{"id":8430,"date":"2021-04-16T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:25:48","slug":"clapton-is-full-of-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/clapton-is-full-of-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapton is full of surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the unexpected things life throws at us can put a big smile on our faces.<\/h2>\n

And that was certainly case when \u2013 listening to an Eric Clapton song from his album Pilgrim<\/em>, released back in 1989 \u2013 I found one of our most incredibly talented rock musicians singing about Christ.<\/p>\n

I knew it was the case as soon as I heard the opening lyrics, long before he mentioned the word \u2018Lord\u2019. And I found it to be a deeply moving moment.<\/p>\n

I was once among those who tended to end a discussion when the subject turned to God, and I thought I had good reasons for doing so. But listening to the lyrics, in Eric's case, he describes it thus: \u2018You were there in the days of wine and madness when I always put you down.\u2019<\/p>\n

Later he appears to describe how he was totally changed, by singing: \u2018Without permission, you took the key, climbed the prison walls inside of me.\u2019<\/p>\n

These are beautiful words that surely can't be written without the person responsible going through a transformative experience which entirely changed their life?<\/p>\n

My encouragement to you is give this great song a listen. Clapton was opining the experiences of so many of us when he recorded this and, from a personal point of view, the tears flow whenever I hear it.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes the unexpected things life throws at us can put a big smile on our faces. And that was certainly case when \u2013 listening to an Eric Clapton song from his album Pilgrim, released back in 1989 \u2013 I found one of our most incredibly talented rock musicians singing about Christ. I knew it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-content","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8436,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}