NOw those that know me know that i am not a reader
I still remeber the feeling of shame when a certain brother was shocked to hear that i had not read the narnia books (but i am over the shame and humiliation of that one!!!!)
But A dear friend sat and read a story last week to me from the this book and i was captured (my daughter happened to have a copy) I often have read books and gained nothing it has just been empty wordds on a page that do not compute to anything other than confussion in my head so i gave up.
BUt this book has captured me
It is so so beautiful the storys have been handed down through a familys and were then published
It is not just how the monks struggle to find their idnity in God or the stuggles to overcome pride and self demial or even coping with living/working/worshipping with folks that getunder your skin (tis quite quite beautiful) but what has captured me above all of this is the young girl who the storys are being told to her ablity to grasp God at such a young age she is what can almost be discribed as an alien in her world out side of her Natural family.
there is so much of me that yeans for her simple ablity just to crave and accept and revel in the peace and acceptance she has from and in God
the childlike blity is something that is beyond our ablity as adults to capture becasue we complicate life with our issues and hang ups
do not get me wrong she had hang ups and issues but she still had her eyes firmly on the source of her peace well beautiful
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psst,I am a reader yet I've still not read any of the narnia books eventhough I got the box set for the pixies yonks ago..
; ) The TJ
ah then i am in good company lol
I do recomend this book
my daughter hasd nicked it off me yet again
and there is a certain artistic brother here at promise whose eyes keep lighting up everytime he sees it
me think that I am goign to struggle to get my hands on it for a while i wonder what the abbot would ahve said
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