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воскресенье, октября 02, 2005

On the Road
excerpts from The Sacred Romance - Drawing Closer to the Heart of God, Brnt Curtis & John Eldredge, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997.

EVERY GREAT STORY involves a quest. IN J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins ran from the door at a quarter till eleven without even so much as a pocket hankerchief and launched on an adventure that would change his life forever. Alice stepped through the looking glass into Wonderland; Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter stumbled through the wardrobe into Narnia. Abraham left "his country, his people and hs father's household" to follow the most outlandish sort of promise form a God he'd only just met, and he never came back. Jacob and his sons went to Egypt for some groceries and four hundred years later the Israelite nation pulled up stakes and headed for home. Peter, Andrew, James, and John all turned up on a dime one day to follow the master, their fishing nets heaped in wet piles behind them. The Sacred Romance involves for every soul a journey of heroic proportions. And while it may require for some a change of geography, for every soul it means a journey of the heart.

John Donne - HOLY SONNETS. XIV.
Batter My Heart

BATTER my heart, three person'd God; for, you
As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend
Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurpt towne, to'another due,
Labour to'admit you, but Oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue.

Yet dearely'I love you, 'and would be loved faine,
But am betroth'd unto your enemie:
Divorce mee, 'untie, or breake that knot againe;
Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I
Except you'enthrall mee, never shall be free,
Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.

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