I find it interesting how one book, one author, one concept, one thought leads to another and another and another ….
At our Seed of the Word book club meeting yesterday — if you care to listen, you can click this link — we discussed Thomas Merton’s classic The Seven Storey Mountain. If you do listen, I’m the schmuck answering the moderator’s first question. I tell the group, “I had difficulty reading this book.” Definitely not the consensus! Next up at the club is Jesus, A Pilgrimage by James Martin, SJ who unequivocally states that it was Merton’s book that changed his life and led him from Corporate America to the Jesuits. See the connection? One thing leads to another.
Today’s Zenit quotation of the day comes from Maximilian Kolbe
“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it.”
I smiled when I read that. Maximilian Kolbe appears briefly in The Hamsa as that ‘crazy holy man’ who saves Bronek with his Latin recitation of Pater Noster. Then I reflected on Kolbe’s quote. The promo quote from Gaspar, Another Tale of the Christ is
“The story of one man’s remarkable search for truth.”
I begin every manuscript with a core message, and the core message behind Gaspar is: Truth is universal.
Mrs. tVM and I hike the ‘Inspiration Trail’ at Sanctuary Cove several times every year. One of the messages posted on the trail is a quote from Chief Seattle:
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
Indeed, it is a Circle of Life. One thing leads to another and in the end, all things are connected.
Mitakuye Oyasin.