Dedication - Henry and the Great Society

This blog entry comes from a book I read about 18 months ago or so. It is a book that I heartily recommend to everyone.

It puts our modern world into real perspective - something that we are largely unable to do living in the midst of it as we are. I would say it is a philosophical book based on Christian principles.

Read the following for a taste of "Henry and the Great Society".

There is among men, a universal longing to go back to the earth from whence they came. Man will never forget his native place in Paradise lost, not will he ever cease to yearn for a life of perfect contentment. The hope that occupies every heart is the secret dream of a Shangri-La discovered where there is an escape from the pressures of this present society.

Each of us, in this insane world in which we live, knows something of the restlessness and the dissatisfaction that create a relentless obsession to escape the treadmill of existence that has crushed us with pressures and demands that far exceed our resources; a life that often shatters our peace and leaves us like trapped animals, pacing the cage of our circumstances, plotting how to break the iron bands of involvement. We have all known the frustrations of our self-imposed timetables and commitments that cause us to feel like wheat in the grist mill of an evil system; a system that crushes our hopes, dreams, desires and blows away, like chaff, the highest aspiration of our souls.

As has been said before: "I write with no higher hopes than motivate the rooster at daybreak - I do not expect to be appreciated or even tolerated, but I hope to awaken some to a new day." And so, to those who are homesick and do not realize that the "home" for which they are longing is not a geographical location, but a way of life, I sincerely dedicate this small effort. Especially do I dedicate this book to those whose homescikness will never be cured on this earth. May we all know the truth and by the knowledge of that truth be set FREE.