My spiritual journey, ever since, has been an effort to recover God’s wild and winsome splendor, making demands on my life, rollicking in fresh falling rain, fiercely affirming the whole of creation as unaccountably good, and stirring desire at every turn. Yearning for such a God requires a willingness to abandon previous conceptions of a rigid deity, a willingness to be surprised by grace. As I discovered when I began to write this book, a letting go (a release of control) is, at some point, what every true longing entails. God is always more than we wish for and certainly more than we can
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