An Innocent Man

I see my way ahead one step at a time, through the fog, through the night of darkness into the light of day, into the light of understanding, that we can only do what is put in front of us! God, gives each a gift! That gift is so often kept hidden from the sight of others for fear that if it be seen, it will be met with hostile brutal condemnation! Fear keeps the door shut, the curtain drawn, fear will lead us no were, but to the brink of death, alone! A knowable well kept secret given in one word, "Hope" will keep that magic gift alive! Believing I lay fear aside, pick up the instrument God gave me, the one string, I have left, I play my heart out! I keep plucking, singing, dancing, telling my story of how the truth is so misconstrued, one more voice speaking out to set the story strait! I make a Grand Stand for The Righteous Innocent who have been let and left, down! I stand and sing for An Innocent Man, you! JMM

An Innocent Man Lyrics
Artist(Band):Billy Joel

Some people stay far away from the door
If there's a chance of it opening up
They hear a voice in the hall outside
And hope that it just passes by

Some people live with the fear of a touch
And the anger of having been a fool
They will not listen to anyone
So nobody tells them a lie

I know you're only protecting yourself
I know you're thinking of somebody else
Someone who hurt you
But I'm not above
Making up for the love
You've been denying you could ever feel
I'm not above doing anything
To restore your faith if I can
Some people see through the eyes of the old
Before they ever get a look at the young
I'm only willing to hear you cry
Because I am an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am

Some people say they will never believe
Another promise they hear in the dark
Because they only remember too well
They heard somebody tell them before

Some people sleep all alone every night
Instead of taking a lover to bed
Some people find that it's easier to hate
Than to wait anymore

I know you don't want to hear what I say
I know you're gonna keep turning away
But I've been there and if I can survive
I can keep you alive
I'm not above going through it again
I'm not above being cool for a while
If you're cruel to me I'll understand

Some people run from a possible fight
Some people figure they can never win
And although this is a fight I can lose
The accused is an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
An innocent man

You know you only hurt yourself out of spite
I guess you'd rather be a martyr tonight
That's your decision
But I'm not below
Anybody I know
If there's a chance of resurrecting a love
I'm not above going back to the start
To find out where the heartache began

Some people hope for a miracle cure
Some people just accept the world as it is
But I'm not willing to lay down and die
Because I am an innocent man

I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
An innocent man

The Audacity of Hope
G.F. Watt
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/watts/paintings/12.jpg

"with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God ... To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope ... that's the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt's painting."
Hope

George Frederick Watts RA (1817-1904)

1885

Hare's caption: "At the first glance it is rather strange that such a picture should bear such a title, but the imagery is perfectly true. The heavens are illuminated by a solitary star, and Hope bends her ear to catch the music from the last remaining string of her almost shattered lyre. The picture was painted in 1885 and given to the nation in 1897"

"To Watts, the serious man of fifty years, Love and Death, Faith and Hope, Aspiration, Suffering, and Remorse, were not, as to the eighteenth-century rhymester, merely Greek ladies draped in flowing raiment; to him they were realities, intensely focused in himself. Watts was giving of himself, of his knowledge and observation of what Love is and does, and how Death appears so variously; and who but a man who knew the melancholy of despair could paint that picture 'Hope'?"

Today

I took on the smoking Nazi, God, gave me the words as I trusted,it was well excepted. I may have gotten at the least an out side shelter for the smokers to use while out in the elements smoking. I was told by this manager that she knows no one with a heart like I have, I told her,it is the heart of God, it is a heart that wants the innocent to have a voice! God's use of me, will be Great, if I trust my inner voice, where Gods true plan will manifest! Letting fear fall away from in front of my eyes. I doubt not the breath in me and I see clear the plan that has been laid out for me all along. May I be as true as the arrow that has pierced my heart by God Himself! May I play my one last string sending a vibration of one heart, one accord or a cord, one breath, one love, one acknowledgment that the heart needs balance in giving and in receiving. Balance of the positive and negative energy flowing into the heart. Creation of God Himself, reflected back onto the whole universe bring harmony and peace! One string can, make a sound and can, free the cord of fear and misunderstanding, blindness, hunger, and replace it with understanding, sight, fullness and Hope! "I am" that "I am", I am enough, I make beauty before, beauty behind, beauty all around!" "May God lead me with a means to say what is, in a way that is beautiful and beneficial!" May my songs be of light to lead those in darkness beyond the night to sight of day where one might find the path set forth by the one who mapped it out in the first place. Trust brings joy! Doubt lays open a wounded heart! The wounded heart is healed by trusting God! Faith! Faith is seeing beyond the dark night! With the light of Love! JMM