Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Liszt, Consolation No. 3

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Sunday Drive: Liszt, Consolation No. 3

The well-known piano solo by Franz Liszt, as performed by Daniel Barenboim - and I dedicate this post to the victims of mindless hatred and violence in Pittsburgh, and all over this troubled world.

3 comments:

JMac said...: Thank you for that it camled me down on a hot & Steamy Day down here in Australia; October 28, 2018 at 7:16 AM
JMac said...: Just saying i love your blog as i am turning 62yo in December Ex Party Animal but now sedate love the music & Everything you post
Keep it up
From a guy whos Dad was a Trucker & Pruod of him; October 28, 2018 at 7:39 AM
Michael said...: Thank you for this post. Yes, the world is a troubling place. Senseless violence, an idiot in the White House.; October 28, 2018 at 8:36 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