All over the world men and women are searching for meaning, satisfaction, fulfillment, or sometimes just survival. And yet the deepest hunger of the human heart is for God. We are created for blessed union with Him and anything else leaves a hunger, an emptiness, a "falling short" that can be satisfied only by God Himself.

The message of this book is that God can be found. Prayer is possible. Union is offered. Hundreds of thousands have already been helped to discover a more personal relationship with God through the first edition of this book. And now many more will have the opportunity in this newly revised edition. Ralph Martin uses Scripture and his own vast experience to help the reader deepen his relationship with God through a more profound prayer life. The heart of the Christian life, as Martin stresses, is our abiding union with God.

Since prayer is the way of this profound union we seek, Martin shows us the means, attitudes, and practical steps toward developing our life of prayer. He stresses that, while prayer of intercession or of petition is good and necessary, it is the prayer of friendship, prayer of joy and being with God, that is most essential.

"Ralph Martin has been charting the landscape of Catholic renewal for more than two decades. This is a wonderfully readable and enriching addition to Ralph's reflections on what it means to live as a Christian in a complicated world."
          -Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput
                        Archbishop of Denver