I've been looking forward to this book for some time now. Books that remind me of Henri Nouwen always move quickly up the queue. This reflection on the desert temptations of Jesus, set against Tommy's vulnerable and clear-headed stories of a desert-ish experience of his own, rings true in the ways that you expect truth to ring. Resonance is a quality I look for in a book and this book is resonant. Tommy has a great analytical mind that distills but doesn't reduce, and so we're given helpful hooks and generative turns of phrase in this book that keep it percolating in you after you've read it. Such a universal title, hard to live up to, but The Ache for Meaning brings the goods.