*The Joy Of Arvo Pärt

How God used the Christian composer to console me and raise me from the dead

Gang, the news has been so unrelievedly awful this week that I didn’t want to leave you without some good news, or reason to be hopeful and take joy in the beauty of our life here. I write this with the door to my apartment open here in Budapest, looking out on the bright green buds on a tree, and the cool morning air refreshing the musty flat. Easter i…