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You Set My Spirit Free: A 40-Day Journey in the Company of John of the Cross by John of the Cross
cassiealexandra's review
3.25
Taken from the writings of St. John of the Cross, this is a 40-day devotional loosely based around kindling a passion for God paraphrased by David Hazard. Each devotion is only a few pages long and is followed by a short prayer.
This is another one of those books that has sat on my shelf for a long time. It’s one that I picked up years ago and decided it was an “NRN–not right now” kind of book. Feeling a bit spiritually dry, I dusted it off and finally finished it last month. While there were a few very good devotions, particularly on spiritual dryness and approval, not as many of them landed the way I had hoped. There was a disjointedness to this work for me. It seems like most of the material that did land was from John of the Cross’s work, Dark Night of the Soul, and I think perhaps I would be better off reading that in its translated entirety. I’m not writing off this author, but I think this series of devotions–Rekindling the Inner Fire–is a no for me from here on.
This is another one of those books that has sat on my shelf for a long time. It’s one that I picked up years ago and decided it was an “NRN–not right now” kind of book. Feeling a bit spiritually dry, I dusted it off and finally finished it last month. While there were a few very good devotions, particularly on spiritual dryness and approval, not as many of them landed the way I had hoped. There was a disjointedness to this work for me. It seems like most of the material that did land was from John of the Cross’s work, Dark Night of the Soul, and I think perhaps I would be better off reading that in its translated entirety. I’m not writing off this author, but I think this series of devotions–Rekindling the Inner Fire–is a no for me from here on.
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