from Lifecoach, Teacher of Instrumental and Vocal Music, Author and Artist, Michael D. Purvis
Welcome Viewers!
As always, first I list for you where you may find me on the web, then it is on to the newest blog entry. Enjoy...
Michael :)*************************
WHERE YOU MAY FIND ME, MICHAEL, ON THE WEB:
OF MY STORIES:
"The Abundant Storybook"
(For Children, Youths, Young Adults,
Adults, Couples and Senior Citizens)
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ABUNDANTCHANGE.COM
Uplift/Enjoyment for all ages
in book, cd, cassette and video formats
by Michael
PLAYSINGNDREAM.COM:
MUSIC-OUTREACH.COM
Insights, Expression,
HELLO DEAR VIEWER,
Here is the latest recording I have posted for you:
I have posted an audio blog on my Xanga site.It’s a track from my CD "Within" which is entitled, "Blessed are You who Irritate Us" which speaks to the idea that though relationships can be frustrating, they are one of the primary ways we learn and grow.
Enjoy...."Blessed are You who Irritate Us":
http://audio.xanga.com/michael_lover_of_the_arts
where you will find my "Within" CD:
http://www.abundantchange.com/products.html?target=ixmusic.html
"Blessed are You who Irritate Us":
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Verse 1:
Blessed are you who irritate us.
Blessed are you who hate and debate us.In holy relationship we learn and grow,
And holy relationships reap what they sow.Chorus:
In you, we see ourselves,
You force us to grow-That’s why we’re so mad at you!
You hold up the mirror and we see ourselves,And all of those things that we fear,
Those things that we fear!Verse 2:
In holy relationships we all take turns.It might feel uncomfortable, but that’s how we learn-
You are our teachers, oh don’t you know;You make us so angry, but oh please don’t go!
Repeat Chorus:
In you, we see ourselves,You force us to grow-
That’s why we’re so mad at you!You hold up the mirror and we see ourselves,
And all of those things that we fear,Those things that we fear!
Lyrics, music and orchestrations by Michael D. Purvis
Vocals sung and all instruments played by Michael D. Purvis© 2001
Here is the link to the page on my website where you will find books of my poetry:
http://www.abundantchange.com/products.html?target=ixpoetry.html
Here is the link to an audio file of me reading the poem:
http://www.abundantchange.com/music/harpq1.html
Here is my poem "On Change":
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On Change
"How true the old saying,
'Yield and you need not break'!
How completely it comes home!"
-Lao Tzu
Once,
I heard someone observe
that human beings are by nature uncomfortable with life,
that we are not at ease with our journey.
My father used to say,
"Life bloodies us,"
and then quote the poet:
"Life ain't no crystal stair', son."
Today,
thumbing through yellowed pages,
I found Lao Tzu's ancient words,
And found them full of wisdom:
"Yield and you need not break:
Bent you can straighten,
Empty you can mend; …"
I thought then of Jesus,
sitting on a hillside long ago
with his flock, his lambs,
saying-
"Consider the lilies of the field…"
Fathers, poets, philosophers and God's Son-
All with wisdom for God's children.
Change?
We must.
Worry?
We are bound to, at least a little-
But we try to follow the advice of sages, of God:
Bend, yield,
search for Divinity and heal…
We must ever remain a green twig,
Green inside, no matter our age in years
(time being an illusion, I suspect more and more).
We must be molded and shaped,
By God, by fate-
It is bend or break.
And if we break, for lack of bending,
having become rigid, dry, unbending-
we must heal, take time to become green again inside.
Change is our lot.
And when we join in our bending with others and with God,
in a dance of green twigs,
intertwining, weaving our lives together, our spirits-
we make beautiful baskets!
baskets in which others, wearied and broken, are carried,
baskets in which gifts are given,
baskets which are both gift and giver.
We carry others that they might rest, and be healed-
and sometimes
we too are carried.
MY NEWEST TEXT BLOG ENTRY:
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
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