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The mercy of God is like water, which always descends to the lowest place, to the places of our greatest dependency and need. The meditations contained within this book, flowing from an encounter with this wonderful mercy, are a kind of personal testament to the Heart of God who is filled to overflowing with infinite tenderness.The author, progressively living a deeper life of solitude and prayer over a number of years, has here opened up the fruits of this prayer to be shared. Though he speaks from his own experience, from the mystery of his own solitude before God, his words nonetheless seek to express a truth that all of us bear deep within ourselves: the mystery of thirst. This book is a snapshot of the journey of someone touched by the love of God and longing for union with him, yet trudging haltingly along the dusty paths of this world. It also expresses the longing, not only for God and for his eternal gladness, but also to draw near in compassion to the pain and suffering of the world.But above all it a joyous witness to the drink which God has given, and which he yearns to give ever more deeply, to each of us. This is the most beautiful truth: not only do we thirst for God, but he thirsts infinitely more for us, ardently desiring to satisfy our thirsty hearts and to fill us with his infinite joy.These meditations are intended to speak more to the heart than to the mind, to engage the imagination and the emotions, to awaken the secret desires hidden in the soul. What you will find here is more a book of prayers than a treatise of any kind--a book intended to allow God to reach out more deeply to touch the heart with the love and intimacy that alone can fully satisfy it.

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Joshua Elzner is living as a hermit at Saint Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Amarillo, Texas. He graduated from the University of Dallas with a degree in philosophy, and his primary philosophical interest is personalist philosophy, especially as expressed by John Paul II and Dietrich von Hildebrand. He is also concerned with the centrality of prayer and intimacy with God for the authentic evangelization of culture and for the development of a true spirituality of communion, the two primary tasks that lie before the Church in the third millennium.

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