"How I Love You" was composed and played by Jim Irwin. Photography by Jim Irwin. The photos are of some of our local scenery and churches. www.ridingmountain.ca
This melody is dedicated to everyone, past and present who preaches or preached LOVE/RESPECT for our fellow human beings!
I have no words (just feelings) in this melody. If you care to write words for it and send them to me, I will paste them below (pending my approval). Changes in the title of the song (which I deem appropriate) and different languages are allowed. I hope you enjoy this melody!
If you care to read on, I would like to share some of my thoughts. First, I must say I am not religious. Although I am not religious, I strongly believe in Jesus teachings!
For me, having DEEP RESPECT for EACH AND EVERY ONE, HELPING OTHERS, GOING THE EXTRA MILE and SHARING were Jesus main messages. Can you just imagine a world where every one adhered to and constantly acted according to these beliefs?!!
I personally believe there is a big misunderstanding in Jesus message due to peoples restrictive, conditional interpretation of the word LOVE. I believe LOVE means and should be replaced by the phrase DEEPEST RESPECT.
Accordingly, Jesus message was WE MUST HAVE THE DEEPEST RESPECT FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS! our family, our neighbours, our workmates, our community members, our fellow citizens and all the citizens of each and every other nation on the planet. We must have the DEEPEST RESPECT for those of different genders, colours, sexual persuasions, social statuses, religious beliefs and ideologies. And yes, we must have the deepest respect for our ENEMIES!
The importance of respect becomes obvious when you consider the consequences of lack of respect and disrespect. Lack of respect and disrespect supplant rationality. Disrespect injures peoples' critical self-esteem and makes people feel alienated and angry. It creates dis-respectfulness, insecurity and hostility in children who pass it on to their children. It allows people to rationalize criminal actions and activities. It allows people to physically and mentally injure others. It causes arguments. It creates distrust. It causes hate! It causes adversarial fractionation, dividing people into "think-alike camps" and can make these "camps" proliferate into disrespectful street gangs, political parties and enemies of your state.
Domestically, it results in crime, violence and social insecurity and social unrest in home states and wars with foreign opponents! Entrenchment in loyalties to show some regard for the other side heightens the level of hatred and distrust and increases the division and escalates the tension and the disrespectful abuse towards the other side. Disrespect breeds disrespect and leads to a progressive deterioration of a society's moral fabric, resulting in rising crime and reduced safety, security, happiness and freedoms of its citizens.
On the global stage, disrespect creates enemies. Likely as not, our enemies remain enemies because of our lack of common decency to show them some respect! So the cycle goes on in a perpetual stalemate! And the perpetual answer is war and people in remote places suffer and die. With our traditional "out of sight out of mind" and "see no evil hear no evil" attitudes, we distance ourselves from world affairs - even knowing the middle-eastern nations maintain an ancient cultural mind-set that Jesus tried to over come - a mind-set of perpetual vengeance, "an eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth". We create great devastation in their lands based on the "promoted spin" that we are killing them out of kindness, as we engage our missionary mind-set that our democratic ideology is the right way and the only way. Meanwhile, the hatred of these people we harm will fester for millennia and bring endless grief to our future generations.
I think Jesus (and the other prophets) understood the deep fundamental importance of RESPECT in our world and we've been thrown off the point by translating their words for "deep respect" to our word love.
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Hi Jim
Beutiful video and music. Love it.
Peter
PeterVamos1 1 year ago
@PeterVamos1 Thank you Peter! Your great music is only exceeded by your kindness!
mountainmelodies 1 year ago
absolutely nice and lovely music...many greetings to Canada!
best
SUN :)
sun21760flower 1 year ago
@sun21760flower Greeting Sun:) I was hoping you would like this and I am very happy you do!!
Jim:)
mountainmelodies 1 year ago