Ekteleo Ministry

In his novel, Looking for Alaska, John Green describes a realization many experience when someone very dear to us has died or when we have lost something of great importance, such as a job, a pet, a home, a career, our health, a valued possession and/or trust in others to name a few examples: “That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that

After a great deal of introspection and searching for the reasons why one of main characters in John Green’s novel, Looking for Alaska, suddenly dies, the protagonist, Miles “Pudge” Halter, sits down at his computer to write his way out of his personal labyrinth of suffering: “Before I got here [Culver Creek, the boarding school where the story takes place], I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, sel