Tuesday, May 06, 2008

transcendent

Gary Barkalow showed this clip at the retreat last weekend in Colorado. He said every now and then TV catches a transcendent moment. It's very rare.

There are about 6,804,262,091 versions of this waiting to happen. All I want is to see every one of them.


As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:5
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.

Í say móre: the just man justices;
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;10
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is—
Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1918

3 comments:

Jon said...

"The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed."

Anonymous said...

I thought this was a joke - still a bit unsure! did he sing like that for real? really for real?! Amazing.

Steve Coan said...

He sang like that. I'm told the guy went on to win the whole competition, landing himself an extreme makeover and a record contract. That, to me is completely inconsequential, anticlimactic. The moment, THE moment was captured on this video. As much as it was that voice coming out of that body, it was the complete undoing of the self-proclaimed experts. The judges were judged.

This is the Cure for blind eyes and dead hearts--the unveiling.

This song is resonating with me. It's in my heart and has found my voice. I admit to being a Christina Perry fan. I've been known to...