I don't know what you think of this song, but for me, the chorus definitely sings of something true, which is often forgotten by people. It sings of anything that's worth having is worth fighting for. The thing people forget is to actually fight - they think if it doesn't work then it's not meant to be. That's not true, sometimes we just have to learn to make things work - to fight for those truly important and precious things.
We was talking about love at work last week and someone was saying she doesn't agree with waiting for and having just one partner, because you have nothing to compare to. Why do we need to compare though?! At the end of the day, if people believe love is a fairytale then they are bound to fail at it. Love is wonderful, beautiful, strong but it is also very hard work. Love first comes as an emotion but then there comes a choice - do I choose to love this person everyday for the rest of my life? Or do I wait on my
emotions and when they change, my actions change??As always, there is a choice and more often than not, a sacrifice to be made. This is no different for love. Love is something to fight for and when we love someone we should learn to fight for them also. Through fighting comes pain and suffering and through this can come grief. What we must learn is to keep fighting through, believing that this will make us stronger and that the hope we cling to, will not disappoint us.
'Pain and suffering is the price we pay for loving.'
'Grief if not an illness from which we recover...we are all permanently changed by grief: some may be crippled but many emerge stronger and wiser.' Murray Parkes, Relf and Couldrick.
'And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.' Romans 5 v 2-5.
