The author of this book, John Mark Comer, agrees with many spiritual writers that the greatest enemy of the spiritual life in our time is hurry. It underlies much of the anxiety and other toxic symptoms of modern life, and Christians are not immune to it. Many of us are living superficial lives, hurrying so much through life that we fail to truly attend to God, to others, to the moment, or to our own souls. This way of living is not the way of Jesus, who invites us to take up his ‘easy yoke’ as his ‘apprentices’ and find rest for our souls. The author shows that, in practice, this means developing a rule of life – a schedule and set of practices that help us to live a life of abiding in Jesus. He shares four of the practices that have most helped him – silence and solitude, sabbath, simplicity and slowing. These have to be built into our lives deliberately and intentionally. They are not a quick fix formula and take a lifetime of practising but they help us to become true apprentices of Jesus, being with him and becoming like him.