I’ve been going to church most Sundays. Unfortunately I can’t really understand anything because my Spanish is quite limited still and the speakers switch back and forth from Spanish to Mosquito, losing all hope for me to follow along. I keep going mostly to reflect and listen to the music, because they do a multitudinous amount of singing. They have drums and the occasional guitarist but they always have someone playing the keyboard, which is hooked up to a speaker system. Like most keyboards, it has some sample songs programmed in where you can just press a button and let it go.
Well, this past Sunday, the service ended and as I was walking out, someone turned on one of the songs and wouldn’t you know it, “A Whole New World” from the Disney movie Aladdin started blaring through the speakers. I figured someone might turn it off, but nope, I heard it resounding through the church as I made my way back to the house. I’m still not sure if it was on accident, someone being funny, or what it was.
The version of the story that I like to think is true, is that someone felt that the song could be interpreted to mean that God can “show you the world” and all its “shining, shimmering splendor” and that the “Princess” represents the people and that we must “let our heart decide.”
Yeah, probably not.
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." - Khalil Gibran
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