Description
In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, “When you have raced with men on foot and they have got worn you out, how are you able to compete with horses? If you stumble in protected country, how can you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?” We all long to live life at its best―to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do we steadily find our lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or else so frantic, so full of activity, but still devoid of fulfillment? How do we discover ways to risk, to believe, to pursue wholeness and excellence―to run with the horses in the jungle of life? In a series of profound reflections at the life of Jeremiah the prophet, Eugene Peterson explores the heart of what it means to be fully and genuinely human. His writing is full of humor and self-reflection, insight and wisdom, helping to set a course for others in the quest for life at its best.