One Love

I've been thinking today. Yep, smoke is coming out of my ears.

Sometimes I can hardly believe that my life is so good. I can wake up in the middle of the night and feel so blessed that I don't want to go back to sleep because I think that it's just a dream.

But it's not a dream. It's real.

So as I was driving to work, feeling so very blessed, one of my favorite songs comes on the radio. It was U2's song "One". As I listened to the lyrics I was amazed at the ties between art and life. I have always envied people that have such a stong way with words and melodies that they can influence emotions in others. And U2 has got it goin' on.

Here are the lyrics:

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say…

One love
One life
When it’s one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don’t care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it’s…

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We’re one, but we’re not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it’s all I got
We’re one
But we’re not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we’re not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One life

One

I guess at face-value, it's a very sad song about the deterioration of a relationship. But for me, it's one about hope. I firmly believe that we are given love and it is the most perfect gift we can ever have. It should be treated with the utmost respect and all of our time and resources should be spent in cultivating the love we are given.

I see so many people that take this for granted and push it to the fringe of their lives.

Well this boy won't ever do that. I have lived and I have learned that there is nothing more precious as when the one you love looks at you and reaches out for you. There are no job responsibilities or hobbies or any other facet of our lives that has such a direct impact on us as love does. It colors our world and has the ability to allow us to rise above whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.

So for me, whatever sacrifices that I think I may have to make, I make freely and gladly. Whatever decisions are made differently than they way I may make them are just fine with me. Because there is nothing that will ever come between me and my love - not while I still draw breathe.

And for each of you, I will pray that you will also find the happiness that is within you and not be afraid to reach out and take the hand that is offered.

Peace to you on this day.