Sorry, but I couldn’t resist a little of this thread. I am quick to admit that the Moody Blues were just secular rock stars who had a philosophical bent. Probably more like 5 philosophical bents.
But in the midst of all of it, when it wasn’t just love songs, they showed that seeking people are everywhere. And there is truth beyond the pulpit or the Bible. I’m not saying that there is different truth that contradicts, but that truth is found all around (everywhere, love is all around). And just because it was not originated from the pages of scripture does not make it untrue.
(Side note. I see awareness is going McLaren on us saying that the goal is that the Hindu would be a better Hindu, etc. That is true at a level. But for the Christian, it is not just that they would be better, but that they would come to know and follow the one true God. Yes, pray that they all become better. Pray for the peace and prosperity of the heathen within which we are sojourners, just as the Israelites were told to pray for their captors in Babylon. But also pray for their salvation.)
For us, it’s not just “out there somewhere.” We’re not just looking for a miracle in our lives. It’s not just in our wildest dreams.
Do we stop and look around us? Do we say it with love? (I know some are asking me that about now.) And do we really think that we decide which is right, and which is an illusion? Is our view a Late Lament or it is Dawn?
For several years I have seriously considered myself the one speaking in:
Quote:
The curtain rises on the scene
With someone shouting to be free
The play unfolds before my eyes
There stand the actor who is . . . me
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There is a word, but the word is not “om.”
As we travel this road, what will we find? Or do we think we have already found it all? While it seems that I am rejecting the “new stuff” that Lee came along with, I think that the depths of the straight reading are profound and unfathomable. We will never know it all — even the parts that are recorded in ways we think are so clear. That is the reason that people Like Justyn over at the Bereans think that the LRC’s problem is the Trinity. I agree that some of the problems are hanging off of their Trinity teaching. But their core teaching is sound.
There is a balance, but it doesn’t come from laying in the grass and eating some fruit. But as you lay there, it is seriously worthwhile to watch the show as the mouse plays a guitar with only one string.
But as we carry on, remember that while it may be a little too much to say that we are all we’ve got, we should never, never stop. But don’t bother telling me about it because I’m just a accountant in a Big 4 firm. But I’m now found in a lost world.
And just like the philosophy of the band slowly faded, my overtly manhandling of the lyrics and song titles also gets to be too much. And as someone else wrote, it’s time to Gimmie Shelter. I guess I’ll just fade away.