Road
movies, as a genre, are especially suited for showing
the influences that transform a person. This trip certainly had
a formative influence on the young Guevara. He begins to see injustice
and suffering that were fairly unknown to him. Certainly he grows
as a person though the journey and through the film. But even by
the end of the film, he is not yet the Che who has now become mythic.
--Darrel Manson
ON THE JOURNEY
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
--Natalie Goldberg
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet
there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending,
ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the
journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy
and glory of the climb.
--Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after
a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
--Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
The longest journey is the journey inward.
--Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more
important than the outcome.
--Arthur Ashe
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses
itself at the end of a journey.
--Cynthia Ozick
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart
our journeys.
--Gail Pool
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell
the world the glories of our journey.
--John Hope Franklin
Such
a journey by a young man who would become such a mythological figure
also invites us to think about what things form and transform us.
Is it that, because of where they went, Ernesto and Alberto saw
things that we don't see? Or are such things all around us waiting
to be seen? Sometimes the journey only shows us what we have gotten
used to ignoring. Surely such injustice and need could have been
found in Guevara’s home of Buenos Aires, but by seeking life
on their trip, they discovered a new world.
It
is interesting that the qualities that transformed Ernesto into
the Communist revolutionary Che are so similar to the qualities
that can also transform us into servants of Christ. Those “great
feelings of love” can be just as transformative in our lives
as they were in the life of Ernesto Guevara, but to a higher purpose.
--Darrel Manson
JESUS
AND THE TRANSFORMING JOURNEY
Matthew 8:22 (Message Bible)
Jesus refused. "First things first. Your business is life,
not death. Follow me. Pursue life."
Matthew 16:24 (Message Bible)
Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. "Anyone who intends
to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat;
I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show
you how.
Matthew 19:21 (Message Bible)
"If you want to give it all you've got," Jesus replied,
"go sell your possessions; give everything to the poor. All
your wealth will then be in heaven. Then come follow me."
Luke 6:40 (Message Bible)
An apprentice doesn't lecture the master. The point is to be careful
who you follow as your teacher.
Luke
14:27 (Message Bible)
Anyone who won't shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can't
be my disciple.
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