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Last updated on: August 2, 2006 at 1:49 pm by Cathleen Falsani

2006-08-02T13:49:00-07:00 Cathleen Falsani

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ONE HUNDRED DEGREES ON MOVING DAY: WHY DOES JESUS PLAY ME LIKE THAT?

Dear readers,

We moved house for the first time in a decade last weekend. Last weekend, the hottest weekend in, oh, a decade. Go figure.
So we were without internets and without computer at all for a while. We’re back. And centrally air-conditioned now, so grace abounds.

In our absence, there’s been this and that, but the most interesting that is a Q&A with God Girl posted on Interference.com, the nifty U2 fan site. You can find the whole thing (written by Jake Olsen) HERE

But, in case it’s too hot where you are to risk working up a sweat by surfing over to Interference, here’s one of the highlights:

Was there anything that surprised you about your interview with Bono?

Everything, in good ways. The first time, when I knew I was going to be talking to him and spending this time with him on the road, I was absolutely terrified. Not that I was worried about me, I was worried that he would be a jerk or something and that I would be crushed. I was so concerned that he wouldn’t be what everyone expects him to be in those good ways. Thank you Jesus, he was better in every way and more delightful and more loving and more generous of spirit and smarter and funnier and naughtier and more profound and more deeply faithful than I could have wished him to be, and it was wonderful spending time with him. Life changing for me in some ways, because he is a very challenging person to be around in terms what it really means to be a faithful follower of Christ. I think I say somewhere in the book that he makes me want to be better in lots of different ways, to do more. He’s just that kind of guy. He’s not like Yoda or anything. There’s a difference between my experience with Bono, who’s incredibly profound in his wonderfully profane way, and Elie Wiesel. There’s a difference there. Elie Wiesel is Yoda; Bono, not so much. They had equally transformative effects on my life and I am blessed deeply to know both of them, even as little as I do.

Forgive me for asking, but why did you select Elie Wiesel as the book end?

Because if there’s anybody in that book … anybody in my life … who has every reason not to believe, he does. It’s him. I wanted to start with grace—that’s Bono—and end with hope—that’s Elie. For the book and my life … on a good day.

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