As a non-Catholic, going to confession is not within my religious framework. Richard Foster reminds us that confession has spiritual and cathartic value. This weekend I stumbled on a confession note that just didn’t seem right. Instead of commenting on the note, I did the most ecumenical thing possible: I shared the note with the monks of Unvirtuous Abbey. The results were… well, expected:
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I will never forget working at a popular clothing store in college (okay, it was Abercrombie and Fitch, I admit it) and constantly hearing a song playing over and over. The song’s refrain or chorus went, “Blinded by the light…” The next part of the song could never be understood fully because the singer had horrible articulation. Since we had one CD playing constantly in the store, I heard that song about 50-60 times a month for two months. I never got the song lyric out of my head. To this day you might hear me singing it doing some mundane task.
Years later, I found out that the song, “Blinded by the Light” was originally preformed by The Boss man himself, Bruce Springsteen. “Blinded by the Light” was from Springsteen’s 1973 album Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. (Before I was born, I know, I’m young. I hear it everyday.) The song really did not catch on until Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released their version of the song on their album. Earth Band’s version reached #1 on both Billboard‘s chart 1977. It was Earth Band’s rendition that I heard working at A&F.
Anyway, part of the song goes like this:
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