Most weeks the message here is rather serious.  Today, I ran across a quirky, fun song that I just had to share. 

I think we can all relate to the butterflies, sweaty palms and the sudden clumsiness that came with that first glance. 

Jimmy Needham wrote Firefly for his wife.  He says it’s his way of saying, “You make me happy to be alive!”

Enjoy!

Here are the words for my hearing impaired friends.

Jimmy Needham - Firefly

It’s tulips and it’s daisies
Your favorite flowers lately
You think that I ain’t listening, but you know I do
With your two lips on me baby
My head starts getting dazey
Don’t give me a flower
What I want is you

CHORUS
It happened on the day you put your hand in mine
You went up to my head just like a glass of wine
Girl, you spark my attention like a firefly
And make me happy to be alive

You move into a room like
Summer breeze at noon time
Baby, out of nine, I’d give you ten
Your love is like an ocean
Surf and spray in motion
Baby, I’m a diver and I love to swim

(Chorus)

These are just simple words of mine
And though most of what I feel is hard to rhyme
Ain’t it good to know your boy gave it a try?
O a try
It’d take a thousand colors just to paint your eyes
Like saving grace, they raise me up to paradise
This ain’t opinion, it’s consensus from my heart and mind
You make me happy to be alive

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I think Jimmy Needham captures the joy and fun of true love.  We should protect it with all that is within us.  You can’t get much more serious than that.

I want to share two version of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and a portion of verse 8.

- New International Version

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

- New Living Translation

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 

It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.  

Love will last forever!

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