Story Description:
Baker Publishing
Group|November 5, 2013|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-7642-1118-8
We all encounter
times when our spirit feels dry, when doubt looms.
The opportunity to
tour Israel came at a good time. For
months, my life has been a mindless plodding through necessary routine, as
monotonous as an all-night shift on an assembly line. Life gets that way sometimes, when nothing
specific is wrong but the world around us seems drained of color. Even my weekly worship experiences and daily
quiet times with God have felt as dry and stale as last year’s crackers. I’m ashamed to confess the malaise I’ve
felt. I have been given so much. Shouldn’t a Christian’s life be an abundant
one, as exciting as Christmas morning, as joyful as Easter Sunday?
With gripping
honesty, Lynn Austin pens her struggles with spiritual dryness in a season of
loss and unwanted change. Tracing her
travels throughout Israel, Austin seamlessly weaves events and insights from
the Word…and in doing so finds a renewed passion for prayer and encouragement
for her spirit, now full of life and hope.
My Review:
Pilgrimage was a soul-searching and
deeply moving account of Austin’s trek through Israel. I found myself deeply invested in her writing
and the words gave me a lot of food for thought. I wish we all had the opportunity to take
this same trek through Israel. What
better way to fully understand and aid in the comprehension of what we’ve read
in the Bible. To journey along the same
routes that Jesus did for me, would hold special meaning for the rest of my
life.
I learned a lot
while reading and will endeavour to make immediate changes in my spiritual life
and my daily living life. It’s so true
that when times get hectic in our lives, we often have our prayer time on our “to-do”
list to be checked off like completing the laundry. We need to set aside regular, uninterrupted
time to talk with God. How can we really
pray and mean what we say when our mouth is saying the words but our minds are
thinking about what to cook for dinner.
We have to invest time with God and God alone.
Lynn Austin’s Pilgrimage is a book to be kept and read
again and again to remind us the importance of our daily conversations with
God. Thank you, Lynn for sharing your
pilgrimage and your most intimate thoughts with us.
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