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Finding God in Heifetz and Porcelein Life Jackets

Started by goodwordediting · 9 months ago

Several posts this morning struck me as I wandered the highcallingblogs.com network.
First, new comer Sarah Fry thinks about practice and discipline as a way to tune our ears. It is a rich metaphor that she doesn’t pin down, inspired by Heifetz playing a Bach Chaconne.
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real live preacher
1 year ago

Thanks for the links. I'll check them all out today while I'm reading. I saw your dad's poem title, but haven't gotten there to read it yet. What an amazing title.

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Marcus
1 year ago

real live preacher, I assume you mean the poem's title, not the title of this post.

It's John Donne. Great great poem. One of the best Christian poems in the English language, I think. It made me happy to see my dad reprint it this morning.

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Papa Poet
1 year ago

I read Ginger's article the same day I listened to Friction on EscapePod. Together they left me stunned. Ginger reminds us that compassion means "suffering with." An attribute that seems impossible to attain (he says as he fall into the perfection trap) and is only approached by knowing the Master and sacrificing self.

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Marcus
1 year ago

I loved the story Friction. (Other readers, you can hear it here if you're interested.)

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Melanie
1 year ago

Thank you for your comment on my blog. This is an interesting blog entry too.

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L.L. Barkat
1 year ago

The violin is beautiful, really. I love the title of Ginger's article too.

And in the end you begin to get at the implications of prophecy that comes through life, art, being. It tells us things that science cannot. (Don't get me wrong; I am a great lover of science!) But God's truth must bubble up through a host of expressions; even then, we only glimpse it.

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