The Sacred Echo
by Margaret Feinberg
Published by Zondervan
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Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
“When God really wants to get your attention, he doesn’t just whisper something once.” (From the back cover)
Repetition. The same thing over and over. Sometimes it’s the best way to drill something into someone’s head. And author Feinberg maintains that God uses repetition when He wants us to get a message.
In The Sacred Echo, Ms. Feinberg will teach you to listen for God’s persistent voice in your life. The book is about prayer, and about going beyond the routine, the expected, to get more out of your prayer life, not only in the praying part, but also in the listening for God’s still small voice part. It’s about becoming more than a “yo-yo” prayer, to being a serious prayer warrior for God.
Feinberg will show you why its important to pray the same prayer multiple times, and why we need to pause and listen for God’s answer–and to learn to tell the difference between God’s presence and your emotions.
For me, The Sacred Echo was difficult to get into. I’m finding it disjointed, random thoughts that don’t seem to be put together in any specific manner and isn’t making much sense to me. I figured it was “just me” so I put it down and waited several days and started over, and when it turned out the same way, I tried it again the third time, and the fourth and I’m still not getting anything out of it.
Since Zondervan is a publisher I respect, I decided it must be me and my mood at the time, so I put the book down to read later, at a time when I was less stressed, less busy.
I had attempted to read The Sacred Echo several times but I never did get into it the way I wanted to. I just couldn’t wrap my mind around what the author was trying to say. I agree with the concept, and if the reader could focus one hundred percent on the writing, keeping a pen and notebook close by to make notes as they read, they might get more from the book than I did.
A section entitled “reflections” is found at the end of the book, with questions relating to each chapter, and scripture for you to read, and then a few more questions for you to answer while you reflect on what you read. This would make the book ideal for a book club or discussion group.
An excerpt from Feinberg’s previous book, The Organic God is also included at the end.
Armchair Interviews says: A book that would have benefited from more focus and less randomness.
Author’s Web site: http://www.MargaretFeinberg.com