Summer Reading, Five Stars

It's halfway through July, and I have completed my summer reading project.

Island of the World, by Michael O'Brien was 833 pages of Beauty. Sometimes breathtaking, other times heart wrenching, at all times soul inspiring, the story and journey of Josip Lasta is one I will never forget.

But it's not just the facts of his journey, where he went and who he saw that are important. It is the relationships that are fostered, be them good or bad, and how this man is altered because of them.

Once again, Michael O'Brien has reminded me that through the lens of the eternal, everything is important. Every mundane task, every chance greeting, carries the weight of love or loss, sacrifice or gain. And we must not forget that for our souls sacrifice is gain, and loss is love.

And that we are not made for this world.

We are loved and created for something far better.

:)