Prayer and Worship
A Spiritual Formation Guide
Chapter One
Longing
Key Scripture: Psalm 42:1–8
Devotional Reading
Os Guinness, Long Journey Home
"I'm at a point in my life where I realize there has to be something more."
The speaker, a man elegantly dressed, had come up to me after a dinner near San Francisco at which I'd been asked to give some remarks on the modern world's search for meaning. He cut straight to the point, and there was an intensity in his voice that immediately set him apart from the surrounding small talk.
"Like many of my friends around here," he continued, "I've learned a lesson I wish I'd known when I started out: Having it all just isn't enough. There's a limit to the successes worth counting and the toys worth accumulating. Business school never gave me a calculus for assessing the deeper things of life."
Many of the guests at the dinner were eminent names from the world of high finance in the city and the world of high technology in Silicon Valley furth ... read full excerpt from Prayer and Worship ebook
