Lewy and his Love

I’ve had the opportunity over the last few weeks to be reminded of SWSC’s values. I’ve been reminded of what inspired us to put them into place, and then carry on doing our work. What inspires me to continue to do the work I do with SWSC and keep up with this life changing business I am into is this picture. 

Sure it may be cheesy and corny and gushy and overly simple, (but let’s get serious) is there anything truer than what Lewy once wrote on the outside walls of his house? Is there anything more relevant? Is there anything else living for, striving for? Is there anything we so desperately need to understand besides this? Isn’t this it? 

I should point out that this photo wasn’t staged. I remember more than 5 years ago, when Kim and I were venturing through the village of Kibombomene, when we came across Lewy’s home. He had written with mud the words “love is so good”, and he was sitting outside of his house reading a book we had lent him. Some might say that Lewy would be the last person in the world to write that, to understand it, to try and achieve it. He was 17 years old at the time, dreaming to become a Doctor but out of school due to lack of funding from his family and not really on the path to pursuing his dreams at all. With most things going against him, and not a lot of reason to believe it, he knew that love just isn’t good, but that it is so good.  

I think it’s true that sometimes we like to complicate things. It’s easy to forget purpose and lose meaning in a world that guides our lives as opposed to letting our hearts do it. When love guides us, we open our lives to endless opportunities of it working. I’ve been very fortunate to see love work in my life. The news may lead on that ‘good’ no longer exists, but I have seen the very opposite. No matter where I go in the world, there is love being all it knows how to be, soooo good. There is nothing complicated about that; purely and simply the truth.