Reviewer Bani Sodermark. Bani has a Ph.D in mathematical physics and has been a teacher of physics and mathematics at the university level in both India and Sweden. For the last decade, her interests have been spirituality, healthy living and self-development. She has written a number of reviews on Amazon. Bani is a mother to two children.
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Author: Rea Nolan
Martin
Publisher: Wiawaka Press
ISBN:
978-0-557-07495-2
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Surrender to the Will of God
Over the centuries, the
prescription to a happy, problem free existence for the common wo/man
has been “Let go, let God.” This prescription has been
mercilessly exploited by power mongers, both at the political and the
religious levels, by leaders, who by virtue of their position claim
to have their own hotline to God. As a result, they have steered many
hapless men and women to their doom.
The aftermath of
religious persecution (often for personal and political gain) has led
to widespread atheism and the erection of other pedestals, prominent
among them being science and rationality. The very idea of a close,
intimate, one-to-one relationship with a Divine Being has been often
relegated to be the product of a fertile and overactive (feminine)
imagination.
Yet, the times, they are a-changing. The altars
of rationalized, testosterone dominated power structures are losing
their sheen, as more and more people, especially women, are awakening
to their own, innate divinity, and learning to act on the promptings
of their own, inbuilt GPS system. This book tells the (fictionalized)
story of a woman who does just that.
Vera Wright, a beautician
was sitting at Mass, when the officiating priest laid out a challenge
to his parishioners, daring them to invite God into their lives. Vera
took up the challenge but she wasn’t prepared for the consequences,
that that action would initiate. Not only does her own life gets
entirely transformed, there was a domino effect over the lives of her
friends and associates, and their lives are also changed drastically
as a result of Vera’s transformation. Miracles take place, and
wishes come true for those who believe, however, tragedy strikes as
well. With hindsight, all turns out well, but throughout the
manuscript, it is evident that something akin to a Higher
Consciousness chose Vera’s persona to anchor itself on Earth, to
the extent that Vera allowed it.
Vera Wright’s trump card in
this story, over her detractors (one of them is a priest who doubts
her suitability for being an instrument of God, on the grounds of her
being a woman) is a total belief in her own truth and the conviction
that God was working through her. So, the minister’s exhortation to
her to repent, for her sins in order to deserve, falls on deaf ears.
Vera avers, all along, her truth that as God’s child, she deserves
everything automatically, being who she is.
This is a
refreshingly original and unusual story. It has been well
written, and is very readable, a real page turner, in fact. Vera’s
relation to God is that of a friend, very forthright and modern,
anchored in the Now. At the end of the book, is a channeled message
on the need of the times, purportedly by Vera, but which could, for
all intents and purposes, be from the author herself, or a source she
trusts.
I recommend this book warmly to all, especially to
those, who, as I have, questioned their faith. It can provide
balm to your wounds that you have kept locked out of sight, in a
corner of your heart as you realize that there is more to Life than
meets the eye.
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