This past Sunday one verse in the Old Testamen lesson appointed in the liturgical calendar caught my attention. It was part of a reading aboutGod's replacement of the corrupt family of Eli with the young Samuel. The translation I have with me at the moment has this for Samuel 3:11, "The LORD said, "Soon I shall do something which will ring in the ears of all who hear it." The translation read Sunday put it a little differently, "...something that will make everyone's ears tingle."
Today my ears are really tingling.
Often a piece of music gets stuck in my brain and won't get out. Lately it usually has been one song or another from an album I picked up recently, a bootleg of Bruce playing at the Agora in Cleveland that had been broadcast on WMMS, the station I was always listening to back then. One day it would be Badlands, another day She's the One, a third Promised Land, and so on. Today, though, a different song keeps playing over and over in my head:"America, America, God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!"
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