I finished reading Life After God. It’s been a while since I finished a book so quickly. It’s pretty similar to one of my favorite books, Catcher in the Rye. The entire book is short stories, each written in a Holden Caulfield style first person rant/reminiscence. At the end of the book one of the characters, Scout, realizes this…
Now–here is my secret.
I tell you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God–that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
Life After God. page 359
The funny thing is, I don’t think the author is Christian. But he comes to the conclusion that we need God. Whether he believes in the Christian God, or some sort of other god, he realizes that we have an emptiness that can’t be completed without God.
I originally found out about this book through reading a sermon called, “The Problem of Love.” The author of that sermon quotes that exact line that I quoted above. Basically the problem of love is that we are given the command to love on another, but we really have no clue about how to go doing that. The funny thing is, that’s the topic we’re studying at bible study on Friday. It should be interesting……
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