As I hope for and anxiously await the wispy white snow to fall outside my window, the year is nearing its closure, and the warm, happy feelings of music, smiling hearts, and the joy of giving and the love of holiday cheer fills the air. Over the next few weeks, people of all faiths around the globe will be praying for peace, love and harmony amongst all mankind for the coming year.
With my window slightly ajar I am aware of the cheerful songs of Christmas, playing at a distance and bells ringing to enhance the spirit. Meanwhile, I am also hearing a bell ringing in my heart with a song and a message recorded years ago by composer, Randy Edelman, but has since been resurrected to suit the times. “Everything is Possible” is echoing like a clarion bell around the world, roaring and thundering, and causing people to go out into the streets, and join fellow citizens singing, speaking and marching for peace and freedom and justice.
We have all sadly witnessed, or experienced in the past few years how a world of disharmony, xenophobia, inequality, injustice, exclusion, and an absence of love can tear humans apart. “Everything is Possible” is a prayer written for people of all ages, the underdogs, the outlanders, the dark horses, in hopes that we all begin to experience and feel the passion, the empathy, and the altruism…and that we can all come together and manifest against society’s injustices of man against his fellow man. Now more than ever before we need to realize that the power of music is strong and that we need to sing and speak out loudly with songs of words of love, harmony, and unity.
In the words of composer Randy Edelman
A gang of bandits once shocked me in an alley
I held my arms high
And screamed for some rescue
It on time arrived
You see lighting struck their eyes
I bolted out to some safe Avenue
When all the games I’ve played so long were ending
and all opponents seemed to know the score
When all the hope On earth
Won’t add to your net worth
That’s the time surprises are in store
You gotta dream that
Harmony is never ending
You got to dream that
All the good times they would last
You gotta dream that
Everything is possible
And all the pain
Is in the past
Some hungry lions
Once trapped me in a corner
A band of experts
Once told me I was through
It’s seemed like fate looked down
And spun me upside down
That’s the time to see if words are true
When all the fortune seems to just go round you
When even angels
Seem to block your way
You still gotta hope for a sign
When your down to your last dime
That’s the time to tap the strength in you
The official website for Randy Edelman may be found at https://www.randyedelman.com
Photo Credits: Billy Hess