Learning to Live the Life You Long For In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "If you're worn out in this footrace with men, what makes you think you can race against horses?" We all long to live life at its best¿to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do we often find our lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or else so frantic, full of activity, but still devoid of fulfillment? How do we learn to risk, to trust, to pursue wholeness and excellence¿to run with the horses instead of shuffling along with the crowd? In a series of profound reflections on the life of Jeremiah the prophet, Eugene Peterson explores the heart of what it means to be fully and genuinely human. In this special commemorative edition, you'll find: Peterson's invitation to grasp the biblical truth that each person's story of faith is completely original, in his signature pastoral style, Humor, selfreflection, insight, and wisdom that will help you set a course in the quest for life at its best, and A preface taken from Eric Peterson's homily at his father's memorial service.

Eugene H. Peterson (1932¿2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and the bestselling spiritual formation classic A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.

Commemorative Preface by Eric E. Peterson
Preface to the Second Edition
1. What Makes You Think You Can Race Against Horses?
2. Jeremiah
3. Before
4. I'm Only a Boy!
5. Don't for a Minute Believe the Lies
6. Go to the Potter's House
7. Pashur Whipped Jeremiah
8. This Ever Worsening Wound
9. Twenty-Three Years It's Been
10. Get a Scroll and Write
11. The Recabite Community
12. To All the Exiles
13. Guard . . . King . . . Official
14. I Bought the Field at Anathoth
15. Regarding the Godless Nations
16. No One Will Escape the Doom
Notes