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I have at least two bigtime passions: My love for music and how deeply it resonates within me, and investing my life working to play a role in creating a tipping point toward world peace. So you can imagine when those two passions combine how moving it is for me. And that is exactly what happens when I listen to The Scorpions song, “Wind of Change.”
When it comes to ‘peace songs,’ few are better – and so I wanted to share it with you in hopes that you, too, might be blessed by it. Perhaps this takes on added meaning as in a mere month I will be leaving to participate in a peace-summit in Amman Jordan. The thought of delivering a message to such a prestigious and diversified audience is daunting. I’ve already had the nightmare where, as I begin speaking, the audience starts walking out (yes, none of us are immune to such startling dreams).
Often before I speak, I like to have a song that I listen to on my iPod to get me in the right frame of mind. Before I speak in Amman, “Wind of Change” will be the song.
Some of the lyrics are:
The world is closing in
Did you ever think
We could be so close, like brothers?
The future’s in the air
Can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change
Chorus:
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change
Next time around the lines of the chorus are powerfully altered to say:
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me.
When you travel the world you meet such children. And since they often live in the midst of war-torn loss and poverty, their dreams are exactly what we and the rest of the world should be listening to.
Less political rhetoric; more wisdom from children. More dreams. More ‘winds of change.’
Peace everybody!
8 comments to “Peace and the Winds of Change”
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Poignant!… full of promise and possibilities! May your words in Amman be the same for the hearers… so be it!
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Always loved this song too… can’t hear it without thinking back to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Peace-brother!
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Have you ever heard of the work of Raffi Cavoukian? He was a famous children’s singer/entertainer and now he works as a spokesperson on behalf of “Child Honouring” which he founded.
http://www.raffinews.com/child-honouring/what-is-child-honouring -
Tim, ever since I first heard of your participation in this upcoming peace-summit, it’s loomed in my mind as a Hinge … allowing a previously-shut door to swing open freely. How it will manifest is God’s job, but I’m sending you copious amounts of oil, spiritual WD-40, for unhindered movement…!
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Awesome…this was really good for me today…i have been dealing with some winds of change…my idea of faith and religion and what to do with my life now that I left the organized church…
It was amazing how God works…I was getting ready to leave a worship experience we had today and a man asked if I would go with them for a week to hear Mr. Green talk about a new way of viewing the church…
My wife said please go…you need get your head straight and this might help you…so I said yes and leave tomorrow.
What I just learned was that it is an invite only meeting and the majority of them are either missionaries or just returned from Afirica where they all experienced the raising of a man from the dead…they said they all freaked when it happened and the pastor looked at them and said…that is the problem with your faith…is that you dont have any….
He said in your world your ok with the idea of God not showing up…here in our world God has to show up…without him we die…
So brother I pray that God shows up and protects you and guides you…many blessings of peace upon you
Mighty music. May it move your spirit to speak great things which move many to action in Amman. Namaste.