Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Nearer, My God, To Thee

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Sunday Drive: Nearer, My God, To Thee

4 comments:

Tim said...: Lovely images Russ, I prefer my religious music a little less contemporary, it seems to loose some sincerity with a slick production - sorry I'm a crouch today, just had a spat with my partner. Hope you had a good weekend.; April 15, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Russ Manley said...: I agree, slick productions generally come off as less than reverent, and I generally prefer a traditional approach. However, there is no good traditional setting of this hymn on YT that I could find - and I do appreciate a well-done piece of a cappella singing, which requires great training and discipline.

I know how a quarrel can color everything for a time, hope you and your sweetie have patched things up by now.; April 16, 2012 at 5:55 PM
Tim said...: Thanks Russ, yep, we're back talking now. One of the (many) good things about being a man is we get over it quickly! ;); April 17, 2012 at 5:30 AM
Russ Manley said...: I hear you, good for you. My late husband laid it down as a rule that we would never go to bed angry. Which at first I thought was beside the point . . . but later I came to see the wisdom of.; April 18, 2012 at 9:55 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu