Gungor - Us For Them
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Channel: Bob Marshall · 2016 · Music
A friend of mine at my church suggested that I make a video for this Gungor song. He is an optometrist by profession, and he uses his optometry skills to travel to foreign countries, primarily India, to provide optometry services to the needy, and also to carry the Gospel message. This is a fairly complex song, and I'm not sure my video does it justice. Perhaps I should have just let it stand as it is and not try to attach images to it. But, I gave it a shot. I'll let Michael Gungor tell the story behind this whole project. It's fascinating. Michael Gungor: "Ladies and gentleman, it is our pleasure to announce the launch of the most ambitious creative project of our lives thus far: One Wild Life. One Wild Life is a trilogy of three albums--Soul, Spirit, and Body. Many people use language like this as though to divide reality into different parts or even different realities entirely. This project is an exploration of the idea that language like “soul, spirt and body” are simply different ways of seeing the same single reality—this one wild life. Our world is in a time of tremendous change and friction right now. We are splintered into a million pieces--‘connected' to each other in constantly new and innovative ways, yet somehow isolated and fragmented from other human beings in other ways more than ever before. We believe that at the center of the division and disunity of our persons and our society is a lack of sight. Our eyes have grown dim to the wonder of our existence—of how fundamentally connected we already are to one another and to everything. This music is an attempt to see from a different vantage point. To experience it all with a perspective of gratitude and wonder. One Wild Life is a remembrance of how holy and sacred this life we’ve been given is. It’s the effort to open the human heart wider. This first album, Soul, was born out of a tremendous amount of both pain and love. 2014, the year that gave birth to this project, was the hardest year of our lives. In 2014, we felt betrayed. We felt judged. We felt abandoned. But we also felt exceptionally loved. We felt hope. We felt passion and faith. So we wrote about all of it. From the birth of our daughter to the re-awakening of faith, hope, and love. This last year, we rediscovered why we write music in the first place. For us, it is not simply to entertain, but to open the human heart to God—to the magic and wonder of our existence. Most people who have heard this project so far have lauded it as our best work to date."
