Luke is Alive - February 6

On a day like today in 1945 Robert Nesta Marley was born. Better known as Bob Marley, he was a Jamaican musician, guitarist, and songwriter. During his musical career he was the leader, songwriter and guitarist of the bands The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley remains the best known and most respected performer of reggae music and is credited for helping spread both the music of Jamaica and the Rastafarian movement to a worldwide audience. The compilation album Legend, released by Island Records in 1984, three years after his death, is the best-selling reggae album in history with 15 platinum records in the United States and more than 28 million copies worldwide.

Marley performing at the Dalymount Park in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in July 1980.
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An excellent singer-songwriter, well now let's go find Luke.

The End

Today's book quote:

“So this is a story about light and goodness and Truth with a capital T. It's about beauty, and resurrection, and redemption. But for those things to ring true in a child's heart, the storyteller has to be honest. He has to acknowledge that sometimes when the hall light goes out and the bedroom goes dark, the world is a scary place. He has to nod his head to the presence of all the sadness in the world; children know it's there from a very young age, and I wonder sometimes if that's why babies cry. He has to admit that sometimes characters make bad choices, because every child has seen their parent angry or irritable or deceitful--even the best people in our lives are capable of evil.

But of course the storyteller can't stop there. He has to show in the end there is a Great Good in the world (and beyond it). Sometimes it is necessary to paint the sky black in order to show how beautiful is the prick of light. Gather all the wickedness in the universe into its loudest shriek and God hears it as a squeak at best. And that is a comforting thought. When a child reads the last sentence of my stories, I hope he or she drifts to sleep with a glow in their hearts and a warmth in their bones, believing that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
― Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness.