Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006

I could summarise this book in six words: THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER! But since each of these blogs have to be at least two hundred and fifty words, I might as well give you a bit more background information. This book is an autobiography of Liz Gilbert, a woman in her thirties who has everything she is supposed to want in this world except happiness. After a painful divorce and an equally disastrous love affair Liz decides to travel the world for a year; four months in each India, Italy, and Indonesia in order to help and more importantly discover herself. 

By page thirteen of this book I decided I liked this woman. By page fourteen I decided we were soul sisters. On such said page thirteen Liz began to talk about her religious views and I briefly had to put down the book for a moment. While I was gone I started thinking about my religious views. When I came back and read the following page Liz had written the exact same thing I had just thought to myself. (Insert Twilight Zone music here) We both believe that God (or whatever your head god is called) does not care who you are, what religion you study, or what your ethnicity is. As long as you devote yourself to a life time of humility, kindness, etc. This is exactly what I felt about my own beliefs and the exact problem I have always had with Christianity. I have always had many non-christian friends and countless times I asked the question, "What about the people who don't believe but are still good? What about them?" and never have been able to find a satisfying answer. She explains her religion as taking all of the best qualities from each god and applying them all to one. The answer she gives to those who ask her about her beliefs is, "I believe in a magnificent God."