A Desert In The Ocean
by David Adam
GoodBookStall Review:
“In a series of meditations and exercises based on the poem attributed to St. Brendan the navigator, David Adam invites us to consider whether God is calling us to live more adventurously, to extend ourselves, to seek new horizons.” Each chapter ends with the author’s favourite ‘5P’ exercises which I find so helpful, and time given to these, mean you get so much more from the book. David Adam weaves into this book, all that is known of St. Brendan, and includes stories and writings of other celtic saints. We are taught that the desert is a place of renunciation of the trivial things in life, not a hiding place but a place where all things are revealed in a constant relationship with the ever present God.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (11/03/01)
“In a series of meditations and exercises based on the poem attributed to St. Brendan the navigator, David Adam invites us to consider whether God is calling us to live more adventurously, to extend ourselves, to seek new horizons.” Each chapter ends with the author’s favourite ‘5P’ exercises which I find so helpful, and time given to these, mean you get so much more from the book. David Adam weaves into this book, all that is known of St. Brendan, and includes stories and writings of other celtic saints. We are taught that the desert is a place of renunciation of the trivial things in life, not a hiding place but a place where all things are revealed in a constant relationship with the ever present God.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (11/03/01)
