What is your religious belief today? What is your concept of God?
I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in "straw poverty"' i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me.
How does it make sense?
As an artist, I see the poetry of it. It's so brilliant. That this scale of creation, and the unfathomable universe, should describe itself in such vulnerability, as a child. That is mind-blowing to me. I guess tat would make m e a Christian. ALthough I don't use the label, because it is so very hard to live up to. I feel like I'm the worst example of it...
Do you pray...?
I try to take time out every day in prayer and meditation. I feel as at home in a Catholic cathedral as in a revival tent...
How big an influence is the Bible on your songwriting? How much do you draw on its imagery, its ideas?
It sustains me.
As a belief or as a literary thing?
I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects. U want to build my house on a rock, because even if the waters are not high around the house, I'm going to bring back a storm. I have that in me. So it's sort of underpinning for me.
...I let it speak to me ... They call it rhema. It's a hard word to translate from Greek, but it sort of means it changes in the moment you're in. It seems to do that for me.
You're saying it's a living thing?
It's a plumb line for me. In the Scriptures, it is self-described as a clear pool that you cna see yourself in, to see where you're at, if you're still enough.
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Nice to see the rich man making an effort, now all he has to do is give away everything and follow Christ :)
ReplyDeleteI smiled when I read this. Bono has put it succinctly. He hits a lot of nails on the head. for such a short script, he said so much. "You can see yourself in it"...
Surprised this piece got no comments.
I don't think he has to give anything away, if that were so whoever left that last comment should sell whatever computer he or she used to post it. This here is the definition of a Christian, one who is so humble that he does not even feel worthy enough to call himself a Christian. He reminds me of the tax collector in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector.
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