My blogging time recently has been spent on an internal blog (more of a message board) about our summer worship services at Trinity. I'm also wondering about the the next step in my writing/blogging, specifically how to focus this blog topically and be more intentional about attracting traffic. Why? I'm not sure really, other than it feels like right direction.
I'm finding myself drawn to (or entrenched in) three areas - guitar/music (I'd be a gear head if I had the money), deconstructing church/Christianity (the possibilities of the future church inspire me), and student ministry (whatever that is; Mike King and Andrew Root keep me hooked in).
Now, a dose of inspiration. I dare anyone to watch all 6 minutes of this and not be open to (1) there is a God and (2) that, as Willie Young suggests, when the time comes, God might just appear to us as an african-american woman.
(Do not be deterred by the fragile quality of this video. It is a remarkable document. Mahalia sang this at the March on Washington just before Dr. King gave the "I Have a Dream" speech.)
Wow. Powerful, to say the least. It stirs something in the soul, though hard to identify. The suffering soul that still rejoices, perhaps.
Was helpful for me to read the lyrics:
http://www.lyricskeeper.com/mahalia_jackson-lyrics/207513-how_i_got_over-lyrics.htm
Posted by: Tim | Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 12:57 AM