interior castle

so my dad and have started this thing, started about a year ago...we pick a book, read it, then chat about it. first, my dad is smart, brother is well-read. i'm the one who went to seminary, yet there are times when we chat, i'm convinced he knows much more than i...

anyway, our first book was Torture and Eucharist, great book about power, gov't and the upside-downness of the Gospel. second was Surprised By Hope, another good book, this one challenging the typical understandings of heaven and life-after-death. The book we are on now is Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila. I just started it, finished the first 30-40 pages and already am feeling humbled by this woman's deep desire to encounter and know the living God. If any of you have read it, feel free to share your thoughts. If you haven't, and reading a 16th century mystic doesnt freak ya out....you should pick it up...

...those other ones too...