Blue Like Jazz... an excerpt

I just finished [re]reading Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz. I highly recommend

this book!!  Here is an excerpt from the last chapter of the book:

    "I was watching BET one night, and they were interviewing a 

man about jazz music. He said jazz music was invented by the

first generation out of slavery. I thought that was beautiful

because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so

much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul is saying

something, something about freedom. I think Christian spirituality

is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. 

I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no 

less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful. 

   The first generation out of slavery invented jazz music. It is a 

music birthed out of freedom. And that is the closest thing I 

know to Christian spirituality. A music birthed out of freedom. 

Everybody sings their song the way they feel it, everybody 

closes their eyes and lifts up their hands."