Don't Believe Everything You Know

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Don’t Believe Everything You KnowPeople taught me as a young boyLife is just an accidentAnd becoming a man of meansIs all that living meantBut I saw something on my teacher’s desk one dayThat made me see the world in a different wayWhether it was dew on daisy petalsOr the sweetness of a young girl’s frecklesBeauty had to have a plan behind itLike a wise and loving hand designed itSome think life was made by chanceBut that don’t make it soAs a boy I learnedDon’t believe everything you knowSome can see the stars in heavenBut can’t see beyond their lightAs I looked out in that schoolyardSimple things caught my sightCos what revealed the distant heavens mostWere little things that had always been closeI found blessings that used to be hiddenIn a Spring leaf or a box of kittensBeauty had to have a plan behind itLike a wise and loving hand designed itSome think life was made by chanceBut that don’t make it soAs a boy I learnedDon’t believe everything you knowI still think of that teacher’s deskAnd that common sense is God-givenCos if her globe was made in ChinaSurely the earth was made in heavenWith a meadowlark in the mapleSinging out a joyful song of AprilBeauty has to have a plan behind itLike a wise and loving hand designed itSome think life was made by chanceBut that don’t make it soAs a boy I learnedDon’t believe everything you know©2007 Robert George