Aren't Angels suppose to have Wings? Whoa!!
I finished reading the latest Mitch Albom novel "the five people you meet in heaven". It's a short novel and beautifully written. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Normally I love non fiction but every now and then I head back to fiction to try and get my head into a space like no other. This book did the trick.It's about a man in his 80's who is killed trying to save a small girl. He ends up in Heaven and meets five people there who explain his life to him. Each person was unrelated and in some cases they never met the man in life. The explanations gave meaning to what was on the surface a rather ordinary life. The message given was that regardless of how little and insignificant we feel we are we are ultimately connected to everyone. Our actions have meaning through the people they touch. We just may not know it at that moment in time.
The book makes you think about what lies beyond Life. Is there an afterlife? Do we come back as someone else later? Do our actions today have significance in the beyond? It's a very interesting topic to ponder. I've always believed that for our souls to devlope and grow we would have to experience many lives with many varied experiences. Some would be good others bad, some male and some female. At least that's what I'd like to believe. Maybe when we die we just cease to exist and that's all. I hope not though. The thought of coming back suggests that what we build in this life time we can benefit from it in the next. It at least gives purpose to contributions we all make to the growth of society while we are here. It also makes sense of very short or unique lives for instance children who die young or blind or severely handicapped people. Perhaps they were small projects to help the rest of us grow in this life. Then later they come back and live out a full more traditional life of their own. I don't know really what will happen, no one does. It is comforting to hold onto a belief like this. It gives me a purpose to my life.
Anyhow, the book was a nice read. I couldn't put it down once I started it. It's less than 200 pages so doesn't take long to go through. Enjoy it :)
posted by Doug @ 8:27 PM
5 Comments:
That table ... again! I've often seen this book in my local Chapter's and have pondered picking it up from time to time. Another book by the same author titled, Monday's with Maurey", or something to that effect, is supposed to be really good.
The table is from my family in Nova Scotia. It's a very simple table but over 100 years old. You can see wooden nails in it if you look closely. It must be similar to another you know of from somewhere... sorry I can't help ya there :(
I've heard good things about "Monday's with Maurey" as well. Since this book was such a pleasure I might pick it up. I'm currently reading "Cross Bones" by Kathy Reichs. It's a CSI type novel set here in Canada with an Israeli/USA connection. So far it's pretty good too.
On the table... I'm just taking note of the fact that all your photos that feature books you're reading are taken with the book resting on the same table. I just thought it was funny.
Interesting that the table is so old. It sounds like it has a lot of character. :)
Just finished reading 'The Five...' - enjoyed it, it's one of those books that seems like the author just had to write, and didn't care if anyone else wrote it. Seems very, very personal to the author - I liked it, but not sure if I'd read another of his books. Might get 'Tuesday's with Morrie'.
Hi Alan - I think you summed up my feelings as well. I haven't picked up anything from Albom since nor have I felt the urge to. Nevertheless this books still stays with me. It had a simple but uplifting message.. kinda nice considering some of the other more depressing books I've read since. But that's the beauty of reading... you can pick the actual mood or style you want to dwell in for a few days or weeks.
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