GOING DEEPER

In this issue we are featuring three journals— two quite old and famous (both things enhancing their value) and one quite contemporary yet in the same tradition as the others.

The Journal of George Fox chronicles the Quaker explosion in the seventeenth century. Fox's insight into his experience of intensively searching for peace with God after three years is typical: "And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, Oh then, I heard a voice which said, `There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition,' and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy."

The Confessions of St. Augustine has to be among the earliest and certainly the most well known of the Christian journals. Augustine chronicles his life from childhood to adulthood, from born of flesh to born of God, from self-centered to Spirit-centered. It gives us the famousprayer, "O Lord, you made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee."

The Genesee Diary is filled with insights from Henry Nouwen's seven months in a Trappist Monastery. It helps us answer those pestering (and terribly important) questions about meaning and brings a measure of peace to our restless selves.

As a special "thank you" to those who order all three books, we will send free John Ortberg's audiotape "The Illusion of the One-minute Christian." Delivered at the 1991 RENOVARÉ National Conference on Personal Spiritual Renewal, this talk confirms John's unique understanding of the life of the disciple.

P.S. If you need more help getting started on your spiritual journal, you may want to buy Luci Shaw's Life Path: Personal and Spiritual

Growth Through Journal Writing or Ronald Klug's How to Keep a Spiritual Journal. Both are still in print and should be available—or can be ordered—at local Christian book stores.

GROWING PAINS

There has been some confusion surrounding the radio spots we are airing on the Morningstar Network. We thought each spot would be broadcast over the satellite four times a day with each station obligated to carry it once. In fact, each spot is being broadcast a total of eight times over two days. We hope this hasn't caused any inconvenience or disappointment.

Knowing that it is impossible to see personally all of our friends and co-workers before we move to Colorado, we hope you can join us for a time of celebration and appreciation: