'Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.' And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over.'"....
Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
For this is what the Lord says:
'You were sold for nothing,
and without money you will be redeemed.'"
These parts stuck out and fit in with what I want to say.
Thank you!
Now to rewrite and work this in.
Must have been a duh moment for me not to ask you first!
Bapmom, I use the KJV. It's in there. It may be in other versions, but I know that it wasn't in some of them that I looked into.
Tater, no problem! You gave me enough to work off of, got two pages done and technically that was all I needed.
As far as what I'm linking it too, I wanted to know out of curiousity, but what I needed it for last night was a story for class that I'm analyzing. I really got into it because my mother died a heroine addict and my father was a musician and it just really spoke to me. A lot of people probably recognize it, it's called Sonny's Blues. (and probably my favorite of the one's we've done) The basic line of the part I'm analyzing is: black family in Harlem, parents have died, older brother becomes an algebra teacher, younger brother who wanted to play music becomes addicted to heroine. Long story short, they don't understand each other, in the scene I'm writing on, they end up relating through the music. Sonny plays, the brother sends up a drink (milk and scotch) and sees it on the piano shaking "like the very cup of trembling".
That's a very quick explanation. I pulled out that phrase, cup of trembling, and am describing what it is, and then relating it to the story in two-three ways. One is that the drink itself is childish sin polluted still further with scorn, it is the communion cup in this neighborhood that all have shared in, and there is no escape, and none are better than the other no matter how much they are convinced that they've saved themselves through their actions. They're all still there, etc.., the addict cannot be normal without his heroine and the one who refuses to see problems isn't free from their consequences simply because he turned a blind eye to their existance.
Another way I'm doing it is that it is not touching them. Both have had their share of it's dregs "in the past", but that is the old. This is the new, and while it trembles over them, the light of understanding has dawned and they are safe from it's fury.
I'm also gonna go with "it's a cup with a drink in it. it's trembling on top of a piano because someone's playing it. duh."
Anyhow, this is the second story I've been able to neatly package the gospel into, so that's pretty cool. I'm enjoying it. The first time I did it, the prof kept me after to ask me more. He didn't know some of the terms I used, in particular "sin nature" and asked what it was, I got to explain, he asked me to do another paper and explain more so that's part of what I'm trying to get done after I finish the "cup of trembling" story.
