Sunday, October 28, 2007

Part Nine: Let it Be = Love 3

To wrap up, I will say one last thing: most of the "self-help" books tend to dissect romance and everything else down into perfect little stages with check-off boxes to fill in. Don’t treat your life like a list of things to check off! Make it up as you go and ad-lib. As Indiana Jones says, “I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go!”15 Its more fun and interesting to let things go and not try to make yourself fit into a box. Stop trying to control and plan out your life; let God control it; because He’s already had it planned since forever. Keep this quote handy, “I am only resolved to act in that manner which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”16 It’s your life after all, not Elizabeth Elliott’s, not Jeff Myers’, not the Botkin sister’s, not Elsie Dinsmore’s, and certainly not Heather Paulson’s. You are you and they are them; “Be yourself, be your best self, the world worships the original.”17 I will end with another Beatles song; it goes hand in hand with my message of Let it Be and actually comes first; by year of origin and by its message. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”18 For without love it is impossible to let it be.

All You Need is Love ~The Beatles ~ 1967

Love, Love, Love.

Love, Love, Love.

Love, Love, Love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.

It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.

It's easy.

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love—love is all you need.

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love—love is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

It's easy.

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love—love is all you need.

All you need is love (All together, now!)

All you need is love. (Everybody!)

All you need is love, love—love is all you need.

Love is all you need (Love is all you need).

Love is all you need (Love is all you need).

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

Love is all you need.

Love is all you need.

Love is all you need.

Love is all you need.

(Lennon-McCartney)

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