Our music was peppy and happy. The slow dancing music lyrics always talked about love, serenades, flowers or walks on the beach. Our music opened our hearts to each other. We loved everyone and lived honestly by the ten commandments. I'm sure there were ugly people in our days, but we were never exposed to ugliness or those kind of people. For us life was a rose bud waiting to bloom. We saw children born at home, helped the older women deliver babies for in our times only midwives were available. We saw sickness and death at home. We helped wash the dead bodies and dress them for their final resting place. For us everything was part of life. As growing children we realized the battlles of life and new that life was a rocky road to face, but we faced it with smiles and an open heart. We blindly believed in our Lord, even if at times we refused to go to church. I still thank the All Mighty for the beauty of nature, for my ability to walk, talk and see, even if with one eye only. I feel blessed for what is left of my body and my mind and for the joy I feel looking at the little ants, furry squirrels, lizards, lady bugs and all other form of life that surrounds me. Life is a gift to be treasured and savored with every breath.
I believe in God because I see God in every form of life. At time I wonder. Were the Egyptians right to worship the great planets? What would happen without the sun, or the moon or the rest of the universe above that controls our lives on earth. What would happen without the ocean tides. All the things that we ignore around us are just the things that keep life going. Men try to control overpopulation injecting sickness in the name of vaccins. Mother nature controls overpopulation with flood, earthquakes and oher disasters. Nature will always be the winner at the end for nature knows how to balance itself. Nature has a balance that men will never conquer.
