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What does the title "How to Listen When God Is Speaking" suggest to you? Perhaps it sounds like a how-to book that gives us ten simple steps to know the will of God in every situation.
Or maybe it sounds like a complicated dissertation on receiving mystical revelations from God through deep prayer.
Fortunately for us, Fr. Mitch Pacwa’s book is neither of these. As he says in his introduction, “Listening to God is not as simple as listening to our MP3 players or cell phones.” But neither is God so far removed from our daily lives that the only way we can hear from him is to seclude ourselves in a monastery.
It’s precisely the point of Pacwa’s book to show us the balance between these two extremes. He tells us that God really does speak to believers “within the real history of their own lives.” But he also draws on the wisdom of the church and his own experience as a priest to help us understand just how God reveals himself and some…
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