The last years of his life were lived at family cottage on Flathead Lake in Montana with his wife Jan, with prodigious writing and much quiet prayer and contemplation and the hosting of family and friends, including U2's Bono. To the end though he struggled with the essential human struggle. "And still, this lifelong desire for congruence between the outside appearance and the inward life: I'd like to actually be what people think I am."
I've just finished reading Eugene Peterson's official biography A Burning in My Bones by Winn Collier. A beautiful book capturing the life of someone who had an enormous impact on his readers and struggled all his life with the interior and exterior world we all try to bring together. Collier writes, " Eugene longed to finish well, to live a faithful life. To be consumed, to the end, by God's fiery love. To become a saint. And to finish the final miles, he would need to return to his quiet home. Eugene needed Montana."
The last years of his life were lived at family cottage on Flathead Lake in Montana with his wife Jan, with prodigious writing and much quiet prayer and contemplation and the hosting of family and friends, including U2's Bono. To the end though he struggled with the essential human struggle. "And still, this lifelong desire for congruence between the outside appearance and the inward life: I'd like to actually be what people think I am."
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