tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87639802886825304462024-03-04T20:11:53.607-08:00Headphone Devotionals Praying The U2 Catalog, Praying with Headphones OnTeacher On The Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868255300336830210noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763980288682530446.post-13990002350757804002013-05-08T05:40:00.002-07:002013-05-08T05:43:13.288-07:00Let me in the sound<br />
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“Fez – Being Born”</span></div>
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John 1: 1-8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Begins
with ambience. Begins with chant. We move and sway. “Let me in the sound”
reminds us of African-American author Toni Morrison’s paraphrase of John’s
gospel prologue, when she writes “In the beginning was the sound.” Bono takes
us to Africa to get interspiritual, to get sonic collage, to get open air, to
get born. Are we not “A speeding head, a speeding heart” needing slow down,
craving restart? But Bono sings, “I’m being born, a bleeding start.” God gifts
us with birth and rebirth, but always blood, from delivery room to everyday
Calvary to empty Tomb. U2’s traditional rock chimes and twinkles take us to
church. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pray</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: God, grant us today
open ears and open hearts. Let us in Your sound! Let us get swallowed in the
sonic beauty of aural creation! Burn away our postmodern anxiety and ambitious
fear. “African sun at last”; at last, let us bask in the sun and accept the
grace of the Son, Your greatest sacred pun. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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