Review

In his second book, after  From Under a Blazing Aspen, David Webber’s storytelling continues full of humour and humanity. He finds God’s lessons in the gifts of nature found in the wilderness and mountains around him. The stories make the words of the Bible speak clearly as Webber teaches us to listen and hear God’s voice in the whispering aspens. One story in particular is timely, although it was written before the tragedy of Sept. 11. In "Remembrance Hope", the vicious hunt of a coyote reminds the author that humans are capable of the worst kinds of violence and that "we have learned precious little about peace and have developed hardly any capacity to keep it." He finds hope in a God of peace, quoting Psalm 46 to give evidence that God is ultimately more powerful than the warring humanity.