Today's Tids Issue
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For Easter Morning Love:
On
any other normal April 14th I’d be writing about the
anniversaries of tragedies that saddened the world, the shooting of Abraham
Lincoln and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet, this is Good Friday the day of a
death that was for all peoples, the predecessor to the rebirth of humankind.
Over
the years I have treated this special Friday as a singular
Tidlet. Some years I would imagine myself at the bottom of the cross listening with
sadness in my heart to those last seven utterances, before Jesus finally bowed
his head for the last time.
For
other Tidlets I would see myself wandering with the saddened
crowd on a Sunday morning, only to be told of a miracle. To be told that the
cave where Jesus had been entombed was empty, that the giant stone had been
rolled back. And with them all in wonderment,
I would look up and feel an aura that was the new beginning for all. It would have
been a day of awe, with sun that beamed brighter and flowers that colored the
landscape grand. And with the rest, I would kneel, because we would know that
our hearts had been filled love.
Today
is a Tids devoid of news and Cheetos and gravy, and an old
guy railing at the changes not of yesterday. It is a day only of one news that
never ends.
I
believe that music can lift us up beyond ourselves. None feels like Easter Morning
more than the grandeur of the final movement of Mahler’s 2nd
Symphony – “The Resurrection”. There is nothing more to say, but only music the
ignite the soul.
Happy
Easter, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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