Sunday, September 18, 2011

Saturday, September 3, 2011

my man's gone now, ain't no use in cryin.....

How do I begin to bemoan David Cryer not being renewed in Phantom?  By thinking back to the first Firmin I did in 1995.  I asked David to come to one of my run-throughs and give me some notes. He gave me several pages of them-but you wouldn't believe how encouraging they were. 

When my brother passed away in 2005, I was told that some of his last words were the poem "Crossing the Bar"  by Tennyson.  David was my natural choice to read this at the funeral, but of course couldn't come.  He made a tape of it for me though-and it was wonderful.  Everyone was so moved by David's comments at the beginning of the tape and equally moved by the reading of the poem

Thank you David, for everything you've done for me and my family-and for being the consummate professional that I aspire to be someday.

Love you,

Steve.








"To Hell With Gluck and Handel!" A Chat With Phantom Veterans David Cryer & George Lee Andrews - Playbill.com

"To Hell With Gluck and Handel!" A Chat With Phantom Veterans David Cryer & George Lee Andrews - Playbill.com

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Sovereignty

Just a short thought on the Sovereignty of God.  I have endured great loss here in the last week as my friend's daughter committed suicide.  I pray for him constantly as he processes-or tries to process this unbelievable pain.  He searches for answers that aren't there. 

Yet somehow this was ordained?  God can receive glory out of this?  Yes and yes, I must tell myself.  God is either in control or this world is spinning out of control-we're just hoping that gravity will hold us in place.  This needless death is somehow in God's ultimate plan.  I do not even begin to understand it.  I do not even begin to believe that this has happened sometimes.  But I do believe that God is real-that he ministers and is ministering to my friend and all his other little girls. 

I've already seen how this unthinkable act has drawn those of us who know the family closer, and has drawn the family itself closer.  By this I mean that this incident has done what I've read so much about in Reformed theology-it has caused us to lean on Him even more.  God is the only one who can get us through this, and by that revelation I conclude that there was a purpose to her leaving us-to force us to suddenly say to ourselves, "we haven't given you enough glory, Lord-we haven't praised you enough, we haven't realized how hopeless we are without You."

We need you, Lord, because you are Sovereign.  We need you to intervene and may be henceforth ever mindful that without your Grace, we are a hopeless case.

Praise the Name above all Names, the Name of the Lord.

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