December 4, 2012
Tomorrow
I must leave…and it is so beautiful, so peaceful here, far from noise and
traffic and the world. There are good books here to be read and studied – Gill
and Belloc and Chesterton, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. There
are the Scriptures to be studied. There is God’s beautiful world, the world He
loved around us, with its simple people, hard-working people, poor people. Life
is beautiful here, and I hate to go… It is so good to have such beginnings as
this to come to, for “refreshment, light, and peace.” Dorothy Day
As
I prepare to leave Nada tomorrow I’m having a hard time coming to any
worthwhile conclusion about the experience. Dorothy’s thoughts above were
written at the end of a visit to her daughter’s farm in West Virginia, and they
do a good job of summing up my time in Crestone. The beauty, the peace, the
books, the people…it’s all been so good.
My
40-day journey officially ends Sunday when I return to the east coast. Before
then I’ll be considering a proper ending to this contemplative experience,
and probably this blog, as I meander through Denver, Boulder, and Ft. Collins.
For
now, I’ll leave you with my final weekly reflection that I shared with the group
today. Maybe it will have something to say to those of you with similar
anxieties.
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