In 1971, a commercial premiered with people of many races and ethnicities standing on a hillside, singing together about furnishing the world a home with love, buying the world a Coke, and keeping everyone company. It was amazing to see, and although it was a commercial, it reminded us that people everywhere need love and company. For me, it was like seeing Revelation 7:9-10 come true.
The thought of getting to know people of every race, nation, and language over a Coke appealed to me. As a young, black woman raised in the South in the United States during segregation and Jim Crow, the belief that all people could come together and communicate love, kindness, compassion, and mercy to each other, while drinking a commonly loved beverage, would be the greatest event ever.
The song made me think that my little children could grow up in a world where love defeats hate, where race doesn’t matter anymore, just our shared humanity. I loved that song and thought the ad person who conceived it should earn a large commission. I don’t drink Cokes now, but in my travels, I revel in sharing meals with people from all over the world. We learn just how alike we are, and it is a moment when you realize that if we could bring the world together in love, not war, what a difference it would make. It is a song that, when I read of the many wars today, I often hear myself humming the tune that I’d still like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, so wars would cease, equality and justice would run down like a mighty stream, and righteousness and the love of God would help us all see each other’s humanity.
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My advice to all is to see as much of the world as possible at an early age while they still have the energy to actually see the real world…not just cities that more or less have become the same. I never have regretted the years I traveled in my teens, twenties and thirties..It taught me this lesson that everyone is everywhere. Some of the most generous people I ever met were penniless with big heart. Color, language and money do not make us what we are. Heart does.
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So true, Judy. I wished I had traveled young, because there are so, so many places I want to see. But, each year, it gets harder to see everything you want because you need more rest between visits. But, we will travel for as long as we have strength and are able to walk on our own power. We are already debating whether it will be Copenhagen and Helsinki or the Cotwolds, Scotland, and Wales next year before Portugal to see the grandkids. I envy you the early start but I had four little nieces and nephews who needed me more.
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