Saturday, April 30, 2005
If we could just keep that little sliver of enlightenment...
Stories that fill in background insightfully fascinate me. I found lead singer Leigh Nash's encounter with a late night talk show host on the Sixpence None The Richer web site:
Although Nash has never completely overcome her youthful nervousness on stage, she bravely walked over to a chair on the "Late Show" stage following her band's performance. After asking where the band's name came from, Letterman teasingly interrupted Nash to ask if he could stop by her hotel room after the show.
Nash's blank silence stopped him cold, chastening him into an apology. With that, she proceeded to finish her story. "It comes from a book by C. S. Lewis...called Mere Christianity," she resumed. "A little boy asks his father if he can get a sixpence - a very small amount of English currency - to go and get a gift for his father. The father gladly accepts the gift and he's really happy with it, but he also realizes that he's not any richer for the transaction..."
"He bought his own gift," Letterman responded.
"That's right," Nash continued. "C.S. Lewis was comparing that to his belief that God has given him, and us, the gifts that we possess, and to serve Him the way we should, we should do it humbly...realizing how we got the gifts in the first place."
"Well, that's beautiful," Letterman stammered, with uncharacteristic earnestness. "If we could just keep that little sliver of enlightenment with us, things would be so much better..."
I'm sorry one of my favorite bands from the 90's has closed shop. If I were a rock musician, I'd like to find likeminded bandmates to explore territory like this.
