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I enclose as a pdf (119 kb so its very small) some real gems from Neal's book below. Many people including myself have real problems with the term 'God'. I prefer the term 'Prime Creator' but whatever you want to call Divine Essence, the term you use is unimportant. What is important is the message for you to do with as you deem fit.

But as I grew older, I began to have doubts. I never doubted my mother's faith, but I began to wonder about its source. I had never had any direct experience of God in my life, and for someone who was “always with me,” God was remarkably non-present. I never stopped believing in the existence of God, mind you. I just didn't quite get that God was even aware of—much less interested—in me.

Then in February 1992 I had an experience that changed all that. That was the month in which God began to speak to me. Personally. We entered, in fact, into a rather exten­sive dialogue. Lasting one full year, our exchanges became a book. We called it Conversations with God. Our conver­sation quenched in me an enormous thirst, satisfied in me an incredible hunger. And I hoped that by sharing it, it could do the same for others.

We have been searching for the God of our heart for a very long time. The God I met in my conversation was not a God to fear, but a God of unconditional and unlimited love. A God of deep compassion and understanding. A God of wonderful humor who takes pure delight in the joyful celebration of life. This is a God offering friendship, not lordship—and asking, in return, for friendship, not wor­ship.

That is the God I would like all of us to know. And the wisdom of that kind God is the wisdom I wish we could live each day. These meditations offer a chance to do just that. Taken from the pages of Conversations with God, these words have been very helpful, very meaningful, and very inspiring to me.

I invite you to open this book each morning and embrace the day's thought. Meditate on its meaning. Then seek to bring that meaning into your life as you go about your day. At the close of the day, open this book again, turning to the page with which you began your morning. Read once more the words for the day. Take a moment to reflect on the hours just past, and the new context within which the words may be considered.

Then close the book with thanks. And, if it feels good to do so, write in your journal what has come to you from this process. Put down whatever comes to your mind.

In this way you can use the daily meditations here to begin your own conversation with God.

Download the full meditations from the Conversations with God series as pdf here