The Heart's Healing Journey: Seeking Desert Wisdom

In The Heart's Healing Journey: Seeking Desert Wisdom, Gloria Hutchinson introduces us to Lucien, a contemporary married Christian whose comfortable life leaves him vaguely sick at heart. Having gained the world, he desires more. He looks to Amma Sophia, the feminine figure of Wisdom personified in these pages as a Christian hermit. She is a physician of the soul whose words of life can effect the heart's healing. Lucien looks to Amma Sophia to heal whatever ails him. When Lucien seeks a "word" by which to live, the spiritual elder responds with a parable, an enigmatic saying or a question. The response is not a prepared text but a Spirit-shaped utterance. Out of the ensuing dialogue with Amma Sophia, Lucien finds understanding.