Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith

Short Review: This is a posthumously compiled book on spiritual direction by several of his students. Really it is a book of spiritual direction and while this isn't a bad book, spiritual direction is something that I am not sure can really be designed as a book. Although this again isn't bad. It works as well as it does because Nouwen is both being the director and the directee as part of the book. He is revealing his own growth and giving wisdom as a director.

I read this very slowly, nearly two months to finish a book that wasn't quite 200 pages long. Some of that is good. There was meat here to chew on. But part of it is that I got bored with the book at times. There is Nouwen's trademark wisdom, but also a slightly ‘not quite Nouwen' quality of the book as well.

There is value here, but I also think that I will make my next book a directly written Nouwen book and not one of the several posthumously compiled ones that have been recently released or on sale.

My slightly longer full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/spiritual-direction/