The various crises we experience in society and culture today, at their root, reveal a spiritual problem: a profound lack of meaning. For more than 2,000 years, the truths revealed in the Bible have been providing answers, posits pastor Amos Smith. Drawing inspiration from Christian mystical traditions as well as such writers as Annie Dillard, Thomas Merton, and Henry David Thoreau, Smith extols the value of awareness, deep listening, and contemplation as essential for "hearing" what Scripture has to say. Smith also details the importance of mystery and struggle in the process of healing from any past or present wounds, and explores the "undivided heart" that is possible when we come to know God in silence and stillness.