Reviews for God Calling

The average rating for God Calling based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-14 00:00:00 Chris Feliciano May 15, 2018: Although I received much consolation from my sojourns with this book, apparently there is more to it than meets the eye. The Two Listeners may not have received their messages as innocently as they should have or thought they did, I know not which, nor do I desire to. If you, like me and some others I know, have drawn closer to God as a result of this book, well and good, but if you have not, then best to let it alone. But either way it is for discernment. (sigh) There are plenty of wonderful books which help us draw close to God. First read this in the 1980s and it transformed my concept of God. I began to see Him as doing all that I thought I was supposed to do, only a million times better. What do I mean? I mean He was'is'the Source of the Love I thought I was supposed to give Him. Somehow I had this idea that God was Someone to pacify, to keep happy, so that one's life could also be reasonably happy. As a cradle Catholic, my reading of Scripture had been very shallow up til then (that soon began to change) and the only other spiritual book I had read seriously, The Imitation of Christ, is mostly ascetic, with only one section where Christ speaks in consoling words of love to the Soul. So the whole idea that God loved me unconditionally just had not occurred to me. In this, God Calling, I heard God speaking in the most loving of voices, assuring me of His constant, unconditional, total, forever LOVE. It was what I needed most, when I most needed it. A wonderful daily meditation. Rereading...

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-04 00:00:00 Timothy Stanley I read from this book each day. Somehow, the entry for that day seems so particular for me. It's so strange. For instance, the day that I was in labor and was told I needed a C-section, I read this: The difficult way is nearly over, but you have learnt in it lessons you could learn in no other way.... such wonderful things are coming to you, Joy, Peace, Assurance, Security, Health, Happiness, Laughter. Claim big, really big, things now. Remember, nothing is too big. Satisfy the longing of My Heart to give. Blessings, abundant blessing, on you both now and always. Peace. And then this was the next reading: I am here. Fear not. Can yu really trust Me? .... Just trust. I cannot, and I will not, fail you. All is well. Courage. Many are praying for you both. That was so powerful and it felt like it was written just for me. This happens so often with the readings. The book has some old English grammar and language. And if you can get past some of the heavy religious context in which some of the pages are written, you may find this to be a very powerful daily reader as well.