Calling All Angels

This post may be frustratingly vague for some of you, but it will have to remain this way for reasons I cannot explain. But there are certainly times in our lives when something makes you so sad and livid with how people can be so unfeeling and cruel. And how they can get away with it.

Often it happens in schools, when some students are bullied by those stealthy instigators. Some students we never actually see doing the teasing and who are often doing the most damage. Those times were hard to live through and it's hard to watch students go through the same struggles we witnessed or were involved in when we were in school. It's a horrible cycle.

Well, it shouldn't occur when we are adults either. But it does. Oh heck it does. And I've just been a part of it again. This time I was the pawn. And it hurts. And the only people who could solve the problem are the ones doling it out.

You may be sick of hearing about those Wailin' Jenny characters, but they've made it back into this post. I have the CD in the car and turn to it when the radio just isn't cutting it, or when I need my soul to be fed by a beautifully calm harmony. In May my mom made a post with the subject the same as my own above (http://yearring.blogspot.com/- go here and then click on May posts for "Calling all Angels"). I believe that she chose the title for the same song.

In her post she mentions a time when someone truly came into our lives when we were most vulnerable. This person was an angel, I'm sure.

Today I heard this song and before I knew it I was belting to the chorus. When we're pawns, we need to rely on something more than ourselves. This may have "worked out" okay, in the end, but it still smites that people can be so manipulative with other peoples' lives and well-being.

Check out the lyrics and song on YouTube. They sure do resonate with me as I try to remain strong and seek the positive. Because, after all, "we're not sure how this all goes..."

A man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries
And high above, the church bells start to ring
And as the heaviness, the heaviness, oh it settles in
And somewhere you can hear a mother sing

Then it's one foot, then the other
As you step out on the road
You step out on that road
How much weight? How much?
Then it's how long? And how far?
And how many times?
Oh, before it's too late...

Calling all angels
Calling all angels
Walk me through this one
Don't leave me alone
Calling all angels
Calling all angels
We're tryin', we're hopin'
But we're not sure how this goes

Oh, and everyday you gaze upon the sunset
With such love and intensity
Why, it's almost as if
Oh, if you could only crack the code
Then we'd finally understand
What this all means

Oh, but if you could
Do you think you would
Trade in all, all the pain and suffering?
Oh, but then you'd miss the beauty
Of the light upon this earth
And the sweetness of leaving

Calling all angels
Calling all angels
Walk me through this one
Don't leave me alone
Calling all angels
Calling all angels
We're tryin', we're hopin'
But, we're not sure how
Calling all angels
Calling all angels
Walk me through this one
Don't leave me alone
Calling all angels
Calling all angels
We're tryin', we're hopin'
We're lovin' and we're hurtin'
We're cryin', we're callin'
Because we're not sure how this goes...

And any time I think of angels, I think of my grandma. She has a wide collection of angels and she has such a good, strong heart. It hurts her to see others in pain. Here's a picture of her :)