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Humpty Dumpty and Hope for the World by Julie Redstone
There are two Humpty Dumpty poems that represent different views of the world. In one, the world comes apart. In the other, the world comes together. In the first, all the might and power of human resources is unable to repair what needs to be repaired. In the second, all adversity is overcome by the power of belief, and what seemed impossible, becomes possible.
Which world do we believe in? Which world do we choose to believe in? Here are the two poems:
TRADITIONAL MOTHER GOOSE RHYME
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,All the king's horses and all the king's men,Couldn't put Humpty together again.
and,
MAGIC HUMPTY - (From "Rhymes and Poems for Children of the Light")
Humpty Dumpty was a round egg,Humpty Dumpty had a big head,Try as he might to stand up and be still,Humpty Dumpty rolled downhill.
Humpty Dumpty wasn't afraid If someone bumped him, he would break,He had a magic all his own,If he got cracked, new skin would grow.
Humpty's magic gave him hope,If he rolled down a slippery slope,He'd turn end to end and roll back to the top,Magical Humpty could never be stopped.
Humpty's hope was magic, indeed,For what he could do, if he believed,He might be an egg and unable to stand,But he was magic, and thick-skinned, and grand!
This is a child's view of reality, but it is ours as well. For we each have the choice to believe in the impossible and to create the magic of bringing something entirely new into the world that is a result of our own special magic.
Which world do we believe in? The world of chaos or the world of hope? The world of human limitation, or the world of infinite possibility?
To answer this question requires looking deeply inside to see what we have given up on because it seemed too much to hope for - what dreams, what aspirations, what hopes for ourselves or for the world. It requires reflecting on what we have felt ourselves incapable of doing because of lack of resources, lack of intelligence, lack of personal appeal, lack of anything that we have told ourselves that we lack.
Next, it requires understanding that the magic that makes all things possible is not our own magic, but God's magic. This magic is produced by the fundamental act of Creation which gave to each of us a divinity that allows untold miracles to take place. At the same time, this same act of Creation gave to each of us the capacity to choose what to believe, and out of this choice to create what we wished.
Belief is the co-creator of life. What we believe shall be. Shall we then be Humpty Dumpty who falls off the wall and cannot be put back together again? Or shall we be Humpty Dumpty that learns to roll uphill?
The choice is ours.
About the Author
"Rhymes and Poems for Children of the Light," a collection of spiritually-based poems for younger and older children by Julie Redstone can be found in the Light Omega Bookshop. (http://lightomega.org/Bookshop.html) (c)2007.
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