Blog 289 – 05.06.2016

Today is my baby brother’s birthday. A few years ago he mistakenly signed off a text or an email with “Your loving older brother.” I immediately responded that I had been the older brother long enough and that he could be the older brother from then on and that I would be happy being the baby brother for the rest of our journey. When he was three he had trouble saying David so he called me “Baby.” I loved him and I loved that, still do. I even have Siri on my I Phone programmed to call me Baby. “I did not understand that, Baby.”

The title from today’s piece is from a Beach Boys’ song. I know a lot of people believe God speaks to them through the Bible. Jesus told his disciples once that God could speak through the rocks and there is a cool story in the Old Testament about God talking through an Ass. No, not that kind, a donkey. Then God spoke through a burning bush. Well, why not a Beach Boys’ song? I had heard the song many times before 1977 when I was going through some trying times. It was then that I really heard that line for the first time and really loud and clear, “Don’t worry, Baby, everything will turn out alright.” From God’s lips to my ears.

When you are troubled, when you are afraid, when you are at the end of your rope, when you can’t find any hope – I hope you will hear a Voice saying what I believe the Universe is always saying: “Don’t worry, Baby, everything will turn out alright.”

A dear friend of mine recommended that I get a copy of the movie Love And Mercy -The Amazing Story of The Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson. I believe God, the Universe, speaks through everyone and everything, sometimes more clearly than others. Creative people often seem to be more open channels. I believe Brian Wilson’s words were often inspired by Love and Mercy. The Psalmist David, like Brian Wilson’s two angels, Love and Mercy, had two angels following him. It says so in the 23rd Psalm, “Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Don’t worry Brian, Davy, and the rest of you because I have it on the highest authority, Baby, that there is no need to worry because everything is going to turn out right.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White