Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: My Blue Heaven

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Sunday Drive: My Blue Heaven

3 comments:

Tim said...: This brought back memories of listening to my parent’s old wind-up gramophone. They had a vocal version, from the 40’s, but I can’t remember who the singer was. Gene Austin perhaps?; March 25, 2018 at 7:41 AM
NWMAN said...: I love this, thank you. My mom was a singer in the 40s in Seattle. We used to hear songs of this era, growing up. It brings back childhood memories. Hope all is well with you and yours.; March 25, 2018 at 6:26 PM
Russ Manley said...: Tim - I don't know of a vocal version beside the famous Fats Domino one. Wikipedia shows many vocalists recorded the tune before Fats did.

Roger - Thanks, glad you like.; March 26, 2018 at 5:03 AM

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