What if the longing we feel is a sign of God's longing for us? Thirsting is a deeply spiritual exploration of a life-changing truth: only when we learn to live in the ache of our thirst instead of running from it will we know the joy of receiving God in every part of our lives.
We may be able to imagine God saving us, using us, and even loving us-but wanting us? Pursuing us? Longing for us? And yet, as spiritual director Strahan Coleman teaches, God's greatest desire is to commune with us in the depths of our souls.
In Thirsting, Strahan eloquently guides us to:
- Acknowledge the God-given thirst within us so we can offer it to God in all its depth
- Learn to open up our pain to God so we can experience Him in the midst of our aching
- Allow God's desire for us to open up a whole new experience of communion
You thirst because you are thirsted for. Take a rich, vulnerable journey toward an inner knowing with God as you step over shame, receive His love, and drink Him deeply. The very journey you were made for.
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Move from a transactional experience with God to a transformational friendship with Him through prayer.
How can time with God be a source of peace in a loud and distracting world? In Beholding, spiritual director and poet Strahan Coleman invites readers to discover the joy of being with God, not just working for Him. As they inhabit the art of resting in God's presence, prayer becomes not only a place of seeking, but becoming.
Beholding calls Christians to understand how:
- Prayer is so much more than spoken conversation between us and God; it's a way of existing together.
- Beholding God in prayer is profoundly connected to beholding and dignifying others.
- Embracing prayer practices from different Christian traditions digs a deep well of peace in the soul.
- Our everyday ordinary lives can become the meeting place for God through silence, solitude, community, creation, and hospitality.
