Friday, April 14, 2006
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
Okay, this time the review really is up at the Gilmore blog. And, as promised, it's a doozy. Go slog your way through it, and then please give me some discussion! Because I just can't get enough.
Anyways. Let's pretend that I didn't just reveal the extent of my investment in that show.
Faith, Rosa, Tamara, Nicole, and I went to a Good Friday service this evening at The 411, a church that seems quite similar to Forefront. It was very cool--an experiential service, they called it. Basically, some worship, then stations, then communion and more worship.
Instead of the 12 Stations of the Cross, though, they had set up 7 stations, one for each of the Sayings of the Cross. A different way to do it, and the stations had each been thought up and set up by a small group, so that was also pretty cool. Each saying had some station relating to it, and then there was a block of wood, a hammer, and a bowl of nails at each one, and as you finished a station, the idea was to hammer a nail, so that the sound of hammering would be nearly constant, and also as a way of recognizing each station, and the ways it could relate to day-to-day life.
It's funny how something like that impacts everyone differently--afterwards, we all (except Nicole) went out for coffee, and on our way, we were discussing the various parts of the evening that had been most significant. For me... At one point, I got a little distracted from the actual stations, and I started journalling instead. I was sitting on the floor, writing, and I could constantly feel vibrations from the hammers. It struck me as very profound--this idea that the vibrations of the nails being hammered should be felt through every piece of life, constantly. That life should be lived in the vibrations from the hammer and the shaking of the earthquake of angels rolling away the stone. It shouldn't be still; it shouldn't be calm. This should shake up everything, all the time.
Just a thought.
It was so good to get to that service, though, and so good to hang out with friends outside of something "planned" for church. I miss out on so much of that kind of thing, and I was so glad that I was able to work it out.
Other than that... Kat, I got Jakes' Christmas present today! Thanks!! Mom, I called Kim about Easter dinner, and she was supposed to phone you. Kim, if you haven't called my mom, do so! Or, you know, just talk to each other through the comments on this thing. Um... any other personal messages that I'm too lazy to email right now? I don't think so--not at the moment, anyways.
2 Comments:
Ok, I will call. I was holding it off b/c I hadn't heard from Trevoures yet!
What an interesting thought about the hammar and the sounds penetrating all of our lives. Thanks for the insight! Sometimes, it is really easy to "section-off" our lives but Jesus came to penetrate all of it...Of course!
Anyways, so neat to hear all about your Good Friday worship experience...I always love that stuff! See you at a wedding very, very soon!
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