Friday, June 19, 2009

Hallelujah

There's a song by Leonard Cohen called "Hallelujah". It's a nice song. Slow, melodic, and obviously means a lot by the title.

I don't know what it is, but I have heard that song everywhere lately. Commercials. TV Shows. It seems to be in the background of everything. And all of them have something in common. They all seem to be at some point where someone is on the brink of despair and manages to come back. A time that's very emotional. Not necessarily "happy", but emotional.

And I started to think today as it was playing on my iPod, isn't it funny how the word that was used to be an ultimate praise to God is being sung by people whenever things are hard and wrong and they're just crying out for a change, for a helping hand from heaven. When at their lowest point, all they can do is actually praise God, singing "Hallelujah"...

T

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