Peace Like a River
One is reminded over and over again in this story that one does not have to understand why things happen to people in order to love them. And one does not have to figure out why some miracles don’t happen to accept that some do. Peace Like a River is about a family that accepts its challenges, looks for assets to help them meet them, be they human or divine, and loves one another as they love themselves through the process.
Watching the Land family deal with Reuben’s Asthma, Swede’s charisma, Davy’s “crime” and their Father’s loneliness is a sheer treat. I was reminded of Robert Frost’s poem, Storm Fear:
When the wind works against us in the dark,
And pelts with snow
The lowest chamber window on the east,
And whispers with a sort of stifled bark,
The beast,
'Come out! Come out!'-
It costs no inward struggle not to go,
Ah, no!
I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,-
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.
Good read. It was passed on to me as such and I pass it on to others with the same high recommendation.
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