Oh my, Leonard Cohen does it again – “Come Healing”
Posted by Don Bryant on February 18, 2012
Here is a song from Cohen’s new album Old Ideas. What can I say? The man gets to me. This shell that I build around me and live in often breaks open when I listen to a Cohen song. Makes me face my condition, unmet longings, unchecked desires, messiness of unfocused living.
He is a contemplative Buddhist priest now, not just or only a music star. Clearly, he explores our suffering and raises our eyes to look for answers. My eyes look up to Christ. Sometimes I wonder if Cohen has gone there himself. He certainly uses Christian metaphor to get across his stuff. His songs express the power of God’s common grace and remind me that as long as there is a Cohen around to rip open the wounds we all have, all are accountable to God on that day when the books are opened and cannot plead we were without knowledge.
