Alive and the Tao

The book Alive follows the story of a Uruguayan rugby team who crash lands in the Andes.  The team was stranded for 10 weeks in unbearably cold conditions.  With little food they players quickly resort to cannibalizing those who died in the crash in order to survive.  After 5 weeks of these horrific conditions one dying teammate wrote a letter to his parents saying, “In situations such as this, even reason cannot understand the infinite and absolute power of God over men.  I have never suffered as I do now - physically and morally - though I have never believed in Him so much.”  This powerful letter recognizes what Lewis would call the Tao.  That there is an absolute truth that is irrelevant to condition or personal belief.  This struggling man recognizes that there is truth beyond him, that just because of a horrific condition this truth does not change.