Saturday, March 6, 2010

A Familiar Whisper from a Stranger

"Sabbath is a stranger you've always known.  It's the place of homecoming you've rarely or never visited, but which you've been missing forever.  You recognize it the moment you set eyes on it.  It's the gift that surprises you, not by its novelty, but by its familiarity.  It's the song you never sang but, hearing it now, know inside out, its words and melody, its harmonies, its rhythm, the way the time quickens just before the chorus bursts.  It's been asleep in you all this time, waiting for the right kiss to wake it."

Mark Buchanan The Rest of God

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