Bestselling author Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God) moves beyond showing readers how to develop a friendship with God and instead offers a model for communion. Rather than using the dialogue format, where Walsch shares personal conversations he has with God, he chose to write through the narrative voice of God--as if God were speaking directly to the reader. "I tell you this: You need nothing to survive", says God. "Your survival is guaranteed. I gave you … mehreverlasting life, and I never took it away from you". This format can feel a bit jarring, as if this was an attempt at channelling, rather than Walsch's usual humble style of dialogue. Using a structure of top-10 illusions, Walsch has God speaking to illusions such as need, judgement and superiority. At times God sounds scolding: "For I tell you this: Your idea of superiority could be the last mistake you ever make". Yet, the bottom-line message is that of unconditional love and the exhilarating promise of communion--a gift that is lavishly offered throughout the final chapters. --Gail Hudson weniger