visit it.
Sadly, we just did.
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