Seek My Face

Insights on what it means to have an intimate relationship with God, using Old and New Testament stories as a guide

What does it mean to have intimacy with God? Why do so many of us avoid this intimacy at all costs? What examples from Scripture might guide us in developing a close, prayerful relationship with God? In Seek My Face, William A. Barry, SJ, provides thoughtful and easy-to-understand answers that can help anyone draw closer to God and grasp the surprising breadth of ways in which we and God can become good friends.
Throughout the book, Fr. Barry introduces situations and personalities from both the Old and New Testaments to show readers the various ways in which people in the Bible drew closer to God. Abraham, Moses, the psalmist, Peter, Jesus--these individuals and more help readers see the many different ways
we, too, can interact with God, and how confidently expressing to God our deepest emotions and most honest thoughts is exactly what the Divine desires from us.
As Fr. Barry encourages us to follow the Ignatian
idea of seeing ourselves in the Bible stories and "experiencing" each scriptural situation as if we were there, we grow increasingly comfortable seeing God
as a friend. In the end, Fr. Barry gently turns us away from our ambivalence or even fear of a relationship with God and toward a desire to seek God's face--at all times and in all ways.