Love - Song

From a German song:

“Wenn die Liebe ist ein Lied,  ….  und die Stimme frohlichein, dann mit Niemand einsamsein.”

“When Love is a song,  … and the voice is joyful,  then no-one shall be lonely.”

The trick is how to make one’s love a song.  One ought to wear one’s love on the face, so to speak, but more than that, we ought to sing it to one another. 

The real question is: Is that not the Christian Message?  According to St. John, one cannot know God, if one cannot love, because God IS Love.

I sing my love often, perhaps that is why I get hurt so often.  Are we afraid of hurt?  I obviously am not.  Love requires courage to face hurt and pain. “Love was never yet without the pang, the agony, the doubt.”  (Byron)

So we ought to show our love by singing it to one another, if only to eliminate the loneliness;  And endure the hurt whenever and wherever it comes.

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ΠΝΕΥΜΑ ΘΕΟΥ β

Love is not a feeling

that I might experience.

Love is more or less a doing

of which I am conscious.

Love is an action,

performed to those others

for whom I have affection,

without any druthers.

Love is a duty,

performed with deep respect,

for our own integrity

our fellow man to effect.

The great imperative

is to love God and man.

Love is then clearly operative,

as that which we always can.

Love is divinely inspired,

wherever our feet have trod.

We are emotionally fired,

‘cause Love is the very breath of God.

                       

                        September 29, 1993