http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BQ6ehc9EjA&feature=fvst

30 March 2012
Our Venerable Father John Climacus, Author of the Ladder and Venerable John the Silent
I have posted above a URL address for a concert conducted and played by Mitsuko Uchida, she says more through her playing and expression that I could hope to.
I have been thinking a lot about why it can seem so important to try and express and articulate what happens to us in the deepest prayer.
At first I was worried it might just be a false pride and some need to appear holy but as I looked deeper and prayed about it, and frankly as I watched this video mentioned above I realized there is something about the experience of God's touch, a touch that at once wounds and heals us, a touch that draws us every more ardently towards union with the One Who Loves us so much, cannot be experienced without an intense desire to articulate and share that experience.
I think this is so, because something deep inside of us know we are all connected and thus there is a natural desire to share good things.
Mitsuko Uchida is someone who becomes one with the music, she is literally moved by it and this can be seen and heard. I feel strongly that what she demonstrates so naturally and uninhibitedly gives us a glimpse of something that we are all called to, something that we can share and that can help us to grow into the fullness of the stature of Jesus Christ who is our unique Model and Lord.
Pascha/Easter is fast approaching but not before we remember the Passion and Death, descent into hell and finally the Resurrection of Jesus. My prayer is that we will walk through these mysteries slowly and prayerfully, unafraid to allow ourselves to delve deeply into such Love, a love willing to undergo death and hell to bring us through them to life eternal.