the line i can't shake

When M. preached this past Sunday, he made a statement that reminded me of the great moments in the theatre when you witness the long-awaited honesty from actors who have given up trying to impress the house- and then those untouchable actors turn into humans and everyone at last exhales.

This was the statement:

I've been a Christian almost my whole life… I just can't get over Jesus.

This was my layman's response:

How beautiful it is to see a man in love. In love, not with an idea, but with a person…
to the abandonment (at least for a series of moments) of all other pursuers vying for his attention; indeed they can wield the cleverest of seductions.

When this man speaks it is simple and profound, for his speech is not a mere declaration of right words hurled into the air, scattering where they may, but rather a testimony lived and breathed, taken in and exhaled from the seat of the soul and like an arrow from Legolas' bow is shot with great precision into resounding center of the listener’s heart.