Amazing Grace: A Work of Art

I was having a hard day. I don’t know why it happened on a specific day, but I just did not have one ounce of patience for any biased lies from liberals. I watched the news (we don’t get FOX, and we only watch the news to grasp the very rough facts) and ranted through the whole half hour. The reporters, with their ever-concerned and gloomy expressions plastered on their faces annoyed me. The hopeless attitudes and tones displayed in every situation reported on agitated me. And the disrespect shown for our country and our troops angered me. I didn’t think I could take much more.

But then I watched a little bit of “America’s Got Talent”, and was pleasantly surprised to watch a home school family from California play violin and dance Irish steps- at the same time! In the beginning of their performance, the five amazing children ranging in ages from 10 to 20 played “Amazing Grace” with a talent, grace, and beauty not often found in contemporary music today. I was refreshed by the talent and maturity displayed in the children, and simply by watching them perform, I could tell they were home schooled. The beauty and depth of classical arts that the children so well displayed are lost on the majority of teens, and as I watched them I thought “here is true beauty!”. They by far out rated those who yell out in song in an attempt to make us feel in awe of their “singing skills”, or those who twang away at the electric guitar, or… and this the worst of all; flaunt their naked bodies in front of us, posing as “dancers”.

Somehow our adult judges have had the blindness to call such displays of provocative, silly, and shallow performances “art”, and I should not have expected much out of judge Piers Morgan who, after the amazing Celtic Spring performance, promptly declared the opening with “Amazing Grace” cheesy; his reason for rating them lower. I call this religious discrimination, and this is not a conservative discriminating against a liberal; it’s quite the opposite.

After being rather sensitive to any rude remarks toward conservatives that day, you can imagine my reaction to the comment on the Wood family’s performance; however slight it may have been. It just goes to show how low many Americans set their standards of art, talent, and performance. For anyone who calls such a heartfelt, excellently written piece as “Amazing Grace” cheesy does not know art when he sees it.

If it were me, I would have given the Wood family a big thumbs up, a perfect score, and thanks for accomplishing, through diligence and faith in God, a wonderful performance.