Blog 3086 – 04.11.2024

Not A Day Goes By

Today’s song, recorded by Lonestar, though guilty in grammar of what is called a double negative is a very positive song. Two wrongs don’t make a right they say, yet in this case they definitely do. What could be more right than being loved everyday in every way by someone who asks nothing in return only to love you.

People have such twisted and mistaken ideas about what true love is. The ancient Greeks had three words to describe three distinct types of love. Familial love they called by a word that is the root of our word Philadelphia which means the city of brotherly love. The second word is the root of the English word erotic and describes sexual intercourse where two bodies become one. And the third Greek word agape describes the highest love, the love that places the well-being of the beloved above any consideration of self. I quoted Jesus recently saying, “No greater love has anyone than to lay down their life for their friends.” You might say as another song does, “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that.”

Agape love writes a blank check that is payable upon demand. The grand gesture that poets have written about long before Romeo and Juliet is not to commit suicide figuratively or literally if someone does not love us back but to allow the light of that love to illuminate our lives and the lives of others by focusing that light into a brilliant beam.

One of my favorite songs to sing is You’re Beautiful by James Blunt. I think I understand the beginning of the song better now after writing this blog:

“My life is brilliant.

My life is brilliant.

My love is pure.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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Not A Day Goes By