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Journey with a Giant: Choose Your Guide, Pursue Your Purpose, and Grow in Your Walk with God
Take the next step in your spiritual formation and embark on a year-long journey alongside a "giant" of faith, inspired by the author’s year of studying the life of Mister Fred Rogers, America's favorite neighbor.
The practice of walking with a spiritual giant is not a new concept. Since the origin of the Church, believers have studied the Bible and pored over Christian biographies to learn and grow in their faith. In the same way that athletes can improve their game by studying the tactics of seasoned players, we can get unstuck in our spiritual lives, cultivate a deeper connection with God, and explore how to fulfill our purpose by learning from and journeying with a spiritual mentor who has traveled the path before us.
Journey with a Giant, from author and spiritual director Lori G. Melton, is a year-long spiritual formation resource that guides you through the "giant journey" in an interactive format that includes weekly reflection questions and ample journaling space. The book features Mister Fred Rogers purely as an illustration of how the journey works, but you are invited to learn from him alongside the author or choose your own spiritual giant and simply follow the same basic principles. The journey is divided into seasons, months, and weeks. The weekly sections include an opening quote, a topical essay, prompts and writing space for reflection, and testimonials from other pilgrims on the giant journey. Every month closes with a Mile Marker, which allows you space to reflect before stepping into the next month. Special features
Steps Along the Overview of instructions and tasks for the month.Trail Prompts for recording your focus, goals, resources, and insights.Pilgrim A blessing to end the month and carry into the next.
After traveling a year with your giant, you will have deepened your relationship with God, uncovered new insights about yourself, and taken new steps in pursuing your purpose.
The practice of walking with a spiritual giant is not a new concept. Since the origin of the Church, believers have studied the Bible and pored over Christian biographies to learn and grow in their faith. In the same way that athletes can improve their game by studying the tactics of seasoned players, we can get unstuck in our spiritual lives, cultivate a deeper connection with God, and explore how to fulfill our purpose by learning from and journeying with a spiritual mentor who has traveled the path before us.
Journey with a Giant, from author and spiritual director Lori G. Melton, is a year-long spiritual formation resource that guides you through the "giant journey" in an interactive format that includes weekly reflection questions and ample journaling space. The book features Mister Fred Rogers purely as an illustration of how the journey works, but you are invited to learn from him alongside the author or choose your own spiritual giant and simply follow the same basic principles. The journey is divided into seasons, months, and weeks. The weekly sections include an opening quote, a topical essay, prompts and writing space for reflection, and testimonials from other pilgrims on the giant journey. Every month closes with a Mile Marker, which allows you space to reflect before stepping into the next month. Special features
Steps Along the Overview of instructions and tasks for the month.Trail Prompts for recording your focus, goals, resources, and insights.Pilgrim A blessing to end the month and carry into the next.
After traveling a year with your giant, you will have deepened your relationship with God, uncovered new insights about yourself, and taken new steps in pursuing your purpose.
- GenresChristian Non Fiction
272 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2025
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January 26, 2026
This has been a pleasant surprise on a couple of fronts, one that is a little frustrating.
Many influential leaders in the spiritual formation world including Dallas Willard encourage us all to learn from the lives of giants of the faith. Melton has developed a book that enables the reader to do just that. A 12-month journey with a giant.
The book starts with the selection of a giant, in her case, Fred Rogers. I chose Madeleine L'Engle for both her spiritual wisdom but also her creativity. She believed our creating with God to be a spiritual discipline.
Each month Melton encourages us to continue to identify resources that will assist us in our journey and then uses gentle probing questions to unpack what we're learning from our giant! It's really good.
My only frustration is that it's a 12 month book and journal of sorts and I need to keep remembering to refer to it. I'm into my 3rd month and I've struggled to maintain consistency to the process which takes a little away from the book's purpose. I'm hoping I persevere with it. I'm about to start my 3rd resource of L'Engle's but I need to keep coming back to Melton's book to maximise my learnings I guess.
I'm glad I received an early ebook copy of the book from the publisher via NetGalley but this has had no bearing on my review.
Many influential leaders in the spiritual formation world including Dallas Willard encourage us all to learn from the lives of giants of the faith. Melton has developed a book that enables the reader to do just that. A 12-month journey with a giant.
The book starts with the selection of a giant, in her case, Fred Rogers. I chose Madeleine L'Engle for both her spiritual wisdom but also her creativity. She believed our creating with God to be a spiritual discipline.
Each month Melton encourages us to continue to identify resources that will assist us in our journey and then uses gentle probing questions to unpack what we're learning from our giant! It's really good.
My only frustration is that it's a 12 month book and journal of sorts and I need to keep remembering to refer to it. I'm into my 3rd month and I've struggled to maintain consistency to the process which takes a little away from the book's purpose. I'm hoping I persevere with it. I'm about to start my 3rd resource of L'Engle's but I need to keep coming back to Melton's book to maximise my learnings I guess.
I'm glad I received an early ebook copy of the book from the publisher via NetGalley but this has had no bearing on my review.
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