[Book Review] The Right to God: For Everyday People

Book Review: The Right to God: For Everyday People

Written by: Ron and Jennie Dugan

Reviewed by: Diana Santelli

We sometimes experience deep pitfalls in our life of faith. We can’t seem to pray or feel much when we do. Even though we want to straighten things out with God, the process seems too complicated, too long and too involved. Tomorrow always looks like a better day to start over and to right our many wrongs. The problem is, the longer we put it off, the worse the feeling gets. The cycle of guilt and blame keeps us from taking that first step towards reviving our relationship with God and crawling out of the ditch and back onto the path towards bringing our Heavenly Parent into our life.

The Right to God: For Everyday People, co-authored by husband and wife Ron and Jennie Dugan, addresses the issues of spiritual health in a very honest and back-to-basics approach that help get us back to a safe starting point.

The habits we’ve developed that prevent us from connecting with God are outlined—from the excuses we use, the false faces we show, to living life in excess rather than through the lens of abundance—reminding readers that even with all the things we do that pull us away from God, there are things we can do to move us still closer to our Heavenly Parent.

A little over 100 pages, the book is broken down into chapters that define our rights as God’s children, followed by an uncomplicated explanation of each definition and how to apply them to our lives. Discussed are our rights to God, to forgiveness, to prayer, to give, to be blessed and a chapter on how to recognize healers—those who help us advance along the path to God—versus falsifiers, “people who accuse others of wrong behavior so they will feel small and increase their own sense of authority, rather than God’s.” And while the topics of the chapters may seem elementary or something we’ve heard perhaps many times before, it is sometimes truth in its simplest form that knocks us over the head and reminds us that we needn’t be perfect to go to God, we just need to go.

The Right to God: For Everyday People is a book and an idea that needs to spread. This thin paperback is a treasure trove of ideas and little gems that can assist each of us, wherever we are in our life of faith, from the deepest of ditches to the highest of peaks, further along our path to inner peace and towards the goal of becoming true children of God.

Where to purchase

To learn more about the book or the authors, or to purchase a copy for yourself, go to www.righttogod.com.