The Gift of Change

By Marianne Williamson

     In her new release, The Gift of Change, author Marianne Williamson offers what at first sounds like hope for those living in perilous times. From her point of view, we are all children of God who simply have not yet grasped our true potential for changing the world.

     To quote Ms. Williamson, "Each of us is connected to a cosmic umbilical cord, receiving spiritual nourishment from God each moment. Yet in slavish dedication to the dictates of a fear-based ego, we resist the elixir of divine sustenance, preferring instead to drink the poison of the world..." "That light--a kind of contemporary, secular star of Bethlehem--indicates newness on the horizon and beckons us to follow it to the birth of something fantastic. The wonders of the external world are as nothing, compared to what's happening inside us. This is not an end time, but a new beginning. What is being born is a new kind of human, played out dramatically in each of our lives. Freed from the limitations of the ego, free to see and hear and touch the magic we've been missing all our lives, we're becoming at last who we really are."

    She goes on to say, "We were created by God in a state of holiness, we were born onto the earth in a state of holiness, and we will return to this state upon our death. All of us, however, in between our infancy and death, fall asleep to our true nature and experience the hell of our self-imposed separation from God. Remembering our connection to our Source awakens us and frees us from the nightmares we create."

     Ms. Williamson is truly a gifted wordsmith, and readers searching for truth may well be tempted to pick up this book, which uses terms common to true Christianity and the Bible. But nowhere does the author broach the subject of sin, redemption, judgment, or even mention the name of Jesus. For readers seeking God's truth, I do not believe they will find it here.