Wisdom Chaser

Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet

Nathan Foster

• Publisher: IVP Formatio
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9780830879496
• Print ISBN:
  9780830836307

It began with a simple question:"One day I found myself asking my father, across the chasm between us, 'Hey Dad, you want to climb the highest mountain in Colorado?'"And for Nathan Foster and his father, Richard, that simple question changed everything. With no hiking experience to draw on, they embarked on a journey of physical challenge, discovering just how far they could push themselves. For Nathan a parallel journey took him inside himself.Having grown up in the shadow of a famous father, Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline, Nathan had a lot of questions about who his father really was. Would hiking open the door for him to get to know this distant figure?As the one-time experiment evolved into a decade of challenging hikes up Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, the Fourteeners, Nathan navigated his twenties--finishing college, choosing a career, a possible cross-country move, the early years of marriage and a major personal crisis. Along the way he woulddiscover exactly what his father could offer him.This book also includes an afterword by Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline and coauthor of Longing for God.

Table of contents

• Wisdom Chaser
• Contents
• 1 It Never Hurts to Ask
• 2 The Beating on Mount Elbert
• 3 The Quandary of Dreaming
• 4 Finding My Pace on Mount Quandary
• 5 Time
• 6 Freedom to Fail
• 7 A Much-Loved Nothing
• 8 Humility Is for Losers
• 9 On False Summits
• 10 Freedom to Question
• 11 How Do You Celebrate Discipline?
• 12 Living in the Moment on Longs Peak
• 13 Sometimes the Dragons Win
• 14 Accepting Things I Cannot Change
• 15 Rising and Falling to Assumptions
• 16 What’s in a Name?
• 17 Choices on the Continental Divide
• 18 Electric Air on Holy Cross
• 19 Beauty Beyond Imagination
• 20 Walking Each Other Home
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments