This is a book about spirituality, more specifically, the spiritual journey. Before beginning any journey or trip--spiritual or otherwise--we experience a state of order. Then comes the call to journey, to travel, to take a trip, to walk, to pilgrimage, to hit the road, etc. The call to begin a journey may come from an urge within us; it may be an invitation from a spouse or a friend to fly somewhere; it may be as simple as taking the dog for a walk in the neighborhood, even taking different streets! The call disrupts our ordered lives. We prepare for our excursion. We enter into the stage of chaos when we take the journey; also, we enter into the process of transformation. By the time we get home, we will be transformed. These are the steps of the spiritual journey into God: order, hearing the call to journey, answering the call with preparation, entering the chaos of the journey, and being and coming home transformed. Ninety-seven reflections are presented in this book in seven chapters devoted to journey; road; path; route, highway, gateway; walk; way; and more.
Mark G. Boyer—a well-known spiritual master—has been writing books on biblical, liturgical, and devotional spirituality for thirty-five years. He has authored sixty-six previous books, most of which prompt the reader to recognize the divine in everyday life. This is his twenty-sixth Wipf and Stock title.
“Journey into God serves as a trail guide for those interested in the lifelong, transformative spiritual journey of communing with the divine.”
—Matthew Ver Miller, Life, Relationship, and Spiritual Coach
“As we complete the Christmas festivities and prepare to put our renewed experience of the wonder of the incarnation into practice in ordinary time, this journey into God serves us as a fitting and supportive vade mecum for our daily life. Following his usual methodology, Fr. Boyer offers the traveler inspiring scriptural passages to keep us on track on our way home to God.”
—Pauline Nugent, Missouri State University
“As an accomplished spiritual guide with a talent for discovering the divine in the everyday experience, Boyer’s new book of spiritual reflections for travelers is itself a transformative journey worth taking. Our lives are often recounted and measured in stories. Boyer shows us that each story encapsulates a journey, and while the details of the travelogue hold our interest, it is the transformation of the storyteller that makes it worth telling.”
—John Kossler, Ecologist, Western Meridian Resources