Andrew Mayes Diving for Pearls
‘Superficiality is the curse of our age… The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people’. Andrew Mayes quotes Richard Foster from over 30 years ago in presenting an aspiration for deeper living and praying through engagement with seventh century Isaac the Syrian. ‘Diving for Pearls’ picks up on discovery of God and self drawing on the rediscovery of Isaac’s writings in the Bodleian, Oxford and an antiquarian bookshop in Teheran. With his knowledge of Christian spirituality and experience of the Middle East Andrew Mayes writes with excitement about this recent discovery opening up Isaac as a timely spiritual guide bringing to us the depth and never fading newness of God in Christ as inspiration for the future-oriented journey of faith. It is a refreshing book drawing on Isaac’s maritime, nautical and underwater imagery strongly yoked to Christ’s parable of the ‘the kingdom of heaven as like a merchant in search of fine p