Apology Blog — resurrection

Leonard Cohen wrote many, many verses for his song, “Hallelujah.”  Most we never hear, but he spent years working on that song, only to have it … flop.  His original version wasn’t good.  It took the death of Jeff Buckley to put the song in the public’s consciousness.  The rest is history.  While I understand it isn’t a “Christian” song, Christians have a way of seeing Christ everywhere.   Every verse of the most-played version is a little work of art, but the powerful imagery conjured by the line,   “Love is not a victory march.  It’s a cold and...

The day when God is absent, when He is silent -
that is the beginning of prayer.
Not when we have a lot to say, but when we say to God, 'I can't live without You, why are you so cruel, so silent?'
This knowledge that we must find or die - that makes us break through to the place where we are in the Presence.

"The only question I keep asking myself in life is: what should I do at this particular moment? What should I say?

All you can do is be at every single moment as true as you can with all the power in your being -

and leave it to God to use you, even despite yourself. "