Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Conversations with God Series) Paperback – October 1, 2002

I am a retired clergy who somehow missed "Friendship" when it first came out, having read the trilogy "Conversations (books 1-3)" and "Companionship (book 5)". I was delighted to discover and read this segment in the series. The dialogue format is easily read and holds many deep and profound insights, which the average person can grasp. It does not slip into philosophically speculative theology. From the beginning it is grounded in experience. Walsh gives us many autobiographical sketches that help us see the roots of his insights. This will turn off someone who is rigidly fundamentalist "anything," and it will appeal most to the "spiritual but not religious" folk who are searching for some way to articulate the deep driving "knowing" that has made them critics of established religion and yet left them longing for someone to express the unseen, driving energy of the universe. Walsh knows that "God" is not some entity out there, somewhere but within all that is, and he tells us he is using the dialogue motif to help bridge between transcendent theology to imminent theology. It all boils down to accepting the fact that Love is the driving energy of the universe and is what we really are (God in us), even though we are often ignorant or in denial of that and do ourselves and each other great disservice and harm in the process. I have used and encouraged clergy colleagues to read Walsh to help make their preaching "real." This book is no exception, but it is not just for the professionally religious but all who remain life-long seekers of truth.

I have read this book a few times. It is a great book for teaching you to create a friendship with God rather then a one sided relationship where we just talk to or at Him. It is so simple, but so unconventional that it is hard to put this book down. I read the Conversations with God series before reading this and I would recomend that you do the same, though not necessary. This book gives the author some time to talk about his own life, but all the while God is talking about the steps we need to take to create a real friendship with Him. I now use this book as a pick me up, I can just open it at any page and find that the message is exactly what I needed to remind myself about to improve my day. This book is deep and very spiritual. A great addition the the library of anyone on a spiritual path.

It was an eye opener on spirituality versus religion. Many people have a hard time with picking a religion or joining a church. God is with us everywhere so we can always join in a conversation with him and tell him how we feel. We can thank God also for the good he has done for us. It is up to each of us to decide how much we want God to be in our lives. It was an easy book to follow with many good questions asked and answered by God.

Awesome wisdom given by the author!! I used some of his wisdom in my life and it has changed for the better.

I decided to purchase FWG after deliberately avoiding the Conversation With God series for many years. I stumbled into another review somewhere that said FWG was a good compilation and extension of Neale's previous writings so I finally "bit". My religious inclinations are broad, to say the least, but any skepticism I had about Neale being a legitimate channel to the Divine gradually faded away into irrelevance. There's a lot to ponder in FWG and as I approach the final chapters, I think it would be time well spent to immediately read it again. Many bracket marks along the margins (in pencil... I don't use highlighters much anymore) convince me that he didn't somehow conjure up the paradoxical but interconnected concepts. In fact, bravely transcribing paradoxical notions seems to be a sign of Truth Ahead for seekers of all persuasions. Neale's biographical hardships and confessions along the way make his authorship just that much more bodacious.I think now (Aug 2012) that Neale is actually tapping into his higher self but not "God" per se.

If only more of us could and would apply this God blunt honest truth about why We are failing as human beings and as human race, if we could finally understand that we are one, we would finally know how to live in peace honesty harmony and more important in Love to one another

God gives us a true insight to friendship that we all can have if we open our minds. Good to read before reading "Tomorrows God"; now that is a book I wish I could place in the hands of everyone on the planet. Imagine the chatter if everyone finished it at once and shared their feelings about it with each other. The world would could finally be what we all wish for. Love, truth, freedom, joy and peace!

Another hit by Neale. Beautiful down to earth (and maybe up to heaven) easy to read dialogue on forming a friendship with God..a real one not an airy fairy wishy washy type of thing.I love ALL his books...and this one brings the other books in the trilogy into more perspective for me.Wonderfully enticing and lovely as per usual...Neale makes me see God in a light of love and not fear!Bravo Neale! Keep writing!