Shalom Brothers: I Just Called To Say, ‘I Love You.’ (Vayikra) |
One of my favorite songs is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” What makes it so good is that the song refuses to wait for a special occasion. No holiday, no anniversary, no skywriting, no chocolate, no dramatic scene in the rain. It is just an ordinary day, and that is exactly the point. Love does not always arrive with fireworks. Sometimes it arrives as a phone call. Sometimes it arrives as a text. Sometimes it arrives as a guy from your men’s group reaching out because he remembered that you said you were heading into some difficult territory in divorce-land and wanted you to know: I heard you. I’m thinking about you. You can handle this. I love you.
That happened to me this week. And I will tell you honestly: it got me.
Not because it was flashy. Not because it solved everything. Not because suddenly all the stress packed its bags and moved to another zip........