Justin Fung a.k.a. gershom's journal

9Jun/091

I think love is a bit of heaven

Of all the words I've ever read in all of the books I've ever read, this remains one of my favorite passages:

I think love is a bit of heaven. When I was in love I thought about that girl so much I felt like I was going to die and it was beautiful, and she loved me, too, or at least she said she did, and we were not about ourselves, we were about each other, and that is what I mean when I say being in love is a bit of heaven. When I was in love I hardly thought of myself; I thought of her and how beautiful she looked and whether or not she was cold and how I could make her laugh. It was wonderful because I forgot my problems. I owned her problems instead, and her problems seemed romantic and beautiful. When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of humanity, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

-- Don Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 151.
25May/090

Thursday's gig


Here's the Brehm Center preview of this Thursday's gig, featuring Carrie G. and me.

19May/091

Heir to the President?

[from the White House Flickr feed]

I love this pic.

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On a separate note, here's an interesting article in the Economist, about heightened creativity in those who have lived or are living abroad.
19May/090

White Man

-- "White Man," by The Michael Gungor Band.

18May/090

U2 – “Magnificent”

In my opinion, easily one of U2's greatest songs.

Magnificent
Oh, magnificent

I was born,
I was born to be with you
In this space and time
After that and ever after
I haven't had a clue

Only to break rhyme
This foolishness can leave a heart
Black and blue

Only love
Only love can leave such a mark
But only love
Only love can heal such a scar

I was born
I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice
But to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry
It was a joyful noise
Oh, oh

Only love
Only love can leave such a mark
But only love
Only love can heal such a scar

Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the magnificent
Magnificent

Only love
Only love can leave such a mark
But only love
Only love unites our hearts

Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the magnificent
Magnificent
Magnificent