The Greatest Love Of All

When I was coming up, my family was a traveling choir. My mom was the director and my siblings, my cousins and I would go to different places and perform. The Greatest Love of All was one of the songs we used to do. We learned it from the original George Benson version which was no less beautiful but a lot less flashy; so more than just singing this song, we got a chance to really understand the lyrics. Through this song, we learned so much about believing in ourselves and having faith in our abilities.

This needs to be a theme song for getting our future back on track. Today’s rap and pop music are almost as bad as drugs in your system; mind and mood altering and very- extremely- especially dangerous. (I have very strong opinions about this) And we as adults are failing to teach young folks their history, their culture, or our values. They are being habilitated by angry, disrespectful music, violent video games and reality shows that should really be nobody’s reality. As a result many, many young people are growing up without a strong sense of right and wrong, no belief in themselves and little hope for the future. It is a truly tragic time.  

The Greatest Love of All was actually co-written by a woman battling breast cancer. The song describes her feelings about her challenges, her strength and her legacy. It is about responsibility to younger generations. For our part, we are failing to do our job so young folks are failing to do theirs and with catastrophic results. My heart is breaking for these children. We’re all wondering why they are so violent; so indifferent. This is what I’ll tell you. You can live for a time with no food; for a shorter time with no water and an even shorter time without air. The one thing that you can’t live for one second without is HOPE, and these young people have very little hope for their future. Folks, this is one thing for which there is no government bail-out. It is time for us to stand up, stand strong and stand together to teach our children well. Let's teach them love and respect. Responsibility and self-confidence. Give them hugs and discipline. Give them faith; give them hope. Help them to believe in themselves. They have so much to live for. 

PS- Whitney should have watched this video every day- just to remind herself that , “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.” She might still be alive today.