What's with the strange Brightest Diamond Video?

We're glad you asked about that strange little animated video. Gordon and Marcus posted that video to see what you would think. Then we thought it would be fun to let it sit there for awhile and puzzle you. It's an underhanded way to operate, I agree, but I had some other deadlines I had to meet first. (And now you know the real reason we haven't explained the video yet.)

Sometimes when we talk about faithful Christians who are serving God through their work, we conjure up images of pastors and counselors, teachers who share their faith, doctors who have Christian books in their waiting rooms, or business people who print fish on their business cards and billboards. Of course, there is nothing wrong with any of those pictures.

But that's not really our message at Laity Lodge, TheHighCalling.org or HighCallingBlogs.com. Personally, I believe too many Christians share their faith with impatience. We rush to the punch line (Jesus saves!) without ever telling the story or building credibility.

Shara Worden does not rush. She is the female vocalist of My Brightest Diamond. Did you listen to her sing in that video? She can wail! I love it. Her vocals remind me a little bit of another singer that I love a lot, Jeff Buckley. (Alas, he died. But he too could wail something fierce.)

Shara is a Christian. Her songs won't be sung in most churches, unless maybe the Saint John Coltrane Church which exists to "to bring souls to Christ [and] to know sound as the preexisting wisdom of God." Shara is Christian, but she isn't called to wear preach through her work. And that's ok.

Shara serves God through her music because it is beautiful. I'm guessing she'd agree with Greg Wolfe's upcoming book that Beauty Will Save the World. And I'm going to go out on a limb here to guess that her faith inspires her work, just as her faith informs her lyrics.

Consider the Christian ideas underneath the lyrics of "Inside a Boy":

Inside a boy I found a universe, and in his eyes are a thousand stars on a dark sky.

We are clouds. We are whispers. Like fawns and shape-shifters, our edges can never be found out. No, our edges keep moving further out.

We are stars colliding. Now we crash like lightening into love, love, love, etc.

Do you have a universe in you? Of course you do. What better poetic way to talk about the indwelling Spirit? I admit it is the language of common grace, but you see how easily the song empowers me to talk about specific grace?

Our edges keep moving further out.

We crash like lightening into love, love, love. The greatest of these is love. Love the Lord with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

This song helps me love God with my soul.

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