Peekaboo God

If you have been looking for a book that stands up to the atheistic arguments against God, you are finally in luck. is a refreshing treat in spirituality, philosophy and theology, a stylish confluence of faith and reason that will simply make you feel good because you will have so many great reasons to be a believer.

The book begins with a dramatic personal experience; you will be roped in right from the preface on. The author survived over a short period of time two heart attacks, a double pulmonary embolism, and a stroke, and along the way encountered a near outer body experience that convinced him that he is loved by the one who is Love, as he is also convinced that all of us are. Later one day, assuming his experience of faith might be a comfort for one of his clients who had been diagnosed with cancer with not much time to live, the author tells him all about his own medical/religious experience, only to be good naturedly chided! For, his client turns out to be an atheist. He challenged Dwyer to defend his faith, so the author begins collecting his thoughts, writing them down, and realizes that what he was writing was very similar to the education he received as a seminarian many years ago. How life has turned full circle!

This is a great story, but the book that follows about a God who is closer to us than you think, if you are open to his search, is even better. In easy to understand prose that in many places becomes almost poetic, the book explains the way we came to be, and while the history of man is a story of evolution, it is also a story of the way God uses the natural law to create an ever expanding universe and a diversification of life that adds to his glory.

The book is well organized, being divided into three parts addressing human identity, God's presence, and the plan for each of us. Peekaboo God ends where it begins -- with a recognition of aloneness as a special human asset -- but takes it a step further to acknowledge that only by experiencing this aloneness regularly can individuals find the faith to believe that they are not alone. The author explains, "God is a Peekaboo God in that he scares us with the uncertainties of life, but if we come close to him at the center of ourselves, a place and state I call "aloneness," we will feel his presence. It may not be an epiphany, but it is a sense of otherness that we are drawn to explore, and the more we do, the more we come to the realization that we are loved. Our whole purpose in life is to be loved and to return the favor to each other. Peekaboo also means that in the end we must be like little children if we are to discover God's love and grace. "Unless you are like one of these little ones, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven," said Jesus.

"We are rational and social animals, but we are also believing animals," according Dwyer, "That goes as well for atheists." In other words, it takes as much faith to disbelieve in God as to believe in Him, unless you assume the improbability that God should be able to be measured in order to be proved. Dwyer argues that if the uncertainty principle more than likely rules out any certain way to measure matter, and so, if matter turns out to be immeasurable at the basic level of being, then who are we to say that God can or should be measured in order to be proven?

This is a book that you will savor, if you are a believer in God, especially after all the atheistic diatribes we have been subjected to for the last several years, from the likes of Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Fred Harris and now Christopher Hitchens. If you are an atheist, you will have to grudgingly give Dwyer a tip of the hat for a forceful presentation that we have not heard for some time.

Want a clear perspective of who you are and why you are here? Need a positive interpretation of why you are not ALONE? Buy a copy of "PEEKABOO GOD" (ISBN-10: 1419662597) by Daniel Dwyer today.
John Weaver, Page one Literary Book Reviews
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