okay, definately not as huge as Pearl Harbor, but signifigant in my life time...

25 years ago tomorrow John Lennon was gunned down in front of his home. A new album just released, life was going well, back in the limelight and very happy. A very disturbed, lonely man decided to take his life that night...planned it for years in fact

I was a senior in high school, quite enjoying being an empty shell, getting by in school, loving art class and music. Actually between boyfriends at the time

I used to sleep with the radio on and I proceeded to have a bizarre dream about the events i was hearing in my sleep...when i woke up and went to the kitchen, the first thing i said to my Mother was "I had the weirdest dream...John lennon got killed"

My Mother justr pointed to the small B&W television and there it was all over the news.

Now again, this is a major event in the life of most Hippies/Boomers...some of us are too young to remember Kennedy's asassination, MLK, etc. I vaugly remember the POW's coming home from VietNam. Our parents worked hard to keep us happy in trivial pursuits of playing in the dirt, swinging on the backyard swings and making snow forts. I wasn't "socially aware" till 8th grade. By then I was in full rebellious swing, and life was rarely more than socially unacceptable behaviours (I'll let you all think about that, this IS a family blog site ) Rock and Roll was my god and the main Icon in my life ws Self

Then John Lennon was shot and killed.

It makes a young person think when someone so famous is killed in such a dramatic way. As a teen, thinking along those silly teen lines, it was a romantic tragedy and a fitting way to go out in a "blaze of glory" as it were...how backwards and ridiculous was my attitude than! Even a personal tragedy that brought me to my knees trembling before God Almighty lessened in comparison to this event. What was I thinking?

Truth be told, I didn't do much of my "own" thinking...which I think is why I struggle as an adult with things that others seem to be able to "put away"...I was raised by the media and it still can make some little spot in my mind tend to agree with it, even as it goes against all the My Lord would have me to REALLY know and believe. As I struggle with raising my own kids to "be in the world, but not of the world" (and feeling like I am failing miserably) I have to be so on my guard to live by the NEW songs in my heart and not the old ones in my head

i'm not sure if this will even make much sense to anyone it's just my rambling hippie mind thinking back to a turbulent time and hoping to see what good God has turned it to

"Imagine there's no Heaven...It isn't hard to do..."

no John, there certainly IS a Heaven and a God that loves us infinately more than any love there ever was

"All you need is Love"

yes John...the LOVE of Christ

John 3:16

"for God so LOVED the world that HE gave His only begotten Son...that whosoever believe on Him will NOT perish, but have EVERLASTING life"

sounds like Heaven to me

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Posted by Keer

Where was I? In the 1st grade. :-D

BIG SMOOCHAROO!!!! :-)

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