In an age and time when "intimacy" among humans is difficult to imagine let alone achieve, Greg Paul delivers us a book that tells us that "intimacy" is not only imaginable, but also attainable. However, the intimacy that Greg is referring to is the intimacy that God longs to have with us as sinful, fallen members of the human race and that we can experience with him. As humans we know it is always much easier to love and show kindness to someone who loves us; however, to love our most hated enemies and treat them with grace, mercy and kindness is unfathomable and totally foreign in most of our thinking. Who can truly wrap their heads around such thinking and grasp it? But Greg helps us do just that with his book. He shares that although we hate God and do not seek him or intimacy with him, God lovingly and persistently seeks us and desires intimacy with him...an "abiding in" relationship with him that is unlike anything we can experience in the human realm. And God made this intimacy possible through the supreme sacrifice of his beloved son, Jesus Christ. Greg informs us as the reader of his book however that experiencing such intimacy is a two way street...God seeks us out and reaches out to us in love and we in turn need to respond to him with faith in his son Jesus Christ. When we do that, we then can experience an intimacy with God and with others that is too wonderful...too amazing to put into words and fully understand.

What Greg does in his book is he weaves together several interesting and captivating personal stories from his own family life as well as from the lives of others to show us pictures of people longing for love, acceptance and intimacy. When they do not receive it in their lives the results are devastating. He also weaves together the Biblical story of how God loves us and seeks us out to redeem us- in an easy to understand manner with the personal stories making it a most interesting and spiritually encouraging read. When it is all said and done in his book Greg reveals to us that God truly loves us and that he indeed does desire relationship - that is "intimacy" with us if only we will turn to him by faith and believe in him and his son Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord- thus enabling us to "abide" in him and enjoy an abundantly satisfying relationship with him both now and forever.