DebbieSG
Refugee
I finally got a copy of this book by Steve Stockman and have only read the forward by Steve Beard so far but am already blown away by how much it says the things I have always believed. I would love to discuss further with people who are reading the book!
Here's two remarkable quotes from the forward and one from Stocki:
"For more than tweny years, U2 has done their part to puncture the power of nihilism and hopelessness by pointing listeners to a transcendent reality of heaven, hell, angels, demons, deliverance, redemption, grace and peace. Their lyrics unfold a world beyond the things that can be merely seen and rationally grasped. The music is not a simplistic mish-mash of yummy lyrics about skipping with Jesus through fields of daisies. Instead, their songs wrestle with pain and frustration and without catering to hopelessness."
(written to his--Bono's--father): "(God) gives us the strengt and a joy that does not depend on drink or drugs. This strength, will, I believe, be the quality that will take us to the top fo the music business. I hope our lives will be a testament to the people who follow us, and to the music business where never before have so many lost and sorrowful people gathered in one place pretending they're having a good time. It is our ambition to make more than good music."
From Steve Stockman at Stocki.ni.org:
It has saddened me and frustrated me and indeed whipped me into a rage that many have missed the message, ignored the impact and even more than that looked for way to condemn and judge their faith rather than embrace and support it. It reminds me of Flannery O?Connor?s words in Wise Blood;
?The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole order of the universe and would take all time to complete. NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SKY.?
Here's two remarkable quotes from the forward and one from Stocki:
"For more than tweny years, U2 has done their part to puncture the power of nihilism and hopelessness by pointing listeners to a transcendent reality of heaven, hell, angels, demons, deliverance, redemption, grace and peace. Their lyrics unfold a world beyond the things that can be merely seen and rationally grasped. The music is not a simplistic mish-mash of yummy lyrics about skipping with Jesus through fields of daisies. Instead, their songs wrestle with pain and frustration and without catering to hopelessness."
(written to his--Bono's--father): "(God) gives us the strengt and a joy that does not depend on drink or drugs. This strength, will, I believe, be the quality that will take us to the top fo the music business. I hope our lives will be a testament to the people who follow us, and to the music business where never before have so many lost and sorrowful people gathered in one place pretending they're having a good time. It is our ambition to make more than good music."
From Steve Stockman at Stocki.ni.org:
It has saddened me and frustrated me and indeed whipped me into a rage that many have missed the message, ignored the impact and even more than that looked for way to condemn and judge their faith rather than embrace and support it. It reminds me of Flannery O?Connor?s words in Wise Blood;
?The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole order of the universe and would take all time to complete. NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SKY.?
