This occurred to me. Tell me what you think. If there is such a thing as " life imitating art"
this is it. Life being the actualization of spiritual things, death being the actualization of fleshy-carnal things that we sometimes and at various and sundry times given deceptive information about. This misinformation usually has to do with the consistency of presenting sensuality as having exclusivity as to the experience of "having fun". Aint that
a XIOW*&^#)L . Sometimes our leaders even lead us astray in order to maintain a cause-effect, co-dependence post "mess-up" after our inevitable mess up.
All of those in the drawn picture (2 below) have been acting out in life what the picture is depicting since the picture
was drawn by the artist over 20 years ago. Namely an actualization of life through the art of music that is played for the sake of performance only. As did the court have musicians that played for royalty in Europe and the East, there was music played to engage the mind requiring a concentration on volume , note and pitch. There was music to dance that got people beheaded. Then there was music to dance to.
The music that we call Jazz has been involved in a myopic mindset with repect to the public since about the 50's. Only for a brief period during the Charlie Parker era did we have a music that we could just listen to without dancing like Beethoven's 5th or a Mozart Fugue.
Yet jazz to listen to has survived. This is in spite of a mulititude of challenges by GOD'S GRACE My belief is that jazz represents a fortaste ot heavenly praise. Praise is during a time of wilderness and when we have our needs met there is little praise. When we are in need or in grief we were and still do praise Him in one form or another. I can say this because of the knowing of both having a confession of belief in the death for sins and belief in His resurection, and a subsequent chatisement with the subsequent praise that follows
His Grace is sufficient always and is realized by an individual every now and then who suffers in spite of the injustices they suffer. Our PAIN MANAGEMENT as jazz musicians toward ourselves, ends up utilizing the tools of the music instead messing with other things that are externalized. That is if we are "allowed to play". If not there is an internal struggle worthy of the strongest's 4th step. Only 3-4 % can survive their genius being maniculed, hogtied and muzzled. Thus is the story of oppression in any historical context.
Yet in allowing the ox to perform, the genius is manifested as a result of the spiritual hunger which is desirous of expression. This expression ends up being out through the soul to a kinesiologic connection to the instrument or voice.
If muzzled then frustrated genius results, and herein lays the paradoxical problem. (The "dream deferred"). Due to our invention being labled as of the devil
its cost not demand was driven way down. In addition its development has involved addictions. It is not that there is an obligatory involvement of drugs, they end up being an initial cheap (later expensive) substitution for the God inhabiting praise experience with alcohol being the chief drug. It is sort of like Saul trying to give an offering before Samuel was there in the Old Testament. The ubiquitous nature of drugs as part of the hidden of those supervising and implementing the War on Drugs, provides them in order to pimp every bit of juice out of our communities in these last days.
Our wives and husbands as unevenly yoked laugh at our offerings of praise to our God and mock them, while even destoying CDs and stealing the means of production. We are "allowed" to pray and praise with practice at our homes while
practicing out our behavior before we enter the world and its system. Stanley Turrentine was told to " Go get a job at the Post Office!"
Are we impervious to falls, pain, scrapes, temptations to covet, mental illness, and evil that is in the quagmire of this world? What do you think? You do the math.
The one thing I know should happen is for the Physician to heal himself
of SELF. Music makes this paradigm of praise possible and for the prophet to be potentially made powerless through this praise. A rest on the musical page is analogous and homonymously typical of this power manifestaion. No note played just a rest. Have you entered His rest lately? We need to accept a submission.
There were gentlemen who although they are not living are still praising as aforementioned within the picture below. If they were living they would be praising on the earth . Not getting too deep, but all of the people except for two are alive, (the two = Clarence "Grissle" Holiman and Herman Hawkins) . We continue to do what they are doing on the picture by God's grace. All of those alive are performing for the Lord whenever possible but occasionally we share the music with the people who appreciate it sooooo much especially at some venues. The access to ther ability to praise Him is purely by God's grace also.
It is a God thing when we praise in public. The people in the audience let you know it immediately with smiles, and loving embraces that are the love in action. I promise you, if you like some did not get it in your church that week(love that is), there is a balm in Gilead. This may be why there is a necessity to prostitute the music with alcohol sales, with few exceptions as in Da Camera. The people will seek it no matter what.
I do not want to appear sacriligeous or suggest that you go to a venue to hear music to be healed, but it does happen without anything external from time time WHEREVER AND WHENEVER AND WHOEVER HE DECIDES IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO AND FOR. It just happened to have occurred at a VENUE on 2-18-08 for me. You will know when you go back , that something was missing or out of sorts.
I have had this healing in church also. The call to make the healing pay off with service should be called out at the venue and the church.
I wish there was a way we could get Rev. Carl Adams (trumpet) to come out. Given the proper venue, he will. (no Alcohol sales) This is how serious it can get! We do feel that we are afforded an opportunity to express praise occasionally in certain places other than the church. We should and we will.
In praising Jesus, He is present and I know somewhere in my being that God is pleased with our sacrifice of praise of "speaking in tongues" while the audience interprets the tongue spoken by the speaker who (unlike Dixieland) speaks through his or her solo by voice or instrument.
To reiterate, my belief is that those that have moved on, have moved IN to that place called Heaven and are praising the Savour all the day long. One day
we shall behold Him! It will be a
praise thing .
SUMMARY : My prayer is that you find a place in your house to kneel and pray and say "God grant me the
serenity to accept anything I can not change, the
courage to change the things that I can and the
wisdom to know the difference. Then just praise Him with song ,speaking in tongues, and/or just clapping. Put your favorite jazz cut on and sing a psalm to it. Or better yet
take the Tracks of My Tears and change the words to be Gospel. Please excuse the mispels .
someone else needs the computer.
Thank you!
Andre vocals Wayne on Keys and Miss Dee on bass
Biblical Hat wearers in Church
Mr and Mrs. Dr. Collins
Mrs. Shanklin
