Category Archives: Charecteristics

Just The Way You Are – But Wait, There’s More!

Clearly, I was too brief … I have heard this song several times in the past few days. PLUS, another song that … let’s just say “punctuated the point” that I need to expand on my previous post.

Yes. This song is Bruno singing about the beautiful woman in his life.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of the words in this song.

At the time my wife and I got married, there were numerous other couples who had gotten or were getting married. I seriously have no idea just how many marriages I was aware of over the course of 5 years.

I state that, to state this … of those many marriages … MOST … yes most of those marriages have ended. Divorce. I will not spend time picking apart those marriages. It is NOT my place, nor am I even close to being an “expert” in marriage relationships. Lord knows, I had my flaws.

The purpose of this continued post is … the words of the song.

(I have the video below. Watch it and LISTEN)

Whomever you are with. BE INTENTIONAL! BE REAL!

You need to OPENLY tell them how wonderful they are. You need to intentionally tell them how important they are. You need to randomly/consistently find and emphasize the positives!

LOVE is not “sex when you want it”. LOVE … TRUE LOVE ‘REQUIRES’ effort. Love is omnidirectional in effort as well as in benefits.

Accentuate the Positives!

Love is Patient, Love is Kind. Love does not envy, Love does not boast, Love is not Proud. Love does not dishonor others, Love is not self-seeking, Love is not easily angered, Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil; Love rejoices with truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love Never Fails.

.. end transmission ..

Just The Way You Are — Take The Time!

I have shared before how special this song is to me. I made the last chorus of this song a ringer for Lucenda’s phone. Only when I called her phone, it would play. I would leave notes all over the place telling Lucenda how beautiful she was, how much I loved her, how special she was, how important she was. When this song came out, it was … in essence … a culmination of the years of notes I had left for her (but sung by someone with talent).

Today, I was listening to it again as I was standing in my kitchen. I thought of something different this time. I knew that I needed to type these thoughts for others to see.

We do not know when our time on this earth will end. We do not know if today is our last chance to BE a light to someone.

Take the time to find the positives. Take the time to be encouraging. Take the time to be a friend. Take the time to be a helper. Take the time to be a listener. Take the time to BE POSITIVE. Take the time to be SELFLESS.

Your words could very well be the last words someone may ever hear on this earth. Choose wisely what you say.