LOVE SEEKS US

A friend and I were talking recently about the power of love. I mentioned how important John Lennon's "Imagine" is to me and remembered a column of Bill Buckley's in which he was just raging against the song.

My memory (faulty at its best) is that Buckley's main contention was that if all America followed Lennon's suggestion that we imagine "nothing to kill or die for" that America would be overtaken by liars, cheats, thieves and terrorists in a heartbeat. Which, to my mind, is preposterous because the entire theme of the song is for the universe, not just America, to  "imagine all the people sharing all the world."

My beloved friend then gave the best ever example of the end-result of seeking love versus anger, peace versus war. He casually observed that people today are still leaving flowers in front of the Dakota in New York City on the spot where John Lennon died, but nobody goes out of his way to find Buckley's grave much less leave flowers there.

I choose to believe that's an indication that love seeks us.

Thank you.