“Really now, if you knew you had the opportunity to develop a conversational intimacy with the wisest, kindest, most generous and seasoned person in the world, wouldn’t it make sense to spend your time with that person, as opposed to, say, slogging your way through life on your own?
Whatever your situation in life—butcher, baker, candlestick maker—our deepest and most pressing need is to learn to walk with God. To hear his voice. To follow him intimately. It is the most essential turn of events that could ever take place in the life of any human being for it brings us back ot the source of life. Everything else we long for can then flow forth from this union.”
John Eldredge in Wild at Heart (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001) 225-226.