Episode 413 - "Red Planet Mars" (1952)

About this Episode

'Love is the Answer' to almost all human problems; but more accurately stated, 'Belovedness' is the Answer. Love springs from belovedness, and almost every rock song that has ever been sung echoes this.

It's an important distinction, tho', between love and belovedness, because love is almost always a response to belovedness In other words, belovedness comes prior to love. You cannot tell someone to love. But if they feel they are loved,

then their love comes naturally. "All I Gotta Do Is/Act Naturally" (The Beatles, 1965).

Love always comes from outside yourself. That is not an overstatement. For love to "work", it has to come from outside yourself. You didn't make it happen. Love fell into your lap. Just look at your own experience: "(That's When) I Saw Her Standing There" (once again, The Beatles, 1963).

One more thing, tho', and it's important. You can pray for it to happen. Belovedness is not strictly quixotic. If there is not human belovedness in your life, ask God to send you some. I mean that. We know He loves each of us from the bottom of His Heart. I write that with "sure and certain hope" -- and based on long experience. It's a good and almost necessary thing to pray for belovedness to happen.

As in Psalm 116:

I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.
Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell had hold of me:
I found trouble and sorrow.
Then I called upon the name of the Lord....
Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears...

Ask God to send you some (human) love -- or even more of what you already have. LUV U.