I was so excited a new chapter was out and could not wait to read it! It did not disappoint!
I love the world that Tim Osner has created in MILES CHRISTI. It's like he has captured the profound MEANINGFULNESS of having such a pure purpose (service to God) while at the same time demonstrating the existential MEANINGLESSNESS of the suffering caused by this service.
"Must I explain? The man kills not for himself but for the tribe. And is killed in defense of the tribe..."
"To swoon. To sigh. Simplicity. The beauty of a single voice. The shofar sounds. The bells ring. But the one voice heard throughout the city, over tilled fields, calling not man but creation to bow down. Is God pleased? How could He not? It is noble and beautiful. Bloody noble."
"Is God pleased?" is the question I think about a lot when I am reading MILES CHRISTI.
Extremely moved by the entire section when Aile sees the children she has lost and her former husband. The imagery was so mesmerizing - I could picture it in my head like a vision. It made me wonder if this is what it would be like at the end of life. And AFTER you die? Would you see the people who meant so much to you in your life and who you lost to death? It made me think of a line from a song I love by Thom Yorke (Suspirium): "When I arrive, will you come and find me? Or in a crowd, be one of them?"
"she pined for the fringes of the world...where God’s Hand is sought in a blade of grass rather than history."
I was so excited a new chapter was out and could not wait to read it! It did not disappoint!
I love the world that Tim Osner has created in MILES CHRISTI. It's like he has captured the profound MEANINGFULNESS of having such a pure purpose (service to God) while at the same time demonstrating the existential MEANINGLESSNESS of the suffering caused by this service.
"Must I explain? The man kills not for himself but for the tribe. And is killed in defense of the tribe..."
"To swoon. To sigh. Simplicity. The beauty of a single voice. The shofar sounds. The bells ring. But the one voice heard throughout the city, over tilled fields, calling not man but creation to bow down. Is God pleased? How could He not? It is noble and beautiful. Bloody noble."
"Is God pleased?" is the question I think about a lot when I am reading MILES CHRISTI.
Extremely moved by the entire section when Aile sees the children she has lost and her former husband. The imagery was so mesmerizing - I could picture it in my head like a vision. It made me wonder if this is what it would be like at the end of life. And AFTER you die? Would you see the people who meant so much to you in your life and who you lost to death? It made me think of a line from a song I love by Thom Yorke (Suspirium): "When I arrive, will you come and find me? Or in a crowd, be one of them?"
"she pined for the fringes of the world...where God’s Hand is sought in a blade of grass rather than history."
Absolutely beautiful line.