This is a good question - one I've been asking myself quite a bit lately. I guess I just see every trying time like this one as some kind of test of faith, although some may disagree and say that sometimes bad things just happen because we live in an imperfect world. I think when something like this happens, God wants us to simply trust that He did the right thing or allowed the right thing to happen even though we don't understand it. It's like the song I had mentioned before MJ's passing ironically which repeats the chorus: "Even though we don't understand it, the Father does all things well." But I must admit though, in cases like this one, it is a real faith fight for me. I tend to look at things more in the natural with my fleshly eyes, and when I do, I can't for the life of me figure it out. I think we are supposed to look with our spiritual eyes more. I tend to go back and forth thinking that God knew what He was doing and other times questioning Him. Something like this is very hard. We just can't see how something like this could possibly be the right thing. I have to constantly remind myself that I don't know everything and that He knows things that I don't know. I don't know what was going on in MJ's world, but I try to take comfort in the fact that God knew exactly what was going on and He made a decision based on what He knew. I have to say that I don't really know what the happy ending would be in a case like this, it's been such a mystery to me, but I guess that's just the point - believing without seeing.
Yes, you've expressed this very well because this is what everyone is indeed left with now.
I was thinking that when taking into account the things we
do know, it could lead perhaps toward realizing that the title of Summer's story could be our solace - a kind of 'cool' comfort perhaps - but some solace.
For instance, some things we know are, one - "He does
all things well" as MP pointed out, and we know that "God
is Love".
We also know from MJ's highest form of expression, that being song, that it seems Michael was singing to "someone" whom he felt had a level of lonliness that matched his own and so, had in that sense, perhaps "met" his match, and perhaps that could be where it comes into play that ...
Things Aren't Always What They Seem
Perhaps the reason that (based on the music) they did not seem to physically meet very often if at all, is because of the fact that everyone that both of them had ever physically "met" had found it necessary to hold their attention only on the physical aspects, whether it be "looks" or "thex" lol or "money" or "accomplishment" or "fame", "name" or whatever and perhaps God spared them both the agony and the ecstasy of all that being physically connected can entail, considering they both were experiencing abysmal levels of lonliness and needed to be "connected" where it
really counts - in the spirit.
I say
both because due to Michael's clues (if you also can easily view the eras of songs as a musical "braid" that overlaps eachother) he tells us many things about "her", eg., "she's sick and tired of being on the lonely merry-go-round", or she "woke" him from sleeping and told him that, "she was so sick and tired" (from PYT - demo which has caught my attention recently) which shows that he was "tuned in" with her lonliness - or, You Are Not Alone, where in the end adlibs he says, "you just reach out for me Girl! ... in the morning, in the evening - you and me! Together! Together..." - or Heaven Can Wait, "I don't wanna leave my baby alone", or For All Time, "if you feel alone I'll be your shoulder" or Hold My Hand, "we're better off being together, than being miserable alone"
Since he "communicated" these things through song (which come from the HIGEST Source) I wonder if its possible that this
"connection" , being spiritual in nature,
could have been the most important connection for him to have ever found in the end, thereby resulting in a fullfillment of a kind that only he could appreciate.
Maybe the point of this kind of love is that of appreciating who a person
is in
GOD'S eyes. And, when we consider the fact that when someone sees us through God's eyes, they see
us, the TRUE
being that we really ARE, the
being that we were before we ever took our first breath, when they love us with the love of God, they love
us,
So, maybe that spiritual connection is the beginning and the end of fullfillment for both of the two lonliest people in the world, who for their own reasons could not otherwise trust (the world's version or the common version of) love.
I realize the songs also talk about what he wanted them to do physically together too, but maybe just
knowing that she saw
him and was
one with
him, could have been, in a sense, all the fullfillment they really needed making the physical aspect pale in relation to the more fulfilling aspect of being loved for who one
is. I'm sorry, how many ways have I said this same thing..
But, I mean, If that is the case, then maybe that was all that was called for from God's perspective too and maybe, just maybe, that just as with MJ's work over his lifetime being completed, maybe with "her", as far as God was concerned, (and MJ) maybe her "work" completed as well, maybe that's all God was trying to bless MJ with, and "her" as well - the ability to experience love on the earth plain in the purest form possible. Perhaps it is the only way it could have been accomplished without Michael having to spend the rest of his life worrying over trust.
God is Love. God Loves Love for Love's sake.
I think of the line from Eve's rap in Butterflies,
"you got everything else you need". Maybe that spiritual love was
really all that was missing.
I guess I'm saying that from "behind the veil", perhaps there was more fullfillment to all this than meets the eye.
Does that mean that she too is sufficiently fulfilled and is no longer lonely? Probably does not mean that, if for no other reason than the "curse" (for a believer in the bible)
that says, "thy desire shall be to thy husband ...", so maybe it will never go away,
but if its true that "God created woman for the sake of the man" then it could mean also that she is now
more fulfilled from having been used by God to love, and maybe because of that, that very Love itself has lifted her higher, than she's ever been lifted before ..
.. and maybe because of the line that says "even death won't part us now" - maybe just maybe, she still gets to experience the reality of the fact that what MJ said is true - that, "love is the answer" (for all things)
and maybe, just maybe that too is a fulfillment in itself.
Maybe in the end, LOVE is what they both desired to help eachother to experience in the most spiritually meaningful way, and maybe they each trusted only to experience it in this non-physical way so as to trust the experience of loving someone (deeply, intimately and personally)
at all....and/...or maybe nobody understood them like eachother did.
When you see in a person's eyes (the windows/mirrors to the soul) that aspect of yourself you dare not share with anyone else, it doesn't get more intimate and personal than that.
MJ made it clear in countless songs from era to era that "this girl" was a "hard case", so maybe his mission was fulfilled where she was concerned as well, and that was to make her
feel love, which could be the reason he made such a blatantly simple statement in Give in To Me, that says, "love is a feeling".
So I do believe "they" did experience LOVE as the answer TOGETHER.
and if so, then its all good because God is All and God is Love and God (Love) is always Good... all the time. - oh well, just another way of looking at it.
Thanks for sharing your story Summer about your dad. Everytime you write about your dad, it reminds me of my dad.
Thank you again for sharing.