You Have Our Attention, Lord

A prayer by Max Lucado - October 2008

Our friends lost their house
The co-worker lost her job
The couple next door lost their retirement
It seems that everyone is losing their footing

This scares us. This bailout with billions.
These rumblings of depression.
These headlines: ominous, thunderous -
“Going Broke!” “Going Down!” “Going Under!” “What's Next?”

What is next?

We’re listening. And we’re admitting: You were right.

You told us this would happen.
You shot straight about loving stuff and worshipping money.
Greed will break your heart, You warned.
Money will love you and leave you.
Don’t put your hope in riches that are so uncertain.

You were right. Money is a fickle lover and we just got dumped.

We were wrong to spend what we didn’t have.
Wrong to neglect prayer and ignore the poor.
Wrong to think we ever earned a dime. We didn’t. You gave it. And now, tell us Father, are You taking it?

We’re listening. And we’re praying.
Could you make something good out of this mess?

Of course You can. You always have.
You led slaves out of slavery,
Built temples out of ruins,
Turned stormy waves into a glassy pond and water into sweet wine.
This disorder awaits your order. So do we.

Through Christ,
Amen

Panis Angelicus

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David and Jonathan loved one another. - The Bible tells me so.

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Littel from Euoro Pride Parade in Stockholm-Sweden 2008

http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyheter/inrikes/article3021286.ab

Reportage in Swedish from one of the Swedish Newspaper

Here YOU can read one person´s blog about the Opening of Euro PRIDE in Stockholm-Sweden

Maybee YOU not understand BUT you fund pictures !!!

http://www.poeten.se/irene/karlek/bilder-fran-invigningen-av-europride-2008.htm

Här är en TV intervjue med Manvendra SIngh Gohil

http://webbtv.dn.se/index.aspx?id=4079


Indisk gayprins på Pride

Det blir kungligt på Pridefestivalens invigning. Prins Manvendra Singh Gohil från Indien talar när Europride startar. Han är omskriven i medier och har varit med i The Oprah Show. - Jag är den första indiska kunglighet som kommit ut offentligt. (TT)

TV Canal 5 in Sweden

Send lot of gay program this week before the Euro Pride begins in Stockholm on Friday

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Allan Pettersson: Symphony 7 Earlier posting

Gustav Allan Pettersson (September 19, 1911 – June 20, 1980) was a Swedish composer. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century.

Pettersson, one of four children of a violent alcoholic blacksmith, was born at the manor of Granhammar in Västra Ryd parish in the province of Uppland, but grew up in poor circumstances in Stockholm, where he resided during his whole life. There, in 1930, he began study of violin and viola, as well as counterpoint and harmony, at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He became a distinguished viola player but also started composing songs and smaller chamber works in the 1930s. At the beginning of the second world war he was studying the viola in Paris. During the 1940s he worked as a violist in the Stockholm Concert Society Orchestra, but also studied composition privately with Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Otto Olsson. His production from this decade include the twenty-four Barefoot Songs (1943-45) and a concerto for violin and string quartet (1949).

In 1951 Pettersson composed the first of his seventeen symphonies, which he left unfinished; the others were to follow in rapid succession. Also in 1951 he went to Paris to study composition, having been a student of René Leibowitz and Arthur Honegger.

Pettersson returned to Sweden in 1953. That same year he contracted polyarthritis and, by the time of his fifth symphony, completed in 1962, his mobility and health were considerably compromised. His greatest success came a few years later with his seventh symphony (1966-67), which has also received more recordings than his other works. The conductor Antal Dorati made premiere recordings of several of Pettersons symphonies and contributed to his rise to fame during the seventies.

He was hospitalized for nine months in 1970, soon after the composition of his ninth and longest symphony, beginning to write the tenth (1972) from his sickbed. He recovered, but ill health confined him permanently to his apartment. The release of a recording of his seventh symphony (with Antal Dorati conducting the Stockholm Philharmonic) was a breakthrough, establishing his international reputation. During the last decade of his life he also wrote the cantata Vox Humana (1974), concertos for violin and orchestra (1977-78) and for viola and orchestra (1979), a twelfth symphony for mixed chorus and orchestra (1973) to poems by Pablo Neruda and a sixteenth symphony (1979) which features a bravura solo part for alto saxophone. He also started to write a seventeenth symphony, but he died before finishing it.

Pettersson's writing is tonal, but very strenuous and often has many polyphonic lines going on at once. Most of his symphonies are written in a single movement, making them all the more demanding. Generally serious in tone, often dissonant, his music rises to ferocious climaxes relieved, especially in his later works, by lyrical oases. Most of his music has now been recorded at least once and much of it is now available in published score.

Allan Pettersson: Symphony 7 Earlier posting

Gary Allan Feat...

Good contry singer