That is half 12 of a 12-video collection of a studying of The Wind within the Willows by Alastair Roberts.
If you’re unfamiliar with Kenneth Graham’s e book, this studying is a superb introduction.
Like The Lord of the Rings, The Wind within the Willows is a breath of recent air to my soul!
I hope you take pleasure in this studying.
The Wind within the Willows—Chapter 12: The Return of Ulysses
“The Wind within the Willows, a e book of linked animal tales by British author Kenneth Grahame that started as a collection of bedtime tales for his son and was revealed in 1908. The fantastically written work, with its evocative descriptions of the countryside interspersed with thrilling adventures, grew to become a traditional of English youngsters’s literature.
The tales relate the adventures of a number of animal associates and neighbors within the English countryside—primarily Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. Though the animals converse, philosophize, and behave like people, every creature additionally retains its distinctive animal habits. The story begins when Mole decides to go to the riverbank one morning reasonably than do his spring cleansing. There he comes throughout his good friend Rat, a water rat, they usually spend the spring and summer season collectively. Someday they go to the irrepressible, beneficiant, and boastful Mr. Toad, proprietor of Toad Corridor, who possesses giant quantities of cash however not a lot mind. Toad is given to fads, and Mole and Rat be a part of him in an tour in his current enthusiasm, a horse-drawn caravan (a cart with beds and cooking tools), till a rushing vehicle frightens the horse and wrecks the caravan. Toad is mesmerized by the automotive. Mole and Rat later go to the Wild Wooden to go to the kindly and accountable Badger, to whom they report that Toad has purchased and smashed a number of vehicles…” from the article: The Wind within the Willows
“Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham College) works for the Theopolis and Davenant Institutes. He’s the creator of Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption By means of Scripture (Crossway, 2018) and the forthcoming Heirs Collectively: A Theology of the Sexes. He participates within the Mere Constancy and Theopolis podcasts, blogs at Alastair’s Adversaria, posts common movies on theology on his YouTube account, and tweets at @zugzwanged…” from the web site: theopolisinstitute.com