Hear it and weep

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 19:27 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
 My fundamentalist friends
> would say: We got a blessing.
> 
> I'm not a religious person, but I can't listen to the soprano aria and
> background music "I know my Redeemer liveth" with a dry eye. Strangely
> enough, the only other music that has such a profound effect on me is
> the song "Danny Boy" and a Prokofieff aria by a young Russian woman
> bemoaning the loss of "shining falcons" in the battle between Russians
> and the Teutonic Order on frozen Lake Chud.

If this doesn't give you a tear, you're a dead man inside... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGUL0KKiZHA

This one is so central to our OAR program for the inmates and any one
else who has fallen down and struggles to get back up. Redemption and
love for the unlovable. That's what we Christians believe Christ was
born into the world for... to show us how and not just do it for us. 
Merry Xmas. Ric

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