Categories: just-life
Date: 26 January 2006 15:20:29
I'm sure that there used to be a hymn that we'd sing in primary school where the lyrics were along the line of "Imagine a world without any people, imagine a world without any war, imagine a world without any suffering, imagine a world without any hope......."
It was one of those sad/thoughtful hymns that you never really appriciate when you're only seven...... but I wish I could remember the words.....however, it does sort of lead me to what I'm talking about today......
Last night I was wondering what a world without me would be like....well, two possible worlds, one where I never was and the other, if I were to cease to be how the world would be different from then on......
How many other lives have I had a positive inpact on, how many has that impact be negative, has what I've done, overall, been better than if I never had been...... it's an interesting question..... I'd like to think that in some cases I have managed to help, though was my help unique, would I have been the only who would have been able to help at that time???
It's an interesting thought......
One other note that I'd like to tell people about, tonight on BBC2, Horizon is looking at the debate on Creationism, ID and evolution and the teaching in schools...... it's a 9pm. Apparently, over half the British population doesn't believe that evolution is the definate answer here which just goes to show there are a lot of fools around.......
edit: thankyou, found the lyrics, don't remember the last couple of verses, but hey...nor seems to bequite a sad as the one in my mind.....
Think of a world without any flowers
Think of a world without any flowers,
think of a wood without any trees,
think of a sky without any sunshine,
think of the air without any breeze:
we thank you, Lord, for flowers and trees and sunshine;
we thank you, Lord, and praise your holy name.
Think of a world without any people,
think of a street with no-one living there,
think of a town without any houses,
no-one to love and nobody to care:
we thank you, lord, for families and friendships;
we thank you, lord, and praise your holy name.
Think of a world without any worship,
think of a God without his only Son,
think of a cross without a resurrection
only a grave and not a victory won:
we thank you, Lord, for showing us our Saviour;
we thank you, Lord, and praise your holy name.
Thanks to our Lord for being here among us,
thanks be to him for sharing all we do,
thanks for our church and all the love we find here,
thanks for this place and all its promise true:
we thank you, Lord, for life in all its richness;
we thank you, Lord, and praise your holy name.
- Bunty Newport