JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

Hello fellow Pilgrims...fellow Travellers...fellow sojourners. How's your DAY?

Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday...Thursday...Friday...Saturday...Sunday... go to bed...and get up AGAIN...on another day...and start it all over again with Monday...Tuesday...etc, etc, etc.

The Beatles did not start off as the most popular group in the world...and as John Lennon pointed out that they were more popular than Jesus Christ. Well.. at the time...in some sectors...they were. Before super stardom...they were just some lads in Liverpool...playing in clubs, basements, schools...anywhere that would let them pay. Every once in a while...they would actually get paid. In the beginning...it was for fun. Somewhere along the way...the fun ended...and it became drudgery. As Larry Norman observed in his song READERS DIGEST... "...the Beatles said all you need is love...and then they broke up."

Depending on who you listen to...the villain in the Beatles breakup was Yoko Ono. Maybe a contributing factor...but not necessarily THE cause. Some say the villain was the cute Beatle...Paul McCartney...who wanted to be the leader of the group after their manager Brian Epstein died (some say by suicide). Paul sued the lads when the Rolling Stones manager Allen Klien appeared to be taking over and draining the boys financially. Paul was either a saviour or a backstabber. The nasty feud between John and Paul overflowed into their music in their solo careers post Beatles.

McCartney released an album called MCCARTNEY (totally Paul) and John released IMAGINE. Paul released an album with his Yoko (aka Linda) called RAM. During the RAM sessions in New York City...Paul recorded a song in 1970 called ANOTHER DAY. It was a song about the mundane, sad life of a woman's life...as she plodded along at work and at home...as she lived ANOTHER DAY. It was a pleasant, pop infused song full of sunshine about a dark topic.

John Lennon...responded to the song ANOTHER DAY...and Paul's release of RAM with a song called HOW DO YOU SLEEP? George Harrison played a wonderful slide guitar on this song...as John stated..."The only ting you done was YESTERDAY...since you've gone...you're just ANOTHER DAY."

You may be asking yourself...Self...why is Ruminatin' Rod...Rambling? Let me tear a page from my journal...

Another day...they just keep on coming. They plod along like footsteps in a dark, foggy night...not seeing where you are going...hoping you are going somewhere. We are called to walk by faith...NOT by SIGHT (II Corinthians 5:7). My problem is that I walk by SIGHT...and NOT by FAITH. (I Rodney 8:15). I live by feelings not faith. I please my self and not God. My faith feels dead with no corresponding actions. My thoughts are unrestrained. My thoughts have produced unrestrained words with the results being unrestrained actions....just ANOTHER DAY. In Proverbs it says the fool has said in his heart that there is no God. I may not say it...but I act like there is no God...by what I think, say, and do. It is JUST ANOTHER DAY...running on automatic pilot...going through the MOTIONS of my EMOTIONS.

"This is the DAY...which the Lord has made...let us REJOICE...and be GLAD in IT." (Psalm 118:24)

"Blessed--happy, fortunate [to be envied]--is the man whose strength is in You; in whose heart are the highways/roads to Zion. PASSING THROUGH the valley of WEEPING/TEARS...they make it a PLACE OF SPRINGS; the early rain also fills [the pools] with BLESSINGS. They go from STRENGTH to STRENGTH---increasing in VICTORIOUS POWER; each of them appears before God in Zion."
(Psalm 84:5-7)

Hey...the days keep on coming...just another day...after another day...after another day. But if you KEEP ON WALKING...you will PASS THROUGH THE VALLEY OF WEEPING/TEARS...and make it a PLACE OF SPRINGS. Just as we go from one ANOTHER DAY to another ANOTHER DAY...so we can go from STRENGTH to STRENGTH...increasing in VICTORIOUS POWER.

QUESTION: Is there anyone else going through ANOTHER DAY? Write me and let me know.

Love and Emotional Kisses
Rodney " " Boyd