Augustine's Confession on a Garden Floor

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden, crushed under the weight of years he could not undo. Augustine of Hippo had spent his youth chasing ambition, pleasure, and every philosophy that promised wisdom without surrender. His mother Monica had prayed for him for decades. His brilliant mind had mastered every school of thought Rome could offer.…