I am reminded of the wonderful Chekhov quote, "We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds!"
Who knew that all that is our gift when we become willing to change? And the only real change we need make begins with our mind?
This comes to me sometimes when I hear The Lord's Prayer being "corrected" to "give us this day our daily strength [replacing 'bread']." Or words in the Bible being changed, particularly and specifically gender words.
I recall hearing about Kris Kristofferson's Sunday Morning Coming Down being introduced by Johnny Cash on his weekly TV show. The network was adamant that Cash change the phrase "wishing, Lord, that I was stoned" to "wishing, Lord, that I was home." Cash did not promise, he simply said, "We'll see."
He sang "stoned," and Kristofferson later said he did not know which way Cash would sing it, and he cried when he sang it the way it was written. When Cash was asked why he didn't change the word, he said, "That's the way the man wrote it. If I wanted to change it, I'd write my own song."
My thinking is, when I hear changes being made to the Lord's Prayer, the Serenity Prayer, the Bible, if you want it changed, write your own prayers, write your own bible. See how far that gets you!
Thank you.
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