Larimer's Lair

A place for me to document what's on my mind at any given point in time, and to promote my book "Organ Donation: Why My Heart's Not In It Anymore" which I have posted to my forum of the same name and is available free for anyone to read there.

3/23/23

Blessed To Be A Blessing (song)

Blessed to be a Blessing (with lyrics) Scott Wesley Brown - Bing video

Before my family and I split from the United Church of Christ, I sang with the choir and as soloist at our church, and one of the songs I first sang at Thanksgiving one year was "Blessed To Be a Blessing" and I just now found the lyrics to it on-line and decided to post it here, with Scott Wesley Brown singing it.

Also, this a re-post from one of my previous forums:

So, what exactly is "social justice" in the Biblical sense of the term?

I found this website:  http://www.gotquestions.org/social-justice.html and within its explanation, it refers to various Scripture, including the oft-cited "love your neighbor as yourself."

Quoting from the New International version, Matthew 22:36-40:  "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"  Jesus replied:  " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.' "

For a long time whenever I heard or read this passage, I thought it was just telling me to love the Lord completely.  But then one day the emphasis changed and it suddenly became a commandment that was telling me to, yes, love the Lord completely, but more precisely to love Him with all of my own heart, soul and mind, at which point "And love your neighbor as yourself" became "And leave everyone else to do the same."

It made perfect sense to me, too--because I was taught that God wants each of us to have our own personal relationship with Him, and in the process of developing that relationship with Him, we're not always, or necessarily ever, going to be exactly where anyone else is in their journey to Him or their relationship with Him, and that's fine with Him, and it should be fine with everyone else and would be fine with everyone else IF we loved everyone else enough to leave them as free to develop their own personal relationship with God as we want to be. ("Love your neighbor as yourself.")

This doesn't mean that we can't share our personal testimony with others.  It just means that we shouldn't judge others who don't believe exactly as we do.  Indeed, the Book of Matthew as a whole says a lot about judging others and hypocrites.


 
About the Author
KATHY_OAKMy name is Kathy Larimer.  I was born in 1948, in Ohio, where I now live with my husband to whom I've been married since 1968 and with whom I've had four children-- three daughters and a son, in that order.  We now also have six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren  

     We also have one cat named Sky who came to us as a stray in 2009, and we also have a 14-year-old cockatiel that I inherited from my eldest daughter, and three parakeets that were hatched right here in our house in 2012.  

     My forum host name--"KATHY_OAK"--dates back to my first Delphi forum which focused on issues relating to the sex research of Dr. Alfred Kinsey who I very much wanted to "out" based on what I learned about him and how his sex research has been used to the detriment of our society and culture.  Thus, "OAK" is an acronym for "Outing Alfred Kinsey."    

    Now I've also taken on the issue of organ donation based on what I learned about it after my husband and I lost our 18-year-old son to brain death in 2001 and consented to donate his organs.  My book about it-- "Organ Donation: Why My Heart's Not In It Anymore" --is accessible free to read through my forum of the same name.  You can access my forum and book here:


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