When You Turn the Last Page

"...when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."

Since it's Palm Sunday...

In my 20s, I sat down and read the four Gospels straight through for the first time. Although raised in church, I never "got it" until then.

I had set myself the goal of reading the New Testament, but Acts was profoundly disappointing, because the main actor had gone behind the scenes.

Sort-of maybe like reading about what went on in Middle Earth after Bilbo and Frodo and Gandalf sailed away. Interesting, but not on the same level at all as that which fired my enthusiasm.