i found this clip a few days ago and then researched about Ella Fitzgerald there is something about her singing that is just wow.. well makes you want to curl up like a little dog and sleep under her chair or something....  so when i researched what was i expecting? well something of a Spiritual background or something... but no nothing of the sort .. you can check out wikipedia for yourself....  if in doubt... and yet one of the most enduring sounds of LOVE and PEACE in jazz is recordings of her singing (along with some remarkable singing of all sorts of exploration of the jazz form)  this song itself is one of those anomalies out of the broadway show tradition of song writing the rest of the show is largely forgotten/forgettable even... but to the surprise of it's writer this number became a pop hit ... the standard is only the chorus but there is a verse too....  though my poor brain wonders how you can have a verse and a chorus anyhow... i'm going on about this needlessly i feel and it is only relevant in so much as i have this knowledge cos.... i was hit by surprise today not too long ago... i visited a church i haven't been to for ages... so GOD thought it would be a good idea i was reacquainted (GOD is like that!) and so he sent his messenger to remind me and this was where i was between stuff on my jazz stuff voyage and so maybe it was completely fitting that.... when the CD came to a stop in the church there was indeed a tune wondering round my head and it kept coming back so persistently so i sang it audibly feeling a little odd but from start to finish.... it waswas the missing verse 'Time and again i looked for adventure ... and so on....' now don't ask me why but i just felt this was silly ... there were three people apart from me all old enough to possibly find this familiar.... but hey... no-one commented...

now let's backtrack a bit... i was having a coffee trying to sort my files and suddenly i remembered the church and when i rememb ered the church i thought hey gotta turn up and see if.... and on my way hey that church has got a piano wonder if i should could.. well if no-one etc.... i wanted to check out some chords so i thought i could at least do a bit of that without being a pain they are pretty laid back.... but walking through the door and somehow it was like time stood still no it was like time had walked backwards...  of course me being not in the lent frame of mind was a bit shocked to find activity beautifully and fragrantly setting up the garden of Gethsemane... how daft is that of me.. so no jazz standards here then not today but i was struck by the Presence of the Holy Spirit... the liturgical music the something of GOD and the devotional activity... i felt self conscious... 'how are you?' i feel defensive.... like at the weekend someone who hasn't seen me for ages asks 'how are you?' peering into my face and me well peers back well... says i....  how are you speaks volumes the shared experience of something of Jesus i don't feel very near how far? (some words from How high the moon) never mind the distance of not having seen people who i care about... i feel i am in the middle of an argument with .. we only ever have arguments with GOD but sometimes folks gets in the way and we forget who we are addressing our energy to... like who is gonna give the bestest most Amazing response...

GOD has been busy... the feel of the church is as i was promised gonna feel different.... there is indeed a different flavour.....  some physical changes for the better?...  well symbolicaly yes... some new furniture changes the status lifts mere mortals from the trappings of commonality and sets apart.... well tbh it could have gone either way i mean doing away with the pomp and cermeony of new chairs to impress the bishop? in the first place would have been an option... there are some new stations of the cross new artwork which is interesting.... the artist takes different perspectives and the result is a melding with aspects of the bible the Gospels which is kindov well interesting cos it forces one to think about the complexity of the crucifixion and the fallible role of man it gives a sense of horror! it really is clever and impressive cos here i is talkin abouyt it sorry can't locate the work on line... but it takes this slightly laughinga GOD's cleverness person into a place....  ok me i is kindov holding back ....  but it reminds me this is Holy Week

but GOD has not finished first of all a sweetener ....  chatting about street stuff .... religious person/Spiritual person asks ab out it how is it received .... ianswer ..mixed but it's like a church without walls and GOD brings the Appointments the conversations even the folks just passing through ignoring us all .... we ask for Jesus Presence...  i am aware of someone else behind this person come to pray kneeling...  i have prayed for someone here before long time ago and i notice that they are looking great! i hear the update ... GOD is absolutely Great! at finding ways where us we is absolutely abject with our linnear response... treatment for a different condition has sorted the symptoms  in the meantime wow thankyou Father!   a while ago i was there and ended in what appeared to be a brawl... of sorts
i think everyone was a little rattled.... but the person with whom i reminisce seems to be cool about it ... i felt it was GOD at the time .... and afterwards of course one is not quite sure!.... but i get an update of the other person....  which seems an interesting journey .....  and we agree that GOD does stuff and sometimes it is a bit untidy but all you can do is step out in faith.. and i am reminded of a fictional? work is it fiction i wonder... the story chocolat the film the scene where the mayor is at the end of his tether in judgement of the attitude to fasting in lent? is it can't quite recall ... but i do recall the person hearing GOD say go and do this so they go to the little chocolate shop and smash the door down? and taste the chocolate contravieining abstenance and then somehow fall over and fall asleep cos these moments can be pretty energy draining and then met with Grace....  like GOD's plans are always full of Grace...


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,


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