So much has been happening lately. So much so that this post could not possibly contain it all. The Easter Performance is done. It turned out wonderfully with the exception of the sound. Techs had problems at each performance.. sigh. But the Ballerinas performed beautifully. As far as the stick dance.... well.... Saturday night the photographers were out. Somehow I managed to keep the hard stoic look on my face needed for the part while Hanna (next to me) commenced to beating, poking, and jabbing a photographer that would NOT move out from in front of us. Goodness, if I could have had a video of THAT alone.. it would have been a performance masterpiece. Palm Sunday and Resurrection scenes went smoothly though. Jeremy video taped Friday night for me and put it on DVD. Now I ACTUALLY get to SEE the whole thing. As a cast member I was disappointed that I could not EXPERIENCE each part. When I saw it on DVD, I understood what a cool presentation it truly was.
SERMON: A Tough Mind And A Tender Heart, by Martin Luther King, Jr. Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. (Matthew 10:16) A French philosopher said, “No man is strong unless he bears within his character antitheses strongly marked.” The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. The philosopher Hegel said that truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis that reconciles the two. Jesus recognized the need for blending opposites. He knew that his disciples would face a difficult and hostile world, where they would confront the recalcitrance of...
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