The Book of Eli

 Scenes from The Book of Eli

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Al Green's version (1972)

I can think of younger days when living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do
I could never see tomorrow, but I was never told about the sorrow

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend a this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again

I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow, no one said a word about the sorrow

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again

We had no idea what was precious

Solara: "Do you remember what it was like? I mean, in the world before?

Eli: "People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now."

Walk by faith

It's a flower of light in a field of darkness, and it's given me the strength to carry on.

Solara: "Didn't think anything could make you give up that book."

Eli: "You know, for years I've been carrying and reading it every day. I got so caught up with keeping it safe I forgot to live by what I learned from it."

Solara: "Yeah? What's that?"

Eli: "Just to...Do for others more than you do for yourself. It's what I got from it anyway."

From Magnificat - Aug 7, 2022

Putting our faith in God can seem like walking blindly into the dark simply because God has asked us to—with no assurance that we have heard correctly or that God is there to catch us if we fall. 

Yet that is what Eli did. Let us pray for the gift of that same unshakable faith.

Ending prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for giving the strength and conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me.

Thanks you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path.

And for keeping me resolute when all around me seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and many signs along the way. Thank you for any good I may have done. I am so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I am so very tired but I go now to my rest and peace. Knowing that I have done right with my time on this earth. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith (2 Timothy 4:7-8)