Follow the Yellow Brick Road...

"you're beautiful, you're beautiful, you're beautiful its true, I saw your face in a crowded place, and I don't know what to do, cause I'll never be with you..."

Ahh so sweet, I remember a road trip in which I had my head and arm stuck out the window singing this at the top of my lungs while the song played over the speakers.... It's nice to feel beautiful, to feel special, to feel loved, to feel wanted...But ever wonder... if there's someone else waiting to feel that way?

Oh you little saps, cut it out, I'm not talking about finding your soul mate here (if you believe in such things much love and cheerios to you, and i wish you all my Hershey's hugs and kisses for your journey), but I'm referring to a soul mate of a different sort...

We were not simply placed on this earth, rather...we were..molded..shall I say...created..or even woven on that gentle web of genes and proteins, cells, and neurons, right i realize I'm missing quite a few components of the reproductive process but I'm sure you get the point.. So what was the reason, why are we here? to fill that _your name here_ shaped hole in His heart. Just as we yearn to feel held, and loved...and beautiful, He longs for this same relationship with us, after all He had created us with a purpose, it's our duty to fulfill our calling.
Now I know, some may bring me to court for such claims, of "God", of this "relationship". So sue me... I said God....screw that..God God God God God..."every rose has its thorns...just like every cowboy sings a sad sad song"..(ok whats my point?!)

Ladies and Gentlemen: it is possible, all we need is faith. After all, if someone told you to close your eyes, and stretch out your hand, and they used their finger to touch your hand and asked you what you felt, you would say you felt their touch. And how do you know? well...nothing else...you just know..(scene from "City of Angels)...Faith works the same way. We just have to believe. After all what is faith?

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen" well how interesting, there's a reason we were created so different from the thousands of organisms and mammals that roam the face of the earth and the depths of the waters. "consider the lilies of the fields, King Solomon dressed in royal robes has not the worth of them" Yet we are worth far more than anything else in this earth, there's no price you could ever place on a life. So let me say one thing, let us live as if we are in love everyday of our life, not just physically in love with a man or a woman, but emotionally spiritually mentally in love with someone who is worth our love and so much more. After all what more could we offer? A dime, a nickel, forget that..I'll take even a penny for every time I've seen people, not just one or two but thousands of people who make a point of going into great lengths to achieve spiritual enlightenment...spiritual satisfaction, to establish a deeper connection, to fill that God shaped hole in their hearts.

Ladies and Gentlemen: money can't buy you love, so what in the world gives you the idea that you can buy your way into God's heart, and His way into yours?? that's right, you cant, and He doesn't want your money, your harsh treatment of the body, your endless hours of meaningless ritualistic prayers...as a matter of fact, go tell it to the priest cause God sure doesn't want to hear it. We mean so much more to Him than that...

...isn't it time we finally prove ourselves worthy of the life He has given us? Of this time we call our own? Of these days that are numbered? Of these breaths that remain counted?...
JUST REMEMBER... "YOU CAN TRY TO RESIST...DEEP IN THE DARK YOU'LL SURRENDER YOUR HEART, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T FIGHT THE MOONLIGHT"...

so...I leave you with this...let's stop trying to resist the tug at our hearts...someones waiting for us with open arms of love...we just have to follow the yellow brick road...

Lady in Blue..

21 grams...

"They say each and every person decreases by 21 grams at the time of their death, each and every single person. That's the size of four nickels stacked together, or four hummingbirds...how much does love weigh? How much does guilt weigh? How much does revenge weigh? ...21 grams..."

Granted...clips from a trailer...but really how much does love, guilt or even revenge weigh? When we die...what exactly escapes..

Now now, calm down all you scientists I'm reallyy not looking for a factual proven answer here.. I'm really searching for something more..something that gives us more to believe in..something that leaves us with some hope

21 grams...interesting that a hummingbird is amazingly small and yet, of all the animals it has the largest heart in proportion to it's size. Even its eyes are bigger than its brain. But as humans...for the most part...this is what we rely on, our BRAINS, PROVEN FACTS and FIGURES.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I am here to say...It's Time We Woke Up!...I'll gladly offer you a free wake up call..consider it concierge service...We are a proving is believing generation, seeing and believing in pure faith is not enough. We need numbers and figures, ratios and proportions, calculations and contraptions. We are tired of optical illusions and even question the gift of sight...

Guess we have a lot to learn from the bantam but breathtaking creatures...

So how much does our love weigh? Our guilt? Our revenge?

More specifically...how much does our soul weigh?
...21 grams?