Rainbows in the Darkness

This may be my favorite Cohen song, next to his version of "Sweet Jane" from the "Natural Born Killers" soundtrack (the movie still frightens me)*. I think this song is what healing is about to me, finding a centered place of light and happiness in spite of perpetual chaos and war. It says to me, there is no such thing as perfection. It says, we are all broken, but that is not our tragedy but our hope, perhaps our salvation as we turn away from the insane paths of our perpetrators. I'm often struck by the concept that pain lets us know we are alive, and we have choices as to how we will deal with it, whether submission, endurance or transcendence.

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

I'm posting this one today for the Amish girls, returned to the earth in white, lost to violence but not separated from their innocence or their people, who have a capacity for forgiveness that I am in awe of. C'est la guerre, little ones.

*EDIT: So, it must be "Waiting for a Miracle" I like of his from that album, as "Sweet Jane" is the Cowboy Junkies (thanks, koppermoon). I do know I like a slow version of that song with a gravelly voiced male lead, though.

( Anthem )