Stephen Lawhead on our connection with the past
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006“Almost an entire millenium stands between his day and mine, and yet I can hear his voice speaking to me across the years as if he were hovering at my shoulder…Moreover, I am reconfirmed in the realization that not only are the past and present woven of the same thread, the past is neither dead nor distant; it continues to exert a genuine and potent force on both present and future, on all that is and is to come.
In these last days I have come to believe that we are none of us so estranged from our ancestral heritage that we no longer feel it’s age-old rhythm in the pulse and flow of the blood through our veins. The lives of previous generations can be traced in the lines of our hands and the meditations of our hearts. For we are not ourselves alone; we are all that has gone before.”
-Stephen Lawhead, The Black Rood, Gordon