“My music is not mine.  It’s a gift from God.  It is my obligation to share it with the world.” 

Michael Jackson

“The fact is, few people have ever been as generous as Michael Jackson.  If it is true that actions speak louder than words, then Michael’s magnanimous actions would gracefully reverberate for a long time to come down the eternal corridors of time.”

A LOVE FOR LIFE

Firpo Carr

As James Hudson Taylor writes, “There are three stages in the work of God:  IMPOSSIBLE, DIFFICULT AND DONE.”  In choosing to PAY MICHAEL FORWARD, there is an agenda fit for a lifetime…for many lives.  The stages are defined in promoting truth and legacy in a study of five decades… a collective memory.  And, as Cicero said,” Memory is the treasure and guardian of all things.”  We, in the Michael Jackson community, have become the guardians of a treasury dedicated to world peace and healing…voices continuing the message.  We are unified with the fuel of emotion remembered.  Our activism reaches into all areas of Michael Jackson’s artistry, humanitarianism and legacy, the defending of his truths with a determination to erase myth-perpetuating-media.  With diversity and love, and a pure intent, we feel an obligation to give this unparalleled treasury to all who are ready to receive it, be they our generation or future generations.

“His music revitalizes me, my heart rate increases; adrenaline is pumped into my bloodstream and puts a smile on my face.  My eyes close involuntarily, my hands reach to the sky, and I see him singing and dancing as clearly as if he were in front of me.  Everything fits, everything is lit up, and everything is fine.  His voice hits within me with intensely energizing and healing power.  His tone and his resonance reach deep into the inner core of my being and transport me to a blissful state of complete relaxation spreading a powerful influence on all my energy centers.  Michael’s music in me is a kind of therapeutic intervention; it invites me to play, to romance, to the expansion of consciousness, to the sacred, to the cosmic and divine in a sense of transcendence and oneness with him, with God and all His creation.  Michael lifts my soul and heals my spirit.  Michael brings out the best me.

DEAR MICHAEL   MESSENGER OF LOVE

Elizabeth Johnson

“I DON’T SING IT IF I DON’T MEAN IT”

Michael Jackson

Age 12

There is a grace at the moment of pain in Michael’s music which reveals both ecstasy and pathos…a map tracing the human condition in multiple layers, impossible to resist.  We are stretched creatively and emotionally as we are drawn in.  While smiling, we feel warm tears streaming down our faces as Michael paints pictures of a world in need.  As Elizabeth writes, we feel an expansion of consciousness.  That consciousness requires action.

In my lifetime, I have never known an artist who could blend entertainment and magic with cries for social justice and activism…someone whose devotion to world change was revealed in all aspects of his work and living, and, someone whose influence lives beyond his time here on earth…someone who walked through fire and was never deterred from his chosen path.

With a keen awareness of need, Michael’s creative expression gave us a blueprint in our search for change.  His entire catalog, of released and unreleased compositions, contains a timelessness in the messages.  From an early age, Michael possessed a clarity of purpose, choosing only to give his energies to the values he held dear.  Amazingly, he accomplished the near impossible task of entertainment greatness AND tireless social justice motivator.  We have fun and we are given inspiration to fuel thought and action simultaneously.

Karen Langford shares with us a gem found in Michael’s notes as they discovered Michael’s inspiration behind, ‘DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?’  “In the 60’s through the 90’s, there was a T.V. Campaign for child safety that would come on T.V. each evening asking parents everywhere this very question:  DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?  Only Michael could take a T. V. safety campaign and turn it into genius, rhythmic music and song writing.”

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FATHER COMES HOME FROM WORK

AND HE’S SCARED TO DEATH

MOTHER CRIES FOR THE KID

AND THE NOTE SHE READ

FATHER RUNS TO THE TABLE

HE SAYS, ‘WHAT’S GOING ON?’

MOTHER CRIES DESPERATELY

‘OUR LITTLE BABY’S GONE!’

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

BECAUSE IT’S NOW 12 O’CLOCK

IF THEY’RE SOMEWHERE OUT ON THE STREET

JUST IMAGINE HOW SCARED THEY ARE

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

BECAUSE IT’S NOW 12 O’CLOCK

IF THEY’RE SOMEWHERE OUT ON THE STREET JUST IMAGINE HOW SCARED THEY ARE

SHE WROTE THAT SHE IS TIRED

OF STEP DADDY USING HER

SAYING THAT HE’LL BUY HER THINGS

WHILE SEXUALLY ABUSING HER

JUST THINK THAT SHE’S ALL ALONE

SOMEWHERE OUT ON THE STREET

HOW WILL THIS GIRL SURVIVE?

SHE AIN’T GOT NOTHING TO EAT

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

SAVE ME

NOW SHE’S ON THE MOVE

SHE’S OFF TO HOLLYWOOD

SHE HEARD THAT THE MONEY’S GOOD

SHE GETS OFF FROM THE TRAIN STATION

THE MAN IS WAITNG THERE

‘I’LL SHOW YOU WHERE THE MONEY IS

GIRL JUST LET DOWN YOUR HAIR’

HE’S TAKING HER ON THE STREETS

OF SUNSET BOULEVARD

SHE’S SELLING HER BODY

HA, GIRL THAT WILL TAKE YOU FAR

THE POLICE COME AROUND THE CORNER

SOMEBODY THERE TOLD

HE’S ARRESTING THIS LITTLE GIRL

SHE’S ONLY 12 YEARS OLD

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

BECAUSE IT’S NOW 12 O’CLOCK

IF THEY’RE SOMEWHERE OUT ON THE STREET

JUST IMAGINE HOW SCARED THEY ARE

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE?

Michael Jackson

BAD  and DANGEROUS ERAS

“When the door opens for Michael’s music and message to be heard and spread through younger generations, then, his mission and principles that he applied to his life are also gleaned…and is a great segue to discussion regarding the justice he so richly deserves.”

MJJJustice Project

PAYING MICHAEL FORWARD, to me, is living life on an intimate scale, purposefully promoting truth and legacy wherever and whenever I can.    It is a celebration with no end.  I have often been told that the career I joyfully experienced for 34 years has prepared me for this…  truly believing that education is the answer which will end judging Michael through purveyors of gossip and myth-making dishonesty…rendering impotent extortionist lies.  It has been said that the way we see the world comes out with the words we choose.  Being a man who was unable to turn away from the world’s pain, unable to turn solutions over to someone else, unable to curb his sensitivities, Michael chose lyrics, poetry, prose, essay, speeches, non-verbal language to inspire peaceful revolution.

“It’s not the machines that are destroying the world.  It’s the people that are destroying the world.  I want us standing there with our arms reached out, asking people please…before it becomes a travesty.  You, you, you, us we.”

Michael Jackson

THIS IS IT

Unafraid to turn his attention to problems, Michael Jackson focused on every crying need that touched children, animals, the ecology…people crying out for help, families suffering.  Through his dreams came reality…he dreamed of a better world…worked for a better world…and, created positive results.  Among the results is where we find ourselves.  We have been inspired to dream and work toward OUR dreams.  His generosity reverberates around the planet.  We are a part of its music…members of a choir singing Michael’s carefully chosen words.  THE MESSAGE CONTINUES…THE DREAM CONTINUES.

I love you, My Dear Friends.

Jude

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