Lay all your Love on me...

Once again Anju inspired me to write a post... but don't worry, it's different and the story starts when I was a teenager.
Do you know the feeling if you suddenly hear a melody or a song that kind of opens your heart? When you feel like bathing in warm water, flying into a sunset scenery and dancing in the rain - all three at the same time?

So one of my utterly favorite songs when I was a teenager was "Lay all your Love on me", but I only new the version sung by Erasure (a British band). I had no idea that the original song was performed by ABBA. I really like ABBA songs but as you can see I am not that kind of fan that knows all their songs. But now it makes even more sense to me that I loved that special song from Erasure (I only like two or three Erasure-songs alltogether...).

Well, as some of you know, I had to stay in hospital some weeks this summer. After my 2nd surgery in Mainz University Hospital I was moved to Bad Kreuznach Hospital at August 1st. They had promised me to take some tests there and try to find out what the problem with my body (skeleton and joints) is. (Many doctors are trying to diagnose me since I am six years old, so I was not extremely excited about. They didn't find something new and they actually didn't take a test that appeared somehow new to me, but that is a different story)
So I got kind of stuck in Bad Kreuznach for nine days which was on one hand frustrating. The big plus: I met three wonderful young women there and we are still keeping in touch. Another plus: we were allowed to leave the hospital to go downtown (it was only a ten minute walk to get to the part of the city that is called Fußgängerzone - "pedestrian zone" - in German towns). Right there was a movie theatre.

I think it is needless to say what movie we watched one afternoon...

Can you imagine how I felt when "my song" suddenly came up? I had almost forgotten about it (shame on me) as well as I had never expected to hear it in an ABBA musical (because, as you know I always thought it was an Erasure-song). And - if you believe it or not - I had one of my precious "God moments" hearing this song - out of the backgound I actually was reading the book I mentioned earlier. So when the leading male actor started to sing

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me

it was like Jesus would straight say that to me. It is hard to explain and you probably have to read the book to know what I mean, but MAMMA MIA!, I won't forget that day and that movie!





By the way: the original ABBA version of the song is much better!