This is a wonderful life-giving story/documentary of how some folks in their "old age" and last stage of life, so to speak, give their time and hearts to soldiers returning from war. LOVED IT!
The Way We Get By - a documentary film by Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly about three senior citizens & Maine Troop Greeters
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Seven Storey Mountain
I like to read real life books. I like to learn from those who have experienced this life of faith and have been crushed by the weight of this world but have still grasped on to the everlasting love of a relentlessly Enduring Father.There is such a book that I have just begun. The author being Thomas Merton. It's already important to me because Merton has been important to some of my closest friends. His writing comes highly recommended and I am filled with a humble expectation to be able to lift my head towards the heavens a little more whilst reading this. It's Thomas Merton's book called "The Seven Storey Mountain". Here's what it's about:
The Seven Storey Mountain is well-described by the book's subtitle: An autobiography of faith. It is the story of Thomas James Merton's life from his birth in 1915 until his vow-taking at a Trappist monastery in 1944. It tells the story of a somewhat vagabond and restless youth searching for meaning on two continents and among a constantly-changing world stage. But while the story's setting is expansive and vividly-described—from cathedrals in Rome to cabins in up-state New York, from peaceful, isolated villages in Southern France to Allied bombing over Germany—the setting seldom carries or even affects the thrust of the narrative. The essence of Seven Storey is Merton's slow progress of philosophy and allegiance, in stages, from narcissism to communism to Catholicism to monasticism.
I look forward to this read and to hopefully share with you my literary intake as it molds my heart and mind.
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