Breaking up with God?

I saw this book at Barnes and Noble the other day, Breaking Up With God.  I thought it was going to be about breaking up with God and getting back together again.  You know, that crisis in faith that eventually ends with reunion.  It wasn’t.  As I read the last few pages, I was astonished that this women really had walked away from God.  She still believed in Him, she simply just walked away from Him. She talked about it like an actual break up, you know when you are still on good terms, and you see each other around, you just aren't close anymore. It broke my heart. How can you acknowledge that there's a God, and yet want nothing to do with Him?   

 I don’t know the rest of the story because I didn’t read the whole book.  She said that she felt trapped her whole life and now she finally felt free.  Free without God? I cannot comprehend that.  I can’t because it’s not possible.  She gave an example that she felt like when she was walking with God it was the same as being put in a box, with a prayer book and being told to pray those prayers.  That inside that box you only have a flash light to give you light. And you're told that when you have prayed those prayers you can come out.  If you stay in there long enough you actually begin to feel like the box is normal, safe, OK.  But when you get out of the box you see that wasn't and that you were living in a box all along.  Restricted.  

I don’t see my relationship with God like that at all. What she was describing sounds a lot like religion to me.  The disconnected rules and regulations that people adhere to in order to form some kind of semblance of a relationship with God.  I know better. Not because I know a lot, but because I have experienced more.  I know that Jesus came to abolish the law.  To make a way for those people who only know religion and it’s chains.  He came to break them free. Not to place them in a box with more restrictions. He came to make a way for us to be with a HOLY and ALMIGHTY God.  A God who loves us more than anything in the universe that He has created.  A God who sacrificed His ONLY Son, so that we could know Him.  So that He could give us true freedom from this dark, lonely, and confusing box that we live in right now, the world.  If you ask me, that woman has stepped out of one box, into another man made box.  Only this box feels more comfortable because she thinks that she's calling the shots now.  I pray that God will find her in her new box, and be the flashlight she’s holding to lead her out of that box and into true freedom. She may have "broken up" with Him, but He's still waiting for her.