... And God Said, "Let There Be Rock"

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Thoreau

early sunday morning

pulling into the church parking lot

i must remember to turn down the volume on this song that the radio's got

yes, i probably should, i certainly ought

 

'tis "highway to hell" playing, you know, that song by ac/dc

hoping and praying that god and the other attendees don't notice or hold it against me

of course i could just change the station

and repentantly avoid "rock 'n' roll damnation"

sure, it seemed okay when i left, back on the block

but suddenly i have to remind myself that god did say, "let there be rock"

and he heard that it was good

as well he should

along with the immutable fact that he's everywhere

no matter the neighborhood

Author's Note

"Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

We follow the path we choose but the destination remains uncertain. These three exist, faith, hope and love. But love is the greatest of the three. If Christianity were only hope, it would require the growing of faith and love in its garden. The thing we hunger most for is more than hope. It is love and faith as well. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C.S. Lewis

[Pete]

love - a double-edged knife capable of cutting both ways. i wholeheartedly appreciate this review. you speak a hard and undeniable truth. loneliness is all that it's cracked up to be and then some.

as my muse thoreau wrote pver 150 years ago, "There is no remedy for love but to love more."

[andrew mitchell]

I'm sure if God didn't like it there would be a powe blackout. Nice one Pete

[Pete]

'power blackout' - that would make a great name for one of their albums ... :)

[Poetic Beauty]

Laughing I often have to remind myself that God is like emery and he can hear and see everything we are doing no matter the location. Also I think often God understand how we might feel and sometimes we feel as if that is direction we are going even if we truly are not