Another facet of every relationship is the storm.

The storm typically catches us off guard.  Sometimes small moments of misunderstanding, pride and insecurity sneak in and cause us to act in a way that is completely contrary to the deeper feeling we have for a friend or loved one.  We humans can act so irrationally in these moments.

Other moments in life might look a lot more like a real storm with physical, emotional, or mental destruction.  It’s almost unbelievable what we’re capable of doing to those we care about.  However, if a relationship is rooted in genuine love, a transcendent love, the same love that literally is God, it really and truly cannot fail.  We might fail, we might forget how to love, but love never can and never will.

In any relationship, with a friend, family member or significant other it’s so important to establish a common ground, a root that goes deep enough to ride out the storm.  This understanding that when all is said and done we’ll remember why we love and how we love is what sets us up for something lasting.  Even better, this understanding might prevent some of the storms in the first place.

My hope and prayer in this second track from my video EP “Reach For Me” entitled “Remember How to Love” is that when the storm approaches that those I love and that love me would actually reach for me like a tree bending in the harshest wind.  It might not be comfortable and it might require a small or even great amount of humility, but it might just save us both in the end.

REMEMBER HOW TO LOVE

Maybe I said something wrong
Maybe you conjured this storm
Cause the lightning in your eyes
Reflects the thunder in my cry

Maybe I should have gone
Before the roof was blown off
Now the rain is filling in
And our hearts are drowning

When the flood rises up
Let us remember
Remember how to love

Maybe I bend til you break
Maybe you pull til I push
The only proof we need
Is in the wind that we cannot see

When the flood rises up
Let us remember
Remember how to love

In the calm just before
We forget who we are
Reach out to me
Like a branch on a tree
Surrendering to earth’s majesty

Maybe I said something wrong
Maybe you conjured this storm

When the flood rises up
Let us remember
When the flood rises up
Let us remember
Remember how to love