Walking with God by John Eldredge

The Sacred Romance was John Eldredge (along with Brent Curtis) at his best. This book, Walking with God, is John Eldredge as his...less than best. The book basically traces his journey of one year of walking and talking with God. He stresses that yes, God does still talk to us (if only we'll listen and ask him to speak). Eldredge talks about the various struggles and lessons he faces throughout the year and how he talks to God about them.

I appreciate that Eldredge values the heart...listening to it, keeping it alive, following it. To some degree, that point comes out in this book. The rest of the book...well, it's okay and has some encouraging points, but by no means is this quality Eldredge. For that, we need to return to The Sacred Romance or The Journey of Desire (which I see is now being sold as titled simply as Desire).

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I have one stylistic note: There are a lot of fragments in this book! I guess as a bestselling author you can start writing like that and you're still paid the big bucks. Sometimes fragments can be effective. However, when there are so many of them that it's distracting, I think that means that there's too many of them.

This is one quote in which I appreciated the content, but not the form:

"And so, whatever else might be the reasons for our disappointments, there is no question that God uses them to draw us to himself. To wean our hearts from every other perceived source of life, so that we might come to find out life in him." --John Eldredge