Written originally as a classic love gone wrong song. Our relationships are fragile and need constant tending to. Before we realize it, we look back and wonder where the time went and at exactly what moment we fell apart. A partner, a parent, a sibling, a friend. Any relationship can deteriorate without work. In one of my recent posts, A Relationship With Myself, i reflect on the fact that even within my own self there is a love affair that must be kept alive and nourished.
I am in love with a lot! I fall in love all the time. I love things and moments and feelings and people. I love words and i love sounds. I literally love LOVE! I have faith in love. Hopelessly. Its no secret too, that I love music. Music at times IS love. It embodies truth and evokes emotions. It makes us feel. Whatever that feeling may be. It is by far one of the most powerful tools we use today to communicate and express.
Today's #MUSICMONDAY I'm using a song that I cant stop playing on repeat lately. Partly because its new music. Partly because I have fun singing it (and secretly wanting to learn to play it). Mostly because it causes me to really think. About love and loss and relationships. Any and every type.
Yesterday we attended, for the first time in a while, a church service. It was a guest speaker from the Unitarian Universalist division of the United Nations. He spoke of community and self responsibility. That our place on this planet matters not only to make a difference on a global and national level but, more importantly, with our neighbor. The trickle down effect works in reverse as well! To see and feel real change and progress, I believe we need to begin within ourselves. Reaching out and finding peace and love for those living right next door to us. Allowing racial, class, sexist, sexual orientation and diversity differences to fall away. And YES these small baby steps we choose everyday can and will indeed affect the bigger picture. Bring countries together in peace. We are all connected, its true, but it starts at home.
So this led me to think today, during my typical early morning drive with music, our relationships in this respect. More so, relationships we let fall. Some we don't even attempt to raise up. People we haven't even met yet. Or even bigger, our relationship with our earth. She wants our love as well. Are we even thinking of her? Are we tending to our love for her? Are we giving her flowers, surprising her with dinner, singing her our favorite love song? Every single relationship is important. They need love to grow though.
"Can't push away what you've got to face and now we watch as we're slipping away...".
Tend to your love affairs. Each and every one of them. It is a lonely place to look back and think, "When did we lose the love". There's great news though! If you find yourself there, you can always make it better. Just start giving love again and it'll come back! Maybe not in the way you left it but, out of the darkness of dirt is always where flowers bloom.
Happy Music Monday! Listen to my song with renewal and rebirth in your heart. Love will fall if given the chance...she will also rise again!
And...for a little extra treat...
