Posted by Cath If you like the "Black-Eyed Peas" try "Evanescence" and their cd -'Fallen', I have heard many cries for faith from the young but this is as blunt as it gets: From track -"Tourniquet" The rest of the song is just as cutting. An appropriate song for this time of year. --Previous Message--
on April 11, 2004, 9:02 pm, in reply to "Where is the Love?"
Easter Sunday evening and all that's offering is reality t.v., so thought I would post a comment.
My God My Tourniquet
Return to me Salvation
Do you remember me
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side
or will you forget me
I'm dying praying bleeding and screaming
am I too lost to be saved
Am I too lost ?
: The pop group Black-Eyed Peas" have an
: excellent song out at the moment -
: "Where is the Love?" They muse on
: where the world is going in the midst of the
: violence and betrayal that marks our world so
: clearly right now. They recall the
: invitation to practice what we preach, and to
: turn the other cheek and they cry out to God
: for a way forward.
: They echo my own feelings sometimes, as
: Baghdad's lethal fireworks continue, as the
: Gaza and Israeli forces continue their deadly
: cycle, as the Australian political leadership
: continues on its pitiful way, propping up
: untenable positions, and not brooking any
: serious comment on the real world.
: Then there's the Church, seeming to slide
: more into the hands of ideologues who preach
: a glib certainty as their religion, and who
: frown on imagination and the adventure of
: faith - the very stuff of the gospel.
: Then there are the youth, a couple of large
: groups I've worked with recently. They
: hunger for and listen for the Spirit who
: breathes within and among us, and they
: refresh a hope that sometimes grows stale.
: Through their questions, their pain, their
: personal and family struggles, they look with
: great passion for a way forward and have
: cried with delight as they have felt that God
: was able to emerge from within their lived
: stories.
: Where is the Love? I'm glad for the young
: people who have recently shown me something
: of the answer!
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