196. My Conversations With God with Neale Donald Walsch

Do you believe God talks with you? In fact, God is never not talking with you!

Depending on your background, beliefs, and point of view, this might sound crazy. If you’re actively involved in any of the 4,223 religions currently practiced around the world today, the elders of whatever your formal congregation is called will probably say you ARE crazy. They might also call you a sinner, a heretic, a blasphemer, or worse.

So imagine a man who’d seemingly had it all going for him. He was a former radio broadcaster who then made a name for himself as a newspaper reporter, rising to managing editor of a weekly newspaper in Annapolis, MD. He made good money. He had a wife and kids. Everything was fine – more than fine.

But one day his wife decided she wanted a divorce. It was amicable, but still difficult. Five days after the end of his marriage, he was downsized out of his job. His boss gave him a glowing recommendation though and he was off to another job interview faster than it took to brew some coffee… and on the way there he got in a car accident that broke his neck and left him lucky to be alive.

After he got out of the hospital, the job interviews kept coming, but nobody would hire him. Like it or not, he was told, that neck brace he was wearing scared employers because if anything happened to him while he was at work, they’d be paying his medical bills for the next five years. He lost his apartment because he couldn’t come up with rent money. He ended up living on the street for a year. Moving back in with his ex-wife even temporarily was out of the question – fair enough – but she wouldn’t even let him come in the house. He had to visit the kids in the garage.

Fine is a 4-Letter Word, indeed.

Well, eventually he found some work and was able to rent a tiny studio apartment. This man, who had grown up religious, woke up at 4:23 one morning and wrote an angry letter on a yellow notepad to God, asking in essence, “What do I have to do to make it in the game of life?”

Then he heard a voice… God answered. (Or was that God?)

For Neale Donald Walsch, that was a good question. But then these conversations became a regular thing. He was writing, or channeling, everything he heard. Eventually, God told him he would publish his writings, and the answers, as a book. Neale’s publisher told him it would never sell 500 copies since nobody would believe God spoke directly to anyone who wasn’t a pope, patriarch, preacher, rabbi, or imam. Turns out, his publisher was right – it didn’t sell 500 copies. It sold FIVE MILLION.

Conversations with God, Book 1 was published in 1995 and I’m pretty sure I have one of the first copies, which I devoured cover to cover. It all made so much sense to me. But back then, and even up until a couple months ago, I would never have imagined having an hour-long conversation with Neale. But now that I have, you don’t have to imagine it either. You get to hear it.

Resources:

• Neale Donald Walsch’s websites: http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/ and https://CWGconnect.com.
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NealeDonaldWalsch/
• Also, check out Episode #190, Study That Which You Desire To Become with John Morris - it was John who introduced me to Neale!

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