I am only about 100 pages into Wendell Berry’s novel, Jayber Crow, but I couldn’t wait until I finished to share this beautiful reflection on a life lived from the barber/priest himself:
“Now I have had most of the life I am going to have, and I can see what it has been. I can remember those early years when it seemed to me I was cut completely adrift, and at times when, looking back at earlier times, it seemed I had been wandering in the dark woods of error. But now it looks to me as though I was following a path that was laid out for me, unbroken, and maybe even as straight as possible, from one end to the other, and I have this feeling, which never leaves me anymore, that I have been led. I will leave you to judge the truth of that for yourself.”
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Aaaaa! Jayber Crow – one of my all-time favorite books. And it just keeps getting better the further in you get. His reveries in the church and cemetery haunt me to this day. Every. Single. Mocking-person should read this book. Enjoy!
Just wait! Required reading – absolutely. Exquisite and soul changing!
So jealous that you get to discover this book for the first time! Such a lovely read. May be time to take down my copy!
LOVE this book. Cherish might be more appropriate. Maybe time for a re-read, myself!