Meditations from Conversations with God

Book Excerpt: Introduction

Introduction

In February 1992 Neale Donald Walsch had an experience that was to change not only his life, but the lives of millions of people around the globe.  This was the month in which God began to speak to him and in fact entered into a rather extensive dialogue with him.  These exchanges were eventually to become a book, Conversations with God, which was an international bestseller read by millions of people in dozens of languages around the world.  This book spawned two highly successful sequels in the Conversations with God trilogy.

 For Neale, these conversations quenched an enormous thirst and satisfied an incredible hunger.  Readers everywhere have been similarly touched and have attested to the comfort and guidance they have found in the pages of these books.

 Like many of us, Neale had been searching for the God of his heart for a very long time.  The God he met in his conversations turned out to be not a God of fear, but a God of unconditional and unlimited love.  A God of deep compassion and understanding.  A God of wonderful humor.  A God who takes pure delight in the joyful celebration of life.  He met a God who offers friendship, not lordship?and who in return asks for friendship, not worship.

 The meditations included in this book are derived from Neale's dialogues with God.  They address issues many of us confront in our daily lives, and some that we will all face at some point.  The depth of their universal wisdom shines through and all who have been involved in the making of this book have been deeply affected and have found great comfort and guidance, as we feel sure that you, the reader, will too.

 You may wish to read this book from cover to cover or simply dip into it from time to time when you are seeking comfort or advice.  Or, if a particular issue is on your mind, use the index at the back of the book for guidance.  This is a book that you will come back to time and time again.