{"id":362,"date":"2008-08-01T01:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/08\/get-ready-for-a-ride.html"},"modified":"2008-08-01T01:01:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T01:01:55","slug":"get-ready-for-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/08\/get-ready-for-a-ride.html","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for a ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning this Sunday, and for the next 20 weeks, we’re going to take quite an excursion in this blogspace. Get ready for quite a ride. We’re going to be talking about things that you haven’t talked about since Sunday School. Here, it’ll be Sunday School All Week, for 20 straight weeks.
\nOur Sunday School All Week will close on Sunday, December 21st — appropriately, just before Christmas. Classes begin this Sunday. Here is the curriculum:
\n1.\tWhat is life?
\n2.\tIs there a God?
\n3.\tWho or what is God?
\n4.\tWhy is God?
\n5.\tWhat is God’s purpose?
\n6.\tWhat is God’s function?
\n7.\tWho or what are you?
\n8.\tWhy are you?
\n9.\tWhere are you?
\n10.\tWhen are you?
\n11.\tWhat is your purpose?
\n12.\tWhat is your function?
\n13.\tIs there an ‘Afterlife’?
\n14.\tIs there a Heaven?
\n15.\tIs there a Hell?
\n16.\tWhat is ‘Salvation”, and what is the Road to Salvation?
\n17.\tWho was Buddha? Who was Jesus? Who was Muhammad?
\n18.\tWhat is Enlightenment; is it possible?
\n19.\tWhy bother with any of this?
\n20.\tHow, then, to best live your life?
\nEach Sunday we will consider the topic, receive a lecture on the subject, and be given an assignment. Monday through Thursday we will entertain questions and discussion from the class. Friday your assignment will be due. On Saturday, you’ll receive your grade for the week. On December 21, you’ll receive your Final Grade.
\nAny questions?
\nGood. Now quiet down class. This is only a preview today. We begin our preview discussion with this comment from Jeannie. The convention here will be that all class comments will be presented in bold<\/strong>. Responses from the teacher will appear in italics<\/em>. Basic instructions and lecture material will be published in regular typeface such as this.
\nJeannie? Please go ahead.
\n<\/p>\n

\nI have just read “What God Wants” (at least three times) and am in a state of pure joy. I have always believed in my deepest soul everything you so eloquently scripted……my question is how to get this message to those who need it most??? Those who hate for no reason, kill in “THE NAME OF GOD”, and make judgments against those whom one has never known.
\nI teach at-risk youth….they are so lost and afraid. I have always tried to instill in them the truth that all of us have the Light of God within, it is just a matter of finding it. I try so hard to look into their eyes and see their souls — some of them have murdered, raped and who knows what…..but they are still so young and confused that I just know that the Lord is waiting for them to see the truth.
\nI am so hoping that your book will help me in my daily life….I want to be the example to them that they need, so that all their anger and hurt can disappear. Can you help?????
\nJeannie Biscotti<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/strong>
\nMy dear Jeannie…Yes, I can help. The thing you may want to do is join the Messenger Circle at www.nealedonaldwalsch.com. This is a community of spiritual helpers, now over 1,000 strong, who have created a virtual community on the Internet for the purpose of continuing exploration of ways to move this message forward into the world, for offering support to each other in doing so, and for helping others in the instant moment through the Life Support Center.
\nYou may wish to send others — anyone you know — to the Life Support Center to receive input from Messengers such as yourself there. You may also wish to show up in the Life Support Center on a regular basis, offering your own insights and assistance to those in need of spiritual sustenance and support.
\nAlso in the Messenger’s Circle you will have a chance to interact with others, and with me, daily.
\nYou may take advantage of the Ask Neale section there as well, where I can answer your questions on the CWG material — or the questions of anyone you send there.
\nThere you may also wish to open the CWG Weekly Reader — an extension of the CWG material offering weekly guidance in how to apply its messages as a practical matter in your life.
\nAdditionally, Jeannie, you may wish to joing the Reverse Book-Of-The-Month Club. You may do this right now, today. What the club invites you to do is not receive<\/em> a book every month, but just the reverse: to give one away.<\/em>
\nDecide that every month from now on you are going to make sure that a copy of What God Wants falls into the hands of someone else. You may wish to simply place one on the reading table at the hair styling salon. Or “forget” to take your copy off the subway seat. Or “accidentally” leave one at the dentist’s office. Carry a copy (they are small) wherever you go, and simply drop them around. Or, purposefully give one away to a person you know (or even someone you don’t know) who looks like they could use a lift!
\nBecome a Messenger of the New Spirituality.<\/em>
\nTake a 3-day Deep Study CWG<\/strong> course (they are offered twice a year by the Conversations with God Foundation – www.cwg.org), or sign up for a 5-Day Intensive, such as the ReCreating Yourself Spiritual Renewal Retreat being offered this Christmas time (and every year during the week between Christmas and New Year’s). I personally facilitate this retreat, and people come from all over the world to attend it. It is extremely reasonably priced, and you can get more information about it by going to www.cwg.org<\/strong> and simply clicking on Retreats<\/strong>.
\nYou may also want to go to www.nealedonaldwalsch.com and look up the schedule of my appearances around the country and across the globe. I could be offering a 1-day Happier Than God<\/strong> program right in your neighborhood.
\nAND, finally, if you liked reading What God Wants, give yourself permission to read the “toolbox book” for the CWG series, the recently (March) released book Happier Than God<\/em><\/strong>, which explains in very accessible and exciting terms how to take the messages of all of the Conversations with God<\/em>books and apply them in your daily life. You can then pass this information on to others.
\nYes, there is much you can do, Jeannie. A great deal you can do! And thanks for asking!<\/em>
\nSee you all here Sunday for the opening of class, on Topic #1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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