U2 devotionals #8: Shuffling Sound and Death

Listening to U2 on shuffle (which is way better than listening to Gaithers on crack) is enlightening. Time becomes relevant in a fresh way when it's not linear..

I just heard "Breathe"

back to back with "Mercy,"




and this learned by holy juxtaposition that God is both:

• "the Roar on the other side of silence"

and

• "Silence looking for a sound."

It works both ways. Physics has well established that the arrow of time runs both directions; Bono might preach that it carries sound with it. An Escher Loop of sound. God sounds good going and coming.
But he meets us in the Sound either way.

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Then came "Tomorrow" (Common Ground mix) which faded out with:

• "Oh boy, stop your crying/Soon it'll be death that's dying"

which merged unexpectedly in a smooth cut and paste into:

• "Sleep, sleep tonight, and may your dreams be realized"

("MLK," on MLK's death)

And so it is. "God will make a new type of material not subject to death out of the old material." (NT Wright)





Shuffle on into holy randomnity