The High Road of Faith: A Personal Journey

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Summary: The High Road of Faith: A Personal Journey by Carol J Denego
Review: An inspirational book. You feel as though you have got under Carol's skin to be able to laugh and weep with her. At time's in your life when you need inspiration, this will be the book to pick up to make you realize you are not facing the world alone.

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Summary: Where to find one's Treasure and personal Legend
Review: Carol Denego's book 'The High Road of Faith' is a testimony of personal journey that follows the path of pursuing one's Legend in spirit of Paulo Coelho's famous story 'The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream'. Analogous to Coelho's fable, Carol is very much like the Shepard boy in search of his dream for Treasure and seeks high and low throughout her world to find it. It is along the pathway of life that one achieves the wisdom eventually seeing where the Treasure is actually hidden.

Unlike Coehlo's Fable, Carol shares real, and very personal, experiences that are universal, in the sense that they are common to all of us, but are unique in the way in which she, hence we, choose to react to them. The range of these experiences includes how she reacts to the daily difficulties of Life, interpersonal relationships, the death of her Father, to the reconciliation of self-doubts. Carol's examples are inspirational to me because there was a common theme and prescription through which a Treasure was always found close to home in the Inner Self. Her first prescription was to re-channel the perceptions of our circumstances as if through the eyes of a child. As children, we were not afraid to dream. But as time passes, and we 'grow up', a mysterious negative force begins to convince us that such dreams are impossible to realize in our life. We are tempted overlook the obvious before us and to seek beyond ourselves to find treasure when the real Treasure lies within ones soul in communication with the Spirit. Ultimately, while there may not be cures for any of life's troubles, there is Healing that comes from an inner peace that passes understanding. The second prescription that became evident from her experiences was that of following the admonition from the New Testament: Matthew 7:17 'Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.' I can see that the second prescription worked for Carol, and for us, if we first are in a position to not lose our ability to dream and find the Treasure within.
I recommend this book to those that are seeking and have not found and are willing to risk the chance of finding one's Inner Spirit through the eyes of a child using a child's unrelenting persistence and curiosity to dream about what is behind the next apparently closed door that Life presents before us.

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Summary: We are never alone.
Review: Carol Denego's first book is filled with charming personal vignettes about one woman's encounter with the vicissitudes of life, those events that fill our own storybooks with memorable moments of joy and sorrow, challenge and triumph. It is a friendly and honest book, guileless and funny in a way that touches us all no matter who we are or where we're from. Her message is deceptively simple: We are never alone, and life unfolds in perfection if we but do the journey. There is sweetness and magic in her stories, and they ring with the truth of everyday reality.

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Summary: We are never alone
Review: Carol's book is inspirational and gives the reader pause to "see a loving God" in every action and breath of one's daily journey. Her examples of her own life help the reader feel His presence and love. Her writing style allows the reader to ponder the book's meaning and not feel like you are being force into one view; rather to question, How is God's love and presence demonstrated in your life? You'll find yourself writing your own "High Road to Faith"!

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Summary: A Book to Share
Review: I could not put Carol Denego's book down. I felt like I was visiting with her, and getting to know a very good friend. Her life's experiences are inspirational. Carol's book, The High Road of Faith: A Personal Journey, is a book I am sharing with all of my family and friends!

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Summary: The High Road of Faith: A Personal Journey
Review: I've finally read your book and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was most inspiring to read of all the times that Spirit provided so graciously for you, and reminded me of the many times that Spirit has helped in my own life.

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Summary: The High Road Of Faith A Personal Journey By Carol J. Denego
Review: Review The High Road Of Faith A Personal Journey By Carol J. Denego

Carol J. Denego's book in the style of Alexandra David-Neel takes the reader with her on a tour around the world. She reminds us of the role synchronicity and angels play however unseen in our most perhaps precious moments. This small volume carries a vision of encouragement that I will return to again and again at moments of personal or spiritual inquiry and challenge.

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Summary: What a great reminder!
Review: This book is written very warmly. Not only do we all live in relationship with God, God wants a dynamic relationship with us! As our family copes with the turbulence of the times, He is right here with us. I couldn't put this book down, and I felt so much clearer and more hopeful for having read it. Thank you, Carol!

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Summary: The High Road of Faith: A Personal Journey
Review: Upon hearing the title, what comes immediately to mind is the old Loch Lomond refrain which goes, "Ye take the high road, and I'll take the low road...and I'll get to Scotland "afore ye"... High road or low road, the intent is the same: to move forward on the road of faith. Consciously embarking upon a spiritual journey is a decision of strong intent, coupled with a sharpened sense of awareness that whatever we encounter along that road has a multi-faceted significance.

Carol experienced this, too, and shows us the importance of receiving each event in our lives--uplifting ones filled with song and friends but also losses and adverse events--as an opportunity to grow spiritually and develop our faith in an underlying purpose for our presence here on Earth.

In the best tradition of spiritual seekers throughout the ages, Carol's "gypsy" journey sends her to all sorts of places, both physical and metaphysical. Her earthbound travels take her around the world--from San Francisco Bay to Brazil, from Switzerland to Western Samoa, and from Hawaii to exotic Asian destinations like Thailand, Indonesia, and Mainland China and back again to Oahu.

At the same time, her spirit takes flight on journeys that are as passionate as they are, in the end, peace-filled as she learns to listen to "Spirit" and trust in a higher power to guide and keep her on that high road of faith through all of life's large, and small, trials.

Writing this review after the tragic terrorist attacks in New York and Washington brings home the fact that, as Carol confirms, "we create our world". Even a person or a nation as seemingly invincible as America can be momentarily caught off guard and dealt a devastating, if not lethal, blow that forces it to look inward to discover what circumstances permitted, indeed encouraged, such evil havoc. Spiritual cleansing requires deep and often painful introspection.

At the same time, being paralyzed by introspection and fear is not the answer. Carol shows, with a mixture of trust, curiosity, and humor, that she--and indeed any one of us--can summon up the strength to overcome uncertainty and self-doubt, breaking free of the past to embark upon our own personal, and highly rewarding, spiritual journey.

As Carol travels on towards new challenges and discoveries, another old Irish blessing comes to mind, one woven to strengthen the spirit and heal the hearts of all travelers on this, life's premier journey: "May the road rise up to meet you; May the wind be always at your back; May the sun shine warm upon your face; And rains fall soft upon your fields; And, until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand."

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Summary: Faith is a Daily Choice
Review: What a great read! The minute I picked up High Road of Faith, I couldn't put it down. What a wonderful emotional journey it took me on, reminding me of the wonderful presence of the Spirit in our daily living.