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Like the scent of approaching rain on a summer afternoon, there’s a whisper that speaks to us of God’s promise to refresh our dry souls. With courage, we face the unnamable ache for a closer relationship with Jesus; we learn to sit – open and thirsty – before him. This first chapter introduces our reader to the awareness that the longing is actually God himself calling, wooing us to move closer. It is a chapter that can awaken a desire to search out a connection with God that even surpasses prayers with words and takes us deeper into listening to the silence. (This idea is developed in more detail in Chapter 9). It confronts our illusions of control and false promises of safety. It’s a chapter that suggests that instead of pursuing a lifestyle of Christian practices – some of which we’ve learned by rote, but which no longer hold meaning – we begin to pursue a life, the life that comes from drinking the Living Water Jesus spoke about in John 4, and described in John 10:10.
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