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Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints
Room for Good Things to Run Wild is the antidote to widespread Christian malaise. If you feel like life is happening to you, that your faith has been reduced to trite platitudes, and that no matter how many new things you try, you still end up with a dissatisfying Christian life, this book offers relief from the mediocrity of Christian living through the sacred and satisfying journey of becoming an every day saint.
After spending too many days staring at the hamster cage of his uninspired life through the bottom of a glass of Scotch, Josh Nadeau knew there were only 2 ways left to further down or finally up. Disillusioned by his faith and disenchanted by the world around him, Josh chose up out of a desperation to discover the Jesus who had formed the saints of old.
Steeped in literature and doctrine, art and raw daily life and accompanied by original illustrations and living liturgy this book will bring you on the journey back to an embodied theology that understands that we know, not just with our minds, but also with our bodies. From Canada, to England, to Ireland and Spain, Josh follows the Jesus Way, teaching you how to be just as honest about the pain of your life as the pleasure of your life.
Rediscover the full and wild world that God has created for you in the way He has created you to experience it. Room for Good Things to Run Wild is a call into the Holy Ordinary; a new way to see that wakes the soul and satisfies the body.
After spending too many days staring at the hamster cage of his uninspired life through the bottom of a glass of Scotch, Josh Nadeau knew there were only 2 ways left to further down or finally up. Disillusioned by his faith and disenchanted by the world around him, Josh chose up out of a desperation to discover the Jesus who had formed the saints of old.
Steeped in literature and doctrine, art and raw daily life and accompanied by original illustrations and living liturgy this book will bring you on the journey back to an embodied theology that understands that we know, not just with our minds, but also with our bodies. From Canada, to England, to Ireland and Spain, Josh follows the Jesus Way, teaching you how to be just as honest about the pain of your life as the pleasure of your life.
Rediscover the full and wild world that God has created for you in the way He has created you to experience it. Room for Good Things to Run Wild is a call into the Holy Ordinary; a new way to see that wakes the soul and satisfies the body.
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Published February 11, 2025
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February 27, 2025
I can't figure out if Josh is an artist who writes or a writer who makes art. I suspect that he is a bit of both, and this book and the content of each page suggests that he is a master at each endeavor. He marches to the beat of his own drum composed of art and words, which taps out a rhythm that invites you to stop and listen. Breath and ponder. Hear the Music. Just holding this book feels like an art piece from the vintage-like cover to the typeset to the actual artwork inside. It is Beautiful.
Reading this book felt like a cozy conversation between myself and a friend who just gets it. Someone, you can sit across from without fear of judgement or ridicule because they've been there before too and they are just there to cheer you on. A good listener. Someone, who feels the intangible pull of Good and Beauty and Truth and desires others to feel that pull as well. Like, a bone-aching desire for the world to know and be known in the only way we have been designed, by Love. A Love that we touch with every fiber of our being.
As someone who ministers in the realm of apologetics, I have been feeling like I am on the outside with a desire for more than just brute facts and logic. I have always been drawn to the imagination, story-telling, and beauty as some of the best appeals to critics and lost souls. It has kept me on the fringes until now. I truly believe that the Lord is working in His church. A revival that challenges us to live an embodied and transforming faith. Something more than just an abstract idea or overwrought platitudes.
So, thank you Josh, for this timely encouragement to a sister in Christ who seeks also to challenge myself and those around me to Live Life in the everyday moments of Holy.
Reading this book felt like a cozy conversation between myself and a friend who just gets it. Someone, you can sit across from without fear of judgement or ridicule because they've been there before too and they are just there to cheer you on. A good listener. Someone, who feels the intangible pull of Good and Beauty and Truth and desires others to feel that pull as well. Like, a bone-aching desire for the world to know and be known in the only way we have been designed, by Love. A Love that we touch with every fiber of our being.
As someone who ministers in the realm of apologetics, I have been feeling like I am on the outside with a desire for more than just brute facts and logic. I have always been drawn to the imagination, story-telling, and beauty as some of the best appeals to critics and lost souls. It has kept me on the fringes until now. I truly believe that the Lord is working in His church. A revival that challenges us to live an embodied and transforming faith. Something more than just an abstract idea or overwrought platitudes.
So, thank you Josh, for this timely encouragement to a sister in Christ who seeks also to challenge myself and those around me to Live Life in the everyday moments of Holy.
September 24, 2025
I wanted to like this book, as I know a lot of people who really liked it, and I don’t like being the Debby-downer, but I’m afraid it isn’t my cup of tea (maybe I should say glass of wine, given the constant mention of drinking lol).
The book reminded me of a number of others that are about somewhat the same thing: How to Be Unlucky, The Divided Soul, Norms and Nobility (as well as other classical ed books), The Weight of Glory, Till We Have Faces, and a number of Esolen books. Maybe because of having already read those, or maybe because of the writing itself, I found this one to have nothing new on the topic to offer and not to be as well written.
The writing style felt very much like Instagram poetry, which is granted where Nadeau does most of his writing, but it’s the kind of thing that really distracts me instead of drawing me in. Also things like him starting the book wanting to recover from alcoholism and then spending every chapter drinking, and him constantly ribbing on how unhelpful platitudes are but ending every chapter with one were frustrating to me. The subtitle reads "how ordinary people become every day saints,“ and while he does say his journey is descriptive and personal rather than prescriptive, it was hard for me to see what I could take from the book when his journey is moving to Europe for a year and living what reads like a year-long vacation even though he says it wasn’t really like that. It seems like my life is too ordinary and my idea of the journey of sainthood is too different to really have a lot of takeaway here. And I couldn’t help thinking that with all the talk of embodiment, I wish the author knew about the sacraments, the most literally embodied way we have of encountering God.
The book reminded me of a number of others that are about somewhat the same thing: How to Be Unlucky, The Divided Soul, Norms and Nobility (as well as other classical ed books), The Weight of Glory, Till We Have Faces, and a number of Esolen books. Maybe because of having already read those, or maybe because of the writing itself, I found this one to have nothing new on the topic to offer and not to be as well written.
The writing style felt very much like Instagram poetry, which is granted where Nadeau does most of his writing, but it’s the kind of thing that really distracts me instead of drawing me in. Also things like him starting the book wanting to recover from alcoholism and then spending every chapter drinking, and him constantly ribbing on how unhelpful platitudes are but ending every chapter with one were frustrating to me. The subtitle reads "how ordinary people become every day saints,“ and while he does say his journey is descriptive and personal rather than prescriptive, it was hard for me to see what I could take from the book when his journey is moving to Europe for a year and living what reads like a year-long vacation even though he says it wasn’t really like that. It seems like my life is too ordinary and my idea of the journey of sainthood is too different to really have a lot of takeaway here. And I couldn’t help thinking that with all the talk of embodiment, I wish the author knew about the sacraments, the most literally embodied way we have of encountering God.
March 3, 2025
This book awakened something in me. Something that's been lying dormant, but is slowly emerging the more I work in chaplaincy and grow in my faith and mature. It is a disposition towards the world, to view the Every Day Beauty, to behold, to listen to the "Hidden Music."
Josh has a unique and compelling way of conveying truth and meaning. His way of articulating his thoughts is captivating. This book helped me see more of how important Beauty is in my own theology. He has a great way of describing how he experienced what it's like to come into your own in your faith, the "Beauty of Becoming" (p. 143), after hitting rock bottom.
I want to "follow the call of the Hidden Music" (p 24) and have courage to follow it wherever it may lead. (p. 127). I love his idea of "relapses into wonder" (Ch. 6).
I have seen, in my work at the hospital, Saints "facing all manner of hell with a smile and clear eyes," and I hope to "embody that loving loyalty" in my own relationships. (p. 239)
I hope, in my work and in my life, to offer "real answers to the harsh and brutal and raw questions of life...answers that feel less like a definition and more like devotion." (p. 244)
This book is really great, and you should read it.
Josh has a unique and compelling way of conveying truth and meaning. His way of articulating his thoughts is captivating. This book helped me see more of how important Beauty is in my own theology. He has a great way of describing how he experienced what it's like to come into your own in your faith, the "Beauty of Becoming" (p. 143), after hitting rock bottom.
I want to "follow the call of the Hidden Music" (p 24) and have courage to follow it wherever it may lead. (p. 127). I love his idea of "relapses into wonder" (Ch. 6).
I have seen, in my work at the hospital, Saints "facing all manner of hell with a smile and clear eyes," and I hope to "embody that loving loyalty" in my own relationships. (p. 239)
I hope, in my work and in my life, to offer "real answers to the harsh and brutal and raw questions of life...answers that feel less like a definition and more like devotion." (p. 244)
This book is really great, and you should read it.
January 12, 2026
So, I'm thinking this book is not going to be for everyone. But for me? It was a knock it out of the park 5 star-will absolutely read again-need a physical copy. I have read some reviews where people say they don't like the writing style, or that this topic has been better covered by other books like Lewis' The Weight of Glory or Norms and Nobility.
But this book to me, is stunning. We need more people writing about their real life, real struggles, in a real way. And how and where God met them, and what it looks like to live an ordinary life pursuing the Goodness, Truth, and Beauty that is a deep relationship with God. I found it poetic, deeply moving, and soul stirring. I loved it and treasured it, and can't wait to start it again.
If you hate it, don't blame me! ;)
But this book to me, is stunning. We need more people writing about their real life, real struggles, in a real way. And how and where God met them, and what it looks like to live an ordinary life pursuing the Goodness, Truth, and Beauty that is a deep relationship with God. I found it poetic, deeply moving, and soul stirring. I loved it and treasured it, and can't wait to start it again.
If you hate it, don't blame me! ;)
January 11, 2026
This book is very Lumineers-millenial coded. I did enjoy Josh's writing, it feels informal, welcoming and vivid. The world he painted felt very lived-in, but possibly just because I also live in Toronto.
Generally, I think he hits the nail on the head in identifying much of the spiritual malaise for Christians in the West, but the ways in which to address it feel less substantive and more repetitive than I would've hoped. I understand that that's not necessarily his goal in this book, that it's moreso a memoir of someone still figuring out "how to become a Saint", but it ultimately left me wanting.
For what it's worth, I think it's never a bad thing to consider the beauty of ordinary life and to remember that every decision we make matters. I appreciate this book for that.
also shoutout guinness
Generally, I think he hits the nail on the head in identifying much of the spiritual malaise for Christians in the West, but the ways in which to address it feel less substantive and more repetitive than I would've hoped. I understand that that's not necessarily his goal in this book, that it's moreso a memoir of someone still figuring out "how to become a Saint", but it ultimately left me wanting.
For what it's worth, I think it's never a bad thing to consider the beauty of ordinary life and to remember that every decision we make matters. I appreciate this book for that.
also shoutout guinness
February 18, 2025
I want everyone to read this book. And there isn’t a succinct reason why- much like the journey of the book- there is no phrase or sentence to summarize the transformation our lives go through to sainthood. Like sanctification, it’s a process, but it’s not the same steps in the same order for everyone.
But here is what I’m thinking about now that the book is done: if you’ve ever been in a place where you feel far from God. All of a sudden, you wake up and realize you don’t know how you slipped so far away and you have no idea how to get back. You rationalize and think through everything you’re “suppose” to do, but it all falls flat… weeks and months pass by and the next thing you know, you realize you’re back in good standing. You have entered into the presence of the Lord and promise yourself you won’t slip away again. But you can’t put your finger on what you did.
What were the steps you took? What order did you take them in? Was it a specific passage of scripture that you read or an encouraging word from a friend? What magic phrase realigned your soul with its Creator?
There’s no answer. There never is. And if you can think beyond yourself for a minute you decide if it ever happened again, you’d take note. You’d document the experience so that you can follow your footsteps back into the Holy Place.
And sure enough, it happened again. But you didn’t learn from your previous mistake. Consumed by darkness and depression you don’t want to document anything and just hope you can find your way back. So the cycle goes.
Well, Josh did it for you. He beautiful recorded the journey from Rock Bottom to saints with ears that hear the Hidden Music. And the best part is, the truth of his record. There is no one-size fits all for sanctification, for sainthood, for coming into the presence of God. But Josh also points to the saints who have come before us to lead the way. His life serves as an example of making sacrifices, of listening to the Holy Spirit, of a perspective shift. Make every moment holy. Every moment is an opportunity to move in 1 of 2 directions. Towards destruction or towards sainthood. The only difference between each person is what those moments look like.
But here is what I’m thinking about now that the book is done: if you’ve ever been in a place where you feel far from God. All of a sudden, you wake up and realize you don’t know how you slipped so far away and you have no idea how to get back. You rationalize and think through everything you’re “suppose” to do, but it all falls flat… weeks and months pass by and the next thing you know, you realize you’re back in good standing. You have entered into the presence of the Lord and promise yourself you won’t slip away again. But you can’t put your finger on what you did.
What were the steps you took? What order did you take them in? Was it a specific passage of scripture that you read or an encouraging word from a friend? What magic phrase realigned your soul with its Creator?
There’s no answer. There never is. And if you can think beyond yourself for a minute you decide if it ever happened again, you’d take note. You’d document the experience so that you can follow your footsteps back into the Holy Place.
And sure enough, it happened again. But you didn’t learn from your previous mistake. Consumed by darkness and depression you don’t want to document anything and just hope you can find your way back. So the cycle goes.
Well, Josh did it for you. He beautiful recorded the journey from Rock Bottom to saints with ears that hear the Hidden Music. And the best part is, the truth of his record. There is no one-size fits all for sanctification, for sainthood, for coming into the presence of God. But Josh also points to the saints who have come before us to lead the way. His life serves as an example of making sacrifices, of listening to the Holy Spirit, of a perspective shift. Make every moment holy. Every moment is an opportunity to move in 1 of 2 directions. Towards destruction or towards sainthood. The only difference between each person is what those moments look like.
October 21, 2025
Rating: 2.25 / 5 ⭐
This book ended up being more of a personal memoir (of a still quite young man) than a book about being an everyday saint. It's in there, but it's hard to really see and grasp in the midst of this world traveling, book reading, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, bike riding, leather boots wearing hipster's memoir. It's not badly written, but it ultimately wasn't what I thought it would be and wasn't really all that impactful.
If, like me, you were looking for something about redeeming the ordinary parts of life, then I recommend Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Warren. I haven't finished it, but in just the first chapter there's more substance on that subject than there was in this whole book.
This could just be my innate pessimist talking, but this book felt overly filled with first world, white privilege, upper middle-class problems. I say this entirely recognizing that I'm all of those things. It drips with hipster energy and philosophical/religious platitudes that he ironically bashes calling that: "finding meaning by slogans." It feels like most of the author's current career and lifestyle is full of this irony: decrying online culture and empty slogans, while making a living being more or less a purveyor of online slogans through his social media. All this doesn't necessarily invalidate the main thesis of the book, but it does detract from it, in my opinion.
Also, if you are coming to this book looking for advice about how to overcome substance abuse after hearing about his background, stop and look elsewhere. I was not, but I was astounded with how flippantly the author treats his alcohol abuse/addiction and how utterly terribly he addresses it. He does repeat that this is his story and not a guide for life or for addiction, but it was baffling how poorly he handled this. I hope he really is able to continue to drink and smoke without it taking over his life again, but it seems like he's literally playing with fire from my perspective.
This book ended up being more of a personal memoir (of a still quite young man) than a book about being an everyday saint. It's in there, but it's hard to really see and grasp in the midst of this world traveling, book reading, alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, bike riding, leather boots wearing hipster's memoir. It's not badly written, but it ultimately wasn't what I thought it would be and wasn't really all that impactful.
If, like me, you were looking for something about redeeming the ordinary parts of life, then I recommend Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Warren. I haven't finished it, but in just the first chapter there's more substance on that subject than there was in this whole book.
This could just be my innate pessimist talking, but this book felt overly filled with first world, white privilege, upper middle-class problems. I say this entirely recognizing that I'm all of those things. It drips with hipster energy and philosophical/religious platitudes that he ironically bashes calling that: "finding meaning by slogans." It feels like most of the author's current career and lifestyle is full of this irony: decrying online culture and empty slogans, while making a living being more or less a purveyor of online slogans through his social media. All this doesn't necessarily invalidate the main thesis of the book, but it does detract from it, in my opinion.
Also, if you are coming to this book looking for advice about how to overcome substance abuse after hearing about his background, stop and look elsewhere. I was not, but I was astounded with how flippantly the author treats his alcohol abuse/addiction and how utterly terribly he addresses it. He does repeat that this is his story and not a guide for life or for addiction, but it was baffling how poorly he handled this. I hope he really is able to continue to drink and smoke without it taking over his life again, but it seems like he's literally playing with fire from my perspective.
January 26, 2026
This book genuinely made me so excited to be alive. It reminded me that there is beauty and glory and hope to be found in the mundane rhythms of our everyday existence. That our lives may be small but they’re not insignificant. That the Lord occupies every square inch of our existence and every moment of our lives is an opportunity to know Him deeply and intimately. We don’t have to settle for surface level relationship with the Most High. We can experience Him in deep and nourishing ways every single day of our lives and rest in the security that we will get to drink deeply from His fountain of ever-flowing grace for all of eternity.
All that to say, this book makes me want to run, jump, do cartwheels and just revel in the fact that we get to live in the reality of the gospel. Highly recommend.
All that to say, this book makes me want to run, jump, do cartwheels and just revel in the fact that we get to live in the reality of the gospel. Highly recommend.
March 21, 2025
This is a beautiful book. There were several times I was so impacted that tears came, the most notable being the story Josh shares of when, in the Valley of Shadows, God met him in a way that was unexpected and unexplainable and so so kind.
This book holds truths that are for everyone, but I found myself specifically thinking about all the messages I received as a 90’s/00’s church kid. Purity culture taught me that my body was bad. Popular authors and preachers taught me that a life lived for God requires you to do radical and extreme things. The rise of the restless and reformed bros turned walking with Jesus into a cynical pursuit of truth rather than experiencing the love of the Person who is Truth.
The truth is that our bodies are the means by which we accept the invitation of Jesus to be His hands and feet and build His kingdom. The truth is that every ordinary moment of every ordinary day is sacred and holy. The truth is that there is a difference between knowledge and knowing, and one will leave you empty and the other will set you free.
This book holds truths that are for everyone, but I found myself specifically thinking about all the messages I received as a 90’s/00’s church kid. Purity culture taught me that my body was bad. Popular authors and preachers taught me that a life lived for God requires you to do radical and extreme things. The rise of the restless and reformed bros turned walking with Jesus into a cynical pursuit of truth rather than experiencing the love of the Person who is Truth.
The truth is that our bodies are the means by which we accept the invitation of Jesus to be His hands and feet and build His kingdom. The truth is that every ordinary moment of every ordinary day is sacred and holy. The truth is that there is a difference between knowledge and knowing, and one will leave you empty and the other will set you free.
June 30, 2025
This book was a 5 star read from the first chapter. A poetic autobiography that felt relatable and inspiring. I want all of my Christian brothers and sisters to contemplate the beauty of a life of love like this.
October 1, 2025
The beginning of this book hit home for me. I could relate to Nadeau talking about not feeling his emotions and how that effected him, the responses he got from other Christian’s on “feeding on the Bible” or needing to “pray more” and how unhelpful that was, and then getting into boxing and physically working out to help your mind and soul. I liked how he explained childlike wonder and how to look at the world in awe again without needing reasons.
As I continued reading the following acts, it started to fall short. The way Nadeau ‘sets the scene’ and is constantly “walking to the bar to drink a pint with friends while thinking about his existence” started to get tiring and hard to follow. It was like reading fiction with some poetry and self-help mixed together and I didn’t vibe with it. Just pick one writing style and stick to it. I love all the quotes he references but I feel like I should just be reading those books instead of this one.
Traveling to England, Ireland, and Spain is not something most people can relate too. Being a recovering alcoholic but drinking a beer every night seems a bit tone deaf.
In the end, I didn’t learn what the “hidden music” is or how to live as a saint or let ‘good things run wild’ anymore than I did before starting the book. He ended the book by saying this wasn’t a “how to” book but the title literally describes it as such…..
It was a good read because it voiced some things I couldn’t but I probably would not read it again.
As I continued reading the following acts, it started to fall short. The way Nadeau ‘sets the scene’ and is constantly “walking to the bar to drink a pint with friends while thinking about his existence” started to get tiring and hard to follow. It was like reading fiction with some poetry and self-help mixed together and I didn’t vibe with it. Just pick one writing style and stick to it. I love all the quotes he references but I feel like I should just be reading those books instead of this one.
Traveling to England, Ireland, and Spain is not something most people can relate too. Being a recovering alcoholic but drinking a beer every night seems a bit tone deaf.
In the end, I didn’t learn what the “hidden music” is or how to live as a saint or let ‘good things run wild’ anymore than I did before starting the book. He ended the book by saying this wasn’t a “how to” book but the title literally describes it as such…..
It was a good read because it voiced some things I couldn’t but I probably would not read it again.
March 8, 2025
Josh has put into words what I’ve felt for a long time. It’s real. It’s honest. And his words are needed.
If you’re searching- if you’re seeking- if you’re lost- if you’re discouraged- or even if you just need to take a deep breath- READ THIS BOOK.
I’m better because of Saints like Josh and Aislinn who encourage us (thanks Sword and Pencil and paintthenorth) to seek Jesus in the mundane and ordinary.
The amount of conversations this has led me to have to those in my community- so thankful!
If you’re searching- if you’re seeking- if you’re lost- if you’re discouraged- or even if you just need to take a deep breath- READ THIS BOOK.
I’m better because of Saints like Josh and Aislinn who encourage us (thanks Sword and Pencil and paintthenorth) to seek Jesus in the mundane and ordinary.
The amount of conversations this has led me to have to those in my community- so thankful!
April 29, 2025
This is a book that I think a lot of Lutherans will dismiss because it talks about human emotion in relation to God, and I think it's a book Lutherans need to read BECAUSE of that.
This book is such a beautiful account of faith in its ups and downs, and highlights a lot of fallacies and struggles that modern Christians have. This is an important book for people to read who tend to say "my personal relationship to God isn't important, it's only important what GOD has done for me" because, frankly, your personal relationship with God DOES matter, and Nadeau does an amazing job of explaining why & how.
It also does a great job of highlighting the need for Christians to focus on HOW they're living their lives, so that they live as God intended. Again, this is a topic we often shy away from in Confessional Lutheranism because of our emphasis on Grace Alone, when we also confess that "the Old Adam in us should by daily contrition and repentance be drowned and die so that a New Man may daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness and purity forever". I think this book does an incredible job of meditating on what that life before God in righteousness and purity looks like, day by day, here on this earth.
A 10/10, and an immediate add to my list of yearly rereads.
This book is such a beautiful account of faith in its ups and downs, and highlights a lot of fallacies and struggles that modern Christians have. This is an important book for people to read who tend to say "my personal relationship to God isn't important, it's only important what GOD has done for me" because, frankly, your personal relationship with God DOES matter, and Nadeau does an amazing job of explaining why & how.
It also does a great job of highlighting the need for Christians to focus on HOW they're living their lives, so that they live as God intended. Again, this is a topic we often shy away from in Confessional Lutheranism because of our emphasis on Grace Alone, when we also confess that "the Old Adam in us should by daily contrition and repentance be drowned and die so that a New Man may daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness and purity forever". I think this book does an incredible job of meditating on what that life before God in righteousness and purity looks like, day by day, here on this earth.
A 10/10, and an immediate add to my list of yearly rereads.
July 21, 2025
This book is an invitation out of pride, ego and death and into the rich life of Jesus. It's less of an instruction manual and more like a painting which pulls on imagination.
I can see myself in these pages, who I am, who I have been and who I hope to become.
Greatly encouraging for any follower of Jesus to read and profoundly inspirational for the followers who have lost the meaning or purpose of following Jesus. Highly recommend to anyone who has grown disillusioned with the Church or the Christian faith, even more so for Christians who struggle to form a relationship with God beyond their rationality.
I can see myself in these pages, who I am, who I have been and who I hope to become.
Greatly encouraging for any follower of Jesus to read and profoundly inspirational for the followers who have lost the meaning or purpose of following Jesus. Highly recommend to anyone who has grown disillusioned with the Church or the Christian faith, even more so for Christians who struggle to form a relationship with God beyond their rationality.
July 4, 2025
Josh isn’t a perfect writer. He’s not the most eloquent, or the standard of academic prowess.
But he captures is this book some of my deepest struggles and feelings that I’ve never had words for.
By filling the pages with the words of those that came before, Josh has created a tool for the contemporary wannabe saint to be formed by beautiful, virtuous believers that have arrived to the destination we all long for. A true guide to becoming a saint without legalism at the center.
Thanks for writing this book Josh. My soul needed it. I’m certain others do too.
But he captures is this book some of my deepest struggles and feelings that I’ve never had words for.
By filling the pages with the words of those that came before, Josh has created a tool for the contemporary wannabe saint to be formed by beautiful, virtuous believers that have arrived to the destination we all long for. A true guide to becoming a saint without legalism at the center.
Thanks for writing this book Josh. My soul needed it. I’m certain others do too.
August 6, 2025
Its really funny how sometimes you read something that gives words to stuff you have been thinking about for a long time. Embodiment, living in a sacramental reality, meeting God in the ordinary. Would recommend this to everyone!
April 22, 2025
There’s good books and then there’s potentially life changing books.
April 28, 2025
Reading this book is like sipping coffee with a friend on a quiet afternoon. Nothing I write in this review can do credit to the absolute beauty of this book; anything I could say about this book is but a shadow of the art itself.
But I’ll attempt to persuade you to spend your time and energy because I want everyone to read this.
Josh Nadeau recognizes a great truth: there is nothing new under the sun. Instead, there are wonderful timeless truths that have been pondered for generations. He references many of the great writers, philosophers and theologians throughout this book: Chesterton, Wendell Berry, and C.S. Lewis. He also highlights great media like the movie Gladiator (a personal favorite of mine) to illustrate virtue and honor in daily life.
“Life is not in the big moments. Life is in the everyday, the holy ordinary.”
May we all strive to see the beauty in the ordinary and in doing so to create beauty in our own lives.
Instant reaction: I knew this would be 5 stars when I picked it up, and somehow it was even better. Full review to come. This is an instant-buy-to-later-annotate book.
But I’ll attempt to persuade you to spend your time and energy because I want everyone to read this.
Josh Nadeau recognizes a great truth: there is nothing new under the sun. Instead, there are wonderful timeless truths that have been pondered for generations. He references many of the great writers, philosophers and theologians throughout this book: Chesterton, Wendell Berry, and C.S. Lewis. He also highlights great media like the movie Gladiator (a personal favorite of mine) to illustrate virtue and honor in daily life.
“Life is not in the big moments. Life is in the everyday, the holy ordinary.”
May we all strive to see the beauty in the ordinary and in doing so to create beauty in our own lives.
Instant reaction: I knew this would be 5 stars when I picked it up, and somehow it was even better. Full review to come. This is an instant-buy-to-later-annotate book.
April 6, 2025
Briljant! Rekommenderar denna starkt.
”It takes courage to be good.”
Har följt Josh en längre tid på Instagram, älskar hans konst och texter. Detta är ingen självhjälpsbok eller 5-steg till en framgångsrik tro, istället tittar författaren uppåt och bakåt. Det är en inbjudan till läsaren att lyssna till den svaga melodin av evigheten. Jag har skrivit upp en mängd citat, både Josh egna och citat han hämtat av de som gått före. Den är ärlig och känns fräsch på något vis fastän innehållet inte är något nytt, om än skrivet i nutidens ord och stil.
Tack tack tack, denna gjorde gott, denna behövde jag.
”It takes courage to be good.”
Har följt Josh en längre tid på Instagram, älskar hans konst och texter. Detta är ingen självhjälpsbok eller 5-steg till en framgångsrik tro, istället tittar författaren uppåt och bakåt. Det är en inbjudan till läsaren att lyssna till den svaga melodin av evigheten. Jag har skrivit upp en mängd citat, både Josh egna och citat han hämtat av de som gått före. Den är ärlig och känns fräsch på något vis fastän innehållet inte är något nytt, om än skrivet i nutidens ord och stil.
Tack tack tack, denna gjorde gott, denna behövde jag.
March 11, 2025
If I could give this book an infinite number of stars, I would. I know I’ve been handing out five-star ratings a lot lately, but that’s only because I’ve been reading books that seem to align so perfectly with how I feel God is walking with me in this season. Room for Good Things to Run Wild didn’t just capture my heart—it entered deeply into it, challenging and expanding the way I think about spiritual formation.
I’ve loved Josh’s work with Sword and Pencil so I was super stoked to read this. I love the vulnerability I find in this book. Too often people I feel like shy away from discussing how imperfect they still are or once were even in a growing relationship with Jesus. That’s part of the journey and I feel like we should be more transparent about that.
The book presents ideas I’ve encountered before, but in a way I had never truly embodied. It made me realize that I may have unknowingly fallen into a kind of spiritual dualism—believing that to live by the Spirit meant simply crucifying and killing the flesh, without fully understanding what that actually looks like in practice. Josh Nadeau offers a vision of spiritual living that fully integrates our physical bodies into our faith, something I feel much of the Western church is drifting away from. Too often, we reduce faith to accumulating head knowledge about Jesus Christ, hoping that a lasting legacy might come as a byproduct. But this book reminds me that Jesus was God made flesh, and likewise, our bodies are meant to make visible the eternal and the spiritual.
True transformation happens when what we know about Christ makes the 18-inch journey from our heads to the deepest parts of our hearts. Nadeau beautifully encapsulates this lived faith—one that ties us not only to God but also to His kingdom here on Earth. It’s wherever the needy are provided for, where justice is done, where the lost are found by the love of Jesus. It’s a faith that continually renews us, pulling us further into salvation and resurrection life. It’s anywhere the Holy Spirit is having His way.
This book is one I know I’ll return to as I continue moving further up and further in—to the life of Christ, to the long obedience in the same direction, to the grace that waits for me at the bottom and meets me with open arms.
I’ve loved Josh’s work with Sword and Pencil so I was super stoked to read this. I love the vulnerability I find in this book. Too often people I feel like shy away from discussing how imperfect they still are or once were even in a growing relationship with Jesus. That’s part of the journey and I feel like we should be more transparent about that.
The book presents ideas I’ve encountered before, but in a way I had never truly embodied. It made me realize that I may have unknowingly fallen into a kind of spiritual dualism—believing that to live by the Spirit meant simply crucifying and killing the flesh, without fully understanding what that actually looks like in practice. Josh Nadeau offers a vision of spiritual living that fully integrates our physical bodies into our faith, something I feel much of the Western church is drifting away from. Too often, we reduce faith to accumulating head knowledge about Jesus Christ, hoping that a lasting legacy might come as a byproduct. But this book reminds me that Jesus was God made flesh, and likewise, our bodies are meant to make visible the eternal and the spiritual.
True transformation happens when what we know about Christ makes the 18-inch journey from our heads to the deepest parts of our hearts. Nadeau beautifully encapsulates this lived faith—one that ties us not only to God but also to His kingdom here on Earth. It’s wherever the needy are provided for, where justice is done, where the lost are found by the love of Jesus. It’s a faith that continually renews us, pulling us further into salvation and resurrection life. It’s anywhere the Holy Spirit is having His way.
This book is one I know I’ll return to as I continue moving further up and further in—to the life of Christ, to the long obedience in the same direction, to the grace that waits for me at the bottom and meets me with open arms.
February 20, 2025
I’ve really loved Josh’s writings and have followed Sword and Pencil for a while. So I have been looking forward to his book debut for quite some time. I finished this book in about 3 sittings. It was a quick read but had lots of depth, grappling with topics such as embodiment, transformation versus information, human flourishing, the Incarnation… I could go on. I wish the book had been a little less choppy, I felt like it was lots of thoughts put together but not necessarily as cohesive as I would have liked. Nevertheless, I would recommend! Looking forward to future works.
November 19, 2025
"Thank you for grace, even at the bottom. Thank you for your guiding Spirit, and for the song you sung over me—the one that led me back to yourself."
Somehow there were no tears until that final line. There is a thread throughout of song, of hidden music, of beauty that gently invites, that reveals Truth. And it is compelling.
This captured so vividly in layman's terms what I've been wrestling with, mulling over, and discussing: How formation works. The role of the body in formation. The *necessity* of incorporating embodied realities into our spiritual formation (because the body reveals the person and tutors the soul.) The limits of an intellectual, cerebral faith. The way vices need positive, practiced virtues in their place. The role of tangible beauty and honest fellowship when we're at the bottom.
I've seen some reviews bemoaning the fact that other books talk about these things better, that they've been done before (lol) but quite honestly, we need to hear them in various dialects, as it were. And his story is a *particular* that makes space for *universals* to be illuminated for the rest of us. And surely for those who won't read the other tomes.
So, this was a memoir that was unexpectedly about everything occupying my mind. And I had zero idea what to expect, save the fact that I've deeply appreciated Josh's writing when I've read it here and there. What a gift that it hit the soul's spot.
And I have to say, I am quite taken with the scene where he’s casually reading John Paul II’s "Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body" along a beach in Europe:
“Bodies aren’t simply biological, flesh and blood. Bodies are theological, revelations of the soul and the expression of the Love from which we find our source.
This flew in the face of the materialism, the spiritualism, the dualism that I saw in the world around me and that I saw far too often in the church—with just a sprinkling of Jesus on top.”
I'll be coming back to this. It's the rich meat of the Christian tradition, spoken in a fresh way. And we cannot have too much of that.
Somehow there were no tears until that final line. There is a thread throughout of song, of hidden music, of beauty that gently invites, that reveals Truth. And it is compelling.
This captured so vividly in layman's terms what I've been wrestling with, mulling over, and discussing: How formation works. The role of the body in formation. The *necessity* of incorporating embodied realities into our spiritual formation (because the body reveals the person and tutors the soul.) The limits of an intellectual, cerebral faith. The way vices need positive, practiced virtues in their place. The role of tangible beauty and honest fellowship when we're at the bottom.
I've seen some reviews bemoaning the fact that other books talk about these things better, that they've been done before (lol) but quite honestly, we need to hear them in various dialects, as it were. And his story is a *particular* that makes space for *universals* to be illuminated for the rest of us. And surely for those who won't read the other tomes.
So, this was a memoir that was unexpectedly about everything occupying my mind. And I had zero idea what to expect, save the fact that I've deeply appreciated Josh's writing when I've read it here and there. What a gift that it hit the soul's spot.
And I have to say, I am quite taken with the scene where he’s casually reading John Paul II’s "Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body" along a beach in Europe:
“Bodies aren’t simply biological, flesh and blood. Bodies are theological, revelations of the soul and the expression of the Love from which we find our source.
This flew in the face of the materialism, the spiritualism, the dualism that I saw in the world around me and that I saw far too often in the church—with just a sprinkling of Jesus on top.”
I'll be coming back to this. It's the rich meat of the Christian tradition, spoken in a fresh way. And we cannot have too much of that.
March 26, 2025
Phenomenal work. My life story was being told to me as I read this book almost exactly. Absolutely wild and prophetic. Why are there not more books like this? Clear, concise, digestible reading experience.
February 13, 2025
I've enjoyed Josh Nadeau's Sword and Pencil Instagram account in the past and was looking forward to reading his debut book. There were little nuggets of wisdom and truth, and I appreciate that. That said, there weren't enough practical takeaways on how to live out the thesis statement of his book, and while there was a lot of buildup, the plane never quite landed for me. There was a lot of quoting of other authors (namely GK Chesterton), but nothing super memorable or life changing on my end. I do think Josh has a lot of potential to be an even better writer in future books, and this book would be great for those who are just starting their walk with Christ.
I'd like to once again thank NetGalley and the publisher for a free eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I'd like to once again thank NetGalley and the publisher for a free eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
March 13, 2025
Josh communicates so many ideas that are felt deeply in the souls of the Christian West - myself included. His narrative is an all-too-familiar cycle of striving and shortcoming followed by an inspiring story of redemption.
I am challenged by this book to live an embodied walk with God. To choose virtue. To seek Beauty. And to hold fast to Truth and Goodness.
I am challenged by this book to live an embodied walk with God. To choose virtue. To seek Beauty. And to hold fast to Truth and Goodness.
May 3, 2025
Sorry, Josh, you seem like a genuine guy, but this book is too repetitive, abstract, "I-drank-myself-to-'Rock Bottom'-but-still-drink-and-smoke," "Hidden Music" kind of fuzzy ramblings that I don't think bring clarity to the Christian life or theology.
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July 29, 2025This book genuinely blew me away. I’ve read a lot of Christian books, especially the prototypical 200-250 page ones with a cool title. I knew Josh was a dope guy but the formula for those types of projects is still pretty consistent
But this book absolutely blows that formula up
I can’t stress enough how much this book felt like it was clearly written by an artist in all the best ways. For one, the design throughout the book is fantastic and could have an entire review just dedicated to that. But more importantly it’s written by a person who uses words as an art form not just a medium for transference of information
For example, most Christian writers to convey the point that they were lonely would just say “I was in a lonely season of life and _________(insert factual claim about God that is subversive lalalal) Josh instead writes 2 pages recounting a night smoking in Toronto and describing every nook and cranny of the city, the way his cigar burned down to the edges and frayed, how the smoke of his coffee floated up into the air, all to the point where you feel like you’re in the city with him experiencing that loneliness that he never even said he was outright feeling. That’s just good writing. Not quick writing. But beautiful writing
And ultimately it all services the core point of his book: Saints aren’t made overnight. They’re formed in the everyday. A claim so audaciously simple it’s kind of subversive—but again that’s the point
Because the book reads as a slow burn testimony of a man’s life being changed from rock bottom addiction to something greater and simpler. If you’re looking for snappy one liners he’s got some beautifully word smithed ones for sure, but if you focus too much on them I think you’ll miss the forest for the trees
Because in an age of Christian literature that demands profound bite sized nuggets that will instantly change your life, this book sits you down and tells you a slow beautiful story about how change really happens.
Great literature doesn’t tell you a story, it puts you IN the story. This book does just that, and you should read it
But this book absolutely blows that formula up
I can’t stress enough how much this book felt like it was clearly written by an artist in all the best ways. For one, the design throughout the book is fantastic and could have an entire review just dedicated to that. But more importantly it’s written by a person who uses words as an art form not just a medium for transference of information
For example, most Christian writers to convey the point that they were lonely would just say “I was in a lonely season of life and _________(insert factual claim about God that is subversive lalalal) Josh instead writes 2 pages recounting a night smoking in Toronto and describing every nook and cranny of the city, the way his cigar burned down to the edges and frayed, how the smoke of his coffee floated up into the air, all to the point where you feel like you’re in the city with him experiencing that loneliness that he never even said he was outright feeling. That’s just good writing. Not quick writing. But beautiful writing
And ultimately it all services the core point of his book: Saints aren’t made overnight. They’re formed in the everyday. A claim so audaciously simple it’s kind of subversive—but again that’s the point
Because the book reads as a slow burn testimony of a man’s life being changed from rock bottom addiction to something greater and simpler. If you’re looking for snappy one liners he’s got some beautifully word smithed ones for sure, but if you focus too much on them I think you’ll miss the forest for the trees
Because in an age of Christian literature that demands profound bite sized nuggets that will instantly change your life, this book sits you down and tells you a slow beautiful story about how change really happens.
Great literature doesn’t tell you a story, it puts you IN the story. This book does just that, and you should read it
March 17, 2025
Not Your Average Christian Book. MUST READ!
I was planning to crush this book in a weekend on a family vacation. But it stopped me in my tracks. Room for Good Things to Run Wild resisted my subconscious attempts to make it a checklist-consumptive act, to make it an intellectual experience by which I feel I’ve grown rather than deeply engaging with the story it tells. Josh’s writing resisted that mentality.
I’ve been trying to put my finger on why that is. And I think I’ve figured it out. Ernest Hemingway wrote, “A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes, but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.”
That’s it. Josh captured what is true, and projected it in such a way that I became a part of the experience. Sure you can blow through this book in a weekend. But you won’t get much out of it. And you’ll feel Josh’s experiences, honesty, and prose resist you in that. If you let it, this is a book that will become an altar in your life, a memorial to what God might say or do, a fork in the road, a before and after moment that you look back on and see how so much has changed. I know it will be for me. With that being said, here are a bunch of jumbled thoughts that I jotted down along the way as I read about why this book is so meaningful:
I love the way Josh chose to write the book in narrative form, bringing us along in his experience as hd are learned. It creates this beautiful, literary dimension to the book that is SO GOOD, and feels so perfect for what Josh accomplishes in the book. It’s part of what made me slow down and chew on everything Josh wrote - all of which deserves deep reflection!
Josh does three things really well: he painfully and powerfully diagnoses the malaise we all feel, he beautiful draws us deep into his own story of working it out, and rather than offering trite, formulaic answers that get nobody anywhere, he does something much worse: he acknowledges the complexity and difficulty of the path we are all called to take, while helping us see the way forward. Josh was once at Rock Bottom. Rather than giving you five steps, he comes and sits with you, tells you his story, helps you get up, and carries the torch for you as you begin to shuffle forward by the Grace of Jesus. He helps you hear what he calls the Hidden Music, Jesus’s voice and resonance, pulling you onward and upward.
By sharing so vulnerably about his experience and journey, Josh gives all of us reading permission to be honest about our own experiences. So many of us feel and are living in the same angst and malaise Josh was without even realizing it, and through the complete package that this book is of beautiful writing, art, design, and powerful ideas/narrative, I felt Josh prophetically (in that forth telling sense) giving me eyes to see the situation we’re all in - and then offering a beautiful, real way forward that isn’t some simplistic formula, some cheap product. Rather, Josh is offering water from a deep well, hard-earned wisdom, truth, and beauty won in the trenches of actually living it out.
There’s another part of this book that felt deeply refreshing, encouraging, and inspiring to me: so much of the conversation in the Western Church has been deconstructive and negative - on both the right and the left. No one has anything positive or upbuilding to say, no one’s casting a beautiful vision for life as a Christian in this moment we find ourselves in. But Josh is! He’s not dunking on other camps or views or deconstructing for likes and shares - though he has his criticisms where they are needed, which I appreciated. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for sounding the alarm, calling out sin and dysfunction, and all of that. It’s deeply important. But the overall tone of Josh’ book is one of calling people up and to see their lives as imbued with God’s presence and love. Josh is helping give us eyes to see through the smog of this vitriolic, clickbait moment to a deeper, more true, good, beautiful way. Josh isn’t pretending there’s nothing bad happening - on the contrary, he’s very honest about it! But, he’s forcing us to stop wallowing in it. He’s forcing us to move past tearing down and to begin building up. The weeds have been pulled, the chaff separated from the wheat. Let’s start putting roots down, watering the vine, and producing fruit.
And I think that’s why I’ve teared up and felt my heart soar at points in this book, and another reason why I’ve slowed down to savor it rather than crushing it in a weekend. What Josh wrote deserved to be, needed to be, chewed on and ingested slowly.
Room for Good Things to Run Wild cuts through all the polarizing arguments we loooovve to focus on so that we can prop ourselves up by feeling right without having to deal with the real problems and fears and issues, that we use to excuse ourselves from doing the work of becoming an Every Day Saint.
I am deeply grateful for this book. I want to reread it immediately. More, I want to wrestle its ideas and what it points to into my own live experience. Bolstered by the Truth, my heart stirred up with a Beautiful vision for what my life could be, and empowered knowing that Goodness is possible and Virtue is attainable by Grace and Love, I want to orient my life towards becoming an ordinary, Every Day Saint.
Thank you, Josh for writing this book, sharing your story, and calling us all forward into a more ancient, Beautiful, Good, and True Way.
I was planning to crush this book in a weekend on a family vacation. But it stopped me in my tracks. Room for Good Things to Run Wild resisted my subconscious attempts to make it a checklist-consumptive act, to make it an intellectual experience by which I feel I’ve grown rather than deeply engaging with the story it tells. Josh’s writing resisted that mentality.
I’ve been trying to put my finger on why that is. And I think I’ve figured it out. Ernest Hemingway wrote, “A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes, but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.”
That’s it. Josh captured what is true, and projected it in such a way that I became a part of the experience. Sure you can blow through this book in a weekend. But you won’t get much out of it. And you’ll feel Josh’s experiences, honesty, and prose resist you in that. If you let it, this is a book that will become an altar in your life, a memorial to what God might say or do, a fork in the road, a before and after moment that you look back on and see how so much has changed. I know it will be for me. With that being said, here are a bunch of jumbled thoughts that I jotted down along the way as I read about why this book is so meaningful:
I love the way Josh chose to write the book in narrative form, bringing us along in his experience as hd are learned. It creates this beautiful, literary dimension to the book that is SO GOOD, and feels so perfect for what Josh accomplishes in the book. It’s part of what made me slow down and chew on everything Josh wrote - all of which deserves deep reflection!
Josh does three things really well: he painfully and powerfully diagnoses the malaise we all feel, he beautiful draws us deep into his own story of working it out, and rather than offering trite, formulaic answers that get nobody anywhere, he does something much worse: he acknowledges the complexity and difficulty of the path we are all called to take, while helping us see the way forward. Josh was once at Rock Bottom. Rather than giving you five steps, he comes and sits with you, tells you his story, helps you get up, and carries the torch for you as you begin to shuffle forward by the Grace of Jesus. He helps you hear what he calls the Hidden Music, Jesus’s voice and resonance, pulling you onward and upward.
By sharing so vulnerably about his experience and journey, Josh gives all of us reading permission to be honest about our own experiences. So many of us feel and are living in the same angst and malaise Josh was without even realizing it, and through the complete package that this book is of beautiful writing, art, design, and powerful ideas/narrative, I felt Josh prophetically (in that forth telling sense) giving me eyes to see the situation we’re all in - and then offering a beautiful, real way forward that isn’t some simplistic formula, some cheap product. Rather, Josh is offering water from a deep well, hard-earned wisdom, truth, and beauty won in the trenches of actually living it out.
There’s another part of this book that felt deeply refreshing, encouraging, and inspiring to me: so much of the conversation in the Western Church has been deconstructive and negative - on both the right and the left. No one has anything positive or upbuilding to say, no one’s casting a beautiful vision for life as a Christian in this moment we find ourselves in. But Josh is! He’s not dunking on other camps or views or deconstructing for likes and shares - though he has his criticisms where they are needed, which I appreciated. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for sounding the alarm, calling out sin and dysfunction, and all of that. It’s deeply important. But the overall tone of Josh’ book is one of calling people up and to see their lives as imbued with God’s presence and love. Josh is helping give us eyes to see through the smog of this vitriolic, clickbait moment to a deeper, more true, good, beautiful way. Josh isn’t pretending there’s nothing bad happening - on the contrary, he’s very honest about it! But, he’s forcing us to stop wallowing in it. He’s forcing us to move past tearing down and to begin building up. The weeds have been pulled, the chaff separated from the wheat. Let’s start putting roots down, watering the vine, and producing fruit.
And I think that’s why I’ve teared up and felt my heart soar at points in this book, and another reason why I’ve slowed down to savor it rather than crushing it in a weekend. What Josh wrote deserved to be, needed to be, chewed on and ingested slowly.
Room for Good Things to Run Wild cuts through all the polarizing arguments we loooovve to focus on so that we can prop ourselves up by feeling right without having to deal with the real problems and fears and issues, that we use to excuse ourselves from doing the work of becoming an Every Day Saint.
I am deeply grateful for this book. I want to reread it immediately. More, I want to wrestle its ideas and what it points to into my own live experience. Bolstered by the Truth, my heart stirred up with a Beautiful vision for what my life could be, and empowered knowing that Goodness is possible and Virtue is attainable by Grace and Love, I want to orient my life towards becoming an ordinary, Every Day Saint.
Thank you, Josh for writing this book, sharing your story, and calling us all forward into a more ancient, Beautiful, Good, and True Way.
June 21, 2025
A story that starts in the darkness - moody, manic, and cerebral. Josh Nadeau leads you through his soul-wrenching ascent from the pit to a place with a view; one to see the brilliance of morning’s first gleam break the night. While stylistically a bit overly-descriptive, Nadeau touches on truths weighty enough to release our heavy burdens. For life with Jesus is a wild, wondrous, untamed free-range of exploration and discovery - where both pain and beauty exist, and souls and bodies converge. It is not church programs or pithy religious platitudes or gnostic severity or guilt-ridden servitude that rises the dead soul but only the knowing loving of the man Jesus. And in this book, we begin to catch a glimpse of the coming day.
April 30, 2025
I’ve anticipated this reading book since the pre-order mid 2024, and was not disappointed.
I expected Josh’s (@swordandpencil) art to animate the book as I read through, but I didn’t expect such a beautiful story of the winding path from sinner to saint. I ended the last chapter inspired to find God’s Voice and Spirit daily; not only through through time in scripture in prayer, but also through mundane tasks. Josh emphasizes the beauty in the ordinary things and the glory He can receive by the way we complete them.
Final review of 4 stars due to the choppy nature of the writing - some chapters feel like individual thoughts listed, rather than a fluent story.
I expected Josh’s (@swordandpencil) art to animate the book as I read through, but I didn’t expect such a beautiful story of the winding path from sinner to saint. I ended the last chapter inspired to find God’s Voice and Spirit daily; not only through through time in scripture in prayer, but also through mundane tasks. Josh emphasizes the beauty in the ordinary things and the glory He can receive by the way we complete them.
Final review of 4 stars due to the choppy nature of the writing - some chapters feel like individual thoughts listed, rather than a fluent story.
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