“Next time, I would come to this shrine of trout more prepared ,
or at least bearing fewer expectations that couldn’t be met.
This was the lesson I seemed destined to learn repeatedly
in every aspect of life.”
James Dodson
Faithful Travelers
Great book! New
divorcee starts out to tour the country with his young daughter, and the travel
across the land is really the landscape of his heart. Two thumbs up for this book’s narration and
story telling. I especially like the
fact that he leaves a lot of questions hanging. In Walker Percy’s words, he
does not screw up the ending by saying “they
went home and lived happily ever after.”
What exactly do you do with the questions that hang in the
air—with no real direction? Literally?
With a book? Turn the
page. That’s what you do, keep reading. Perhaps that is wisdom for us who must live
with questions—keep reading, moving ahead, holding onto the questions and no
settling for easy answers. They come in “fullness
of time” as Paul writes in Galatians.
Okay, I’ll “bite” even if the fish didn’t in the book. Here’s
another way to look at it,. After a lot
of living, I like to think that open ended questions, when answers elude us—really
are important as the first chapter. The
questions set up what you look for as the story moves on. You just have to be prepared for answers that do not conform to expectations either.
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