Sep 21, 2026 · 17 min · 9 segments
'Love is the Answer' to almost all human problems; but more accurately stated, **'Belovedness'** is the Answer. Love springs from belovedness, and almost every rock song that has ever been sung echoes…
Paul ZahlHost
What's happening, and nothing new about this, it's been true since the beginning of time, is that other agendas or other ideas, especially the word narrative comes to mind, or rhetoric as opposed to reality, other notions of what it is to be fulfilled and happy as a human being occur to people over a wide canvas.
And often, although everybody understands it deep down when it happens universally, the core of human happiness is missed.
Is it because it's too sentimental? Or is it because the devil is constantly trying to divert us from the attention of that which gives lasting fulfillment and happiness and benignity to the human life that we have.
I don't quite know the solution, although I think it's rooted in the world, the flesh and the devil.
But matters of human possible enjoyment and freedom from loss and suffering tied up, for example, in the idea of identity are simply totally wrong.
ideological statement, all these possible ways of finding or identifying happiness for you and me, they're all rooted in a mistake that is immediately seen to be that when someone is in a place of profound loss, profound suffering, profound aloneness.
Then sociopolitical dietary, psychosexual, many career, all the usual, the good, the bad, and the ugly ideas of what it means to be a happy and contented person.
gospel song they fly away because none of them are sufficient to give you any kind of true joy when you are suffering and when you're alone whether you're a baby or whether you're an 80 year old man or woman they reveal themselves to be illusory and at best tertiary at worst profoundly illusory and deceptive at points of great need.
And secondly, I heard Handel's Messiah, the Hallelujah Chorus, the Hollywood version of it, I might add, but Handel's Messiah in Hollywood terms.
And I saw at that point that almost everything else that might possibly be of effective aid was secondary.
What's happening, and nothing new about this, it's been true since the beginning of time, is that other agendas or other ideas, especially the word narrative comes to mind, or rhetoric as opposed to reality, other notions of what it is to be fulfilled and happy as a human being occur to people over a wide canvas.
And often, although everybody understands it deep down when it happens universally, the core of human happiness is missed.
Is it because it's too sentimental? Or is it because the devil is constantly trying to divert us from the attention of that which gives lasting fulfillment and happiness and benignity to the human life that we have.
I don't quite know the solution, although I think it's rooted in the world, the flesh and the devil.
But matters of human possible enjoyment and freedom from loss and suffering tied up, for example, in the idea of identity are simply totally wrong.
ideological statement, all these possible ways of finding or identifying happiness for you and me, they're all rooted in a mistake that is immediately seen to be that when someone is in a place of profound loss, profound suffering, profound aloneness.
Then sociopolitical dietary, psychosexual, many career, all the usual, the good, the bad, and the ugly ideas of what it means to be a happy and contented person.
gospel song they fly away because none of them are sufficient to give you any kind of true joy when you are suffering and when you're alone whether you're a baby or whether you're an 80 year old man or woman they reveal themselves to be illusory and at best tertiary at worst profoundly illusory and deceptive at points of great need.
And secondly, I heard Handel's Messiah, the Hallelujah Chorus, the Hollywood version of it, I might add, but Handel's Messiah in Hollywood terms.
And I saw at that point that almost everything else that might possibly be of effective aid was secondary.
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