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Share what the song Sweet Thing by Van Morrison has meant to your life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucas Stanford 52:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was sick with cancer. It was advanced and I wasn’t expected to survive. I was still a young man, not yet in my 30’s, my entire life still in front of me. I felt I had wasted all I had been given, that I had lived too critically, enumerating dislikes and never living a joyous, unguarded life. If I were to survive I would say yes to the world, to all the people in it, to myself. And whenever my parents drove me to the hospital for treatments, I would listen to this song, and as I did so we would pass green fields where high school students played sports and fell in love. And I saw in them something holy. Their breath on chill mornings a visible sign of optimism and momentum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Van Morrison’s voice so confident and vital– a primal, beautiful and ancient thing. He embodied that deep in the gut wont to fall in love, to survive for somebody:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I will not remember
That I even felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk
In gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never, never, never
Grow so old again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song is alive. Listening to it is like watching a shoot growing. It offered me life and I took it. I survived for somebody. It changed everything.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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