Blog 115 – 9.14.15

Paul McCartney, one of my favorite Beatles and singer/songwriters wrote and sang:

Who wants to fill the world with silly
love songs? But, what’s wrong with that,
I’d like to know so here I go again.

What indeed would be wrong with filling the world with silly love songs?

“Where there is war let me sow peace and where there is hatred – love.” In the beautiful children’s book The Velveteen Rabbit we learn that love makes you real. But I think that in an a greater sense love is the only thing that is real. I have expressed often that I believe the best word for God even better than the Universe, and I particularly like that one, is LOVE. And I use all caps as the translators of the Bible did for the word LORD when it refers to God’s secret name in the Jewish Bible or Old Testament to Christians. All that remains of God’s secret name or special Jewish name is four consonants YHWH. The Jewish scribes quit transcribing the vowels long ago so no one knows for sure what they are. I believe God’s name is no secret and no matter how you spell it, YHWH, LORD or LOVE it means the same thing.

You see I believe in a BiG GOD, a BIG LOVE so big than no one box could ever contain the whole. Though I have quoted it before the lyrics of a song fit here.

Could we with ink the ocean fill
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade

To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky.

Hum, you think Paul McCartney and I silly to want to fill the world with love songs. It seems it has already been done by a far greater Singer/Song Writer than either of us.You like the way I put myself in a par with Paul? You haven’t even heard me sing one of my songs yet and you are already laughing. Sometimes we all feel, even God, like Rodney Dangerfield, “I get no respect!” But even those of us less gifted can add our voices and our songs to The Great Love Song that is “the music of the spheres.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White