Berry Simpson’s life focuses on three great loves—God, his family, including wife, Cyndi, and their children; and outdoor adventure. Those loves permeate his latest book, Retreating with God, based upon his solo backpacking trips in Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Simpson’s writing bespeaks his background as a petroleum engineer. It’s structured and systematic, exhaustively chronicled, and always focused on locating and exploring details that define the difference between living for self and living for God. Retreating with God is a two-part travelogue—into the splendor, grandeur, wildness, and danger of Texas’s desert mountain range, and into the heart of a Christian husband, father, and Bible teacher who constantly asks what difference following Jesus makes in the real world.

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