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posted 10/19/2009 2:40:39 PM |
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  Nightowl001

I was going to comment on someone else's blog, but then my comment seemed to turn into more of a blog of my own, all by itself.

For a lot of years, I listened to a DJ in Topeka, an older fellow, who hosted the Merle Blair Sunday Show on a local radio station. It usually centered around some theme, such as "Summertime" or any of the holidays. And even though Mr. Blair never knew I was listening, I was, and what he sometimes said sometimes made a difference. He ended every show with the same song. I think the version he played every Sunday was by Tennessee Ernie Ford. I can't find that one online, but I found this one: Glen Payne

Written in 1945 by Alma Bazel Androzzo, made famous by Mahalia Jackson, a hit in 1951 for Irish tenor Joseph Locke

If I Can Help Somebody

If I can help somebody, as I pass along,
If I can cheer somebody, with a word or song,
If I can show somebody, how they're travelling wrong,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

Chorus:
My living shall not be in vain,
Then my living shall not be in vain
If I can help somebody, as I pass along,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

If I can do my duty, as a good man ought,
If I can bring back beauty, to a world up-wrought,
If I can spread love's message, as the Master taught,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

Now,thow who know me, know I'm not particularly religious. That this is considered a gospel song is really of little importance. If my words are incentive for one person to seek and find a greater truth of a thing, to consider things in a way they had never considered them before, in a way that benefits them or helps them help others, whether I know it or not, if I have made a difference, it was worth the effort. But by letting lies and disinformation or attitudes I think are morally wrong be the only ones that are being heard, then my time has been in vain.

I understood a long time ago that my role was apparently not to radically change the world. At least not directly. But.. my hope is still to change the world for the better in at least some small way.

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Comments:
Nightowl001

Oct 20 @ 7:34AM  
My apologies to anyone who tried to leave a comment and could not. I had changed my account settings when I was writing a blog that was very, very personal and that I did not wish to solicit comments from anyone on, and closed the comments feature on my settings. I ended up not posting that one (or taking it down, I don't recall which, now), but forgot to change my settings back to allow comments.

My thanks to those who read and left kudos, and my assurances to one and all that no individual was singled out as blocked from commenting, bur rather, simply no comments were allowed in a lapse of memory as to what my account settings were.

Nightowl
WSOR

Oct 20 @ 7:56AM  
But.. my hope is still to change the world for the better in at least some small way
Fender

Oct 20 @ 7:01PM  
Nice one Night...
SpiritOrnery

Oct 20 @ 8:20PM  
You did post it because I read it.
eastham

Oct 27 @ 11:04AM  
Lovely blog.
mystery2u888

Oct 27 @ 1:19PM  
what a wonderful blog my friend
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