There have been many times....a speech of some sort usually....or an event of some kind....when I had to type in....real time....in short phrases....almost shorthand....my plan being to return to it later to fashion a post. That's what I was doing in these two examples that follow. The first was....as it states within....11:30 in the morning on January 6, 2021.
This is what I typed on that Wednesday morning....
"Wednesday morning at 11:30....The melody is beautiful.....there's no denying that....and it gives me chills....but the wrong kind of chills. I'm talking about Leonard Cohen's....Hallelujah. The word 'hallelujah' is special......for in essence it means....'praise Yahweh'.....or....'praise Yah.' I cringe when I hear in used other than where it should be used....and that includes Neil Diamond's.....Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. So I booted up the computer a few minutes ago to hear what President Trump was going to say in his appearance at the Washington protest/rally.....and Cohen's song was playing. The chills were there.....and I didn't like it....but to make matters worse.....as the video feed showed from the rear of the first twenty or so rows of people....I saw a few raised hands....swaying back and forth to the song.....as if in a charismatic church. What were they praising...for it's hopefully not the object of the Cohen song? Trump eventually came on.....he is speaking now....and I had to turn him off....because folks it is unnerving....the sway he has....as this very large crowd chanted.....fight for Trump....fight for Trump....fight for Trump!
There probably were other occasions in my life when I just had to turn the television off because what was on it was just too disturbing. I'm sure there were other occasions....but that morning of January 6, 2021 was one of them. I felt a great foreboding....from the music....the crowd's reaction to the music...and the ominous words....that sent the crowd on it way....resulting in deaths....and the destroyed lives of many of those who could not contain themselves under the sway of such malevolent leadership.
This second example is from a Trump rally in Phoenix in August of 2017. In the midst of the blaring music from the sound system....Franklin Graham came out and gave a prayer that was just what America needed. What you read below is the best that I could do in typing that speech....as he spoke....as I was never able to get the actual transcript. The arena was stone cold silent as Graham prayed....and I was praying thanksgiving for it....but no sooner had Franklin Graham left the podium....then the crowd was again yelling out USA USA USA! As I wrote about a month later in describing the scene...."the power of that prayer was gone.....but many had heard it......and will offer that same prayer some day in the future....only it will be as chaos reigns....and maybe war.....and not beforehand.....where we could have petitioned God for discernment and vision for what was ahead of us." The following was the best that I could do on Franklin Graham's prayer....
