Oh Valentine’s Day…

Everyone’s favorite holiday when, if you have a significant other, you are expected to lavish them with chocolate and flowers, and if you don’t, then you get to sulk about the fact that you’re alone.  I think it perhaps perpetuates the fears that so many single people have about what love is, and what it means to be alone.  Are we ever really alone though?

In this week’s song, Love Will Be Yours, I’m writing from the perspective of someone so afraid of love that they’ve separated themselves from it by a thousand miles and are suspended precariously looking over everything that they are missing.  A voice interjects to encourage this fear laden friend to be released into the unknown.

In my own faith journey, it seems that every time I try to prepare myself for love or peace or (insert what you’re seeking here), it never goes as planned and often doesn’t quite work out at all.  When I surrender, give in to the mystery, I’m always pleasantly surprised.

So, this song is a challenge this Valentine’s Day to look at love in a different way.  It’s not something that we can plan or manipulate, but rather something that we must trust and fall into.  And, despite what Hallmark movies tell us, it won’t always be pretty or sweet, but requires ongoing perseverance and patience even once we think we’ve obtained it.  And love might not be found in someone else, in fact it might just always be found somewhere else first.

LOVE WILL BE YOURS

I was on the brink
Balancing
On just a thread

Love was passing by
A thousand miles
Beneath my trembling tread

You said why are you afraid?
You said…

Your fears will only rise
The more you try to hide them
Cut the string
Cut the string
And as you fall
Into the unknown
Hope will restore
And love will be yours

I was a child
Reaching for a knife
Just out of reach

Suddenly I’d grown
And the world below
Had cut me

You said…

Your fears will only rise
The more you try to hide them
Cut the string
Cut the string
And as you fall
Into the unknown
Hope will restore
And love will be yours

Even if you could stay forever
Hanging from this tight rope over
Everything created for you
Why would you?

Your fears will only rise
The more you try to hide them
Cut the string
Cut the string
And as you fall
Into the unknown
Hope will restore
And love will be yours