a lovely little book called "Firstlight" by Sue Monk Kidd. Coincidentally, I also just received 'Secret Life of Bees' from Netflix and can't wait to watch it.
Firstlight is a collection of her early writings about spiritual things. I'm still in the introduction, and she talks about the work of Thomas Merton, and how his most famous work, Seven Storey Mountain, was written when he was a young man. He later felt somewhat conflicted and contained by the fact that he was in many ways defined by that work of his youth, though his thinking had evolved greatly after that time. She experienced similar hesitation when asked to compile works from her past, which may or may not still align with her present thinking.
She talks a bit about the impact his book had on her, and I was struck by this line:
"The book revealed to me the startling reality of the inner life, cracking open a raw longing for the Divine, and exposing an irrepressible hunger for that deepest thing in myself."
Love books that do that........
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