Posted by Kevin Bates Kevin
on April 16, 2004, 8:36 am, in reply to "Re: Where is the Love?"
Thanks Cath - I'll chase this one up
--Previous Message--
: Easter Sunday evening and all that's offering
: is reality t.v., so thought I would post a
: comment.
: 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"
: 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 rest of the song is just as cutting. An
: appropriate song for this time of year.
: --Previous Message--
: 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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