Blog 3070 – 03.27.2024

In This Life

The last line in one of Nat King Cole’s early hit songs Nature Boy says, “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is how to love and be loved in return.” There is a great deal of emphasis on the former, but today’s song focuses on the later. Often it is being loved greatly that inspires us to love greatly.

When I was a young man away from home in the military, I read of a conversation that a mother had with her young daughter. The mom asked her daughter why the little girl loved her and was overwhelmed by her reply. The little girl said, “I love you, Mommy, because you loved me when I was too little to love you back.”

Perhaps all love is in response. I often think of the lines of a teenaged love anthem that was popular in my youth, “Love is all around me. It’s everywhere I go. If you really love me, come on and let it show.”

When closing time comes as it does for us all and I must conclude this particular life story, my heart, mind, and mouth will form the words, “You are the treasure that I longed to find. In this life I was loved by you.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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In This Life