Love Has the Final Move

So once again I've changed my blog title and purpose.  I'll still be sharing projects (successes or fails) but in a different context.  I want to share my thoughts, feelings, and experiences on a more personal level.  I don't think that what I have to say is really that interesting or insightful.  I am by no means an expert on anything, in fact quite the opposite.  But I do have experience with some difficult things and I hope that maybe, just maybe someday something I have to share will touch someone's life.  Maybe it will encourage them, inspire them or just let them know and feel that they aren't alone in dealing with they're going through.  That's my hope.

I've been wanting to do this for a couple of months now but honestly couldn't think of a new title that fit.  Then one day while driving hubby's car the song "Love Has the  Final Move" by Chris Rice came on and I nearly broke down. The song talks about how it was Love that started everything here on Earth and while it seems to be gone for now someday it will come back, just when we think its all over, and win.  And it was exactly what I needed at the moment.  Life seems to be beating on us for now, as it usually does to everyone from time to time,in ways that are both visible and invisible.We find ourselves in a place where the only one who has control of our situation is God, there is honestly nothing else we can do. (Please don't be worried though, we're ok, just frustrated...) I am a doer, knowing that there is nothing I can do frustrates me and puts me in a place of denial.  I don't "Let go and Let God" very well.

And then this song comes on the stereo.  It reminded me that God started all of this and the final move in this whole thing? Its His.  You know that saying "Everything is going to be ok in end, if its not ok, its not the end"? That's what comes to mind when I here this song.  Its not over until Love (Love being God because that to me is the essence of God, but more on that later...) makes the final move and wins.

We have to understand however that winning looks different to God.  Sometimes for Love to win the process might be painful.  It might be in a loved ones passing as love rescues them from the pain they're in but meaning we lose them or your child having a serious condition that requires a surgery so that someday you might be able to lend support to another parent going through the same situation.  No one knows the full measure of God's plans, the only thing I know is that He has the final move, and in the end Love will win.

Enjoy these lyrics :-)

Chris Rice - The Final Move 

Saw an old guy today
Staring long at a chess game
Looked like it was half-played
Then his tear splashed between
The bishop and the king...oh
He turned his face to mine
I saw the Question in his eyes
I shrugged him half a smile and walked away
It made me sad, and it made me think
And now it makes me sing what I believe


It was love that set this fragile planet rolling
Tilting at our perfect twenty-three
Molecules and men infused with holy
Finding our way around the galaxy
And Paradise has up and flown away for now
But hope still breathes and truth is always true
And just when we think it's almost over
Love has the final move
Love has the final move


Heard a young girl sing a song
To her daughter in her pale arms
Walkin' through a rainstorm
"Because you're here my little girl
It's gonna be a better world"...oh
She turned her face to mine
I saw the Answer in her eyes
I shrugged her half a smile and walked away
It made me smile, and it made me think
And now it makes me sing what I believe


It was love that set our fragile planet rolling
Tilting at our perfect twenty-three
Molecules and men infused with holy
Finding our way around the galaxy
And Paradise has up and flown away for now
But hope still breathes and truth is always true
And just when we think it's almost over
Love has the final move
Love has the final move

(Something right went very wrong
But love has been here all along)