The Homesick Heart: Longing for Spiritual Intimacy

ISBN: 0891099034

Author: Fleming, Jean

Condition: New

SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS AT SUNSET. Or it may come, unexplainably, as you hear a combination of musical notes or read some phrase that contains a wondrous kernel of truth. However it comes, the call is a silvery shaft of sunlight bestowed on you through a door slightly ajar, a faint echo of a conversation originating in eternity.We all experience deep, voiceless yearnings that we cannot articulate. But where do such longings come from? And what do they mean?In The Homesick Heart, Jean Fleming explores these longings and reveals that they are our instinctive response to God's own yearning. "This call from God touches our soul and the soul rises up in response," she explains. Because these touches to the soul are so brief and gentle, we often misunderstand them and are left with only a vague sense of sorrow and homesickness, a desire for a true Home we have never seen. We are left with hearts as homesick for God as God is homesick for us.Through the series of reflections in The Homesick Heart, you will discover a God who longs to be close to you not out of need but out of an unfathomable love, and a God who sends you faint echoes and fleeting glimpses of eternity that you might likewise yearn to be with Him.