LOVE. YEP. LOVE

My last few days have been saturated with love songs. Loss of love, new love, spiritual love, etc., and it seems depending what condition your heart is in at the time, EVERY song has the potential to make you cry

CRAZY! I KNOW!!

Now, the happiest song on the planet right now is "HAPPY" by Pharrell. Can someone please tell me how that song can make you cry???  lol

It did. smh

Music is a powerful vehicle for the emotion of love. Music, in many ways similar to colors, have characteristics that trigger emotional reaction from the notes, combination of notes, chords as well as the instruments that play these note. A soft violin triggers different emotional reactions than the same song played by a tuba, sax or piano; just as a room painted a soft blue will have a different impact than if that same room was painted an electric orange or pink.   Our senses are delicate and are even more heightened when you are going through a myriad of emotions.

I'm already a weepy person when things are awesome anyway so the emotions have been intensified this week by the music, the images of love as I pass through the city but they are beautiful just that same.

Today my songs of choice have been Ariana Grande's "Honeymoon Avenue", "Right There" (thanks to my awesome niece Courtney for hippin' me to the new school) and From the movie Disney's Frozen, "Let it go" and "Do you want to build a snowman".  All beautiful songs. Cried listening to everyone. smh.

Love is beautiful and tragic; glorious and defeating; consuming and fleeting.  Love is an entity that humans are so arrogant to think we can contain in a mere definition of words. Love cannot be defined by words. Love can only be defined through action, touch, presence, honesty, truth, respect and many other things that reflect what love really is. Love cannot simply be accepted because it is uttered. Love is the flowing musical notes sang or played by someone that is experiencing or has experienced an intense emotion. Love is absorbed in the paints on a canvas; the lines on a sketchpad; the color palette chosen. Love is the embrace of security; the kiss that feels desperate and haunting, as if you are trying to make a moment last forever while time slips away. Love is the effort put forth to make that good thing someone believes in you to be a true reality. However, love also shows you the harshness of reality but remains long enough for you to accept it and it picks you up. Love is one of the most confrontational things in the world. When hate, evil and chaos are swarming around, ready to consume, love step up in its face and says "BACK OFF! YOU'RE NOT WELCOMED HERE, SO BEAT IT!"  Love is fierce. Love claws it's way to you when everyone else gives up on you and leaves your heart for dead. Love digs until it finds your pulse and resuscitates what was left.

Love is and will always be.

The love of God is ever constant and never changing. Man's arrogance tries to define it but it can't be defined. God loves so much that forgiveness comes to the un-deserving but it comes. Some people have said that they give people three strikes to be forgiven but after that, no dice. Game over. Hit the bricks.

What if God gave us just three strikes?

Do we love like God?

With all that I mentioned love to be, can we express all of that with just three strikes and let go?

I hope we learn to love better and more often. I hope the people who receive the love and are what some may say "un-deserving" will shift their insight on the importance of what love is. You can enjoy love but it's not a game to be played.  This is why people think you can win or lose love. Love is eternal. People won't agree with me but I think if you love someone truly, it will remain long after they have left you. Sometimes the people we love die, leave, move on, and maybe even break your heart but there was a time when the love was right there in your face and you did, indeed, love. I don't think that disappears. People grow cold sometimes and some have even said they hate others. I believe that in order to hate someone you once loved, you have to still harbor a little of that love because it wouldn't hurt so bad if you didn't.

Those are just my opinions. They may change tomorrow. (shrug)

Loved ones, love always. Love faithfully. Love intently. Love with a desperation to keep it forever.

Love.