Being in this village and out of my comfort zone...I could relate to everything he said in the book.
" I've learned,too, that i dont really know very much about anything. I mean, I used to have all these theories about life.I thought i had everything figured out,even God, but i dont. I think the woods,being away from all the clingy soot of commercialism, have taught me life is enormous,and i am very tiny in the middle of it.I feel, at times, like a droplet of water in a raging river.I know for a fact that as a grain of sand compares in size to the earth itself, i compare in size to the cosmos. I am that insignificant. And yet the chemicals in my brain that make me feel beauty when i look up at the stars, when i watch the sunset, indicate i must be here for a reason.I think i would sum it up this way: life is not a story about me, but its is being told to me, and i can be glad of that.I think that is the why of life and,in fact, the why of this ancient faith i am caught up in: to enjoy God.
The stars were created to dazzle us,like a love letter, light itself is just a metaphor,something that exists outside of time,made up of what seems like nothing,infinite in its power,something that can be experienced but not understood, like God."
That was exactly what i experienced on outreach....
