Book Review: "God is a Brown Girl, Too" by Cecilia B. Loving

The experience of God is a unique and personal one and so individualized that it becomes a huge challenge to communicate this "knowingness" to others.


Some how, in some way, Cecilia B. Loving has been able to accomplish this feat with the book, "God is a Brown Girl, Too."

This talented poet, teacher and preacher reaches deep into her own soul to share the absolute truth as she knows it about God. In doing so, she provides readers with a confidence and clarity to be witnesses to the same experiences and claim them for themselves.


At the end of this terrific and empowering book, readers are left breathless with confidence and a sense of direction in discovering their own personal relationship with God.

If they didn't know what God should and could feel like, this book is a guide to uncovering the mystery. If they didn't know what God should and could look like, this book is the truth!

Without a doubt Rev. Loving's passion and sincerity capture your Soul. You're easily able to ride along with her through characters, named Grace, Myrtle and Karma, all providing, light and enlightening for your own passage to truth.

The fact that Cecilia Loving is a poet certainly brings life to the many biblical passages she uses throughout, heightening your sense of places and time so long ago.

The confidence that Rev. Loving shares stories about Grace, Myrtle and Karma allow you to embrace their experiences and insights as your own.


I highly recommend this book for "brown" girls and all others throughout the United States and around world. In fact, if you're "brown," it's downright required reading!

Here are some highlights that fully bring alive the experience and sensation of God, as you, and as a "brown girl, too."

"Disregard those who believe that you have no right to God--for they want you to believe that you have no right to yourself."

"When you know that it is my pleasure to give you the kingdom, you will feel your cup running over and the abundance of good that pours and flows from it."

"When you need to get your glow on, I am the only real 'exfoliate.' Not only do I clean the toxins from your body, but I scrub away the thoughts that clog your mind."

"Walk beyond the confines of your self-imposed limitations, so that I can shine through you."

"Walk as an unlimited expression of all that I AM."

"I am here to help you realize the benefit of surrender. There is no need for a 9/11 or some catastrophe."

"You define yourselves based on the environment in which you grew up as a child---even though you may not have seen or experienced that environment in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or even 60 years."

Sections such as: "Awaken to Love," "Dance Beyond Done and Do Even More," "Create Outside the Box of Conventionality," "Release Your Demons," and "Tell a New Story," each with many powerful chapters, have you reading...and reading...and gasping...through the end.

By then...you believe!

You know the truth and TRUTH: God IS a Brown Girl, Too!

[Pictured: Senaya Miles (L) and Shondelle Solomon-Miles (R), a brown girl who certainly knows TRUTH!]



Thank you, Cecilia B. Loving, for this awe-inspiring book!

Namaste',

Che'

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rev. Cecilia B. Loving is the spiritual leader of SPIRITMUV (www.spiritmuv.com), a nondenominational church in New York City. Before becoming a minister, she paracticed law for more than 20 years. Rev. Loving is a graduate of Howard University (BFA); University of California, Los Angeles (MFA); New York University School of Law (JD); and New York Theological Seminary (MDiv) where she received both the President and the Rising Star Awards. Her first book, "Prayers for Those Standing n the Edge of Greatness" is available at www.prayersontheedge.com or http://myrtle-treepress.webs.com. "God is a Brown Girl, Too," is available through SPIRITMUV, http://www.spiritmuv.com, or amazon.com, or where ever books are sold.