Moments of Grace - Hardcover

Walsch, Neale Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1571743030 ISBN 13: 9781571743039

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

The question that I want this book to ultimately address is not, do a lot of people really experience Moments of Grace? The question is, what do people who experience them do afterward?

Some people brush them aside, write them off, keep quiet about them, even try to forget them. Others, like the folks in this book, share them freely, so that people everywhere may be inspired by them, may learn from them, may come to remember something they've always known. I have an idea that those who do so are helping to heal the world.

So, my friends, it's time to come out of the closet. It's time to wave our hands, to tell our stories, to shout our truth, to reveal our innermost experiences, and let those experiences raise eyebrows. Because raised eyebrows raise questions.

We must share our stories about the sacred things we know, which we have learned in the most sacred moments of life. For it is in these sacred moments, these Moments of Grace, that sacred truths are made real for the entire culture. And it is in the living of its most sacred truths that a culture advances as the universe evolves, and in the failure to live those truths that a culture expires.

--Neale Donald Walsch

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Review:

"This book is a huge hug for God ... about moments in our lives when God steps into our lives and gives us a great big hug." Some might label the heart-rending stories in this book as acts of synchronicity or coincidence, but author Neale Donald Walsch calls them moments of grace--"those times when God intervenes in our lives in very real, very direct, and very visible ways." Walsch is renowned for his enormously popular Conversations with God series, which encourage a friendship-like intimacy with God. He builds upon that intimacy in this collection of real-life stories, which he gathered from everyday folks. The settings and situations range from hitchhiking a lonely highway to discovering a teenage daughter who's cut her wrists to finding a gay support group. Every story features a turning point or a seemingly chance encounter that seems to be divinely orchestrated. After recounting the stories, Walsch offers a brief commentary that emphasizes the intimacy and availability of God. This is an unabashed feel-good, feel-God kind of book--highly inspirational and a tad schmaltzy. Some will find the tone a bit smothering, but fans of the CWG series will probably find it touching. --Gail Hudson

From the Inside Flap:

From every corner of the Earth, from all cultures and walks of life, people who have read the Conversations with God books have written to Neale Donald Walsch about their own experiences of God’s presence in their lives. Always extraordinary and sometimes miraculous, these stories demonstrate the widespread commonality of such occurrences.

Those who share their personal experiences of God represent a collective voice for the emergence of spirituality as an integral part of everyday life. Together, they say to the world: Look, this happens more often and to more of us than is commonly believed. Experiencing God is not just confined to biblical characters who lived two thousand years ago, or to the occasional saint. It happens everywhere, all the time.

Neale Donald Walsch has woven these stories into Moments of Grace, and links them seamlessly into the concepts and messages presented in the Conversations with God books. Here are ordinary people telling the truth about their experiences. The promise of this book is that you, too, can experience miracles in your life. If you have eyes to see, here’s the proof.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1571743030
• ISBN 13: 9781571743039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224