Live in Hope

I've been busy. I've been really, really busy. I just finished my book, and, of course, the writing was the easy part. Now comes the hard part...shopping it around for a publisher. Here's an excerpt from the introduction.

Wish me luck!



Life is so many things, but it’s nothing if not ever changing. And change can be difficult on us. But here’s the thing with change: Others have been where you are right now, right at this very moment. Others before you have gone through what you’re experiencing and you have this great opportunity to learn from them…if you will only just stop and listen to the words they have to say.

For everything has been said before. Everything we need to know has been written; the words have been penned, etched on parchment, on yellowed scrolls of days gone by. The words have been spoken, whispered in hushed voices, shouted in hallowed halls, told to any and all who would listen. They are there for us to discover...

Ancient words, full of wisdom and hope, once followed by so many as guiding principles for a life well-lived, cast aside, left undiscovered in dusty tomes on library shelves. No longer taught in high school classrooms, but instead studied by a mere handful of Philosophy and English majors on college campuses, yet never applied in the real world…the world in which we live every day, where we struggle to find our way.

So here they are, a collection of words by some of the most notable philosophers, thinkers, theologians, teachers, authors, poets, artists, and politicians; people we admire for their clarity of thought, for their wisdom, for their courage. These words offer more than just guidance; they offer hope⎯how to find it, how to hang on to it, how to live in it. And I for one prefer to live in hope.