Christian believers are still seeking answers about the author of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, so here is a video from Authors@Google. It’s embedded, and I can’t figure out how to get the video here; just follow the link. The video is 30 minutes long – 10 minutes of Gilbert reading from her memoir, and then a Q and A period.
I think it’s interesting to note that her upbringing is sporadic church attendance at a church where there is “not a lot of talk about God.” Sad, especially when she explains how as a ten-year-old she is seeking answers about death and eternity – and it appears not one adult in her life can help her. If I were in the audience, I would have asked if she went to her mother, a Sunday School teacher or minister with her fears.
Watch and let me know your reactions:
YouTube – Authors@Google: Elizabeth Gilbert
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I don’t have time to watch the video now, but I was struck by her journey as well, and familiarity with Christian terminology, and yet a complete lack of desire to seek that God (the one true God).