"The relationship of Jesus the person to Jesus the message
is the relationship of Foxy Lady to Jimi Hendrix's guitar. Long
after the concert is over, the guitar is burnt and broken, but
that tune is still in your head making you walk funny and break
out into song randomly in a way that scares passers by. Jesus the
person played an awesome message and sounded a brief concert for
people. When that person was used up and away from our presence,
we ended up with recordings of widely varying fidelity that have
been passed down from generation to generation. Some of these
generations took better care of the recordings than others. Some
made little changes to benefit themselves or for other 'good
intentions'. All we've got now is mostly a scratched up 78 lp and
a mono turntable with a half busted needle and a frayed wire to
the speaker. But if we listen carefully, we can hear something of
the original tune, the original message. When that happens, our
lives become somehow richer." --
dicea,
2008-09-18