A wisdom rarely found !, 30 Jul 2004

Personally I think the title "Conversations with God" has done this book more harm than good. So many people shy away from matters of religion these days and as such the title of this book will also drive away many people who are searching for answers but at the same time avoiding any religion.

I spent many years of my life hating certain people for one reason or another, I had questions swimming in my head that no one seemed able to answer. I was a devout athiest, a total disbeliever in anything or anyone. My view of life was,"you live, you die and your worm food !" I would proudly blurt this out to anyone stupid enough to listen to me, and believe it or not there were many that would. I only mention this so that you can see the sort of person I was, a total sceptic & a fool.

My brother then introduced me to this book and for that I will be eternaly grateful. This book began to answer the questions I had spent years looking for answers to. It doesn't matter to me if this book was written with divine intervention, I don't care that the author is American, I care even less that Mr. Walsch should profit from selling his books, hell the Catholic church is one of the richest institutions on this planet. What I do care about is the fact that this book if given a chance would help many, many people to live a much happier & contented life. It would give them a better understanding not just of themselves, but also of others, of life, death, sexuality, relationships, marriage, divorce, crime etc etc. In fact any and every aspect of life is covered in this book, it is just a question of reading, digesting & then deciding if you yourself can put forward a better way of living not just for yourself, but for society as a whole....? If you cannot come up with a better way or any better answers then listen to what the book says, change your way of thinking, become more confident in who and what you are and start to live a happier life.

As the author nears the end of the book, he asks "what should I do now". The answer he is given is to spread the word, and to that end I have given numerous gifts of this book to people who I felt were emotionaly/spiritualy lost or others that had reached a particularly low point in their lives for whatever reason. These people some of whome were friends and others who were strangers all had one thing in common, they needed guidance and more importantly happiness. If what I have said here is enough to make just one person read this amazing book, then I am happy.

I have done what has been asked, the book will do the rest ;-)

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