Review: Promptings of the Spirit

Promptings of the Spirit by Errol R. Fish
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Background Info:

This book was written by my uncle. I helped to format this book and get it ready for printing. I've had it on my shelf since 1991 and have begun to read it several times. I am finally getting through the entire book. I'm finding it much more insightful than I thought I would. It was difficult to reconcile the man I knew with the author. He just did not seem like a spiritual giant to me as a youth. My uncle died when I was 20 years old, just shortly after this book was published.

The book was self-published. My uncle submitted it to Desert Books but it was declined. My uncle knew he was dying and so rather than go through a lengthy process of re-writing and submitting again, my uncle and my grandparents published the book themselves. There was only one printing.

Review:

Many of the chapters in this book are very insightful and helpful in delving deep inside oneself in order to better understand interpreting the Holy Ghost and what promptings of the Spirit feel like. However, I felt that some of the chapters were rushed or somewhat incomplete. Maybe that is because promptings of the Spirit are such personal feelings, or maybe the author did not have enough knowledge of the subject.

I found much of the book to be "true", but there were a few things that I was not positive on, leaving some ares of grey to me in the case of "true" or "false". I have questions still about this book. Maybe if my uncle would have lived longer he could have perfected the book. My personal belief is that he rushed to get it published before he died, knowing from his own personal revelation that his time on this earth was short.

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