Faith like Jazz…

July 24, 2007

If faith were like jazz

Well that would be Cool.

No.

It would be tragically hip,

cool to the touch

but hot to the heart.

Jazz: a space, a place, a thought, a word, a life, a lifestyle.

Faith and jazz…where

chaos is not feared but necessary.

There are no jam sessions in jazz without chaos.

The Jam Session is

where all the chaos flows

into one complex song.

Notes rising, crashing, colliding,

all the colors bleeding into (the) One.

That would be Cool. That would be Great.
Oh that this would be Real.

For God is cobalt, Coltrane, true Blue and buzzing…

like Jazz.

— Niles U. Comer

niles@paintedsoul.org