Book recommendation

I just read a book that you must read, especially if you are in a ministry vocation. Here is a quote that starts the book off. "Society...was regarded (by the Desert Fathers) as a shipwreck from which each single individual man had to swim for his life...These were men who believed that to let oneself drift along, passively accepting the tenets and values of what they knew as society, was purely and simply disaster." Thomas Merton This book, The Way of the Heart, explores the Dessert Fathers and their motivation for fleeing society to pray in the Egyptian dessert. It not only gives practical and useful advice for escaping the shipwreck of society but rescuing those who are drowning around us in the shipwreck as well. Definitely a guidepost for those of us who desire to live our life as ministry.