30 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/harper-simon.html
On a track from his debut record at 37 years old, Paul Simon’s son Harper is wrestling with the fact that he was born in New York City but his mother was from Tennessee! The track called Tennessee could sum...
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Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/paul-weller-wake-up-the-nation.html
There was a time in the early eighties when Paul Weller was the poet laureate of British rock, giving three minute state of the nation addresses in, The Jam, a band birthed in new wave but experimenting in a variety...
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22 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/church-attendence-the-missional-significance-of-just-being-there.html
I am glad that we have moved on from our legalism around many Christian Churches and that one of those legalisms that no longer is our having to attend Church every Sunday morning and having to feel guilty if we...
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19 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/dragged-through-the-days-of-a-fallen-world-commitment-prayer.html
(this was written for a Quiet Service in Fitzroy... inspired by David Ford's song Meet Me In The Middle) Lord we come before you Having been dragged through the days of a fallen world We have things to smile about...
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14 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/tom-petty-and-transendence-part-1.html
MYSTIC EYES There is a moment in the middle of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ version of Van Morrison’s Mystic Eyes that not only showcases the wonder of transcendence in art but if you listen more carefully you might even...
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RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM I remember being quite interested in Tom Petty’s first solo album Full Moon Fever because I had been a Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers fan since Damn The Torpedoes and the thought of Petty doing something...
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8 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/the-frozen-lake-wedding-prayerblessing-for-rachel-and-alain.html
( I wrote this wedding prayer/blessing for my good friends Rachel and Alain Emerson for their wedding service... Alain wanted it based on “their song” Frozen Lake, by my good friend Iain Archer (“I want to be someone who makes...
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5 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/stocki-benediction.html
STOCKI BENEDICTION (this is a benediction that I wrote for the end of a poem way back in 1990 or so... the poem was called Bigger Picture and very much influenced by watching Dances With Wolves... anyway we used it...
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2 April 10
Taken from: http://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/2010/04/easter-ipodic-meditation.html
As Good Friday has gone on I have been drawn to three songs that can allow your iPod to become a sacred space for Easter meditation... DUKE SPECIAL – Song of The Hours From one of Mr. Duke’s three recent...
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