I fell in love with George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord the first time I heard it. It’s directed at Hare Krishna and not at Jesus but the sense of longing for the Divine is palpable and I identify with it.
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Monday Music Moment – George Harrison
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Paul, I feel exactly the same way -and I can’t help but just lose myself in the song when I hear it now. Sometimes it will start playing while I am listening to the radio in the car and I just start singing. And “to sing, is to pray twice!” (Attributed to St. Augustine)
Off to get lost in this… Thank you!
Happy Monday to one and all!
I also feel the deep desire and longing for the Divine when I hear this song. This morning it brings to mind this line in the Suscipe: “within thy wounds hide me” as I think that being hidden in Christ’s wounds would be the closest that I could possibly get to Christ – to be totally within Christ. Paul, thank you; I needed this after a difficult weekend.
Have a good week everyone.
Beautiful Lynda, I am sorry you had such a difficult weekend. Know you are held in prayer.
Lynda, sorry to hear you had such a difficult weekend.
Prayers and peace
Carol
Love and many prayers for you my dear Lynda!
Thank you for your prayers, my kind friends. All will be well. God has God’s hand on all of us.
Me too! It doesn’t matter who someone else is addressing it to when I sing it, since it is coming out of my heart at that moment. And it is comforting to remember “it takes so long” cause it reminds me to hang on to him.
Hi Fr. Paul,
Thanks so much for a awesome song it helps make
Monday lot better.
Have a great week every one!!
Phil
A great song, a great musician.
I like what I think of as the “already and not yet” feel of this song — he already has a close enough relatinship to the divine to use intimate language like “My Sweet Lord,” and yet still feels like he has not really seen or known God at all yet. That definitely resonates.
Have a good week, everyone.
God this song says it all I love hearing it this way this morning thanks Fr. Campbell!
Ah, Paul, I remember when I bought this album. December 1970, I believe.
Great song. Hare Krishna… God is God…
You just made my day. A blessed day for you and everyone here