At our May Christian Writers’ Club meeting we were asked to listen to our favorite (most meaningful or most memorable, or etc.) song and then write a reflection about the song and how it relates to our life at this very moment. I chose "Happy Together", written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon and recorded by an American rock band called the Turtles. It was released in January 1967 and became the band's first and only chart-topper.
In 1967 I was 14 years old. Two years later, I met Dick Williams through a joint youth fellowship formed by the churches in our community. Our group would go from church to church doing youth-led worship services called “Folk Mass”. It was somewhat of a precursor to what is now known as “Contemporary Christian Music”, although the message was more about love and kindness than knowing Jesus as Savior and Lord.
From our frequent association in youth, Dick and I quickly became a couple and married in 1974. Somewhere along the way we both decided “Happy Together” was “our” song, mainly because the words were, and continue to be, so true for us:
Imagine me and you, I
do. I think about you day and night.
It's only right to
think about the one you love and hold them tight
So happy together!
And if I call you up,
invest a dime,
and you say you
belong to me, you ease my mind.
Imagine how the world
could be so very fine,
So happy together!
I can't see me loving
nobody but you for all my life.
When you're with me,
baby, the skies will be blue for all my life.
Me and you, and you
and me,
No matter how they
toss the dice, it had to be.
The only one for me
is you and you for me.
So happy together.
From the very beginning, God orchestrated our relationship. I truly believe it was, as they say, “a match made in Heaven.” I will never love anyone as much as I love Dick Williams. He is my soulmate. Our love was meant to be! This week we celebrated 52 years of being “happy together”!