Blog 606 – 04.18.2017
Just A Girl Who Wishes For The World

I have loved to look at images of the beautiful Marilyn Monroe since I was a boy. I am grateful that each year I have no trouble finding calendars with her pictures in them. She was a very sexy lady for sure but there was a certain vulnerability about her that brought out the protectiveness in men, we wanted to guard her and keep her safe. In the same way tenderness and boyishness in a man often brings out the mothering instinct in women. Look at some of the great male movie “sex symbols” who were popular with women as Marilyn was with men. Paul Newman and Elvis Presley come to mind both attractive men to be sure but with a large dose of boyish charm. The April photo of Marilyn attached is an especially sweet one. In it she looks like a blond Shirley Temple all grown up but still a tender child-like creature. The quote from her on the picture I borrow for a title and launching pad for this blog – just a girl who wishes for the world. And what man would not work his hardest to see this beautiful girl’s wishes came true.

There is a sweet line in a Karen Carpenter song that says, “I believe you when you say that you will reach into the sky and steal a star so you can put it on my finger. I believe you. Baby, I believe you.” A romantic love and all loves actually grow out of this ideal love where the Beloved wants to please and grant the beloved’s wishes. Whitney Houston expresses it like this:

“Whatever you want
Whatever you need
Anything you want done, Baby,
I’ll do it naturally
‘Cause I’m every woman.”

Man or woman we all want to be loved like that. It is in us to want to be loved like that and to love like that. If we could see beyond our wants and wishes to what we really want more than things, more than toys, we would find it as little Arial did, in Disney’s Little Mermaid:

“I wanna go where the people are
I wanna see, wanna see ’em dancing.
Walking around on those, what do you call them feet…
Up where they walk
Up where the run
Up where they stay all day in the sun
Wandering free
Wish I could be
Part of that world.”

It is not wrong to wish for the world. Our desires, our wants, our wishes are what drives us to go out into the world to find our heart’s desire. They are the bread crumbs that have been scattered so we could find our way back home and home is not a place it is a Person. And the one and only person who can entirely fill that bill is the One and Only One with all the resources to do the job. Every love song is His/Her Love Song, and every story is Her/His Story. He/She/We are the boy on the bridge and the girl who wishes for the world and finds it in the Heaven inside their own hearts. It can be found no where else., Home and Heaven truly are where the heart is. And the King/Queen of Hearts is always waiting there for you to find your way Home.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White