Without a Song there ain’t no love at all. I love the words and the philosophy. When life is hard, when there seems to be no answer to problems, when nights are unending, we’d have no hope at all without the music of the soul. Hope, no matter how deeply it’s buried, that candle that is small and flickering but still alight, that small, faint feeling that somewhere, somehow, someway everything will be all right–we lift our heads and keep going.
Songs and hope differ for each person, but everyone has a song or a dream or a reason for being. It’s what keeps us putting one foot in front of the other. It’s why we get up with the courage to face another day. Sometimes the melody grows faint; other sounds crowd in, noises of worry and problems and clamor from the chaos around us, but the song is still there.
I woke up this morning with a strange question going through my mind: what to do with problems that are seemingly unsolvable? Those questions that have no answers, those doubts and fears that will not stay buried but keep raising their ugly heads? It seems to me the only answer is to accept that with some things there are no answers. The problems will always be there but I don’t have to be defeated by them. In trying to solve them, in worrying about them, I’m going to miss out on some beautiful moments. I accept they are there. I acknowledge I can’t solve them. I have hope that leads me to faith in a Being greater than I am who can handle such things; I can’t.
I’ve got my trouble and woe, but sure as I know the Jordan will roll And I’ll get along as long as a song is strong in my soul. (Without a Song, lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu)
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