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of La Riviere, Manitoba.
Christ.
production for four years, and now the last two at The
Carpenter as well.
UNDER
know, what His eyes would have looked like. You know we
GENTLE MUSIC
there will be some that will deny His existence. There will
Christ was in fact the Son of God and was sent to Earth…
TOO?
TALL AS I AM.
would have been a lot of fun in that, and I think even His
that they see before them and the way the characters are
like this before, and they start to realize that these are
special.
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off of the stage and are brought into the natural setting of
the hillsides. So the garden and the tomb are set up on the
NOT?
TO GOD.
think I can also tell the story through acting it. And I
For me it’s playing the part of Christ off the stage that is
I recall the first time I ever laid my body onto the cross…
place because of what Christ did for us. And we honour that
for us.
make Christ very very real at that moment – the moment where
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and legs and bruises… and I can get home and feel a little
sorry for myself, but I also look forward to the next day,
those moments where you say, “Okay God – now’s the time for
done.” But I guess God has not decided that I’m done yet.
the future holds, but we know who holds the future. And I