Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best

In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?" 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, so 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 in the jungle of life? 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. His writing is filled with humor and self-reflection, insight and wisdom, helping to set a course for others in the quest for life at its best.

• A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
• Excellence: Run with the Horses (Christian Basics Bible Studies)
• Praying with the Psalms: A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words of David
• Leap Over a Wall : Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians
• As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God
• Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
• Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer
• Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination
• A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
• The Pastor: A Memoir