The
first time I heard of the CWG book, I blew it off because of the “G” word.
Walking through my favorite store, Barnes/Noble, I saw the book lying on a
table and I walked past it. Something stopped me and said,
“At the very least, why not look at it?”
Life hasn’t been the same since then.
Thank God!
One
of the many things that drew me to the CWG perspective through book One was
the way Neale Donald Walsch articulated the essence of God’s very nature.
Even now, after a year of working for his “for-profit” product
distribution company, Greatest Visions, I am still awe-struck when I go back
and read the words of Conversations With God, I, II, III. I am honored beyond
words to be able to be a part of spreading this beautiful, infinitely loving
message to the world.
Trying
my best to articulate what this CWG perspective has been in my life is an
equally challenging task. How do
I tell of reading a book almost 4 years ago that has changed my life, at 62
years of age? Then how do I explain the power that is mine in the continuance
of reading the works of Neale Donald Walsch?
How do I share the deep, deep joy of attending many retreats, events
and especially, how do I communicate connecting at an unprecedented level with
the hundreds of people who share this philosophical perspective?
I
felt like I have known many of these people forever. I discovered at my first retreat at Sedona in May of 1998,
that indeed I have known them forever. I was “stunned” to actually
recognize souls I have shared previous lives with at that first event and
every subsequent event. Some
of these lovely people, in a few short years, have become the very best
friends I have ever known.
To
me, this great awakening of my soul is all about the people I have met who
share the universal magnificence of this CWG perspective. All of my life I
have been a seeker of the spiritual. Forty-nine
years ago this fall I started college, choosing to major in Theology having
been trained to think that the academic way was the only way to understand
God’s relationship to humanity. I
recall way back in the 50’s, asking my professors why did they think that
God had stopped talking to people in this 20th century?
(The religious affiliation I was born into was started by a woman
“talking to God” back around 1850.) I
was roundly castigated for the impertinence of this question in front of a
board of elders and told to explain the audacity of my questions.
Needless to say my affiliation with that religious institution soon
ended – but the search continued. When
I read Conversations With God, Book I in September of 1997, I was astonished
to find that someone else believed as I did and he had actually written a book
I wished I had written. I then
decided to go to that first retreat to find the inconsistencies in the message
I had read in the book. My
intellect and experience said there must be some “holes” in this message.
Now, almost 4 years later, I have still found NO inconsistencies in
anything I have read or heard. This
is simply the most comprehensive and complete philosophical statement I have
ever encountered defining the nature of human beings and their relationship to
Universal Love/God.
I have personally
found that the “dramatized” audio tapes (of the books) to be even more
profound than the books. Hearing the message filled another part of my
consciousness and, unlike the books, I could do that while I was driving –
and have done so countless times. Each
and every time I listen to the CWG message, I hear something different. My
favorite of all the tapes is the one called, Relationships.
My favorite CD is Journey.
My favorite book is CWG, III. My favorite event is The Gathering
held each summer here in Oregon. I
have made more progress in becoming who I choose to be in these last 4 years
than all 62 years before that. The
key word here is “liberating”. My
soul is finally free of the confines imposed by my intellect.
Whew! About time, “NOW TIME”
that is!
