Desert

Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country For Old Men” is a novel (and an Ethan and Joel Coen movie) set in the desert along the Mexican border. It is a tale of an old sheriff pitted against an unremitting evil that cannot be overtaken or brought to heel. At the novel’s end, a friend says to the sheriff, “All the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you, more’s going out the door.” In its undercurrent, the novel is a theological statement about evil and about good. The devil may be in the desert but so, too, is God.

Go in peace to love and serve The Lord!

Josh