I just finished reading this for the second time last week, thanks to the forever book group of Grace. It was equally as lovely the second time around, and while reading it, I wrote down a dozen more quotes from the incomparable Ames, who is both too beautiful a man to be real and too beautiful a man not to be real. (I'm grateful and amazed to know a few like him.) "It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water." (p.82) I have found this to be remarkably true. I see it in myself, and in many others as well. "I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect." (p.91) This seems to be about the only way I experience visions, but because memory is a rickety thing, I tend not to trust them much. Which makes me a poor prophet. "I know, too, that my own experience of the church has been, in many senses, shelte...
Your link won't do anything for me right now... but I was listening to Sufjan in the car earlier while waiting for Chris, since it is on my iPod.
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oh dear. the link worked fine when i checked it... i do want you to hear the song, though. you can reach it through www.asthmatickitty.com, selecting the sufjan page, and scrolling down to the song clips on the left. there are other happy christmas ones available there, too.
ReplyDeleteThis is the link that worked for me:
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It is quite a beautiful song. I want to listen to it over and over so I can really LISTEN to it but I think I'd drive my switchboard operator nuts...
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