The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller

I'm in the process of reading this book and have found it so insightful that I am recommending to others before I have even completed the reading myself. His chapter on longing for home really got me thinking. I'll give a full review once I complete the book, but his comment about the holidays was worth sharing during this season. He says, "Many of the people in my church have shared with me how disappointing Christmas and Thanksgiving are to them. They prepare for the holidays hoping that, finally, this year, the gathering of the family at that important place will deliver the experience of warmth, joy, comfort, and love that they want from it. But these events almost always fail, crushed under the weight of our impossible expectations." Who can't relate to that?