Awaiting the breath of the Spirit

“Present-day thought is leading us in the direction of the valley of death, and it is cataloguing the dry bones one by one. All of us are in this valley but it is up to us to resuscitate meaning by relating all the [biblical] texts to one another without exception, rather than stopping at just a few of them. All issues of ‘psychological health’ seem to me to take second place to a much greater issue—that of meaning which is being lost or threatened on all sides but simply awaits the breath of the Spirit to be reborn.” – René Girard (Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, trans. Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer, (Stanford University Press, 1987), 447)