By Scott Russell Sanders
Scott Russell Sanders unearths how the strain of the sacred breaks throughout the surfaces of standard life-a lifestyles dedicated to grown-up youngsters and getting older mom and dad, the craft of writing, and the wildlife. no matter if writing to his daughter and his son as every one prepares to get married, or describing an come across with a red-tailed hawk in whose shape he glimpses his lifeless father, or praising the disciplines of writing and carpentry and instructing, Sanders registers, in finely tuned prose, the strength of spirit.
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Jesus would see through me with his X-ray vision, find the 26 The Force of Spirit crack in my soul, and mend it with a touch. To read on through the onionskin pages was to be laid bare before the gaze of Jesus; yet only in such nakedness was there hope of healing. What I drew from that first reading of the New Testament is easier to recall if I pass over the weighty gospels and Paul’s bewildering sermons, and if I speak instead about the letter of James, a book so brief that I could hold it all in my head at once.
Every now and again I would pause in my nightly reading to gaze at the blank ceiling or the black window, the better to see the ancient stories. I supplied my own geography, using Lake Erie for the Red Sea, the Mahoning River for the Jordan, a sand and gravel pit for the desert, our wooded hills for the mountains of Israel, our garden for Gethsemane. I attributed my fears, my hopes, my hungers to the Biblical characters, and I gave them the faces of people I knew. Amos, for example, that unwilling prophet, ‘‘an herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit,’’ wore the gaunt face of an old farmer named John Sivy, a neighbor of ours, who spoke to me of dirt and crops and salvation while we forked silage into the troughs for his cows.
To be torn away from one’s land, as Amos prophesied that the Israelites would be, seemed to me a terrible punishment, worse even than prison. If I said no to the war, however, and if the draft board refused to classify me as a conscientious objector, I would have to choose between exile and jail. The further I read in the Bible that second time through, the more urgently I looked for passages to guide my choice. ’’ It was clear that James had in mind quarrels within the early Church, doctrinal struggles that would lead to schism after schism over the next two thousand years.
