The Enlightened Politiholic

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You can find the Voice for God on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and other music services! You just have to be listening! Closely! Here are some songs that I have reviewed and found the Voice. I use them for my playlists to help me remember who I am and where I am going. These are artist who are doing the same!

Finding God, Finding Heaven

I never thought that I would find the Voice for God in lyrics by Madonna. Intriguingly, its a song I’ve heard many times before, but never really heard it. God is Life, we are the children of life. We are the ones who have turned our back on our oneness with God and have the key to see our true relationship with All That Is: It was written by Peter Rafelson, Madona, and Gardner Cole:
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“Open your heart to me, baby I hold the lock and you hold the key Open your heart to me darling I’ll give you love if you, you turn the key.

I think that you’re afraid to look in my eyes (ooh bab) You look a little sad, boy, I wonder why (mmm) I follow you around but you can’t see You’re too wrapped up in yourself to notice So you choose to look the other way, Well, I’ve got something to say.

Don’t try to run, I can keep up with you Nothing can stop me from trying You’ve got to.

Open your heart to me, baby I hold the lock and you hold the key Open your heart to me darling I’ll give you love if you, you turn the key.”

Thank you, Madonna, for sharing even more than you were aware of, at the time. [1986]

Sometimes, when I look at the headlines and listen to the folks on radio and television, as they share their concerns about the future of our world, it becomes clear to me that this world is not sustainable, no matter what. It was created by ego and our bodies were created to shut out our heavenly parent as much as possible. But what ego has meant as separation, the Holy Spirit uses to point the way back. That is one of the many reasons I like music so much. It is greater than just the words alone. This is one of the ways the Holy Spirit turns something physical, like sound and music and maybe even the world, into a way to help us understand what needs to happen inside of us. This is a song by Peter Paul and Mary, Music Speaks Louder than Words, written by Edgar Peas, Harold Payne, James Michael and Scarpiello James…
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“Music speaks louder than words. It's the only thing that the whole world listens to. Music speaks louder than words When you sing, people understand.

Sometimes the love that you feel inside Gets lost between your heart and your mind And the words don't really say the things you wanted them to. But then you feel in someone's song What you'd been trying to say all along, And somehow with the magic of music the message comes through.

Music speaks louder than words. It's the only thing that the whole world listens to. Music speaks louder than words. When you sing, people understand.”

That’s Peter Paul and Mary and an evergreen tune that speaks a truth that we all need to take into consideration. You could say that words are “ego stuff” and you would be right. Words are of their very nature part of a language, part of a culture and part of the apparent separation between us and God. That is not necessarily true of music and why it can add so much.
When you think about it, words often do get in the way, which is why we search for songs that remind us of the Voice for God. Have you ever really understood a Buddhist or a Hindu talk about God and spiritual experience if they are using their native language. Music transcends that lack of understanding. Some songs remind us of our true relationship with God and each other, and it is the music that does much of the work. From the world’s point of view, the Choice for God is crazy and incomprehensible; but is it really? This choice is referred to in this Peter Schilling oldy-made-new by Shiny Toy Guns about Major Tom. He is an astronaut close to achieving orbit around Earth. But then, apparently, he decides to keep on going! He doesn’t respond at first to the frantic voices from mission control, who are sure that something has gone wrong….
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"4 3 2 1 Earth below us, Drifting, falling. Floating, weightless Calling, calling home...

Across the stratosphere, A final message: "Give my wife my love," Then nothing more.

Far beneath the ship The world is mourning. They don't realize He's alive. No one understands, But Major Tom sees Now the life commands: This is my home I'm coming home.

Earth below us, Drifting, falling. Floating, weightless Calling home... Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating, weightless Calling home... Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating, weightless Calling, calling home... Home.....”

The sound of home, where the heart is. Home is heaven. We can never really believe; we can never completely forget. We can fall asleep and pretend that our temporal temporary world is real and get all caught up in the thinking and the worrying and trying to fix it. If we just remember that we are already there and just look past this temporary world and see our brothers and sisters as ourselves as they really are! Just like Jesus once said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Music helps us get there.
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