The Book of Kells

The grass withers and the flower falls, but the word of our God stand forever.
ISAIAH 40:8

IT HAS BEEN CALLED the most beautiful book ever written Its name: The book of Kells. Kells was village in the Monastery of kells painstakingly copied the pages of the first four books of the New Testament. They decorated the pages with the most exquisite calligraphy and pictures rivaling those in the finest museums. This was done by no using local dyes, between the seventh to ninth centuries.
    Eventually this magnificent work made its way to the Trinity college Library in Dublin, Ireland, where I had the privi!ege to view it. The colors have been remarkably well preserved, and how these gifted men ever something so intricate and beautiful is part of the mystery that surrounds it today.
    The remarkably thing to me is that the message found in others Book of Kells is just as refreshing and important today as it was when the monks first painted the book's pages. The same message you find in Latin HSS been translated into literally thousands of languages and has been spread around the world. It's marvelous story of God's love in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who set aside His royal robes and became fully human, giving His life so that those of us who had wandered far from God could come back home.
     If you have never read the New Testament, start with the Gospel of John, then go back to Matthew, then read Mark and Luke. But get to know the story! The Bible is God's love letter to a world that has lost its way and needs to come home.