{"id":818,"date":"2007-09-24T06:05:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T11:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=818"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:59","slug":"thank-god-for-incarnation-and-ipods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Thank God for Incarnation–and iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/font>People cross this world
\nOver and then back again
\nNever even one time lift their eyes
\nOr think of what they say<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>But I hear it in your voice, love
\nLike someone sweetly willing
\nThe hope of all these years,
\nthe prayer of a time
\nthat we don’t even know<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>But it’s a hard road that we follow
\nThe saddest cities, and the darkest hollows<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>But I hear it in your voice, love
\nThe strongest sound
\nI’ve ever heard
\nLike water from a well
\nso deep in the ground
\nI’ll never thirst again <\/font><\/p>\n

–“Hollow” from Hem’s “Eveningland”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And if God doesn’t get your attention with a good joke, them maybe some music will do the trick.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon, I noticed that the new Liberty Mutual Insurance commercial<\/a> seemed to be running in a continual loop during the football games. I had written on the first one a while back in my post “Evidence of Humanity on Planet Earth,”<\/a> and I was pleased to see another one had been produced.<\/p>\n

That led met to investigate the indie folk\/progressive group Hem a little further, which in turn led me to their official site<\/a>, unofficial site<\/a> and their MySpace page<\/a>. The latter contains full-length cuts from the commercials, “Half an Acre”<\/a> and “The Part Where You Let Go.”<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s funny how this works, but sometimes I see the love of God spreading like wildfire more in an insurance commercial–of all places–than I do at church. And there are times when I hear His voice more clearly in the ethereal, angelic strains of a pop singer from Brooklyn, New York than I do in your typical “you’re still<\/em> not doing enough” sermon.<\/p>\n

But don’t get me wrong; I’m glad God isn’t stingy when it comes to scattering His Grace among the creation. I’ll take encouragement anyway I can get it.<\/p>\n

Thank God for incarnation–and iPods.\n<\/p>\n

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