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Quoting Bono, again. This time it’s an article in The Times Online; it’s from an excerpt of a very shiny new book ‘U2 by U2‘ – the first official biography of the band – and I’m obviously very excited about getting my copy this week.
Your nature is a very hard thing to change; it takes time. One of the extraordinary transferences that happens in your spiritual life is not that your character flaws go away, but that they start to work for you. A negative becomes a positive. You’ve got a big mouth: you end up a singer. You’re insecure: you end up a performer who needs applause. I have heard of people set free from addiction after a single prayer. But it was not like that for me. For all that “I was lost, I am found”, it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I am a little less so at the moment.” And then a little less and a little less again. That to me is the spiritual life. The slow reworking and rebooting of a computer at regular intervals. It has slowly rebuilt me in a better image. It has taken years, though, and it is not over yet
It’s an intriguing fact that I’ve always had a ‘faith’ in this band, in that I feel they are living out a very real relationship with God while going about what they do ‘in the real world’. I’ve always loved the grit and passion, the loss and redemption – or at least, the hope of redemption.
And I just loved the metaphor of Bono’s spiritual journey.
