The joyful bassist blogger CAROL of She Lives shared this amazing version of Handel’s Hallelujah.

And while watching that, I stumbled upon Shrek’s Hallelujah (a Lind, Nilsen, Fuentes and Holm version of the song by Leonard Cohen) and God, oh God, isn’t music God’s greatest gift to us, second to LOVE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM

And here’s the the bonus—I find out that Nilsen and Fuentes were finalists at the Norwegian Idol, with Nilsen winning the first season, and the World Idol competition as well, besting Idol winners from 10 other countries.

I cry. I am inspired.