January 25, 2009
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Quotes from “The Singer”
by Calvin Miller
(The Singer to the Friendship seller–representing Jesus and a prostitute) “We sometimes give ourselves to hate in masquerade and only think it is love. and all our lives we sing the song we thought was right…listen while i sing for you a song of love.
She listened and knew for the first time she was hearing all of love there was. She sobbed and sobbed in shame, “Forgive me, Father-Spirit, for i am sinful and undone…for singing weary years of all the wrong words…
He left her in the street and walked away, and as he left he heard her singing his new song. And when he turned to wave the final time he saw her shaking her head to a friendship buyer. She would not take his money. And from his little distance, the Singer heard her use his very words.
“Are you betrothed? the buyer asked her.
“No, only loved.” She answered.
“And do you pay for love?”
“No, but i owe it everything.” ”
(The Singer to the World Hater–guess who that represents) “How did you manage to make them cherish all this nothingness? He asked the World Hater.
“I simply make them feel embarrassed to admit that they are incomplete. a man would rather close his eyes than see himself as your Father-Spirit does. i teach them to exalt their emptiness and thus preserve the dignity of man.”
“they need the dignity of God.”
“You tell them that. i sell a cheaper product.”
(A healed girl to the Singer–about his wounded hands after resurrection) “Please Singer, make them well.”
“They are well, there is no pain now.”
“But they are scarred and wounded. how can they be well?”
“Earthmaker leaves the scars, for they preserve the memory of pain. He will leave my hands this way so men will not forget what it can cost to be a singer in a theater of hate.”
“But the word…the word they wrote upon your face is gone” (they had written LIAR on his forehead)
“It is,” he said, “because Earthmaker cannot bear a lie. He could not let me wear the word for he is Truth. He knows no contradiction in himself. so learn this, my little friend, no man may burn a label into flesh and make it stay when heaven disagrees.”
“But did the Father-Spirit agree with all the other things they did to your hands and feet?”
“He wished they had not done it…but yes, he did agree that without these wounds Terra could not know how much he loved her. You will find, my child, that love rarely ever reaches out to save except it does it with a broken hand.”
She seemed to understand, and because he loved her childish eyes so much he made her ready for the future.
“Do you love me child?” he asked.
“With all my heart.” she answered.
“It may be hard to give me all i ask. not long ago, in the name of love, i gave you (healed your) legs. yesterday that very love demanded mine. But the Song is all that matters. it may be you will have to sing it where the crowd will shout you down and demand your legs or life. but it would be far better to give up them both than to surrender up the music in your soul. some will hate you for the song you love. but no matter how they treat you, remember that i suffered everything before you. And if they should brand you with a name across your face…”
“It cannot stay, if heaven disagrees.” She finished his statement.
He had stretched her small philosophy.
