Love is All We Have
My Year in Review (2018)
STAND AND LISTEN OBSERVING THE ELEMENTS AT THE STATION
The song is on repeat, so you might have to just wait a moment to hear it in it’s entirety. I thought it would be a valuable thing to have the chorus “Love and love is all we have left” to echo throughout the chapel this evening. May it be a reminder of what we have heard for much of our life . . .
But now faith, hope, and love remain; these three virtues must characterize our lives. The greatest of these is love.
Nothing to stop this being the best day ever
Nothing to keep us from where we should be
I wanted the world but you knew better
And that all we have is immortality
Love and love is all we have left
A baby cries on a doorstep
Love is all we have left
Love and love is all we have left
You argue ’cause you can’t accept
Love is all we have left
Now you’re at the other end of the telescope
Seven billion stars in her eyes
So many stars
So many ways of seeing
Hey, this is no time not to be alive
Love and love is all we have left
A baby cries on a doorstep
Love is all we have left
Love and love is all we have left
The only thing that can be kept
Love is all we have leftU2 ‘Love Is All We Have Left’ Songs of Experience (2017)
What resonates with you about this simple song?
It’s the opening track from Songs of Experience and Bono says of ‘Nothing to stop this being the best day ever,’ is “My favorite opening line of a U2 album.”
Notice the stars
7 billion stars in her eyes surely refers to the world population.
’So many ways of seeing’ • COMPASSION is to be with, feel with, to suffer with — Love is to join in the ‘withness’ of others; not to just see life through your own eyes.
‘Hey, this is no time not to be alive’ • AWARENESS is to have eyes open to the present, but also to realize that our stories are complex and full of layers. Let us live by love.
The next several articles will include the content from the two evenings we prepared/encountered over two Sundays as a community. But you can download the full PDF.
