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Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire
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 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
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.
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
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.
221 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2024
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September 12, 2024
Strahan delves into conversations on desire and thirst that provide such a balanced and holistic approach to understanding God’s desire for us, and our built-in desire for God. In a culture that beckons for you to give into your desires, Strahan provides a way of understanding that doesn’t squash desire and thirst, but also doesn’t deny our brokenness and need for reorientation of our disordered selves.
Thirsting, and Strahan’s first book “Beholding”, feel like a bridge harmonizing a deep respect and love of Scripture with tangible and intimate experience of God through Prayer. He speaks of prayer so poetically, yet practically like no other book I have read.
A quote from the "Author's Note" hit hard- “Nothing has marked my life greater than my wholehearted pursuit of God, and nothing has wounded me more deeply. Because God, in His extravagant love, will refuse anything within us that would hinder us from our full engulfing in His astronomical want of us. Love, by nature, refuses to be separated in any way from its object” [pg. 15]. God desires us in a beautifully passionate way, and our thirsts are a homing beacon to Him.
As Strahan says, “if I’ve written this book right, it will be a liberating but dangerous invitation” [pg. 15]. I agree, but I think it is an invitation worth accepting because it just might transform your understanding and relationship with God forever. I know it has and will continue to do so for me personally.
Thirsting, and Strahan’s first book “Beholding”, feel like a bridge harmonizing a deep respect and love of Scripture with tangible and intimate experience of God through Prayer. He speaks of prayer so poetically, yet practically like no other book I have read.
A quote from the "Author's Note" hit hard- “Nothing has marked my life greater than my wholehearted pursuit of God, and nothing has wounded me more deeply. Because God, in His extravagant love, will refuse anything within us that would hinder us from our full engulfing in His astronomical want of us. Love, by nature, refuses to be separated in any way from its object” [pg. 15]. God desires us in a beautifully passionate way, and our thirsts are a homing beacon to Him.
As Strahan says, “if I’ve written this book right, it will be a liberating but dangerous invitation” [pg. 15]. I agree, but I think it is an invitation worth accepting because it just might transform your understanding and relationship with God forever. I know it has and will continue to do so for me personally.
October 1, 2024
One of the deeper, more thought-provoking books out there on desire - neither killing it, nor following it completely, but healthy curiosity and prayer. Love it!
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