Eating the Sunrise: Meditations on the Liturgy and Our Hunger for Beauty

"What brilliant light do redbud trees, your favorite dessert, the Mona Lisa, dew drops and flowers. The sound of music, beeswax, and passionate kissing shine on the liturgy? Christopher West weaves all these and many other seemingly disparate themes seamlessly together in this eye-opening and jaw-dropping mystical and liturgical force. Prepare to be dazzled as a corner of the veil is lifted on the mystery that unites all things in heaven and on earth. You will never see yourself, the incarnation, the Mass, erotic love, and sun-bathing lizards the same way again? Drawing extensively from the spousal symbolism of the Scriptures and from the mystical wisdom of the greatest saints of both East and West, these rich but accessible meditations take the reader on a journey from the insatiable hunger of the things of this world, to arrive at the one and only hope of fulfillment: liturgizing our yearning by opening it to the One who is infinite beauty revealed in the body and freely given up for us in the Eucharist. Along the way you'll discover that in all the things you've always found exciting and attractive, God has been wooing you towards the unimaginable possibility of 'eating the sunrise'"--Back cover.