Book Review - Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart, by John Eldredge, starts as he's tracking a bull elk high in the Colorado Rockies. But the book isn't about elk hunting, it's about men being men. Men being `wild at heart' - and being created that way by God. With what seems like radical thinking, John lays out the God-given basis for the inherent dreams, passions, and desires in each one of us - and that they're natural - and that we need to live out - but the dreams, passions, and desires we too often bury or crowd out.

God created us to have … a Battle to Fight … an Adventure to Live … and a Beauty to Rescue. But in the day to day, for too many days, and especially if we `go to church', we find ourselves being [only] good, [only] dutiful, and [only] nice. If you need encouragement in becoming the man you know you would like to be - but he's hidden inside - or only partially out - then this boost is what you need.

Gentlemen - we are in peril of much loss to become only domestic. God has made us for so much more. And Wild at Heart is also, maybe even more so, for wives and mothers of men and men-to-be. My wife read this book before I did - so when the time when a guy talked to me about making a business out of my hunting passion - we were both ready! And I got the green light.

Wild at Heart is one of a number of books by John Eldredge. His books can be purchased on line at www.ransomedheart.com and at many Christian bookstores.

Jeff R. Filler