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Sometimes songs about brokenness and songs about hope ... are the same thing. From Carolyn: The night of January 1st I couldn t sleep, and as I tossed and turned I started thinking about a collection of songs I ve written and kept close to my heart but never recorded. Most of these songs are a little darker ... not hopeless songs, but songs about the kind of hope that shows up more in the cracks and fissures of our lives than in our pinnacle moments. Many of these tunes have been slated to be on other projects I ve recorded, but in each case they just didn t end up fitting with my sunnier material. Maybe I was a bit afraid to re
Sometimes songs about brokenness and songs about hope ... are the same thing. From Carolyn: The night of January 1st I couldn t sleep, and as I tossed and turned I started thinking about a collection of songs I ve written and kept close to my heart but never recorded. Most of these songs are a little darker ... not hopeless songs, but songs about the kind of hope that shows up more in the cracks and fissures of our lives than in our pinnacle moments. Many of these tunes have been slated to be on other projects I ve recorded, but in each case they just didn t end up fitting with my sunnier material. Maybe I was a bit afraid to record them. Some were a little too real, and maybe a little too grumpy, for me to go public with them. But that sleepless first night of 2006, it suddenly seemed important that I record those songs. And as soon as I gave myself permission to do a project like this, brand new songs started arriving as well. So here I am with a collection of songs old and new, all in some way about a dissatisfaction I hope I can accurately call a Holy Discontent. Musically, we did our best to keep this record very stripped down and pure. We hope we ve captured a musical honesty appropriate to the candor of the lyrics. We live in a broken world, a world in which our spirits like all of creation -- groan as we wait for a long-promised reconciliation between (in the words of Brian McLaren) what we hope for and what we have, what we could be and what we are, what we believe and what we see and feel. I do believe that we will one day be all that we were created to be, and that what we hope for won t even come close to what awaits us. But in the meantime, there s no point denying the ache. It s a part of who we are, it s a promise that we won t always be this way, and it s a call to participate now in the Kingdom of Heaven by decrying injustice and living love. Thanks for listening, Carolyn Arends
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Manufacturer: 2B Records
Release date: 16 May 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0875531000641 UPC: 875531000641
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