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So, in part one of The Power of Love, we thought of how love is sacrificial and therefore costly. This brings us nicely to one of the things Huey Lewis and the News observe about love, the cost isn’t money.
In a consumerist world where costliness is often reflected and responded to with money, perhaps even attempting to buy the love of another, today’s song offers us a different idea.
Love isn’t something we can just give a nod to and then buy, it requires us to change. The song speaks of how more than just a feeling, love can be seen in our actions. When we love it changes our behaviour; how and who we spend our time with, what we do, how we live our lives.
But this isn’t just about our most intimate relationships. This is the choice to live a life of love in all spheres of our existence. When we make a commitment to this, we discover a new way of living, and one that will demonstrate a real impact on how the world goes round around us.
It’s also not about living a life which is soft and fluffy. The song reflects through the tough cutting nature of diamonds and soft malleable nature of cream, that whilst love may sometimes have a gentle nature which is easy to mould, it also requires a toughness to cut through some of the tough situations we face in life. Only then can it truly be a world changing love.
This is a love which goes beyond our feelings to a commitment to living a life of sacrifice, and a life which makes us vulnerable. We need to be prepared to give ourselves if we are to truly change the world with love. But the joy in this is that. The more we make ourselves vulnerable in love, the more we will feel it.
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