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Title: The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Only Dreamed of by John Eldredge ISBN: 0-7852-6882-0 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 08 March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Life-Changing Book
Comment: This book is absolutely beautiful. It awakened my heart to a new and beautiful intimacy with God that, as the subtitle says, I had only dreamed of. For so much of my life, I lived in such a shallow little world, little knowing that I could experience the beauty of a true relationship with the passionate Pursuer of my soul. God is so deep, and so wide, and so wonderful, I cannot begin to explain it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great journey
Comment: While meeting with a friend at Barnes and Noble, I shared with him a recent experience I had that caused me considerable disappointment and grief. After listening to my story, he disappeared for a few minutes, and when he returned he set a book on the table and told me I had to read it. The book was The Journey of Desire by John Elderidge.
I took my friend's word for it and read the book. He was right! I did need to read the book. I do not recall ever reading a book that seemed to speak directly to me as this one did. If prior to his writing this book, I had sat down with Elderidge and shared specific details of my life with him, I do not think he could have written a book that speaks to me more than The Journey of Desire does.
In The Journey of Desire, Elderidge delves into the mystery of redemptive life in a fallen world. He speaks to the disappointment and disillusionment that Christians experience as we try to live the life we desire and have known only in our dreams. He writes, "We all know the dilemma of desire, how awful it feels to open our hearts to joy only to have grief come in. They go together. We know that. What we don't know is what to do with it, how to live in this world with desire so deep in us and disappointment lurking behind every corner."(23)
Elderidge teaches the reader to examine his or her heart and to discern whether there is still hunger and thirst for the heart's desires or whether grief and disappointment have caused apathy and complacence. The book works to resurrect the God-inspired heart's desires that we all possess.
Elderidge reminds us that the greatest enemy to holiness is not passion but apathy. He wants to help us direct our passions toward God and away from the many temptations in the world that serve to anesthetize and pervert our desires rather than fulfill them.
One of the biggest lessons that Elderidge expounds upon is that no matter how hard we try to find life in the things of this world we cannot. We cannot create or design the perfect life that satisfies all of our heart's desires. Elderidge writes that we must receive that abundant life from God.
The journey of desire is also the battle of desire. The battle is to guard our hearts, to keep our passions alive and pure, and to focus our desires on the Creator. Elderidge counsels us to remember that we are eternal people. Jesus went away to prepare a place for us. It is not here, and we must refrain from trying to create our place here rather than being eternally-minded.
The book teaches that some Christians may have retreated from seeking, asking and knocking for the fulfillment of desires; instead, they are suppressing, numbing and distorting desires in a futile attempt to live without pain, grief or disappointment. The path Elderidge suggests we take is one of trust. Elderidge encourages us to trust God enough to faithfully ask him to clarify, intensify, and satisfy our heart's desires.
Elderidge emphasizes the true nature of our eternal relationship with Jesus. He writes that it is a love affair; it is a romance that will find its fulfillment only when we find our fulfillment in paradise.
Because I believe that much of what is true for me is true to some extent for most if not all Christians, I can sincerely say to you that I believe you need to read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A rare read for all serious Christ followers
Comment: I have devoured John's Waking the Dead and The Journey of Desire within two weeks! I couldn't put them down. Everything within his writing resonated with me, but yesterday when I read the final chapter in The Journey of Desire about his belief that grieving must be part of the daily spiritual disciplines and that grief must be balanced with the beauty of God in nature, I wept. As an adopted person,I have had my own portion of grief from my birth mother's rejection of me 11 years ago. I thought I had grieved it fully, but before coming to Florida on vacation, my work as an author and speaker had become a "duty." I realized when I read John's beliefs about beauty and grief that God had brought me to this beautiful, sunny place for a month so that I could get in touch with the true desires of my heart once again. I leave tomorrow, refreshed and renewed. Thank you, John, for baring your soul and bringing so much comfort through your honesty, Biblical insights, and wisdom. I know I will be re-reading the book, taking notes, and highly recommending it, and any of your books, to those who truly desire intimacy with Christ.
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Title: The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God by Brent Curtis, John Eldredge ISBN: 0785273425 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 14 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul by John Eldredge ISBN: 0785268839 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive by John Eldredge ISBN: 0785265538 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: The Journey of Desire Journal & Guidebook: An Expedition to Discover the Deepest Longings of Your Heart by John Eldredge, Craig McConnell ISBN: 0785266402 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Dare To Desire An Invitation To Fulfill Your Deepest Dreams by John Eldredge ISBN: 0849995914 Publisher: J Countryman Books Pub. Date: 22 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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