Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Greening by Margaret Coles

  The Greening by Margaret Coles is a novel filled with mystery, love, and adventure. While this book is fictional it is based upon a book written by a woman named Julian who had visions of Jesus and the crucifixion.

 In the book The Greening by Margaret Coles the author shows us through the main character, Joanna, a journalist, that God is love and the meaning of everything is love. We are taken on a journey by the journalist to discover meaning and find that God is not a God of vengeance. We are shown that whatever comes our way, "all shall be well".  We are taught about a God that loves us and does not see our sin.

 In The Greening the main character sees that we all have to come to our own personal Calvary where hope and grief meet in order to surrender control and find peace.

 This book reminded me of The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield in that it shows us important concepts in story form.

 While there was a significant christian undertone to the book, I found that its' overall encompassing message of love is one everyone can relate to.  I think that this is a wonderful first novel by Margaret Coles.

I acknowledge that I received this book free of charge from Hay House in exchange for an unbiased review of the book.

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~Rose

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Traveling at the Speed of Love by Sonia Choquette

  Traveling at the Speed of Love by Sonia Choquette is a book that will inspire and help us all to fly higher at the speed of love. This book shows us how to stop living in fear and travel higher to a brighter, more healing vibration of love.

 This book uses the analogy of a plane trip to show us how to travel at the frequency of love. While learning to travel at the frequency of love we learn to overcome our ego and the victim based consciousness in which we live. At the end of each chapter there are flying lessons, basic and advanced, that give us ways we can incorporate what was shown in each particular chapter into our lives.

 One of my favorite chapters is entitled, "Catching the Jet Stream of Grace," in which we are shown ways to have grace in our lives. We are shown that creating grace in our lives helps protect us from the fear based consciousness in which we live.  We are also shown that the more we travel at the speed of love the more we will meet like minded 'travelers.'

 I absolutely loved this book and would definitely recommend it to everyone to help them travel higher at the speed of love.

I acknowledge that I received this book free of charge from Hay House in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion of the book.

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~Rose

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Life's Operating Manual: With the Fear and Truth Dialogues by Tom Shadyac

 Life's Operating Manual: With the Fear and Truth Dialogues by Tom Shadyac is a book of short essays and conversations between Fear and Truth. The book starts out with an old Native American legend about two wolves; one bad (fear), and the other good (truth). The author goes on to say that we each have two wolves inside us and which one wins depends on which wolf we feed, fear or truth.

 In each chapter of the book the author focuses on different aspects of our lives and humanity as a whole and then has a dialogue at the end between fear and truth.

 One of the main points of this book is that humans are not hardwired for competition, we are hardwired to live in cooperation with each other.  The author also argues that we are not hardwired for negativity but rather to live positively and that is why we are so captivated with negativity in the news, because it goes against what comes naturally to us as human beings.

 I found this book to be a quick, short, and easy read. I read it through all at once and could not put it down. My favorite part of the book was the dialogues between fear and truth at the end of each chapter. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to challenge their current world view.

 I acknowledge that I received this book free from Hay House in exchange for my unbiased opinion of the book.

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~Rose