Blog 794 – 10.14.2017

“true love waits”

Isn’t it amazing how the same words can have different meanings to different people or even to the same person depending upon their particular frame of mind at the time? Some years back, and that it a phrase that I find myself using even more often as I approach the sixty-seventh anniversary of this particular adventure. Some years back I saw a silver ring with the words – “true love waits” stamped deep around the outer edge. It reminded me of a beautiful love ballad I knew as a young teenager by Peter and Gordon by the same name. I had not known at the time that some young people were wearing these rings to signify their commitment to wait till marriage to experience sexual love. Too, late for that, and I could write you quite a treatise on my opinion of that particular interpretation of those three words. Perhaps another day. Today I am not talking sex but love in an even fuller sense and why I believe it sometimes waits for others to receive it and return it but never waits to let itself be known.

The word is that secret love is more cruel than open hatred. Ever wonder why anyone would think that? Open hatred can be pretty mean. But not as cruel as holding back the very best that anyone of us is and has to offer. Elvis sings, “Don’t be cruel to a heart that’s true.” I submit to you that it is your own true heart that you hurt the most when you hold back love or try to keep it a secret. The stories are many of the terrible consequences that always seem to follow such secrets. I believe trying to keep secrets is always a problem. They always come out eventually to the hurt of many when often just sharing the information would be so simple and help bridge divides instead of creating them. Most times your secret is not nearly so secret as you think anyway.

Love is the true life’s blood of the spirit with in us, everyone, and everything.

When there is a blockage in our physical heart preventing full and complete flow we get weaker and sicker and unless bi-pass surgery or a miracle occurs hearts are broken, ours and the loved ones who will miss our company.

True love does not wait to flow but wants others to know what it feels like to be loved. In Paul Stookey’s, The Wedding Song, he asks the question, “If loving is the answer then who’s the giving for, do you believe in something that you’ve never seen before.” I believe in love. In the sticky middle of my life when I rejected most everything that I had been taught from a child to believe, I still believed in love. It truly is no secret what love can do – anything and everything. Why wait? Love somebody, everybody today, starting with yourself.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

I feel the love,

David White