How this story came to be
It started here, with this brief scene from the 1997 film “Rudyard Kipling’s Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo,” which I happened to come across one day while channel-surfing. I had never read any of Kipling’s Mowgli stories, nor I had I seen any of the films (not even the 1967 Disney animated feature). I knew of the story because it was famous, but it had never caught my interest.
Then I stumbled across a scene in this film where Mowgli (played by Jamie Williams) growls--quite convincingly--like a wolf in the face of a threat. The sight of a human child instinctively behaving like the animal he was raised to be hit me between the eyes, as did the theological implications of a child of made in God’s image living as a beast.
It was then I sat down to read all of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories, and I became intrigued. The idea of writing a story about a missionary going to search for him, to try to teach him that he’s a child not of wolves but a loving Heavenly Father, immediately came to mind. I was amazed by how much of a foundation for such a story was right there in Kipling’s pages.
I hope you read it, and I hope you’ll enjoy and be inspired by it. Thank you for visiting the site.
As the Master Word of the Jungle proclaims, “We are of one blood, you and I.”
In Christ,
James Penrice
Then I stumbled across a scene in this film where Mowgli (played by Jamie Williams) growls--quite convincingly--like a wolf in the face of a threat. The sight of a human child instinctively behaving like the animal he was raised to be hit me between the eyes, as did the theological implications of a child of made in God’s image living as a beast.
It was then I sat down to read all of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories, and I became intrigued. The idea of writing a story about a missionary going to search for him, to try to teach him that he’s a child not of wolves but a loving Heavenly Father, immediately came to mind. I was amazed by how much of a foundation for such a story was right there in Kipling’s pages.
I hope you read it, and I hope you’ll enjoy and be inspired by it. Thank you for visiting the site.
As the Master Word of the Jungle proclaims, “We are of one blood, you and I.”
In Christ,
James Penrice