Donnadogsoth Posted December 10, 2016 Posted December 10, 2016 Yes, prophet Leonard Cohen had it right. He never spelled it out, but his line is true. There is love in a red fire alarm on an elementary school wall. There is love in a firewall under your steering wheel. There is love in the cartridges in a policeman's sidearm. There is love in the water and sewer systems connected to your house. There is love in a shovel. There is love in a pen. There is love in your barber's shears. There is love in John Glenn's heart. Without love, everything would fall apart. The cities would burn. Only bitter circumstance and curdled will will drive out love, and yet even there it cannot be driven out. It only changes colour, turns hard, sour, into anger, resentment, anxiety, fear, envy, apathy. It cannot die in life, but if you lose hope you will find your hope becomes hope that you will die and put paid to your bitter love. Genesis says we are made in the image of God. John tells us God is love. A simple syllogism tells us that we must be love. That is why we bother to get up in the morning. That is why we do not put a gun in our mouth. Humans are love, they are made in love's image, they love each other implicitly, even though the world's injustice and toil twists our love into veiled or naked expressions of hate. But without love there would be no hate, for hate is thwarted love. The ant hates the intruder, only because it loves its nest.
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