Blog 585 – 03.28.2017
You Look So Good In Love

As a boy because my parents loved Country Western Music I was force fed a pretty steady diet of the same including Saturday afternoons and evenings TV which included The Wilbur Brothers, Porter Waggoner, Flat and Scruggs, and the Red Foley Show. As many teenagers I rebelled against my parent’s music and became a Rock ‘not Rock fan and even remarked my sincere belief at the time that Country Music would rot your brain. In time I came to appreciate my parent’s music and make much of it my own. I am particularly fond of several of George Straits hit songs and one of those I listen to often and have even sung more than once in karaoke bars is, “You Look So Good In Love.” It is a plaintive, hauntingly, beautiful ballad of a man who realizes too late that he has lost the love of a beautiful woman. The chorus says it all:

“You look so good in love,
You want him that’s easy to see.
You look so good in love
I wish you still wanted me.”

Many of us men and women have made missteps in the dance of love and may have some regrets over missed opportunities or the ones that we foolishly let get away. I believe that it is never a mistake to truly love anyone including and especially yourself. When we love ourselves well we are better and more tender lovers of others. I have written my opinion of the opinion that many express about the supposed degrees of love, one that I myself used to hold. As if there were levels of love and some loves more deserving or special that others. The expression of this philosophy of love goes something like this, “I love him/her but I am not ‘In Love’ with her/him.” This term “In love” for many seems to be a higher, deeper, fuller type of love, a head over kills, take your breath away kind of love. I believe as two favorite quotes say that “God is love” and that “In Him will live and move and have our being.” As such I believe we have always been, are now, and always will be right smack dab in the middle of love, in love in the highest, best, and truest sense.

What I believe most of us call truly being “In love” is when we are for whatever reason able to get a glimpse of the Divine in ourself or in another. And, yes such a Divine glimpse will sometimes send you reeling head over hills, cause your heart to skip a beat, or even take your breath away. But the truth is that love is all around us. It’s every where we go and all we have to do is look a little harder and we will see it show.

Forgive me all my dear and beloved friends for not always taking the time to see the best, the highest in you, and how very marvelous you look in love. And especially you, Little Davy, for not always seeing in your best and highest light and therefore denying you the love that all little boys and girls deserve. For sometime now I sing to myself as I sing to all – you look so good in love.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White