Love is Different

I was starting to think about Valentine’s Day after a visit to Lisa at Lisa’s Quiet Spot today, and I was considering how the world sees, talks about, sings about, makes movies about and just all together thinks about love and then how a Christian should see it. It’s so much more complicated than the passion we are taught to crave (not that passion is bad) and how we are told that sometimes it just dies. The rate of divorce absolutely astounds me. Not just in Hollywood, but in real life too. Too many people are looking at marriage as temporary. If that is the case, then people should not be committing til death do us part. Anyway, I digress…

I remembered this song by one of my all time favorite groups, Caedmon’s Call. If you are not familiar with them, do yourself a favor and become familiar with them. They are awesome! I’ve loved them since I was in college and they have just grown as musicians and songwriters over the years. They write lyrics about real life, questions we all ask and feelings we all go through. They are just an amazing band, in my humble opinion anyway. So, one of the leads wrote this song about a relationship he had and how Love was different than what he thought it would be. He said, “As often as our culture tries to tell us what love is, I thought I would put down a little of what I believe love is not. Love is neither a 30-minute sitcom, nor is it a sappy pop ballad. Rather, it is the most difficult and most profound of human experiences, but thanks to our post-modern culture coupled with our own capacity for sin, it’s often much different than we would think.”

LOVE IS DIFFERENT

Well, it looks like five thousand miles broke the camel’s back
But it’s not as though I had a plan to win you back
Because I don’t know what I want
But at least I know that much
Now I’m afraid love came right up
And it slapped me in the face, but I did not know

‘Cause love is different than you’d think
It’s never in a song or on a TV screen
And love is harder than a word
Said at the right time and everything’s alright
Love is different than you think

So I won’t expect a postcard from Trafalgar Square
But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care
Because you can’t just turn it off
And put a blindfold on your heart
But I’m off to a good start
A continent away, but I do not know

But maybe you’re the dream I’m waking from
‘Cause I see you everywhere I go
Darlin’ you are such a mystery to me, you know