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Beautiful Day (from the album All That You Can’t Leave Behind, 2000)

The heart is a bloom Shoots up through the stony ground There's no room No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck And the reason that you had to care The traffic is stuck And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend To take you out of this place Someone you could lend a hand In return for grace

It's a beautiful day Sky falls, you feel like It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away

You're on the road But you've got no destination You're in the mud In the maze of her imagination

You love this town Even if that doesn't ring true You've been all over And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away It's a beautiful day

Touch me Take me to that other place Teach me I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue See China right in front of you See the canyons broken by cloud See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out See the Bedouin fires at night See the oil fields at first light And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day Don't let it get away Beautiful day

Touch me Take me to that other place Reach me I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now Was a beautiful day

St Thomas Episcopal Church, New York, New York

Gloria (from the album October, 1981)

I try to sing this song I...I try to stand up But I can't find my feet I try, I try to speak up But only in you I'm complete

Gloria...in te domine Gloria...exultate Gloria...Gloria Oh Lord, loosen my lips

I try to sing this song I...I try to get in But I can't find the door The door is open You're standing there You let me in

Gloria...in te domine Gloria...exultate Oh Lord, if I had anything Anything at all I'd give it to you I'd give it to you

(Listen for the tension and resolution)

Gloria...Gloria...

Collect for the Second Sunday after Christmas

O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

When Love Comes to Town (from the album Rattle and Hum, 1988)

I was a sailor, I was lost at sea I was under the waves Before love rescued me I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread Now I stand accused of the things I've said

Love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down But I did what I did before love came to town

I used to make love under a red sunset I was making promises I was soon to forget She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown But I left her standing before love came to town

I ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream The notes were turning blue, I was dazing in a dream As the music played I saw my life turn around That was the day before love came to town

When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down But I did what I did before love came to town

I was there when they crucified my Lord I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword I threw the dice when they pierced his side But I've seen love conquer the great divide

When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that train When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down But I did what I did before love came to town

Bono: Who is Jesus?

Quote from C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.

Bono on Grace over Karma

Bono says, “I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’m holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross … I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. … The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death.”

2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (The Message)

14-15 Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.

16-20 Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.

21 How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

U2 Grace (from the album All That You Can’t Leave Behind, 2000)

Grace

Grace She takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name

Grace It's a name for a girl It's also a thought that Changed the world

And when she walks on the street You can hear the strings Grace finds goodness In everything

Grace She's got the walk Not on a wrapper on chalk She's got the time to talk

She travels outside Of karma, karma She travels outside Of karma

When she goes to work You can hear the strings Grace finds beauty In everything

Grace She carries a world on her hips No champagne flute for her lips No twirls or skips Between her fingertips

She carries a pearl In perfect condition What once was hers What once was friction What left a mark No longer stains

Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things

Grace finds beauty In everything

Grace finds goodness In everything