If I Die Young

In part four of 2011′s edition of Finding God On Your iPod, we look at the song "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry. The song is loosely based on the poem The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson and deals with the subject of your own death. Modern society avoids speaking, or even thinking, about our own demise, but the undeniable reality is one day we are all going to die. And faced with that reality, one must wonder then what the meaning of life is; what is it all about? When death is imminent, there can come a clarity as to what really matters in life. The meaning of life is love. We are created by the God who is supremely identified with love. As you work out the equation for the meaning of life, if it doesn't add up to love, go back and recalculate. "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."