LENT Photo # 36 'Window in the Skies" U2

"Window in the Skies" U2

The shackles are undone

The bullet's quit the gun

The heat that's in the sun

Will keep us when it's done

The rule has been disproved

The stone, it has been moved

The grain is now a grove

All debts are removed

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Oh, can't you see what love has done

What it's doing to me

Love makes strange enemies

Makes love where love may please

Soul in its striptease

Hate brought to its knees

The sky over our head

We can reach it from our bed

If you let me in your heart

And out of my head

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Oh, can't you see what love has done

What it's doing to me

Please don't ever let me out of here

I've got no shame

Oh no, oh no

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Oh, can't you see

Oh, can't you see what love has done

What it's doing to me

Oh, can't you see what love has done

I know I hurt you and I made you cry

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Did everything but murder you and I

Oh, can't you see what love has done

But love left a window in the skies

Oh, can't you see what love has done

And to love I raphsodize

Oh, can't you see what love has done

To every broken heart

Oh, can't you see what love has done

For every heart that cries

Oh, can't you see what love has done

Love left a window in the skies

Oh, can't you see what love has done

And to love I raphsodize

Oh, can't you see

   OK so now I'm 'right off the rails' and jumping ahead... it's because I'm two weeks into prep for next weekend and so my heart, soul and mind are firmly focused on how to curate worship experiences that arise out of the context and culture of those gathered, make room for God to speak through the story and be an active participant in that story myself.
   Today I am thinking about the people mentioned in the Easter narrative and how they are deliberately brought to the front [if you allow it]!! I'm reminded of the challenge to see and hear and feel the story through their evidence and experience as they did not know what tomorrow would bring.
   This U2 song will make my road trip playlist over the Easter Weekend [as it will not get a run at my destinations] and I will be thinking about my belief that "everyone has a story and everyone's story is worth hearing" I hope we can hear these people's stories this year.
   Nicodemus, 'Drew' the woman Jesus met at Jacob's well, the man blind since birth, Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Pilate, Peter, Mary Magdalene and Jesus the gardener, the traveller on the way to Emmaus and his companions on this journey called life. How can the story and these peoples place in it be a 'spring' into faith & action for the sake of the world!!