lyric snippet
Aug. 9th, 2005 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quesarahI've been listening to Kate Bush's album The Red Shoes this weekend and there's a snippet of lyric that's stuck in my head.
Have you ever seen a picture of Jesus laughing?
Mmm, do you think he had a beautiful smile,
a smile that healed?
And I've gotten stuck on the notion of a smile that heals; of the healing power of laughter, of my friend's father who's recently been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer but who's retained his sense of humor and vowed to fight; of the power of a loving smile to lift spirits and give hope. The little girl in my mind, the one who grew up going to Sunday school thinks about the image of a demigod sharing that healing smile with the people around him, using it to ease their pain and give them hope. Then the adult in my mind, the one who believes in the divinity and interconnectedness of all life imagines the good that we do and are capable of, simply by approaching other beings from a place of love and laughter.
That's hard to do; I'm struggling with it right now. But I know it's what I should strive for. I may never truly get there but like most things the journey is the destination.
Have you ever seen a picture of Jesus laughing?
Mmm, do you think he had a beautiful smile,
a smile that healed?
And I've gotten stuck on the notion of a smile that heals; of the healing power of laughter, of my friend's father who's recently been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer but who's retained his sense of humor and vowed to fight; of the power of a loving smile to lift spirits and give hope. The little girl in my mind, the one who grew up going to Sunday school thinks about the image of a demigod sharing that healing smile with the people around him, using it to ease their pain and give them hope. Then the adult in my mind, the one who believes in the divinity and interconnectedness of all life imagines the good that we do and are capable of, simply by approaching other beings from a place of love and laughter.
That's hard to do; I'm struggling with it right now. But I know it's what I should strive for. I may never truly get there but like most things the journey is the destination.
