"Love is All Around" by The Troggs

My favorite song of all time is "Love is All Around" by The Troggs. I know that this song is about human love between two people. However, we often make connections with a writer's original work that the writer would never had thought of when the writer first wrote the song, poem, story or whatever the work may be.

"Love is All Around" definitely is a love song that the singer feels all through his person-his bodily person as well as his spiritual person. This love is directed toward another person. In Ken's Konnection for today I will attempt to explain the connection this song makes between me and the spiritual essence that is with me, in me, about me, and through me. I call this spiritual essence not the Spirit alone, not Ken alone but the Spirit-Ken Konnection.

"I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes."
The Spirit permeates me from and to every extremity of my being.

"Well love is all around me, and so the feeling grows."
The Spirit is not only in me but about me causing love to grow.

"It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go."
Ruah is a Hebrew word for spirit or wind. The wind blows where it may. The Spirit is everywhere and the Spirit-Ken Konnection is everywhere I go.


"So if you really love me, come on and let it show."
The Ken part of the Spirit-Ken Konnection is weak. I need reassurance from the Spirit that she is really there and I pray that I remain open to seeing and feeling the Spirit as my lack of faith is the only reason that at times I may not see or feel the Spirit as well as I do at other times.

"You know I love you, I always will."
A statement of hope not a statement of cockiness. A statement of vision, a yearning.

"My mind's made up by the way that I feel,"
This is a heart-head connection. Everything I decide to do, say or be is because of this connection. What I decide to be, do, or say, must be out of love and reason. I always must act out of love but my actions need to be reasonable.


"there's no beginning, there"ll be no end"
The Spirit is eternal. It always was and it will remain forever. Love is eternal.

"cause on my love you can depend."
The Spirit that is also Love is dependable. The Spirit is with me through thick and thin.

"I see your face before me as I lay on my bed"
When I am still and laying on my bed before I go to sleep or if I wake up during the night I immediately and intensely feel the presence of the Spirit. I remain quiet and.......


"I kinda get to thinking, of all the things you said."
....... I think (head , reason component) how the Spirit communicates with me now and during the past day or through some happening days, months, years ago. How have all the things I heard from the Spirit (heart experience) help form me into who I am right now? How will who "I am" be of significant use for the betterment of myself and others tomorrow?


"You gave your promise to me, and I gave mine to you."
This is a spiritual covenant. A promise between the Spirit and me. The Spirit will never let go of me as long as I don't let go of the Spirit.

"I need someone beside me in everything I do."
I can do nothing alone. Sometimes another human spirit, another human being or many human beings are physically here to be my companions on our journey. However when they are not physically here they are with me in Spirit as the connection really is not a Spirit-Ken Konnection but a Spirit-Ken-friends Konnection.

You know I love you...........(etc)

It�s written on the wind..........(etc)

come on and let it show
come on and let it show
come on and let it show

You can listen to "Love is All Around"



Does this song make a connection or bring back a memory for you?