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The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature
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“It is your wilderness calling.” I plan to listen. It was September, and the long stretch of Lake Michigan island beach was deserted except for a herd of snowy swans cruising along the shore at sunset. I had just read THE WISDOM OF WILDERNESS by Gerald May before my solo backpack trip. As I took my last swim of the season and marveled at the beauty all around me, his words echoed. Wilderness, he believed, is not just a place. It is also a state of being. The inner wilderness, he wrote, “is the untamed truth of who you really are.”May knew he was dying as he penned THE WISDOM OF WILDERNESS, a book drawn from his journals and thoughts over the last decade of his life. Drawn to nature because of his deep longing for something he couldn’t articulate — but knew was wrapped in a yearning for God — he spent many nights out of doors in a state forest close to his home. It was here that May’s life was irrevocably changed, as he learned about himself and about God’s presence.The idea of going to the wilderness to…
A Gem from Gerald May Gerald May was one of our most gifted writers on the spiritual life — wise, grounded, humorous, honest, realistic, and courageous. This, his final book, will surely become known as one of his very best. Here, with graceful prose and vivid stories, he extends his explorations of spirituality into the natural world, showing how experience of the world’s wilderness can help us embrace the wilderness within all of us. I wish Jerry were still among us to brighten this dark world with his spiritual, emotional and intellectual brilliance. But he could not have left us a finer literary legacy than “The Wisdom of Wilderness”.