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!!vGFyxi9fnOL 03/01/12(Thu)22:41 No.329731>>329549
> working to purify one's own soul through good works and helping others, learning to grow in kindness to the individual and the community
I'm ... actually really sad I'll never read about a young monk growing to learn and love his new home with Twilight to nudge him in a generally positive direction.
> he would quote Confessions of Saint Augustine at times, only to eventually lose them
> starts to see the good in person-kind, human-kind, and himself
> At the end of a very, very long journey he bids a very warm farewell to his friends, placed back in our world by Celestia, and keeps his journey secret - instead choosing to act the lessons learned in works of kindness, compassion, and eventually leaving the Universal Church for its dogma, wandering on his way, babysitting and resolving tense situations and helping feed the poor, never indicating where he's been or how "important" he was once
> he is eighty at the start of his journey, wisened, and always smiling, as if just nearly prepared to laugh and sing and play, spry and lean.
> reports very so widely on how long he journeyed - here they saw him in France, there in Normandy, once in Britton, always welcome and kind, no one ever thinking him a stranger, just "Surlo."
> There is a tomb stone, though - no one ever thinks of him as "dead" or "gone," and to this day the Abbey he came from has faint echos of laughter and dancing
> It is always stronger when the children play in the courtyard |
