Getting Ready for Lent One 9th March at Scone

"Alienation" Silvia Carpizo

They blocked my lyrics version but,
This most likely won't be the song I choose to use in Scone,
But this...
will be... with lyrics only onscreen...



"Bad" by U2 but performed by LUKA BLOOM

If you twist and turn away If you tear yourself in two again

If I could, yes I would If I could, I would Let it go

Surrender Dislocate

If I could throw this Lifeless lifeline to the wind

Leave this heart of clay See you walk, walk away

Into the night And through the rain

Into the half-light And through the flame

If I could through myself Set your spirit free

I'd lead your heart away See you break, break away

Into the light And to the day

To let it go And so to fade away

To let it go And so fade away

I'm wide awake I'm wide awake Wide awake

I'm not sleeping Oh, no, no, no

If you should ask then maybe they'd Tell you what I would say

True colors fly in blue and black Bruised silken sky and burning flag

Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes

If I could, you know I would If I could, I would

Let it go...

This desperation Dislocation Separation Condemnation

Revelation In temptation Isolation

Desolation Let it go

And so fade away To let it go…

I'm wide awake I'm wide awake Wide awake

I'm not sleeping Oh, no, no, no

   I'm taking a thought from Walter Brueggemann about alienation and reconciliation, from Sarah Dylan Brauer about what the 'temptation' story is not about and as ever inspired by Bill Loader's focus on broader questions beyond the patronising western preoccupation reducing stuff to personal morality. Personal morality is important but it's so often not the focus of 'the story.'

Instead, this is a story about alienation from God, felt, experienced, questioning isolation that calls us to reflection and action to 'get involved' in God's mission where it emerges, mostly on the edges of who we are as community...

Anyhow, I'm now trying not to cheapen that through some crafty but irrelevant symbol... instead making a space for people to really engage... makes me tired just thinking about it...

Black, grey, leaves, charcoal, white pencils... cloth, images... hmmnn...

Will let that sit for a day or two

Taking time to gather, write, pray... "Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness" by Smashing Pumpkins as a timing soundtrack... 

OR NOT, and I'll be thinking, if only this was an installation in a deserted shopfront in Hunter St Newcastle or...