Conversations with
God


· an uncommon dialogue •


book 1
Neale Donald Walsch


1992 -1994

www.universe-people.com


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ALSO BY NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God, Book 2
Conversations with God, Book 1 Guidebook
Meditations from Conversations with God, Book 1
Meditations from Conversations with God, Book 2


Conversations with God

an uncommon dialogue


book 1

Neale Donald Walsch

1995 by Neale Donald Walsch

Acknowledgments

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First, last, and always, I want to acknowledge the Source of everything that is in
this book, everything that is life-and of life itself. Second, I want to thank my
spiritual teachers, who include the saints and sages of all religions.
Third, it is clear to me that all of us could produce a list of people who have
touched our lives in ways so meaningful and so profoundly as to defy
categorization or description; people who have shared with us their wisdom, toldus their truth, suffered us our faults and our foibles in their infinite patience, and
who have seen us through all of it; seeing the best in us there was to see. People
who, in their acceptance of us, as well as their refusal to accept the parts of us theyknew we really didn't choose, caused us to grow; to get bigger somehow.
The people, in addition to my parents, who have been there for me in that way
include Samantha Gorski, Tara-Jenelle Walsch, Wayne Davis, Bryan Walsch,
Martha Wright, the late Ben Wills, Jr., Roland Chambers, Dan Higgs, C. Berry
Carter II, Ellen Moyer, Anne Blackwell, Dawn Dancing Free, Ed Keller, Lyman W.
(Bill) Griswold, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and dear, dear Terry Cole-Whittaker.
I want to include in this group my former mates, whose privacy I wish to respect
by not naming them here, but whose contributions to my life are deeply grasped
and appreciated.
And as gratitude for the gifts I have received from all these wonderful people
swells my heart, I am especially warmed by the thought of my helpmate, spouse,
and partner, Nancy Fleming Walsch, a woman of extraordinary wisdom, compassion
and love, who has shown me that my highest thoughts about human
relationships do not have to remain fantasies, but can be dreams come true.
Fourth and finally, I want to recognize some people I have never met, but whoselives and work have impacted me with such force that I cannot let this moment
pass without thanking them from the depth of my being for the moments of
exquisite pleasure, insight into the human condition, and pure, simpleLifegefeelkin (I made up that word!) they have given me.
You know what it is like when someone has given you a taste, a glorious moment,
of what is really true about life? For me, most of these have been creative or
performing artists, because it is from art that I receive inspiration, to which I
retreat in moments of reflection, and in which I find that which we call God most
beautifully expressed.
And so I want to thank... John Denver, whose songs touch my soul and fill it with
new hope about how life could be; Richard Bach, whose writings reach into my
life as if they were my own, describing so much of what has been my experience;
Barbra Streisand, whose directing, acting, and musical artistry grips my heart
time and time again, causing it to feel what is true, not merely know it; and the
late Robert Heinlein, whose visionary literature has raised questions and posedanswers in ways no one else has dared even approach.

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For

ANNE M. WALSCH

Who not only taught me that God exists,
but opened my mind to the wondrous truth
that God is my best friend;
and who was far more than a mother to me,
but gave birth in me
to a longing for and a love of God,
and all that is good.
Mom was
my first meeting
with an angel.


And for

ALEX M. WALSCH

Who told me repeatedly throughout my life,
"There's nothing to it,"
"You don't have to take No for an answer,
"You make your own luck,"
and
"There's more where that came from."
Dad was
my first experience
of fearlessness.


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Introduction


You are about to have an extraordinary experience. You are about to have a
conversation with God. Yes, yes. I know.. .that's not possible. You probably think
(or have been taught) that's not possible. One can talk to God, sure, but not with
God. I mean, God is not going to talk back, right? At least not in the form of a