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Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, writes in The Art of Possibility about vision.
What is our vision as the community of faith? What is our personal life vision?
A vision has the force of a long line of music. Mozart's soaring duet from The Marriage of Figaro lifted the prisoners' spirits high over prison walls in the film The Shawshank Redemption.
I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about.
Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man at Sahwshank felt free.
A vision has the powerful scope of permitting us to envision a long, clear line above the heftiness of problems and the concerns that diminish
every living soul.
Blessings,
Pastor Jim
Photo by Michael Patch
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