Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
Excerpt: "When I was a kid, a free-flowing river meandered its way through my backyard. My family loved rivers. We always lived near one. Growing up in dark, drippy, soulful Oregon winters, I’d watch the death of January conquer, year after year, the once free-flowing and wild Willamette River. By mid-month, during the muffled silence of cold, a deep, bone-chilling freeze would halt every living thing upon the face of our backyard. The Willamette fell victim with the rest. The river looked dead—frozen dead.
But the frozen river wasn’t really dead. My old man would tell me that underneath that cold, dark, seemingly dead surface was a wild, powerful, primal flow that untrained eyes couldn’t imagine. You had to believe it was alive. Rushing waves lurked underneath the stillness of death, as powerful as ever. Dad knew it was there, below the surface. I believed it was there too."
Recommended Citation
Swoboda, A.J., "The Monsters at the End of This Book( Introduction and Chapter 1 of A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension Between Belief and Experience)" (2014). Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary. 90.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfes/90
Comments
Originally published as the introduction and chapter one of A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience, by A.J. Swoboda, Baker Books, 2014.
Used by permission.
ISBN-13: 978-0801016967
http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/a-glorious-dark/352220