All You Need Is Love

One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits was Eddie Murphy's "Buckwheat" character advertising an entire record album of classic songs. For those of you in the younger set, "Buckwheat" was the little Black (Politically correct: African American) boy (can I even use the word "boy"?)..... the little Black, African-American "child" who didn't speak very well in the old "Our Gang" television series. (This was when t.v. was in black and white....and the broadcast day ended at midnight... with the playing of the National Anthem)....

Anyway,... I particularly liked his version of Tina Turner's hit: What's Love Got To Do With It.... except Eddie sang it as, "What's Nub Got To Do Wit It"..... as well as his revisit of the Country Music classic, "Lookin' Pa Nub In All The Wrong Places"......

So,... now you all know my warped sense of humor...



Love.....

There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy
There's nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy...
All You need is love...

The Beatles sang, "All You Need Is Love" ... one of my favorite Fab 4 songs...
(Although a bit obtuse unless you happen to still be using LSD on a regular basis)...

Steven Stills sang, "Love The One You're With".... (that could turn out to be an interesting venture, depending on who you're with and what you're doing at any given moment)....


C.S. Lewis ventured into the literary definitions of love and came up with four types...


Familial: the love of family.... son, daughter, mother, father, sister and brothers


Phileo: "Brotherly love" in the sense of the human family, how the city of "Philadelphia" got it's name: The City Of Brotherly Love (I wonder just how true that is today?)....


Eros: Sexual love. The root of "erotic". The one love that this world seems most likely to distort and twist away from it's original intent. Hence, the lure and spread of pornographic images...


Agape: This is the love that is attributed to God.... Agape Love...a love that transcends emotions, love for love's sake....(God IS love)....First John 4:8



This is the ultimate biblical definition of love: "This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." (First John 4, verse 10)...


The Apostle Paul made a special point of love in his letter to the first century Corinthian Church. There are a few vitally important things to consider in this life to be able to live a life of purpose and meaning. Faith, Hope and Love are the spiritual lifeblood that flows through the human heart. Faith is an extension into the unseen, whereby we may develop a trust in a Higher Power Whom we cannot see. This in turn, leads us to be able to "hope" for better things than this world has to offer, a better "future" than the tangible is able to give to us. And love.. love is the glue that holds everything together. As fallible (read,... sinful) human beings, we fall so incredibly short of the type of love we had at the beginning of creation, the full measure of "Agape" love that Adam and Eve shared with their Creator as they walked with Him "in the cool of the day". (Genesis 3:8)...

In First Corinthians, Chapter 13, the Lord's Apostle gives us the clearest picture of what true love really looks like.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It doesn't envy, it doesn't boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophesies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

What's Love Got To Do With It?...... asks Tina Turner....

Answer:...... Everything