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But, as we all know, the modernist movement has been having an increasingly hard time of it in the last decade or two. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, the masters of suspicion nurtured within the bosom of modernity, propounding their theories as 'scientific' and hence respectable within that frame of reference, have shaken to the core the modernist vision of reality and all that went with it. -eric

From: Karen
Date: Tue Sep 23 16:37:14 MST 2003
Subject: Discipline, creativity, and John 1

I just downloaded music from last Sunday evening to hear it "objectively." That was a sweet moment, playing "John 1" Sunday with the Vocal Cords Lost (so that's who we are this week?). I'm so glad that recording made it through. I feel like I *finally* did my part of Wes's beautiful song justice, although others had it down quite a while ago! And when I was playing Sunday, I wasn't only focusing on playing and singing into the mic (which I still can't believe I'm doing on a regular basis), but I was also actually actively imagining God at the same time, not easy for me, the struggling multi-tasker, to do. That moment Sunday was right up there for me with the spring of '87, when I played my best piano recital ever, one of Dvorak's Hungarian Rhapsodies, extreme piano playing that I couldn't reproduce right now to save my life. Creative experiences like these remind me of that great line from "Chariots of Fire," when Eric Liddell says of his own creativity, "God made me fast, and when I run, I feel his pleasure."

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