An invitation to acknowledge our brokenness and awaken to the abiding love that God has for us, this classic explains the spiritual life in simple terms, avoiding theology and technical language. One of Nouwen’s greatest legacies to seekers of all backgrounds.

This work began as a conversation between friends. Fred Bratman, a secular journalist and writer, asked Henri Nouwen to write a book that explained spiritual life in terms that he and other friends living a fast-paced, city life could understand. Nouwen plums the depths of what is most personal and vital in his own Christian faith and shares it in a masterpiece that transcends religious barriers and speaks to the universal truth of the divine.