Blog 53 – 6-18-15

I think there is a bit of the poet in all of us. We have all known the joy of stringing a few words together that really say it. There is a proverb that says, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold set in silver.” A silver tongued poet wrote that. The true earmark of a poetic word or phrase is when someone says, “I wish I’d said that.” The gift card market thrives on people looking for just the right words to say I Love You, Happy Birthday, I Am So Happy For You, I Hope You Feel Better, I Grieve With You or a thousand other things we wish we could find the right words to say.

Sometimes the most poetic thing to say is nothing. I remember a moment in my young life when the little girl I loved most in the world, the little girl who was the first to break my heart by choosing another, was grieving the loss of her grandpa and called for me. I left my new girl friend at a birthday party, not hers, thank goodness, to go sit with my friend. And she was then and will always be my friend. I could find no words to comfort my crying young friend all I could do is sit by her and weep with her because someone I loved very much was hurting. When Jesus finally showed up after Lazarus his friend had died and saw his two sisters whom he also loved (He loves us all) and Lazarus’s friends crying it says, “Jesus wept” probably the biggest little verse in the Bible.

I have never really understood how people can just write people off for choosing someone else or changing their views or their thinking. In my view, which I fully admit may be sometimes if not most of the time slightly askew, if you truly love someone you always do. Now grant you for many reasons you might not want to live with someone. As the old divorce decrees used to read it might not be safe nor sane to cohabit any longer but how do yo just stop caring about someone. Hard as we may try especially when we think we have been wronged we do still care. It is the nature of who we truly are. We are children and heirs of Love.

Poetry for me started out as love letters that rhyme and actually I have never strayed far from that model. One of my favorite love songs as a young man said:

Love is all around me. It’s everywhere I go.

If you really love me, come on and let it show.

I encourage you to do just that “Let it show.” With E.T. the loving and lovable extraterrestrial from the book and movie by the same name, turn on your heart light and make a particular Bible verse a really come true, “the people saw a great light.”
Your fellow traveler and sunbeam,
David White