“It is well with my soul,” she sang. A friend shared Audrey Assad’s lovely version of that moving hymn. The friend wanted to encourage people with the words. Words that came from a man in deep, horrible pain .
Almost right away, someone commented, “Except Audrey is getting divorced … not sure all is well.” The guy’s reaction to beauty and wisdom is to make a personal remark about the messenger. That’s bad enough. But typical of Christian commenting.
But then came a worse comment — also, sadly, typical. Someone else declared: “Yeah … sorry, this one has lost all legitimacy.” Wait, What?
Wait, what? A performance “loses all legitimacy” because the singer is having a hard time? It does that how ? We can’t enjoy it if the singer doesn’t live up to our standards? It does that why ? The hymn would be moving were it sung that well […]
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