Denison Forum
Dr. Jim Denison
“Yesterday” is one of the most haunting songs in the Beatles’ 213-song repertoire. Now, nearly sixty years later, Paul McCartney has explained its emotional bridge:
Why she had to go?
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.
It turns out, McCartney had a conversation in which he embarrassed his mother. Then she died at the age of forty-seven when the singer was just fourteen years old. Now he wishes he had an eraser he could use to rub that “yesterday” moment away.
We don’t have to live very long before we experience such pain ourselves from things we said and did to others and things they said and did to us.
Imagine a world where Jesus’ simple precept was a reality: “Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them” (Matthew 7:12).
Now imagine the difference if that world was your life. The Rest of The Story Here
