Who Will Love Me For Me

I love this song written by JJ and Dave Heller. Each and everytime I hear it on the radio my heart aches for those who have been hurt by the institutional church. My heart aches for those outside the walls of our churches who are suffering in silence from wounds inflicted long ago and just a moment ago. We will all sit in pews all in a row tonight and sing Silent Night and light candles and receive the sacrament of Holy Communion and we will feel all good and righteous inside. My heart aches for those who look at “us” as we worship, pray, make the sign of the cross, and go home no different in values, attitudes and actions than when we entered the building earlier in the evening.
These words from JJ and Dave Heller are a haunting reminder of our powerlessness, our helplessness - apart from God, making us all the same:

He cries in the corner where nobody sees

He’s the kid with the story no one would believe

He prays every night,

Dear God won’t you please

Could you send someone here who will love me?”

Who will love me for me?

Not for what I have done or what I will become

Who will love me for me

Cause nobody has shown me what love

What love really means

The people I am talking about are the people nobody sees. We pass them every day in the store, on the street, at work. These are the people no one believes in; who no one has shown them what love really means.

We are the Children of God, freed through the waters of baptism to be salt and light to the world. We are not called to take care of ourselves. No we are called to serve others, to wash the stinking feet of those we meet along the pathway of life. We do not get to choose – we are chosen. Jesus loves us for who we are, where we are, just as we are. He loves us enough to not leave us where we are as we are. Think about the power of what we possess and how we can impact the life of another person.