iod of deep despair, Neale awoke in the middle of a February night and wrote an anguished letter to God. He angrily scratched across a yellow legal pad, “What does it take to make life work?” Neale says that he heard a “voiceless voice” that gave him an answer. As more questions came, more answers came in the same fashion. Neale continued this first “conversation” for hours and had many more in the weeks that followed. He always awoke in the middle of the night and was drawn to his legal pad. Neale’s handwritten notes would later become the best-selling Conversations with God books, which have been translated into 27 languages. Conversations with God, Book 1 occupied The New York Times bestseller list for over two and half years.