NO LAWYERS IN HEAVEN

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.

.

It started out as a so-called friendly divorce,

But she hired this attorney

and he drug us unto court,

Then he trotted out his legalese -

we had to sell the silver, the house and the car,

my video collection and my old gut-string guitar,

when he ledgered up his legal fees,

we watched as they hauled it all away...

then we knelt to pray:

May there be no lawyers in heaven,

No legal-eagles way up there in the sky,

May there be no lawyers in heaven,

O Lord, let 'em go somewhere else when they die.

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I got mugged my first day in town,

I jumped up on that mugger's back

when I chased him down -

His counsel claimed I used excessive force,

his client suffered whiplash and undue mental stress,

Now he's back on welfare and occasionally depressed.

Then they said I showed contempt of court,

But the judge said she'd let me off
 this time, with just a fine.

May there be no lawyers in heaven,

No legal-eagles way up there in the sky,

May there be no lawyers in heaven,

O Lord, let 'em go somewhere else when they die,

O Lord, let 'em go somewhere else when they die.

Amen.

.

Ray Stevens

.

(Here's a last chorus added on by

another singer who "covered" the song:

Charlie Sizemore - who's a LAWYER!)
.

May there be no lawyers in heaven,

 No dog and pony shows,

No double-billin' buzzards,

No legal-eagles, way up there in the sky,

May there be no lawyers in heaven,

O Lord, let em' go somewhere else when they die,

O Lord, let em' go somewhere else when they die.

Amen.

.

.

FROM THE I CHING

.

Heaven within the mountain:

The image of

THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT.

Thus the superior man acquaints himself

with many sayings of antiquity

And many deeds of the past,

In order to strengthen his character thereby.

*

Heaven within the mountain points to

hidden treasures. In the words and deeds

of the past there lies hidden a treasure

that men may use to strengthen and

elevate their own characters.

The way to study the past is not

to confine oneself to mere knowledge

of history, but, through application of

this knowledge, to give actuality

to the past.

.

From Hexagram 26 - Ta Ch'u /

The Taming Power of the Great

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THE UNIVERSAL FATHER

*

*

The Universal Father is the God of all creation,

the First Source and Center of all things and beings.

First think of God as a creator, then as a controller,

and lastly as an infinite upholder.

The truth about the Universal Father had begun

to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said:

"You, God, are alone; there is none beside you.

You have created the heaven and the heaven of heavens,

with all their hosts; you preserve and control them.

By the Sons of God were the universes made.

The Creator covers himself with light as with a

garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain."

Only the concept of the Universal Father - one God

in the place of many gods - enabled mortal man

to comprehend the Father as divine creator

and infinite controller.

*

The myriads of planetary systems were all made

to be eventually inhabited by many different types of

intelligent creatures, beings who could know God,

receive the divine affection, and love him in return.

The universe of universes is the work of God

and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures.

"God created the heavens and formed the earth;

he established the universe and created this world

not in vain; he formed it

to be inhabited."

*

The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship

the Universal Father, the eternal maker and

infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures

of universe upon universe have embarked upon the

long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle

of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father.

The transcendent goal of the children of time is

to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine

nature, to recognize the Universal Father.

God-knowing creatures have only one supreme

ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is

to become, as they are in their spheres,

like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of

personality and in his universal sphere of

righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father

who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the

supreme mandate, "Be you perfect, even

as I am perfect." In love and mercy the

messengers of Paradise have carried this divine

exhortation down through the ages and out

through the universes, even to such lowly

animal-origin creatures as the

human races of Urantia.

*

From THE URANTIA BOOK

Part I, Paper 1