Resurrection is on my mind this week as I prepare to preach tomorrow on the passage from John 11, where Jesus in raising Lazarus from the dead describes Himself as “The Resurrection and The Life.”<\/p>\n
Maybe this is why the British band Keane’s single, “Silenced by the Night,” from their latest album, Strangeland,\u00a0<\/em>moved me this evening. \u00a0I’m not exactly sure, but the lyrics seem to be telling the story of a man and a woman whose love endures the “night” only to “rise again.” (If you can make sense of the plot, especially the enigmatic ending, I’m all ears! \u00a0Leave your theory below.)<\/p>\n The imagery of resurrection here, especially in the chorus, is inescapably beautiful:<\/p>\n We were silenced by the night\u00a0<\/em> There’s also something deeply compelling theologically in the notion that “rising again” is a kind of returning to one’s self- a process of being “born again” to the love one once knew and the self one used to be. \u00a0If the video is a tribute to the beautiful, liberative qualities of erotic love, it is also a way to frame what it means to be found again and again by the Lover of our souls.<\/p>\n You can watch the video below:<\/p>\n
\nBut you and I, we’re gonna rise again\u00a0<\/em>
\nDivided from the light\u00a0<\/em>
\nI wanna love the way we used to then<\/em><\/p>\n