Heaven, Earth And The God Thing

By Richard Laverick

When God loses His powers, He doesn't fall in fire or thunder, he falls into Earth.
Now calling Himself John, He navigates GP waiting rooms, broken housing systems, zero-hour contracts, funerals with no heaven, and the quiet humiliations of ordinary life. Stripped of omnipotence but armed with uncomfortable honesty, John discovers that suffering is rarely caused by monsters. More often, it's caused by policies, procedures, and well-meaning systems that forget the people inside them.
As John wanders the modern world, he watches His name used for cruelty, kindness, indifference, and hope, often simultaneously. He tries to help and learns how easily compassion gets lost in paperwork. He listens more than He speaks. He falls in love. He grieves. He loses his temper in a supermarket aisle and apologises to strangers who never knew they were being judged by God.
This is not a story about reclaiming a throne. It's a story about learning restraint, responsibility, and presence.
With sharp wit and unexpected tenderness, the novel asks what faith looks like without certainty, what morality means without reward, and whether love needs eternity to matter. Funny, humane, and quietly devastating, this book reimagines God not as a distant ruler, but as a fellow traveller-learning, failing, and choosing to stay. Because perhaps divinity was never about power.
Perhaps it was always about showing up.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GH7W8HWN
• ISBN13: 9798244112481
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"