Matt Mikalatos - Journey to Love: What We Long For, How to Find It, and How to Pass It On

Journey to Love is a book I didnt know I needed. It opened my eyes to a more robust understanding of love and what it truly means for love to be patient and kind. In our broken, racially fraught world, we all need to learn how to love better, deeper, richer. Matts book shows us the way.

MICHELLE AMI REYES, vice president of Asian American Christian Collaborative, author of Becoming All Things

Gosh, this is a beautiful book. Matts vivid stories and powerful insights will linger in your heart and mind long after you finish reading. When I was at one of the lowest times of my life, Matt reached out to show me love, so I know he practices what he preaches. Whether you come from a background where love was abundant or scarce, my prayer is that God will use Matts words to open your heart to give and receive love.

DREW DYCK, editor, author of Your Future Self Will Thank You

In a world of power struggles and division, author Matt Mikalatos invites readers to do something extraordinary: inhale goodness and love and exhale it to those around them. Journey to Love is a rare opportunity, a respite for the weary soul, a breath of much-needed fresh air.

AUBREY SAMPSON, speaker, author of Known, The Louder Song, and Overcomer

Im not sure how its possible, but many of us manage somehow to take love for granted. With insight, honesty, and his trademark quick wit, Matt gently makes that impossible, by helping us see new depths in the oldest virtue. Any reader who goes on this Journey to Love will return changed, in the best and simplest of everyday ways.

PAUL J. PASTOR, author of The Face of the Deep and The Listening Day

This beautiful book of meditations inspired me to reflect on the ways I have been loved and how I can love others better. The author shares stories of how he learned what love is that are both personal and universal. In our heart of hearts, we all long to live a life of both receiving and giving love in deeper ways. This book identifies barriers to loving well and clearly defines what love is, so that we can live the life of love we are created to live.

JOYCE KOO DALRYMPLE, JD, pastor of discipleship at Wellspring Alliance Church

We all want to love and be loved. But what does that mean? Through winsome stories and heartfelt reflections, Matt Mikalatos gently probes what love looks like as he welcomes us on a life-changing journey. Dont miss not only reading this book but putting it into practice. Youll never be the same!

AMY BOUCHER PYE, author of 7 Ways to Pray

Despite the Beatles assurances that learning the game of love is easy, Ive found we all struggle deeply with this basic need: to receive love, and to love well. In Journey to Love, Matt invites us to follow him into a life bursting with love. Our steps are small and halting at first. But as the journey progresses, we find ourselves running, then sprinting, and finally diving headlong into a mystery thats bigger and deeper than we imagined. Journey to Love is for anyone you know. Literally. Read it for yourself. Then read it with a friend. Or maybe someone who isnt a friend quite yet. This book is medicine for our hurting world.

JR. FORASTEROS, author of Empathy for the Devil

Journey to Love is simply beautiful. Personal and practical, Matt made me feel loved, made me want to love, and showed me how to love. The world will be a better, more loving place because of this book.

ANGIE WARD, P H D, assistant director of DMin at Denver Seminary, author of I Am a Leader

Journey to Love is a much-needed reminder that love is not only an emotion but a spiritual discipline and practice. Matt Mikalatos gives readers poignant stories to connect with our hearts and practical exercises inviting us to love with our whole selves. Youll want to read this book with a journal and practice it with a community.

KATHY KHANG, author of Raise Your Voice and cohost of The Fascinating Podcast

We spend years investing in education, professions, hobbies... but what about love? Do we give any thought toward growing in our ability to give and receive this most precious resource? A quick look at the world or ourselves shows how much we could use a journey to love, and in these forty easy-to-read reflections, author Matt Mikalatos gives us the nudge we need.

CATHERINE M C NIEL, author of All Shall Be Well and Long Days of Small Things

Wherever you are on your own journey to love, you will find your next step in this book. Through thoughtful reflections and simple, practical exercises, Mikalatos encourages and challenges readers to act toward believing in and freely expressing radical love. In our divisive culture, this book is a refreshing call to a transformational way of living that is possible for any of us.

GINA BRENNA BUTZ, author of Making Peace with Change

Matt Mikalatos is a fair, wise, and trusted voice online and in person. His new book, Journey to Love, is exactly what our splintered, weary world needs. I especially appreciate the example of the beautiful, healthy, loving friendship Matt, a married man, shared with Shasta, a single woman. A gifted writer and communicator, Matt fills these pages with inspiring stories, hard-won lessons, and challenges to move us toward greater love. Thank you for pointing us back to what really matters.

VIVIAN MABUNI, national speaker, founder of Someday Is Here podcast, author of Open Hands, Willing Heart

There are highly regarded books that you slog through, wearily wondering what the fuss is about. And then there are books you didnt know you needed until the first chapter grabs you by the heart and doesnt let go. In Journey to Love, Matt Mikalatos serves as expert trail guide on a lyrical exploration of the most maligned, misunderstood, transformative power in the universe: love. Share this beautifully crafted love letter with everyone you know.

MAGGIE WALLEM ROWE, speaker, dramatist, author of This Life We Share

Journey to Love is an experience you dont want to miss. Each entry, reflection, and exercise will delve deep into your soul, cause you to ponder, and ultimately change your heart. Someone once said, If we dont love, we will not live. Matt guides us on a journey, showing us how to give and receive love, how to delight in Gods love, and ultimately how to live. I laughed (and yes, I cried) as I read of and embraced the tenderness and power of my Saviors love for me. Through Scripture, personal experiences, and practical applications, Journey to Love will change your life it did mine.

DR. CYNTHIA FANTASIA, author of In the Lingering Light

Journey to Love is an invitation to peer into a truly vulnerable and sacred pilgrimage of love that author and sojourner Matt Mikalatos has committed his life to. With every shared story and soul-stirring perspective, youll long to love more.

DESTINEE REA, cofounder of BOLD

Journey to Love gives attention to timeless secrets of a life well lived. We should never tire of our authors setting the table of love and grace before us. Every generation is hungry. Im grateful Matt is doing his part, illuminating all sides of the heart and mind and the world-changing subject of love.

CHARLIE PEACOCK, Grammy Awardwinning music producer, author, founder of the commercial music program at Lipscomb University