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Posted by Steve H on 04-19-2003 at17:52:

Motorcycle and Buechner

I just spent a lazy Saturday reading Buechner's "Alphabet of Grace". It was amazing to see how many phrases, thoughts and ideas Terry used in Motorcycle. Reading this book has made one of my favorite cd's come alive. (or maybe, having listened to Motorcycle made the book more enjoyable!)

Listed below are all the phrases in the book that reminded me of Motorcycle:

"…the angel who troubles the waters…" p 10
"…the holy dream becoming the holy face." p 11
"…Beneath the face…the people I have ever been are buried there…" p 15
"…My dear dead dear…" p 18
"…the world is ours to name…" p 26
"…The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean…" p 30
"…my face is my farthest-flung frontier…" p 33
"…you read among other things your doom in your face, the failures, estrangements, betrayals and self-betrayals." p 41
"…Come unto me, I hear…" p 48
"…a congenital believer, a helpless hungerer…" p 50
"…would-be believer." p 54
"…cry from the hallway of Christ is risen…" p 55
"…or a hand I could touch…in the dark." p 58
"…to kick to pieces such a world." p 59
"…This day is our last day and our first day and our only day…" p 76
"…the air we breathe…" p 86
"…blisters in the glass…" p 91
"…a lump in the throat…the bush going up in flames…the dove coming down out of the sky." p 92
"…an incantation of longing." p 96
"…blood…of martyrs…" p 97
"…the holy dream became a holy face." p 99
"…he lives and moves and has such being…" p 103
"…some kind of hole in the world…" p 112
"…This is your first and last and only day." p 120
"…My legs are broken." p 120
"…The door is…open…place set at the table." p 130
"…Is it true, my dear dead dear?…If there’s anywhere to be now, you must be there. If there’s anything to know now wherever you are, then you must know it." p 140

Read the book and hear the cd!

Posted by anne on 04-19-2003 at18:08:

motorcycle was the first DA cd i ever bought.
i was very intrigued by the lyrics,
so when i noticed a reference to some guy named "buechner" in the liner notes,
i went out and bought a copy of the alphabet of grace.

...it was so exactly what i needed to hear at that point in my life (if ya know what i mean), i couldn't believe it.

so motorcycle & the alphabet of grace are near and dear to my heart Smile

Posted by Steve H on 04-20-2003 at13:42:

Motorcycle contains some really great theology, deep thinking and a desire to see the holy in the everyday humdrum of life.

"My Frontier" is especially steeped in Buechner's Alphabet of Grace as well as "Hole in the World" and "What's Come Over Me".

Posted by Dr Rich on 04-21-2003 at14:07:

quote:

Originally posted by anne

motorcycle was the first DA cd i ever bought.
i was very intrigued by the lyrics,
so when i noticed a reference to some guy named "buechner" in the liner notes,
i went out and bought a copy of the alphabet of grace.

...it was so exactly what i needed to hear at that point in my life (if ya know what i mean), i couldn't believe it.

so motorcycle & the alphabet of grace are near and dear to my heart Smile

at the church we go to they quote buechner a lot, whiich made me think that this may be the church for me! Big Grin

Then I found out that he is a presbterian minister!
which really makes me think I found the right church! Tongue

funny how that works eh??

Posted by joey on 04-21-2003 at14:14:

quote:

Originally posted by Dr Rich
at the church we go to they quote buechner a lot, whiich made me think that this may be the church for me! Big Grin

Then I found out that he is a presbterian minister!
which really makes me think I found the right church! Tongue

funny how that works eh??

i wish i could find the right church.... Crying

Posted by Dr Rich on 04-21-2003 at14:18:

since most churches seem to suck, I know that it's a hard task. took Patti & I about ten years of looking! Frown

Posted by joey on 04-21-2003 at14:21:

yeah, i had one in cali that i liked.... but the one's here are either really old-fashioned, or if they try to be "modern", they are the kind where people wear those silly wwjd shirts and have a coffee stand and call it Jehovah's java or something ridiculous like that.... Roll Eyes

yesterday, i went to an Anglican church with my son and my girlfriend and her kids.... i prefer the old-fashioned to the cheezefest, but i'd like to find someplace i feel "at home....." Crying

Posted by Dr Rich on 04-21-2003 at14:25:

quote:

Originally posted by joey
yesterday, i went to an Anglican church with my son and my girlfriend and her kids.... i prefer the old-fashioned to the cheezefest, but i'd like to find someplace i feel "at home....." Crying

I like old-fashioned too. church should not be "hip." Tongue

Posted by joey on 04-21-2003 at14:41:

quote:

Originally posted by Dr Rich

quote:

I like old-fashioned too. church should not be "hip." Tongue

at least not c*rm*n style hip.... i don't need any fresh-squeezed Jesus juice or Jehovah's java at church...... Roll Eyes

Posted by Dr Rich on 04-21-2003 at14:45:

I really like the traditions.

good times! Smile

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Posted by Skippy the Wonder Dog on 04-21-2003 at14:47:

quote:

Originally posted by joey
at least not c*rm*n style hip.... i don't need any fresh-squeezed Jesus juice or Jehovah's java at church...... Roll Eyes

I was thinking of having a Saturday night strip-club service called Jehovah Jiraytions. How would THAT float your boat?

Posted by carl on 04-21-2003 at14:49:

Shocked

Posted by jiminy on 04-21-2003 at15:24:

its only fitting...........

this disco
used to be a cute cathedral
where the chosen cha cha
every day of the year....

(there only playin the stuff you're wantin to hear)

Posted by joey on 04-21-2003 at15:51:

quote:

Originally posted by Skippy the Wonder Dog

quote:

Originally posted by joey
at least not c*rm*n style hip.... i don't need any fresh-squeezed Jesus juice or Jehovah's java at church...... Roll Eyes

I was thinking of having a Saturday night strip-club service called Jehovah Jiraytions. How would THAT float your boat?

well, there is a club on the sunset strip in hollywood called the 7th veil.... Shocked

Posted by Woggy on 04-21-2003 at16:07:

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!

I like hip churches...............most of the women in my church are hippy.................and not the 70's kind.............

my evil Big Grin

No, but seriously now, I think that any church can find that fine line between old and new........and work things out to make it a precious blend of tradition and fresh inspiration. (keepin' it fresh.........like the Prince)

Hey, that would be a good name for a TV show - the Fresh Prince Smile

Posted by Woggy on 04-21-2003 at16:08:

AND JUST HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THAT, JOEEEEEE

quote:

Originally posted by joey

well, there is a club on the sunset strip in hollywood called the 7th veil.... Shocked

Posted by joey on 04-21-2003 at16:22:

7th veil....

there was a guy who was running for a CA senate position a few years ago who was accused of going there....
he said he just went in for a cocktail....
one problem, they don't serve alcohol in those types of places......... Big Grin

Posted by Dr Rich on 04-21-2003 at20:43:

quote:

Originally posted by Skippy the Wonder Dog

quote:

Originally posted by joey
at least not c*rm*n style hip.... i don't need any fresh-squeezed Jesus juice or Jehovah's java at church...... Roll Eyes

I was thinking of having a Saturday night strip-club service called Jehovah Jiraytions. How would THAT float your boat?

we need to be ALL things to ALL men!

Do you they play "The Big Guns??" Smile

Posted by joey on 04-21-2003 at20:53:

quote:

Originally posted by Dr Rich

quote:

Originally posted by Skippy the Wonder Dog

quote:

Originally posted by joey
at least not c*rm*n style hip.... i don't need any fresh-squeezed Jesus juice or Jehovah's java at church...... Roll Eyes

I was thinking of having a Saturday night strip-club service called Jehovah Jiraytions. How would THAT float your boat?

we need to be ALL things to ALL men!

Do you they play "The Big Guns??" Smile

to answer my earlier post, i think i found the church i was looking for.... Big Grin