Having both read The Day The World Came To Town by Jim DeFede my wife and I had to watch Come From Away on Apple+.
I enjoy it more and more every time I see it.
This time I caught a couple of lines I hadn’t paid attention to before, they allude to stories that DeFede relates in greater detail in his book.
I’ve been listening to Ordinary Time‘s music for some time now. (I’ve lost count, my earliest posts here are from 2011)
They’re about to release new music, mostly originals, with many sourced from Psalms.
They don’t strike me as congregational songs, but they are devotional.
This is Guide Me, from Psalm 25.
Canyon is an original song from Scott Mulvahill (not to be confused with another song named Canyon I’ve featured on the blog).
The song features on the just released album Survive.
Am I a canyon?
Carved by moving water over timeam I a car crash?
As I drift across the double yellow lineIf I’m a canyon
You won’t see me changing day to dayIf I’m a car crash
You won’t see me coming either way
This is the official music video of Canyon.
This version was recorded at the Grand Canyon.
The Ware Family are huge Come From Away Fans.
So when The Day The World Came To Town by Jim Defede turned up at our family holiday last week it was read by three of us during our time away.
The Day The World Came To Town records the week in Gander, Newfoundland after the September 11 attacks in New York led to the closure of US airspace causing thirty-eight jetliners to diverted to the international airfield located at the town. Jim DeFede’s book predates the musical Come From Away, and is remarkable in that, instead of the dramatic license of the musical, the book simply records the real stories of a mixed cohort of people visiting a community that is extraordinary in its gracious welcome.
Some people are recognisable, some are new, and if anything the stories are more compelling – especially given the absence of dramatic license.
It is an uplifting read. You’ll laugh, you may cry, you’ll be moved.
And you’ll yearn for a world where people can live in generous and gracious unity, while also longing that the pain which seems necessary for such unity to arise would no longer occur.
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