Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind
This book of 365 daily devotionals supports the time-honored adage, "Why  put off until tomorrow what you can do today?" The charismatic spiritual leader  Iyanla Vanzant knows how easy it is to stay stuck in "old sentiments,  resentments, beliefs, decisions, agreements, judgments, and ideas that may have  become habitual." Through these devotions Vanzant hopes to show readers that the  easiest way to create change is to simply shift your attitude--today. "We  often work so hard to get the things we want that we miss the fact that it is  the landscape of the inner world that stands between us and true happiness."In the closing paragraph of each one-page devotional Vanzant names an old way of  thinking and offers readers a new attitude to try on "just for today." For  example, Vanzant writes, "Until today, you may have believed that you had to  stay in the painful hole of hurt caused by the loss of a loved one. Just for  today, make a conscious effort and choice to cover the hole and move on." Some  might consider these devotions a fancy term for affirmations. Vanzant scoffs at  the notion. Time spent in devotion is not a "New Age trick through which you can  impose your will on God, the universe, or those around you," she writes.  "Devotion is the reverent, personal act of surrendering your will to the Divine  will."--Gail Hudson