{"id":2162,"date":"2019-12-23T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T03:36:00","slug":"hallelujah-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"“Hallelujah” Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oddly, the summary I’m going to share is from the notes I wrote in one sitting after reading the lyrics before beginning all the meditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is:
A hauntingly beautiful melody
Introducing
A true confession.
A humble confession.
To all mankind
From a fellow, broken pilgrim
About a hidden God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose love is an
\nOpen Secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too holy and too precious to
\nBe passed flippantly around.
\nBut for the hungry, humble heart
\nThere to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this
\nGiven by the God of Grace
\nTo His broken vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s the only kind He has.
\u2026But he who falls on this Rock
Will be broken. (Matt 21:44)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen seemed to struggle by himself\u2026
To know the Maker, Creator,
Sustainer of All.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the verses from Cohen\u2019s
Cutting room floor (80 or more)
Would bear this out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A struggle largely unfulfilled
But grasped at
To find the One Who
Put eternity in our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love is not a victory march,
\nRather it\u2019s hard fought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps a priest at the end?
\nA Cohen at last?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Sampson fulfilling the purposes
Of God for his life,
After a mighty struggle marked with
Many failings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His song leaves us to decide if it is a
Holy or Broken Hallelujah?
And also to ponder the difference .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a victorious note at the end
He acknowledges the futility of
Being one\u2019s own king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The many heartbreaks, disillusions,
And disappointments of a life
Without faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet one senses at the end
A possible \u201cReturn of the Prodigal<\/a>\u201d (Luke 15:11)
Or at least an acknowledgment
Of a glimmer of faith
In the Father, the Name, the beautiful Light \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lord of Song<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallelujah<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Star of Bethlehem by Rick Larson<\/a>
Cloverton’s Christmas Hallelujah<\/a>
Hallelujah – Pentatonix\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oddly, the summary I’m going to share is from the notes I wrote in one sitting after reading the lyrics before beginning all the meditation. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is: A hauntingly beautiful melody Introducing A true confession. A humble confession. To all mankind From a fellow, broken pilgrim About a hidden God. Whose love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[32,38,39,37,30,31,36],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread-for-the-spirit","category-understanding-our-times","tag-christian-life","tag-christmas","tag-cloverton-hallelujah","tag-famous-song","tag-hallelujah","tag-leonard-cohen","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}