All the World's a Stage

I woke up this morning with a song going around in my head.  It is by a group I really like called Avalon.  The song is called “Testify to Love.”  It is not like I heard the song yesterday.  I did hear it the day before though, and it does seem to summarize in some way what I am feeling.
It seems to me I am living in strange times.  I have never seen love and hate so polarized.  Many professing to love, are practiced in hate.  The silent majority is becoming silent no more.  Mankind is making their own choice and becoming unwilling to blindly accept only what they are told.
I feel like a very small cog in a very big drama.  Yet more than ever being small does not phase me.  I just need to look around to see that hate and self interest is on the increase.  Never before have I felt so clearly that those who are contrary to the hate and hopelessness on display, clearly stand out.
Yet I feel big time this is not the time to pursue like for like.  For me it is not just a matter of right and wrong but life and death.  It seems to me one way leads to killing, stealing and destroying while the other produces life within.  I only need to look at social media to know that for every idea I think is right there are contrary ideas abroad that say it is wrong. 
Some ideas are considered, and some are parroted.  Either way it seems to me it is what is produced that counts.  I have felt for a while that words are one thing, and actions are another.  It is not words alone that influence me but words and actions - or the fruit of the words.
Yet even seemingly good outcomes can have selfish motivations.  I am fond of saying I am not responsible for another’s actions, but I am responsible for my own.  Love is more powerful than the strongest army, and more influential than the most moving poet. Setbacks are often par for the course, but appearances can be deceiving.  Final outcomes tell the story.  Love is always right and always produces life.  I will go with that.