might take the waiting of wanting
and might leave you feeling fine,
but it will definitely leave you
with debts too heavy to carry.
*a phrase coined by German Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer
to describe a Christian life, but perhaps all human life,
compromised by short cuts and shallow foundations.
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| “Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and your sensibilities, and in the times of care and sorrow, it will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”-Dietrich Bonnhoeffer (1906-45). He would have lived much longer had he not been arrested and imprisoned in 1943, and then accused of being part of the twenty fifth and last attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, in the major plot of the 20th July 1944, in which the Nazi government also believed that The Pope had a role. But here is to the power of music to sustain us when little else seems to. |
