The above paragraph is benign to me. But the next one is disturbing: “Therefore , when life brings you challenges, difficulties and unique conditions, situations, and circumstances that are exactly suited to bring out the best in you, ‘judge not, and neither condemn,’ but be a light into the darkness, that you might know who you really are- and that all those whose lives you touch might know who they are as well, by the light of your example.”

The above would have been readily accepted by me when I was still a traditional religious person mindful of giving good example and having “sacrifice” and “struggle” as my daily bread. But after more than a year of Esther Hicks and George Sison I find the above jarring. Hicks especially convinced me that I can create my reality. Now Walsch has pointed out several unforeseen conditions. Maybe the conditions described by Walsch are what Hicks considers resistances that prevent manifestations. Don’t tell me this brings me back to square one!

“Therefore, all the people and events of your life – now or in the past- which seem to be ‘at odds’ with who you are and what you choose to experience, are simply gifts from the highest source, created for you and brought to you through the collaborative process of co-creating souls, allowing you to find yourself in a contextual field within which the fullest expression of who you really are becomes possible.”

“The divine purpose is to expand the reality of God.”

I am glad the challenges that seemed like darkness of the soul last June have been lifted, if only for awhile.

Esther Hicks wrote: “Through this process, you will return to your non-physical understanding, and then problems will cease to be problems and will be seen for what they really are -life -giving opportunities for eternal expansion.”

I say: God help me stay in my non-physical understanding!