Michaela Savell's Reviews > Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul’s Deepest Desire

This isn’t the book to read if you want to stay surface-level with your soul. Thirsting is a treasure of a book, written in a gospel framing that our generation needs: ”What does glorifying God mean in the lens of desire?” and an acceptance for who He’s “made me for: to be completely engulfed in His Trinitarian love.” Strahan argues how our society’s definition of desire often looks like leaning into sexualizing desire while promoting distance with the One who desires us.

Strahan asks us to sit with the Lord in what it looks like to venture into our Dark Oceans, the parts of our souls that we are scared to enter into because of that level of vulnerability or pain (or both). He ups the ante of our relationship with Jesus, that we would have “a thirst for something much greater than friendship or proximity.” In the Church, we’ve gotten comfortable referring to Jesus as our friend - which to be fair, has its value - but way less comfortable with Jesus as our Bridegroom. When we see Jesus as our Bridegroom, we walk in vulnerability that allows us to sit with our pain before Him and find greater comfort in His love.

This book helps create a safe space to bring everything to Lord: our longings, our disappointments, our joys, and everything in between. While there are some moments in the book that got a little too abstract for me, the poetic nature of it invited me to plumb the depths of my soul with the Lord, and the encouragement of how much further I can go.