As a young lad, Robert Falconer begins to understand and long for God even before he knows what he is longing for... through the beauty and joy he experiences in Nature, a greater need is awakened. In the summer countryside surrounding Bodyfauld, a farm in Northern Scotland, Robert lays down in a field..."A gentle wind, laden with pine odours from the sun-heated trees behind him, flapped its light wing in his face: the humanity of the world smote his heart; the great sky towered up over him, and its divinity entered his soul; a strange longing after something "he knew not nor could name" awoke within him..."

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