Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind - Hardcover

Vanzant, Iyanla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684841371 ISBN 13: 9780684841373

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This volume of devotions for those on the path to spiritual empowerment provides a year's worth of daily quotes, explanations from Iyanla Vanzant, and brief exercises or actions for readers to perform.

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Review:

This book of 365 daily devotionals supports the time-honoured adage, "Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?" The charismatic spiritual leader Iyanla Vanzant knows how easy it is to stay stuck in "old sentiments, resentments, beliefs, decisions, agreements, judgments, and ideas that may have become habitual". Through these devotions Vanzant hopes to show readers that the easiest way to create change is to simply shift your attitude--today. "We often work so hard to get the things we want that we miss the fact that it is the landscape of the inner world that stands between us and true happiness".

In the closing paragraph of each one-page devotional Vanzant names an old way of thinking and offers readers a new attitude to try on "just for today". For example, Vanzant writes, "Until today, you may have believed that you had to stay in the painful hole of hurt caused by the loss of a loved one. Just for today, make a conscious effort and choice to cover the hole and move on." Some might consider these devotions a fancy term for affirmations. Vanzant scoffs at the notion. Time spent in devotion is not a "New Age trick through which you can impose your will on God, the universe, or those around you", she writes. "Devotion is the reverent, personal act of surrendering your will to the Divine will". --Gail Hudson

Review:

Linton Weeks "The Washington Post" Iyanla Vanzant has been down and now her books are pulling others up. "USA Today" Vanzant seems to have touched a chord among those looking for inner peace.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0684841371
• ISBN 13: 9780684841373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432