Funny Girl

I love the movie Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand. It begins with such hope and beautiful intense love. The young talented woman meets the elegant sophisticated man who seems to have everything. As she becomes successful and her career takes off,  he's lost his luck and his fortune is dwindling. His pride won't let him live with a woman who is more successful. Neither of them lose their love for the other.

I've always thought love could conquer all. That's what the love songs tell us. But pride is an ugly vampire, sucking the life out of its subject. And so they get divorced.

Love is one of our spiritual powers, a quality of that which created us and all of life. It oozes from us if we let it. It blesses us if we share it and loves for the sake of loving. Not needing others to be what we want them to be but letting them be themselves. Not needing you to be small so I can feel big. That's what love looks like. And it shouldn't matter who makes the most money in a relationship, just enjoy it together. That's love too.

Pic.. Joy