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If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses?' -Jeremiah 12:5. All Christians long to live life at its best: to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do they often find their lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or else so frantic, so full of activity, but still devoid of fulfillment? How do Christians learn to risk, to trust, to pursue wholeness and excellence: to run with the horses in the jungle of life? In a series of profound reflections on the life of Jeremiah the prophet, Eugene Peterson explores the heart of what it means to be fully and genuinely human. His writing is filled with humor and self-reflection, insight and wisdom, helping to set a course for others in the quest for life at its best.… (more)
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This book presents a pretty effective antidote to the Osteen-esque drivel that turns the Gospel into some sleek "10 days to a new you" self-improvement program. Life with God is characterized by increasing challenge (going from footraces to horse races) which requires increasing faith/fulness and leads to the wondrous experience of ever-increasing grace. And in the oddest of ways, even though Jeremiah does not "survive" (martyred finally by the last enclave of rebellious Judeans in Egypt), his life with God DOES thrive and flourish and issues forth in a prophetic book that is literally unmatched in its raw power.
Peterson has a done a great service for the Weeping Prophet and for contemporary Christians. He reminds us again that the only way to be our BEST selves is to be fully God's...without reservation or remorse. If life has led you down an unexpected by-way, I would encourage you to pick up this text and consider the ways in which God is graciously calling you through your trial to live the world's greatest adventure-a life of trusting and following God.