Desire: To Live
Two books and a movie. An author, a saint, and a fictional character. They've all been tossing about in my mind over the past few weeks. I recently completed two books, Lizzie's War and Shirt of Flame: A Year with Saint Therese of Lisieux . Both books--one fiction, the other non-fiction--dovetailed to prompt pondering about vocation, love, and desire. Lizzie's War , by Tim Farrington, is beautiful in its rawness and reality. Set in the late 1960s, the book alternates the story of Mike, a Marine in Vietnam, and his wife, Lizzie, left at home on her own battlefront, trying her best to run the family in his absence and to not lose herself in the process. For the past few years, my reading has consisted of theology, especially apologetics, and classics, such as Dickens, Austen, and Shakespeare. All good, but combined with the preoccupation of taking care of my father and dealing with estate matters, ...