Sappy Love Song of the Day

There's something about sappy love songs. Can't get enough of 'em. I listen to Delilah year round. Just can't help myself.

I have even found myself driving home, tears running down my face, listening to Endless Love. Call it the dreamer in me or the romantic...or the sheer crazy if you want. I'll probably respond to any of those. But what I really am, deep down, is the Beloved.

And it's just there's something about hearing a sappy love song after you've had a bad day or a good day, but especially a bad day, that makes being serenaded by an 80's band so...refreshing. It's the perfect culmination of a day or week or month of pushing forward towards Love, your dreams, or whatever may be in your path.

I've gotten a few emails and phone calls from friends lately who have been having a hard time...going through some stuff, hard stuff. Nothing seems to be going right, or setback after setback, sickness after sickness. Well, sweet friends, I dedicate this song to you. You're on the Journey of Love. A Love that stops at nothing to perfect the wrongs, the injustices, and the setbacks. Sometimes you have to go through them, in order to process them and then to conquer them. It's not a punishment, you're not losing the battle. The process is really a gift, to show you the sweetness of victory. To allow you to feel. To bring you into intimacy, and to allow you to share in the sufferings of not only the One but also the person down the line who will need your life experience to encourage them. Life is gonna be ok. You're going to be ok. You're unconditionally loved, and nothing's gonna stop that (pun intended). So sit back, relax, and listen deep. Someone wants to sing you a song...

...and if you don't cry, at least you can smile. :)

Romans 8:38-40 (The Message)

^31-39So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

(corresponding song: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship)