February 28, 2010 Singing the obituaries just ain’t right!
A psalm is a song. To catch the point of a song (the whole point) you need to sing it. To catch the point of things in general you need to experience them according to their design and purpose. I don’t need to sing the obituaries. I do need to taste the food. I don’t need to comb my hair with a toothbrush. I do need to lie down in a hammock. Things are meant for what they were meant for. To sing the obituaries may make for an interesting comment on death and our attitudes to it, and we may even learn something new from the obituary that was latent in its original design, but if we bypass its original design then our view will always be distorted. Things need to be understood on their own terms.
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