Love Alone

I'm looking forward to this weekend. Trista is coming to Erie and it's not all the time we get to spend time together. She's going to hang around until after my little medical procedure on Tuesday since I won't be able to drive afterward. I'm also ready to get that over with and finally figure out what the heck is going on.

It would be an even better weekend if the softball game would get canceled tomorrow afternoon.

I found a new song the other day. It's actually an old song, but new to me. You know how it goes. It's called "Love Alone" by Caedmon's Call. I'm one of these guys that likes to know the meaning of songs. I listened to it a few times, stared at the lyrics and just couldn't quite put my finger on it. So I googled it and read someone else's blog. The blogger pointed out that sometimes it just simply hurts to love. The people you love suffer and you suffer too. It hurts us to become humble enough to love our enemies and the criminals. We try to love the troubled but their troubles bring us down, too. But we must love. It's necessary to love. God commanded it. Sometimes its just flat out hard to love someone.

But then I looked at it from Jesus' perspective. The lyrics then made even more sense. Especially this little stanza...

"And the pain of the world is a burden
And it's my cross to bear
And I stumble under all the weight
I know you're Simon standing there
And I know you're standing there"

If I ever have a hard time loving someone I just need to remember what Jesus did and how unbelievably hard it must have been for Him and how unlovable I am.

Here's the song with a video that someone put together for YouTube. I'd like to hear what you think about it.