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by Pete Peterson on December 14, 2012 Today was a hard day. Ben Shive’s “A Last Time for Everything,” kept running through my head as I watched the news updates from Connecticut. In Ben’s book, The Cymbal Crashing Clouds, he tells the story behind the song and I think it’s especially appropriate today. I’ve excerpted it below in images to maintain the unique formatting of the book.
“A Last Time for Everything”
by Ben Shive
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A. S. "Pete" Peterson is the author of The Fiddler's Gun and Fiddler's Green. He is also a maker of stinky cheeses, wooden boats, and tasty sandwiches.
9 Comments
161 days ago
I’ve been listening a lot to “After the Last Tear Falls” today.
161 days ago
… Thanks for introducing me to this song. Somehow I had missed it.
160 days ago
What a treasure. Thanks for sharing.
160 days ago
[...] our home. As beautiful and wonderful as it is, it is a broken shadow of the glory waiting for us. There will be a last time for everything in this broken world. So let’s reset our hope on heaven, let’s re-fix our gaze on Jesus Christ, let’s [...]
160 days ago
In words of my favorite rapper, Lecrae, has a song called FALLING DOWN
this is an excerpt form this song.
You scared, I’m not
There’s a time for everything,
A time to be born and a time to die
There’s a time when the world as we know it will end
When that is, I don’t know
But it is goin’ down
160 days ago
LEAF BY NIGGLE!
160 days ago
Although this is one of my all-time favorite songs, I hadn’t related it to this tragedy. Thank you for putting the two together for me. The imagery pulls me to peace – that singing bird and the packed bags at the curb. This will all pass away and I’m grateful to my core for that.
160 days ago
This song. Every time. Still.
I can’t even write coherently about it.
158 days ago
This song is a perfect choice. I loved it from the first time I heard it, because it turns my thinking upside-down. Something that is desperately needed this week. Thanks for sharing it.
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