Your Holiness: Discover the Light Within

Ford (The Best Year of Your Life), who died of cancer in 2013, leaves readers with this spirited account of her life. Ford writes of how she overcame her drug addictions after kneeling on her filthy bathroom floor and asking God to help her: “A calm had come over me—a silence that was palpable. In asking God, this higher power, to enter my awareness, something inside me had opened up and relaxed.” Ford shares that this moment began her journey to knowing God as a “creative, powerful, and wise, force that is often referred to as ‘spirit,’ ‘love,’ ‘universal consciousness,’ ‘divine order,’ ‘nature,’ or a ‘spiritual master.’ ” Her book includes prayers and chants that focus on specific goals, such as finding the holiness within, preparing for holy cleansing, healing one’s heart, discovering the power of forgiveness, and reclaiming one’s inner light. Ford frequently returns her thoughts to self-care: “What we think we’re craving from the external world is an illusion. We will only find it from the heart candy we give ourselves.” Ford’s book encourages readers to lift themselves up in the light of God. Filled with her original prayers and questions for further discussion, Ford’s impassioned story will help those looking for concrete ways of developing a deeper relationship with God. (Mar.)