[MF] Onward and downward!

[Steve Mack]

Not meaning to hijack the thread in any way, but Interesting coincidence that you mention a song Kevin; I have JUST finished writing up an email about what I consider to be one of THE most powerful songs ever written (& sung), but it's on the negative side of love - 'The winner takes it all' by ABBA.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kevin Perez 
  To: moq_focus at moqtalk.org 
  Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [MF] Onward and downward!


  Marsha,
    
  You wrote,
    
       "Isn't love an extremely high quality, dynamic experience?"
    
       "That's how I experience it.  I don't experience love as a "yucky
       biological or social emotion", but as a dynamic interaction of the
       highest degree.  And at its highest, when I unconditionally (dynamic)
       experience the beauty in all the world."
    
  I agree.  Love is extremely dynamic.  And so I'd be sure to include time
  in any description of it.
    
  For the past several weeks I've listened to U2's How to Dismantle an
  Atomic Bomb during my commute to and from work; 45 minutes each
  way from Pottstown to West Chester.  The following is a snip from track
  2, Miracle Drug.
    
       I am you and you are mine
       Love makes nonsense of space
       And time... will disappear
       Love and logic keeps us clear
       Reason is on our side, love...
    
       The songs are in your eyes
       I see them when you smile
       I've had enough of romantic love
       I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up
       For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug
    
  I've listened to these words more than a dozen times already.  And
  they're still just as dynamic as the first time I heard them.  They're deep.
  I love that about Bono's lyrics.
    
  If I had to give a name to it I'd say the Miracle Drug is humanity's gift to
  itself; the gift of life and love, the best of what it means to be human and
  to be alive.
    
  Time is a necessary part of a description of love, I believe, because
  love is dynamic.  It changes.  A relationship may begin with a lot of
  romantic fluff.  But in time, through faith in and a committment to one
  another, love transorms the lovers and in the process love itself is
  transformed.
    
  I believe it is their power to transform that sets faith, hope and love apart.
     
    
  Kevin


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