Blog 808 – 10.28.2017

She

In the movie Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts there are several remarkable love songs. The soundtrack is one of my favorites with What Matters To Me and You’ve Got A Way With Me, being but two songs that thrill me very time I hear them. Elvis Costello also does a wonderful song on that track called simply, “She.”

Usually I would quote the words for you but today I will just attach a link so I can sing them for you. I recommend you watch the movie and hear Elvis sing it himself but what ever your opinion of my voice do listen to the words and see if you agree with me that the song could equally be sung as He. I mentioned in yesterday’s blog called It Takes One To Love One that there is no war between the sexes in me. Any reference to Divinity or the Universe, if you prefer, must include male and female, He/She. I hear the Universe singing that love song and I am only trying to be a good mockingbird.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5UGucaz8iwNUzJraUd4RlVZSkk

The First People of this great country taught that Father God was sky and that Mother God was earth. If Father God is singing “She” then Mother Earth is singing back “He.” In the long running HBO series The Game Of Thrones that I recently referred to in a blog called Winter Is Coming one of the religions taught is of a Seven Faced God. The Hindu religion also teaches that God has many faces and even my usually quite narrow Christian friends allow that God has at least three faces – Father, Son, and Spirit. In the great sci-fi movie Fifth Element the hero Bruce Willis in order to save earth from total destruction must take four stones representing the four elements: earth, wind, fire, and water and place them in the right places but also he must make sure the fifth element is there to complete the ritual. The fifth element in the movie is the Divine embodied in a woman. I like that, too often God is portrayed strictly as male and that is only half of the story and not the best half at that. For that we need to consider, “She.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

Especially fond of “The Fifth Element”

David White