ET CETERA OR GOD? SOME CALL IT ET CETERA, I CALL IT GOD      Some call it et cetera ... et cetera ... et cetera,            I call it God ... God... God... 1. Out or nothingness came beingness, the universe - earth, water, sky, stars, moon and sun; followed by plants, fowls and animals, including man, the masterpiece of Genesis, -- Some call it Evolution; I call it God. 2. Thunder and lightning, changing seasons, rain, snow, wind, earthquakes and volcanoes, all dispensing power, glory blessings and curses, -- Some call it natural phenomena; I call it God. 3. Grace, splendor, delight, majesty, birds and bees, flowers and trees, mountains and valleys, rivers and streams, laughter and ecstasy, goodness and kindness, -- Some call it beauty; I call it God. 4. Bliss, tranquility, contemplation, fusion, harmony, oneness, conscious and unconscious experienced as the enjoyed, infinity, -- Some call it  communion; I call it God. 5. The impossible made possible, the improbable made probable; serendipity, like manna falling from Heaven, astral projection and bio-invisibleness, seeing what only God can see, -- Some call it a miracle; I call it God. 6. Uniqueness, spontaniety, a new creation, self perculiarly being the self - the unprecedented and never-to-be-repeated self, here now and now here, the flow, soul-force expressed, -- Some call it creativity; I call it God. 7. Masters mastering themselves: Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Mohammed, Akhenaten, Zoroaster, Confucius; Sacred Books: the Bible, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad Gita; Faiths: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam; the spiritual essence within every man that transcends all Faiths and engenders meaning in livingness, -- Some call it religion; I call it God. 8. Goodness, caring, tender-heartedness, intimacy, friendship, acceptance, understanding, empathy, transparency, presence, healing, music, sensuousness, sexuality, nakedness, righteousness, -- Some call it love; I call it God. 9. Disappointment, despair, failure, aborted dreams, miscarriage, waking sleep, unwakable silence, shortening of the lengtening shadow, the final  leap that frees the soul, the gateway to immortality, -- Some call it death; I call it God. 10. The Rapture, perfect peace, nirvana, Karma, eternal rest, total freedom, existence without trouble or pain, Paradise on a higher level than experienced by Grandpa Adam and Grandma Eve, the ultimate return to Genesis where I never was...where I always am...an ultimate paradox, -- Some call it Heaven; I call it God. 11. Undoubedly, you have heard, "A thousand years  in His sight is as but a day." And, that's not clock time or calendar time, Some call it time, -- I call it God. 12. But what about "Time without end... from everlasting unto everlasting?" -- Some call it Eternity; I call it God. 13. And did you hear, "We shall all be changed at the twinkling of and eye; the corruptible shall put on incorruption?" -- Some call it a mystery; I call it God. 14. O Christian, did you say "The Father, the   Son and the Holy Spirit?" -- Some call it the Trinity; I Call it God. 15. Listen to the words of Jesus, "The Father and I are one...I pray that they all may be one, even as the Father and are one." -- Some call it joint-heirs' inheritance, -- I call it God. 16. The Creator of the created, observing His own handiwork said, "And it was good...very good." -- Some take g-o-d out of good and call it zero; I take zero out of good and call it God. ____________________________ Please note:  Lead sheet music for this song (lyrics above) has been composed by the author. To obtain lead sheet music send a self-addressed stamped envelope and five postal stamps to: Uriah J. Fields P.O. Box 4770 Charlottesville, VA 22905 Copyright 1991 and 2010 by Uriah J. Fields