is life really one big musical?

as i hear "jesus christ superstar" playing in the background- i find myself wondering if we are all really singing along to the same tune and playing out the roles that we were designed for...there is the chorus, the mighty chorus singing in harmony and with confidence- for we believe what we are singing...then there are the solos- the voice of reason or the personification of the struggle of the moment...it seems ironic how life imitates art- or does art imitate life? this is a reflexive statement-at least to me...

providentially, i don't mind thinking about us singing to the same tune...in fact, it makes my world of theology seem bearable...there is always the unbearable, but to know that we are all sincerely "one voice" makes the contemplation of the daily grind eventful...since we are walking together i can look around at others...i can walk with others knowing we are in this together...i fear our culture has taught us that we are all solos...not a chorus...that we understand ourselves only individually, apart from others....if i am thinking about relationality, maybe none of us knows who we are- especially if we are not participating in the chorus...

imperative hebrew verbs...they occur in the 2nd person...the familiarity and closeness of a person...in spanish, you can only speak in this number if you are close friends or family...in hebrew, it is assumed that you are in the family...you belong...you were always apart of the imperative statements made by the tetragrammaton...isn't this lovely? what is more interesting is that in english, we use this number frequently...to whoever...there is no "special value" appointed to it...how sad...we do not even know the value of addressing another...the specialness of that number...

another test tomorrow...we need some significant grace right now...the trick is, i think the grace is there for the taking...and we don't take it...can we take it? God grant us the ability to fall into grace today...let us walk right off into it- together- so that the experience is one such as the hebrew children felt when you delivered them from their enemy...maybe we can somehow become a chorus for one day...