Page 24 - Built For Greatness - The Christian Edition of the Tao Te Ching

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Hesitating to take on more work as I was in the process of writing a
book of my own, yet also feeling some lingering guilt at my lack of
immediate action to Keith’s first request, I replied I would, but only
after completing my book. Upon further reflection, however, I
realized as the work involved scripture, perhaps I could incorporate
revising the book into my morning prayer as part of the Office of
Readings, replacing the second reading I would have already read
numerous times. That plan proved to be quite satisfactory and so
the task of revising the book, one chapter every couple of days,
began even before I completed my own writing task.

As I prayed through the text and the scriptures, it dawned on me
the journey down to California that January with my car carrying my
scooter on a Versahaul and pulling a trailer with my two sailboards
and a kayak was actually a metaphor for the revision of the book.

Travelling alone through the slowly receding snow for three days
and three thousand kilometers through the rugged, barren,
windswept, beautiful States of Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and
Nevada to California was exciting and captivating, much like
journeying through the Tao Te Ching for the first time and about
which I knew very little.

Returning home by the same route proved to be just as interesting
as the trip down, as everything was now seen from a different
perspective. That trip was like journeying through the very familiar
Christian scriptures, only this time through the prism of the Tao Te
Ching, revealing exciting and inspiring connections all along the
way.