Just wanted to remember one of my favourite opening lines of a book.
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Baghdad Theatre one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened."
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
I am pretty fond of it because that's how I got lured into this whole God business as well - truthfully, it wasn't the intellectual arguments nor the precious words of some preacher.
I saw people in love with Him. And I fell for Him too.
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3 comments:
Some of my friends recommended this book. When I read the paragraph you quoted, I really liked it, though I have always loved Jazz (& Blues). "Sounds like a good book I thought." I really tried to read it... but I couldn't... that quote probably the best part of the book.
Did you enjoy it?
i was quite impressed by how readable it was and yet how much depth Miller managed to work in without resorting to obscure language and terminology. I like his accessibility and light handed touch - one of the rare books that I felt I could actually lend to a non-Christian without them feeling it was all hocus pocus.
i enjoyed Blue Like Jazz as well as his other book Looking for God Knows What. Read his earlier stuff but it was not as refined. :)
I agree he has a way of speaking non-Christian language. I think can't relate to his intended audience so I actually find it quite boring.
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