October 24, Pastor’s Pondering
What I’ve been reading
On the way through the airport this summer, I realized I didn’t have a book to read for the trip. I picked up On Trails by Robert Moor, (2016) another NY Times bestseller. It starts out as a sort of travelogue of the author’s thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail. From there, it becomes a rumination on the paths that we travel, how they form, what makes us follow these paths or strike off on our own.
Moor looks at how ants and other insects form intricated and highly valuable trails that are key to their success as a species. He describes how animals create paths that indicate an intelligent, over vast distances and effectively avoid predators. And when the first Europeans came to the shores of America, they found pathways that were already established by the people and animals that were already here.
Paths help us find a way through a new or dangerous terrain.
See you in church,
Pastor Steve