Monday, July 21, 2003
The Poisonwood Bible
"I wonder that religion can live or die on a faint, stirring breeze."
Adah Price (The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver) considers her salvation, after a shifting wind makes a deer the evening meal of a lion, instead of her.
The daughter of a Baptist missionary in the Congo in 1960, Adah is brilliant, and disabled. She couldn't have run from the lion if she had wanted to.
In Goddess Religion, we might say the Fates were stirring the breezes; or we might say that Adah's salvation was a random outcome stipulated by Chaos Theory; or we might say "interesting cosmology"; or we might marvel at the intricacies of the natural world.
Barbara Kingsolver certainly marvels at the intricacies of the natural world. If you haven't read her Prodigal Summer, go get it. I've been thinking lately about movies and books that represent the seasons. This book would go on the top of my Summer list.
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Adah Price (The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver) considers her salvation, after a shifting wind makes a deer the evening meal of a lion, instead of her.
The daughter of a Baptist missionary in the Congo in 1960, Adah is brilliant, and disabled. She couldn't have run from the lion if she had wanted to.
In Goddess Religion, we might say the Fates were stirring the breezes; or we might say that Adah's salvation was a random outcome stipulated by Chaos Theory; or we might say "interesting cosmology"; or we might marvel at the intricacies of the natural world.
Barbara Kingsolver certainly marvels at the intricacies of the natural world. If you haven't read her Prodigal Summer, go get it. I've been thinking lately about movies and books that represent the seasons. This book would go on the top of my Summer list.
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Celtic Sacred Hours (3, 6, 9, 12 am/pm) Healing Practice:
What does my body need?
What does my spirit need?
Where is the flow? What wants to happen right now?
