Lucid Moments

"Music is the place where people come to share melody and memory."

–Amy Helm

   Life is a series of lucid moments between interruptions. This week I was blessed by a few lucid moments.

Sunrise over I-77

The Gold Line

Charlotte, NC

(My view from the entrance of Presbyterian Hospital)

Minstrels

Presbyterian Hospital lobby

(see video above)

Søren Kierkegaard said, "The moment... it is not an atom of time, but an atom of eternity."


Amy Helm, the daughter of the late singer and drummer Levon Helm of The Band, releases her solo debut "Didn't It Rain" on July 24th. Listen to her live performance of "Rescue Me" on the player below:

Armistice

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.” 

Sǿren Kierkegaard

“You can tie two polecats together by their tales and throw ‘em over a fence- they’re together, but they don’t have unity!” 

Julius Washington

The Lord reminded me of something that happened in Memphis, years ago. I was in Midtown pumping gas into my car when a homeless man walked up and asked, “Clean your windshield?” “I don’t have any money.” I said. “Oh, it doesn't  always have to be about that!” And, with a bottle of cleaner and crumpled newspaper, he cleaned my windshield. As he walked away, he said, “God Bless you, brother!” An unemployed, homeless man blessed me, an employed homeowner. He saw a need (my windshield was filthy) and he took care of it. As I thought about that my mind went to John 3:30, one of my life verses, and I realized- There is still a lot of Me in me! 

I hear talk of a second reformation- a time for the Church to be the Church. Perhaps the Church needs an

Armistice Day; a time for individual factions to meet on common ground at the foot of the Cross. It would, of course, have to begin with me.

Inscription dated Easter 1922

The New Testament, A New Translation by the Reverend Professor

James Moffatt, D.D., D. Litt.