Happy Valentine's Day… and here's a Valentine-ish stat.
Of all the songs with the word "love" in the title, the most-played in public (radio, shops and so on) is…
Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis.
Of course, her song (which I have to confess I have on my iPod) is all about her bleeding love. But maybe on this, the day when love is most commercialised and soppy-fied, it's worth remembering that in her title, she's right.
Real love bleeds.
Real love, as Leona puts it, really does "wear these scars for everyone to see."
Carl is Publisher and Co-CEO at The Good Book Company and is a member of Life Church Hackbridge in south London. He is the bestselling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as Series Editor of the God's Word For You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.
