PRAISE, WORSHIP AND ROMANCE

Posted by william on Jun 19th, 2009

On my radio dial there are four religious stations right next to one another, one Catholic and three ‘Christian.’ One of the Christian stations plays either traditional, uplifting music such as familiar hymns, or a kind of Country-Christian gospel. The Catholic and the other two Christian stations all seem to play the same, at least to my ears, modern-sounding jingling genre with vocals mostly by grown up girls sounding like children or guys whose voices are not yet manly.
I usually can’t make out the lyrics, although I have gotten new hearing aids and I might begin to pick up a few more of them. Still, it seems to me I keep hearing phrases like “inside of me” (!) or “in your arms” and otherwise romantic sounding attestations of spiritual interpenetration. So I wonder if these are intentionally dual-purpose productions designed to allow listeners’ minds to flit back and forth between thoughts of You (the Lord) and you (the hoped for romantic conquest).