Better Together
Luke Combs' Song and Catholicism
Luke Combs’ song Better Together was released in 2020 and quickly climbed the music charts. The song is about how some things “go better together and probably always will.”
Combs shares that there are things in life that are coupled or go together, which are fitting. One example he uses is “one arm out the window and one hand on the wheel.” Other examples are “like a cup of coffee and a sunrise” and “Sunday drives and time to kill.”
Combs then shares how he and the love of his life go better together. His lyrics capture this fittingness: " The way you say I love you too is like rain on an old tin roof.” Hence his lyric, “I wouldn’t have it any other way, and if I’m being honest, your first and my last name.”
Combs is on to something here. Some things do “just go better together and probably always will” and this is fitting. One of the most intriguing questions in Christianity is, “Whether it was fitting that God became human (the incarnation) to save the human race?”
Saint Thomas Aquinas shared a few reasons why it was fitting that God became human in the person of Jesus. First, it is proper for God’s goodness to communicate itself, and God became incarnate to communicate this goodness to humanity.
For Aquinas, the Incarnation was the most fitting way for God to communicate His love. In other words, it was the most effective, beautiful, and wise way to communicate His goodness.
In addition to God communicating His goodness, the Incarnation gives humanity hope by revealing God’s commitment to humanity more clearly. Through the Incarnation, humanity sees how much God wants to save human beings. Also, Jesus provides a perfect example of how humans are to live.
The Incarnation of Jesus reveals a beautiful embrace of both humanity and divinity. Jesus was “fully human and fully divine” and His divinity did not consume His humanity nor was His divinity diminished in becoming human.
In other words, “some things just go better together and probably always will.”
Fr. Luke Daghir
Thank you, Fr. Luke <3
Nice insights, thank you Father!