Today was a beautiful day. There were birds singing outside my window and all is good.
I thought a lot about Michael this weekend. As I was surfing the internet I came across something so profound that it stopped me cold. When I read it, it served to me to be yet another conviction that Michael is a gift from God. There is no way to explain the many parallels to his life, to his truth relative to the heart and soul of Jesus. I have cut and pasted exactly what I found. You tell me what you think because eventhough this was said of Jesus Christ thousands of years ago, it fits Michael Jackson to a tee today. Love and all that it encompasses is never changing. It lives forever and ever. I think Michael chose us instead of us chosing him. It makes sense to me and it feels so right. We are his fans but to him we were much more. I believe he considered us his friends, near and far, and he knew that we would carry on his legacy of love.
John 15:9-17
New International Version (NIV)
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other."
Simply Amazing!