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Living by the word: after the storm: a poignant country-western song expresses the limits of earthly love and hints of something beyond it.(Storms Never Last by Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter )
From:
The Christian Century
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October 30, 2007| Author:
King, Michael A.
| COPYRIGHT 2007 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Sunday, November 11
Job 19:23; Luke 20:27-38
WHEN I'M LISTENING to Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter sing "Storms Never Last," I wonder if I'm also hearing what Job, and even Jesus in Luke 20, would want to sing.
My journey to Waylon and Jessi is circuitous. I grew up in a missionary family that rejected popular music as well as any instruments that thrummed a beat. So I loved George Beverly Shea. Then even Shea turned wild--in the gone-crazy 1960s ...