tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post2512079742700429977..comments2024-03-28T13:27:46.447-06:00Comments on Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny (Part II)Bill Selneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-49641187561795838922012-10-22T23:16:29.536-06:002012-10-22T23:16:29.536-06:00John: Thanks for a striking and thoghtful comment....John: Thanks for a striking and thoghtful comment. I appreciated learning of an important life decision of yourself and how it resonates with your understanding of the book. I hope you will read and review the book.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-62763511409167981592012-10-22T09:02:36.706-06:002012-10-22T09:02:36.706-06:00Aha! I just knew your "issues" had to do...Aha! I just knew your "issues" had to do with the religious aspects of the book. I so appreciate this thoughtful and mature way of handling disagreement with an author's work rather than the juvenile tantrum I read elsewhere.<br /><br />I don't think this will spoil the book for me. I was raised Catholic and have an abiding respect for men who give themselves up for a life devoted to God no matter how they chose to do it. I have personally experineced one of myfriends going through all the steps of becoming a priest from his dyas in seminary to ordaination and it was eye opening and humbling. I understand deeply on a personal level what the decision entails, too. I had considered a life of a monk when I was a very young man, a bit too green to understand thoroughly what it would have done to me. I rightly changed my mind and chose college instead. I have never regretted that choice. I think men who life a full life and then come to feel a calling to serve God make much better priests and monks than those who choose to do so when they are barely adults.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-20915124037769037452012-10-19T23:20:17.137-06:002012-10-19T23:20:17.137-06:00Margot: Thanks for your kind words. I dislike havi...Margot: Thanks for your kind words. I dislike having to suspend disbelief in mysteries. I will be interested in your thoughts after you read the book.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11821565196350694911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-7435207678827211172012-10-19T20:57:21.254-06:002012-10-19T20:57:21.254-06:00Bill - Thanks for this thoughtful, candid and deta...Bill - Thanks for this thoughtful, candid and detailed explanation of your views about didn't work for you in <i>The Beautiful Mystery</i>. I think it's especially difficult to be asked to suspend one's disbelief about something one knows well; given your experience with monks I can see how you'd have been pulled out of the story by aspects of that setting that didn't ring true for you. I still plan to read this. I can't help it; I like the series too much not to. But I will definitely keep what you say in mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644690488802388716.post-79586868701126497092012-10-19T20:34:26.606-06:002012-10-19T20:34:26.606-06:00Anonymous: I am deleting your comment. I will allo...Anonymous: I am deleting your comment. I will allow it to be re-posted on the blog if you do it under an identifiable identity.Bill Selneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17268006369157307593noreply@blogger.com