The Christmas Heart

There is mass confusion in the minds of my generation. Computers take the place of minds. Electronics are taking over, only confusing things more. I admit we should follow over, only confusing things more. I admit we should follow some basic rules, but first you should look at who is making the rules. Sometimes I walk down a deserted beach listening to the waves and birds and I hear them forever calling and forever crying, and sometimes we feel that way. But everyone goes on with his own little routines, afraid to stop and listen for fear of cracking their nutshell. The answer is out there somewhere. We need to search for it.

Those were the words of a fifteen-year-old boy — a marvelous expression of his own perception of the “struggle” to find answers about life’s meaning and purpose.

A British athlete named David Sheppard wrote a spiritual journal in which he talked about when, as a college student, he went through…