{"id":561,"date":"2006-01-13T00:07:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/01\/coltrane-statio.html"},"modified":"2006-01-13T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:07:26","slug":"coltrane-statio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/01\/coltrane-statio.html","title":{"rendered":"Coltrane Stations (part 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/coltranelove_supreme_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Coltranelove_supreme_5\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/coltranelove_supreme_5.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m not a lover of Coltrane\u2019s music; truthfully, I find it a bit annoying .&nbsp; So why do I find myself listening to it all the time?<\/strong><span>&nbsp; <\/span>Specifically his signature album, <em>A Love Supreme<\/em>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Recorded in 1964, seven years after he heard &quot;The sound,&quot; Coltrane teaches us something about how we can keep pursuing God for a lifetime.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>What do you do when you have experienced God and the yearning remains to experience him again?<span>&nbsp; <\/span><strong>Coltrane developed his own set of spiritual stages to sustain him to the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>A Love Supreme<\/em> is more than a musical album it is a series of stages for one\u2019s spiritual life.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The album is separated into four stages <span>and each song is meant to represent a season of the soul.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>Coltrane&#8217;s stations are as follows\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Acknowledgment<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Resolution<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Pursuance<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Psalm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Coltrane had set a spiritual goal:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>To become a Psalm.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Working backwards from that end he had thought through what stages were necessary for that to happen.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Ultimately, what was driving him is captured in the title of the album\u2026<em>A Love Supreme<\/em>.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>That is all he wanted and all he wanted to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong><em>What do you think of Coltrane&#8217;s stations?&nbsp; Do they ring true in your pursuit of A LOVE SUPREME?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a lover of Coltrane\u2019s music; truthfully, I find it a bit annoying .&nbsp; So why do I find myself listening to it all the time?&nbsp; Specifically his signature album, A Love Supreme.&nbsp; Recorded in 1964, seven years after he heard &quot;The sound,&quot; Coltrane teaches us something about how we can keep pursuing God&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coltrane Stations (part 6) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/01\/coltrane-statio.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coltrane Stations (part 6) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019m not a lover of Coltrane\u2019s music; 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