Perhaps Love
My friends, throughout all of history poets and song writers and authors have tried to describe love. This song below, written by John Denver captures the elusiveness of describing what love is by its mere title, “Perhaps Love”. The lyrics of the song make many attempts to compare love to something. Take a moment to read the lyrics and if you can spare just a few minutes more, click the link and watch the You Tube video and listen to this beautiful song. Then after listening to the song and reading the lyrics, let’s set speculation aside and see what LOVE REALLY IS!
Click here to listen to the song on You Tube.
Perhaps Love- John Denver & Placido Domingo
Perhaps love is like a resting place
A shelter from the storm
It exists to give you comfort
It is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble
When you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home
Perhaps love is like a window
Perhaps an open door
It invites you to come closer
It wants to show you more
And even if you lose yourself
And don’t know what to do
The memory of love will see you through
Oh, Love to some is like a cloud
To some as strong as steel
For some a way of living
For some a way to feel
And some say love is holding on
And some say letting go
And some say love is everything
And some say they don’t know
Perhaps love is like the ocean
Full of conflict, full of pain
Like a fire when it’s cold outside
Thunder when it rains
If I should live forever
And all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be on you
And some say love is holding on
And some say letting go
And some say love is everything
Some say they don’t know
Perhaps love is like the ocean
Full of conflict, full of pain
Like a fire when it’s cold outside
Or thunder when it rains
If I should live forever
And all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be on you
As I said, John Denver tried to capture the essence of love in his song, but the lyrics are just speculation-perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, so then, what is love? Well, let’s take a look in the Bible at a couple of this past week’s readings. The Bible reveals the truth about love!
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
In this way the love of God was revealed to us:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the world
so that we might have life though him.
In this is love:
not that we have loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us,
we also must love one another.
No one has ever seen God.
Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us,
and his love is brought to perfection in us.
This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,
that he has give us of his Spirit.
Moreover, we have seen and testify
that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world.
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
God remains in him and he in God.
We have come to know and to believe in the love God hasfor us.
God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
Beloved, we love God because he first loved us.
So there we have it. God is love! We just read that “whoever remains in love remains in God.” As Christians we have been called to take this news of God’s love to all the ends of the earth. The movie Les Miserables is out in the theatres right now and I highly recommend it. Let me conclude with a quote written by Victor Hugo and sung by Jean Valjean at the end of the movie.
“Take my hand and lead me to salvation, take my love for love is everlasting, and remember the truth that once was spoken, to love another person is to see the face of God.”
Closing Prayer
Heavenly Father, I no longer have to speculate as to what true love really is. It was demonstrated when you allowed your only Son to die on a cross for the forgiveness of my sins. Give me the courage to share the love you have for me with those I encounter today. Amen.
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