Show Notes for Episode 6 Is it possible to see that people in the throes of anger, vindictive behavior, mischieviousness, and button-pushing annoyances are really calling for love? We can respond in either of two ways. Anger (which perpetuates the negative behavior and actually makes them feel that they were right in feeling that way toward you) or love (which gives the other person what they are really wanting and needing--it actually douses the flame.) This song is the anthem for the latter desired emotion of love. This song can be sung when people are starting to bring you down. Or when people are getting on your nerves. Or when the world seems to be crashing in on you.

The Call for Love by Vic Zarley

The call for love comes often
And the calls you'll hear these days
Come when some around you
Feel pain in any way
That pain may be projected
'Til they think it comes from you
When the call for love is given
Please remember what to do

Chorus:
Let the call for love be answered
This Jesus Christ will do
With gentleness awakening
The soul reflecting you

The call for love is often
While the souls around us sleep
Give the part of you that's joyous
To those around who weep
Give the part of you that's peace within
To those who feel upset
Give the good to everyone
You have or haven't met (chorus)

The call for love's a call for peace
When anger seems so true
The call for love's a call for joy
When sadness creeps on through
The call for love can't be denied
When anyone's in need
The call for love is answered best
By God in your good deed (chorus twice)

I used to write songs with a good friend when I worked at a large record and tape distribution center in Salt Lake City. One day I gave him the lyrics to "Sustaining Love" and he put wonderful music to it. I'll share it with you sometime in this podcast. Meanwhile, I felt the words were so poetic that I grabbed some music that seemed really appropriate for these words and narrated it as a poem. I think it works really well that way also.

Sustaining Love by Vic Zarley

Shooting star across the sky
How bright it burns, how quick it dies
Unlike that flash of light above
I have for you sustaining love

Pressure builds within the sky
Until a bolt of lightning flies
So quickly here, so quickly gone
Not like the love within this song

The road I travel rearranges
The eternal street light changes
Stop and go, and up and down
So unlike the love I found

I mind my business day by day
Give the man his change they say
Changing wind and changing sales
But my love for you prevails

How these days are flying by
Changing seasons, the changing tide
But upon this earth I ride
Something's changeless deep inside

And this changeless moving force
Changes me into its course
As the love within me grows
Something deep inside me knows

The love within me slowly grew
Like a redwood tree
Planted in the forest floor
So deep and free

The love within me slowly grew
Like a redwood tree
Planted in the forest floor
So deep and free
So deep and free
So deep, so free

Special thanks to Jason Shaw for his instrumental entitled Paper Wings found at Audionautix.com

The teaching in this podcast sticks with the theme of love. It is obvious that there has been a distortion, a convolution, of God's pure love. God's love is perfect. Man has taken God's perfect love and done something with it--made it in tune with his fallen nature, added jealousy, envy, even anger and frustration to it so God's love becomes unrecognizable in its current form. The teaching today explains all that and suggests how we might bring back God's pure, unadulterated love in to our lives. Yay!