Ich Liebe dich

I've been thinking a lot about love lately.
I'm a "music major" (kind of, it's complicated), and I'm exposed to a lot of music, a lot of arias and solos in my singing and in my playing. One of the things I am always hearing as people learn their songs or perform in master class is "what are you singing about?" 90% of the time, they are singing about love, and the majority of those songs are about lost love, heartbreak etc. These songs portray love as being something that causes intense pain and longing, broken hearts and death. The songs where a character has lost their love are tales of desolation and permanent sadness. In one song I accompany, they lines go something like this.

When I have sung my songs to you

I'll sing no more.

Twould be a sacrilidge to sing

At another door.

I'll never share them all again,

I'd rather die.

At just the thought

That I had loved so well.

So true.

That I could never sing again,

Except to you.



It's terribly sad, and honestly, just DREARY. And also, I think, untrue. When love is lost, it shouldn't be the end of the world forever and ever. There are so many operas, plays, movies etc. that portay the end of one relationship being the end and that life will never hold any joy for the rest of eternity.

That doesn't seem to fit in with God's plan of happiness for His children. I am starting to believe that sometimes, a heart may get broken. Love may be lost. But there can still be happiness and joy. There will be a chance to love again. We know that the church teaches that there is NOT only one person for everyone. We have the ability to fall in love with more than one. There are multiple people in the world that could be right for us.

That offers me a lot of hope. I choose to believe in love, not the desperate, shattering kind, but the real kind. And I know that someday I'll find it. And maybe I'll lose it. But I'll find it again somewhere else.

"So much love and joy awaits you."

I've got a lovely, bright fututre.