Karen and I were enthusiastic Frank Sinatra fans. Frank just stood in front of his sold-out audiences and sang to us, no freaky costumes, no fireworks or loud drummers. This was a time in the music world when the words actually mattered. One of his catchy tunes has been buzzing in ears incessantly for a week, maybe, if I write it down the tune will cease.
“Love and
Marriage, Love and Marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can’t have one without the other.”
The culture
of the young has radically changed in the last fifty years as has our popular
music. Try as we might to separate love
and marriage in this our new culture, love soon dissipates and we all are the
losers. We’ll dispense with the other verses, needless to say, the horse and
carriage is a very utilitarian arrangement, it is all about sharing the load. Feed and shelter the horse and the team will
get us to our intended destination. Love
and marriage should be a utilitarian partnership of the same sort where two
different human beings come together to share life’s loads and blessings, come
what may.
Faith in God
and the resulting future hope is the only indispensable load sharing
arrangement in this world. Some of us
have light loads and others of us know the burden of a heavy load but just
around the next bend, we may face another or different burden. There is no justice or equity in this world
of blessings and curses. At times it feels
like the luck of the draw. The people of biblical times lived at ground zero of
vulnerability to the consequences of both the blessings and the curses of
life.
Much has changed in the last 2000 years, the arrogant have called this change progress, yet faith in God and the resulting hope in God remains the same, our only ultimate future.
G Goslaw
Landers, Ca
