Pure Poetry

I read Bono on Bono over the summer. Ah remembering that heat sitting in the shallow end of the pool reading that book in Egypt. Anyway back the subject at hand, i remember as i read thinking i wish i had a highlighter pen with me as i read some of his answers to Michka Assayas questions. Anyway i re-looked at this book as i was trying to decide what to read at the start of our Thurs only morning prayer meeting. This is what i read, with the expletive removed, i didn't think people would aprove. Not everyone is as tolerant of this language as i am i have discovered through the years.

This is part of Bono's answer to this question:

When was the first time something happened when you thought about a line from the Scriptures? When you first said to yourself: yes i can see beyond that and se how it applies to such and such a situation? (i don't think h actually answers the question here but he seems to do that most of the way through the book, perhaps part of his political side coming out)

"It dawned on me for the first time, really. It had dawned on me before, but it really sank in: the Christmas story. The idea that God, if there is a force of Love and Logic in the universe, that it would seek to explain itself is amazing enough. That it would seek to explain itself and describe itself my becoming a child born in straw poverty, in s*** and straw......a child.... I just thought wow! Just the poetry.....Unknowable love, unknowable power, descibes itself as the most vulnerable. There it was. I was sitting there, and it's not as if it hadn't struck me before, but tears came down my face, and i saw the genius of this, utter genious of picking a particular point in time and deciding to turn on this. Because that's exactly what we were talking about earlier: love needs to find form, intimacy needs to be whispered. To me, it makes sense. It's actually logical. It's pure logic. Essence has to manifst itself. It's inevitable. Love has to become an action or something concrete. It would have to happen. There must be incarnation. Love must be made flesh."