From jar3431@rocketmail.com Wed Oct 15 00:28:20 1997 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 21:25:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Julie Riggins To: emily@sky.net Subject: The Wandering Soul John wrote this a couple of years ago but never recorded it that I know of. He performed it at a benefit concert in Marin for Gerry Jampolsy's Center for Living with Dying. I felt I should share it with you. "In this magic hour of softening light the moments in between the day and the night the instant when all shadows disappear the distance in between the love and the fear there's a longing deep within the wandering soul it's like the half that understands it once was whole like the two who only dream of being one like the moon who's only light is in the sun. There's a danger in forever looking outside. You start to believe that all your prayers have been denied and you'll forget the sound of your own name and thus begins the suffering and the pain. I wanted an answer. I wanted a way. I wanted to know just what to do and what to say. I wanted a reason. I want to know why there can never be heaven right here on Earth and peace inside inside my heart deep in my soul within in each part and in the whole. There's a promise in the journeys of the mind. You begin to believe that there are ways that you will find and that someday you'll remember who you are a seed within a bright and shining star. It's like a flame that lives within the hungering heart that only awaits the gift of love for it to start into a fire that burns forever, endlessly like a river that can't help but meet the sea. In this magic hour between the dark and the dawn in the space between the silence and the song suddenly the mystery is clear that love is only letting go of fear. Love is the answer. Love is the way. Love is in knowing just what to do and what to say. Love is the reason. Love is the why. Love is in heaven right here on Earth and peace inside inside your heart deep in your soul within each part and in the whole. Love is the answer. Love is the way. Love is in knowing just what to do and what to say. Love is the reason. Love is the why. Love is in heaven right here on Earth and peace inside." _____________________________________________________________________ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com