Having just finished James Cameron's Aliens of the Deep, a feature still popular at the National Museum of Natural History's IMAX theater, and eager to watch PBS's Magnetic Storm that reminds us of the mind-boggling fact that the Earth's outer core is a million billion - pardon, silly me, a billion trillion - tons of molten iron spinning at 1,000 MPH that creats our electronmagnetic field, shielding us from solar radiation (who could make this up?), I just purchased via Amazon a used copy of Into Great Silence.Geologic time scale has a way of helping one realize how brief a time each of us is here. How better than to use earth science, Girard's mimetic theory, and the Sermon on the Mount to help one love and praise God, love our neighbor as ourself, and slow down and watch nature in absolute awe?
Oh yes, how better indeed. Maybe we would add that each have a friend like Cletus to help reel in those big fish when watching nature in absolute awe.
ReplyDeleteYour mentioning of "Into Great Silence" is the third time this month it has come up for me, so maybe this is telling me that I should get it out and allow it to help slow my pace down a bit.