Long Wandering Prayer: An Invitation to Walk with God

So many of us experience guilt and frustration about our prayer lives. We want to experience God's presence, to grow towards interceding, meditating and worshipping as earnestly as the "prayer warriors" and saints that we read about. When we try, however, our thoughts are distracted and we can end up feeling bored and even irritated by the whole exercise. In this book, the author offers the imaginative solution of "wandering prayer": literally wandering in the countryside, along a beach or simply through the neighborhood where we live - in the presence of God. As we wander, our thoughts can flow freely - speaking to God about whatever pops into our head, or pausing to reflect on whatever is before us, "considering the lilies" as Jesus told us to do. Is our drive to control our minds in prayer - to focus on one thing or stick to one list - actually a way of hiding from God?

"A few hours with Dave Hansen in this book expands our sense of prayer exponentially. The time and space and will to pray that we always thought we lacked, suddenly are there, here." Eugene Peterson, author of The Message

"In the Middle Ages the church was blessed with wandering scholars and wandering saints who shaped the Christian faith by walking along hidden pathways and untrodden trails. Now comes a perambulating evangelical pastor, Dave Hansen, who teaches us to pray as we walk and listen as well as talk to the God who meets us in silence as well as sound at every turn of life's road. This is a handbook for the soul's wandering journey to God. 'Take it and read!'" Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University