Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Debussy, Clair de Lune

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Sunday Drive: Debussy, Clair de Lune

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2 comments:

Davis said...: When I was a young lad, my father heard there was to be a classical music recital of piano and violin in a nearby college and while his interest in classical music was very limited, he took me to my first recital and I've never ceased to thank him for that gracious act to a kid of eleven. This was one of the pieces. It still moves me.; May 9, 2021 at 2:11 PM
Russ Manley said...: Your dad did you a wonderful favor. And it's a special song to me, too, for several reasons - always so lovely to hear.; May 11, 2021 at 6:00 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