Blog 3005 – 01.21.2024

Cold Cold Heart

The first draft of this Hank Williams song was written the day after I was born on November 23, 1950. It is a sad song, but one of my favorites because it tells a story about loving someone who is unable or unwilling to accept that love or to return it.

When Hanks sings, “A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart. Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart.” it is a sentiment with which many who have experienced unrequited love can identify. Rejection is difficult enough for any reason, yet when the reason is a past memory it seems harder to accept.

We cannot make anyone else happy. It is a fool’s errand to even try. What we can do is share our own happiness with others but only if let us,

The woman in Hank’s song has decided she would rather hold on to an unhappy past love experience than be open to a new one. The first few lines of my daily mantra go: “My heart and my mind are open, my arms and my hands are open, my mouth, nose ears, and eyes are open, to all the Universe has for me, for all the Universe to flow in and through me.”

In the last book of the Bible, Chapter 3 verse twenty, before the symbols of The Revelation become quite difficult to interpret, Love stands at the door knocking. Love does not force him or herself on anyone. Love is above all else kind. In a famous painting depicting this scene, the door has no handle on the outside, but must be opened from within. Hearts, too, have no handle on the outside, but must be opened from within.

In the Eddie Arnold song, “Welcome to my World” the chorus goes, “Knock and the door will open, seek and you will find, ask and you will be given the key to this heart of mine.”

I am reminded of two expressions:

1 – Cold hands warm heart.

2 – It is better to be hard-headed than hard-hearted.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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Cold Cold Heart