Having read, and been inspired, by Wild at Heart, I was thinking this might simply expound on the issues raised in it. But the insight in Way of the Wild Heart I have found quite breathtaking. Mike & the Mechanics wrote a line in a hit song that said every generation blames the one before and all of their frustrations come knocking at your door. It is so easy for us to blame our fathers (or lack of them) for staying the way we are as men.This book goes beyond that simplistic approach and speaks to the very heart (!) of who boys and men are and how God desires to father us no matter what our earthly experience has been.If you are ready for God to speak to you on this issue then this book will seem profound.

A surprising book for the modern age for it challenges the notion that men grow up with little connection with a father figure and that position needs to be corrected. Children grow up without the guidance and love shared with a father figure, that boys grow into men without the help and companionship to guide them through the hazards they experience and in the end how important that companionship is. The author states that we are not meant to figure life out on our own, that the masculine journey is too important to experience on our own. I suppose many fathers, like me, tend to allow their sons to grow to maturity expecting them to blossom in a similar way that they did; probably expecting mothers to care and tend for them whilst we “worked”. This book explains the need for that journey to be alongside a “father”, to provide the initiation into manhood in such a way as to affect the future. The author states that the fears, the anger, the boredom, the addictions of life may all come out of the fatherless place in the core of the being, so a father is important on the way. For those who seek a father then God can provide that place – “God wants to Father us”, the author states. He than goes on to explain how God can come to a man and live the journey, whatever the age, whatever the status -surprising but quite challenging as well.