h2odevos encores 022712 Heaven Help Us

"Day come white, Night come black 

You could wait forever to get this loneliness off your back
Even the moon waits for another sun
To shine a light shine a light on everyone

Heaven help us all

If we should fall from Love

Heaven help us all

If we should fall from Love

That's us beneath your umbrella

We both walk in my shoes

Oh some impossible storyteller

Wrote me in right next to you

You say this could be forever

I say maybe so

But God only knows

where would I be without you?"

Heaven Help Us by Peter Mayer/Roger Guth/ Jim Mayer 

It's a prayer you know. The words "heaven help us" are a request that God in heaven do something about some situation with some one. It's about as basic and simple as one can get. But, as you know very well, by the time those words are uttered, the situation is no longer basic or simple. Most likely it has increased in perceived difficulty and corresponding frustration.

Peter is singing about a relationship. From all appearances it sounds like a typical relationship with the usual ups and downs associated with it. The couple has progressed to some point or plateau of love. Maybe things haven't moved beyond where one party of the couple wished they had gone. Or perhaps, both parties realize that things aren't what they once were, nor will they be where they thought it was going to go.

"Heaven help us all

If we should fall from Love"

Peter's request/prayer is also appropriate to consider in regards to how one lives one's life in relationship with others. I believe that if one falls from love, then it would seem that hate is at the other end of the spectrum. My sense is that an appropriate prayer for our time and age would be, "Heaven help us all if we could fall from Hate." For it is in the absence of love where we act out certain things that aren't lovely, heavenly or even helpful.

The "impossible storyteller" is the One in whom all stories have their endings and beginnings. It is the One who makes our story complete.

Heaven help us as we attempt to love, to walk together, to realize where we are right now.

Still in one peace,

rtg