Biography murray bodo

I mark my life with books. My first audio book was my mother&#;s voice reading Huckleberry Finn to her only child during the dark days of World War II.

When mother read, I no longer felt alone as the New Mexico sandstorms wailed through the loose windows of our gray stucco house in Gallup, New Mexico. I wasn&#;t there.

Biography murray bodo

I was inside my mother&#;s voice, and we were both rushing down the fast-running Mississippi River on a raft, and America was opening up on the way.

And so it would go, book after book, until I took my first solo journey into Robert Louis Stevenson&#;s Kidnapped, and realized there was a voice beyond my mother&#;s.

It was inside the words themselves and I could find that voice all by myself. From then on I have always had a book nearby (from Mystics, Ten Who Show Us the Ways of God.)

And somehow, from my earliest years, I have had the priesthood.

I have a photo of me on Good Friday, I am standing on the front step. The muslin chasuble blow