Waylon and Willie

I just spent this past week on the road. I miss being home, and at the same time I love being with wonderful people that bless my life tremendously. Every trip is unique, and the unknown is always intriguing. Each trip is a new journey, with both blessings and challenges.

As I travel, I love to listen to Spiritual talks that challenge me. In my most recent trips, I have been listening to talks from the Pepperdine Lectures that were held a few weeks ago. Some are better than others, but there has not been a single talk that I regretted listening to. The folks at Gaylor in Nashville provide a wonderful media ministry, and I appreciate their effort to offer these talks on CD or tape. If you are interested in purchasing either, go to www.gayloronline.com
and check out what they have to offer.

It just so happens this past week between talks I was listening to a country music station on the radio. One of my all-time favorite country songs came on......"Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas" by Willie and Waylon. This is not some song that we will be singing anytime soon on Sunday morning, but as I listened one line kept jumping out at me......"maybe it's time we got back to basics of love". Wow, does that have any resonance with you too? It sounds like it could be the theme for several Biblical passages, especially the book of First John. I John was not preached much from the pulpits of the churches that I grew up in...I am not sure it was in our Canon. In one section of this book, Chapter 4 verses 7-21, John uses the word "love" more than 25 times. That is just one small section of the entire book. In that section is a 3 word sentence that probably is the most powerful sentence of that size, or any size, ever written. "God is love".

We use to sing "and they'll know we are Christians by our love". Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.