“Are you telling me that, if an asteroid smashed into this planet and reduced every inch of its surface to dust, nothing would be lost? Because nobody in particular would miss it?” “But the universe is bloody huge-stuff like that must happen every minute.

“Value to who?” Resaint asked Halyard to imagine a planet in some remote galaxy-a lush, seething, glittering planet covered with stratospheric waterfalls, great land-sponges bouncing through the valleys, corals budding in perfect niveous hexagons, humming lichens glued to pink crystals, prismatic jellyfish breaching from the rivers, titanic lilies relying on tornadoes to spread their pollen-a planet full of complex, interconnected life but devoid of consciousness. For if a man is going to know who he truly is as a man, if he is going to find a life worth living, love a woman deeply, and not pass on his confusion to his children, he simply must get his heart back.“You really don’t believe that anything can have a value of its own beyond what function it serves for human beings?” Resaint said. It’s an invitation to rush the fields at Bannockburn, to go West, to leap from the falls and save the beauty.

This is not a retreat about the “seven things a man ought to do to be a nicer guy.” It is a four-day quest into the recovery of a man’s masculine soul, the release of a man’s heart-his passions and his true nature-all given him by God. A man must know he is powerful he must know he has what it takes. The way we handle the heart is everything. What if? What if those deep desires in our hearts are telling us the truth, revealing to us the lives we were meant to live? God gave us eyes so that we might see he gave us ears that we might hear he gave us wills that we might choose and he gave us hearts that we might live. And he needs a deeper understanding of why women long to be fought for, to be swept up into adventure, and to be the beauty. Wild at Heart BASIC is Wild at Heart Boot Camp led by John Eldredge and his team through video session in your local area.Ī man needs a deeper understanding of why these longings govern him-and why God made him just like that.

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