TODAY WAS A HISTORIC DAY... EVERYONE FROM THE HAPPIEST OF CHILDREN TO SOILDIERS OVERSEAS FACE TO FACE IN BATTLE, WERE STOPPED DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO MICHAEL JACKSON. AS I WAS WATCHING HIS MEMORIAL WITH MY MOM AND COUSIN... 2 THINGS HIT ME..... IT WAS AN ENDING ON MICHAEL'S SONG, "WILL YOU BE THERE". THIS ENDING HAS BEEN ON THE SONG SINCE THE DANGEROUS ALBUM WAS RELEASED YEARS AGO... BUT WHY DO WE ALWAYS WAIT TILL SOMEONE DIES TO PAY THEM ANY ATTENTION? THE SECOND THING THAT HIT ME WAS REV. AL SHARPTONS PROFOUND STATEMENT.
THE ENDING OF THE SONG SAID,
" In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tripulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow
I'll Never Let You Part
For You're Always In My Heart."
Now how many of us can say that..... especially about the ones that hurt us the most... HE DID.....Looking back on old MJ performances... all he had to do was step out and people that paid $100+ to see him would pass out. fainting simply from his presence.. THATS POWER.. there was def! something different about him and he was truly anointed.
I wrote this status after watching the memorial... and it stirred up a little controversy .. maybe i have a tendency to think toooo deeply about things.. and I know religion is a VERY touchy subject. especially since I'm so open about mine... but even with that... i think in general people divide themselves to much whether it be social/income class, hood/neighborhood, and especially religion... Especially when the things we argue and divide ourselves over are surface things... Petty literal things versus understanding concepts...The main idea....check out the status & responses
"SO.. THROUGH GOD MICHAEL WROTE, "HEAL THE WORLD," A DECADE AGO... SINCE THEN THE WORLD HAS GONE DOWNHILL AND BECAUSE THE WORLD DIDNT LEARN THE LESSON... GOD HAD 2 RE-TEACH IT ONLY THIS TIME HE MADE IT TOUGHER.. AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER 2 LISTEN.. WAS 2 TAKE MJ AWAY.. LEARN 2 LOVE EACH OTHER YALL. OR GOD WILL TEACH US AGAIN. ONLY NEXT TIME IT WILL BE WORST"
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September LovingmyStori Smith at 3:42pm July 7
preach Brandon!
LouisVutton Duchess at 3:43pm July 7
how could u say that god could do somethin so terrible as kill a person??
Brandon McCaskill at 3:45pm July 7
sacrifice.. not kill. why did he allow jesus 2 die?
Dainelle Immaculate Riley at 3:45pm July 7
very good point bmac..
Jaslyn Adams at 3:47pm July 7
nice way of looking on his death :) and u brought up a good point
Melanie E. Swain at 3:47pm July 7
U better say it Brandon!
@LouisVutton God called Michael home. The power of life and death is in God's hands.
LouisVutton Duchess at 3:49pm July 7
MICHEAL JACKSON dont EVEN compare 2 JESUS!!
LouisVutton Duchess at 3:50pm July 7
God didnt call him home, unforeseen circumstances befall us all. Imperfection is the reason we die and that is y jesus cam to die for us so that one day we wont have to worry about imperfection.
Jaslyn Adams at 3:51pm July 7
@louisVutton u right, mj is nowhere near the level of Jesus, but Brandon still made a good point, God will use different ways 2 make people see things. This may have been His way of reminding the world of how far off we've gone from Him
Brandon McCaskill at 3:51pm July 7
he sure doesn't compare. its a concept sweetheart. the bible is a book of stories, concepts that we can apply to our own lives.
Lena Geffrard at 3:56pm July 7
Ur right....He was a gift and a blessing. He was sending the Lord's message through his music & instead he was taken for granted. Unfortunately, we needed a wake up call!!!!
Melanie E. Swain at 3:56pm July 7
@ LouisVutton We all interpret things in different ways. IMO, unforeseen circumstances only exist in the minds of humans...for nothing is unforeseen to my omnipotent God. He knew exactly what He was doing...and again...He holds the power of life and death in His hands.
Emory Rivers at 3:59pm July 7
yes brandon! preach man!
Bee Desinor at 4:01pm July 7
yes preach Rev.McCaskill
Brando Balmain at 4:18pm July 7
here we go LouisVutton- Jesus was a teacher and so was Michael, Michael was man and so was Jesus, they both did there parts, but this is about MJ, let him rest, no comparison, only praise
I DIDN'T POST THIS TO EMBARRASS ANYONE OR TO START DRAMA...WITH ANYONE.. HOWEVER, IT SHOWED HOW QUICKLY "WHOLES" CAN SPLIT. I WAN'T TO SAY TO ANY AND EVERYONE READING THIS..... BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING... THINK ABOUT THE STATE AMERICA WAS IN THE DAY BEFORE MICHAEL PASSED...... NOW THINK ABOUT TODAY, WATCHING THE MEMORIAL AND SEEING PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE COME TOGETHER TO MOURN.... WE HAVENT DONE THIS SINCE 9/11. THERE WAS STILL HATERS WHEN OBAMA WON PRESIDENT... BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE ONLY WAY WE CAN SHUT DOWN AS A WHOLE AND SHUT UP!!!! AND LISTEN IS WHEN SOMEONE DIES......
WE GOTTA DO BETTER (this goes for me too i'm not pointing any fingers and not taking my own advice)
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I'll end this with a very powerful statement Rev. Al Sharpton said. he said:
"Nothings strange with your daddy, it was strange what he had to deal with."
People are quick to ridicule someone but NOBODY.. i mean NOBODY.. knows what he had to go through, so you can't judge him and who knows... If you were in his shoes you might not have lasted as long as HE did because he was STRONG.
R.I.P Michael Jackson and.. From those that loved you the most... to those that brought you down the most. You have impacted the lives of us all... and your life was not in vain, your PURPOSE HAS BEEN FULFILLED.
-I just hope everyone realizes that and takes the deep lyrics in his songs that people never thought to pay attention to.... dude was deep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iPWeu33s34
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