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    "Just Look Around"genre: Spiritual Easy Listening
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    This is a song about the miracles that happen in our lives if we just become aware of them.
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    Credits: Word and Music By Roy Rivers - Copyright © 2002, Roy Rivers, All rights reserved.

    Story Behind the Song
    This song could be subtitled... Angels All Around. I was asked to write a spiritual based song for an appearance on a gospel program on cable tv. The first lyric came almost immediately... "I believe in miracles, and I believe in signs... I believe we're living in the fulness of all times." The lyric created its own dillemma however. Now I had to include verses that spoke of a miracle, a sign, and what this "fulness of all times" thing meant. I heard the story about Celeste a few days later. Celeste is the daughter of two of my best friends, Larry and Sylvia Reynolds. It's a true story. She had climbed (unseen) into an open window during spring cleaning and fallen on her head from the second floor onto the sidewalk below. She went into a coma and the doctors fully expected her to die. They were talking about the date they would remove her from life support. Larry gave her a blessing and just poured out his heart. She then opened her eyes. I knew that if I'd ever heard of a modern day miracle, this was one. The other verses then came with amazing ease.

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    I believe in miracles
    And I believe in signs
    I believe we're living in the fulness of all times
    To say it isn't true
    Are the least your words can do
    If you look around... just look around

    Celeste is in a coma
    It's been 27 days
    The doctors hold no hope for her
    She'll surely pass away
    Oh but then her eyes are opened
    And her parents shed their tears
    And it's nothing short of a miracle

    I believe there are angels all around
    Sent to help us with our lives
    Some can see them
    But some of us are blind
    Just look around... just look around

    Long ago the rainbow
    Was given as a sign
    A promise from our Father
    To all of humankind
    No thing of greater beauty can be written in the sky
    It's a sign of love
    Oh, but look around

    I see brother fighting brother
    And refugees of war
    And every earthly nation
    Is marked with evil's scar
    It can't go on forever
    Before the trumpet sounds
    And Jesus comes... and looks around

    I believe there are angels all around
    Sent to help us with our lives
    Some can see them
    But some of us are blind
    Just look around... just look around

    Look around... our hearts are being opened
    Look around... what are we fighting for?
    Look around... at all that we've been given
    Wont you look around? Just look around

    I believe there are angels all around
    Sent to help us with our lives
    Some can see them
    But some of us are blind
    Just look around... just look around
    Look around

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