Editor’s note: Sometimes I just need a lift. This book by a local newspaper writer who I’ve met and I admire qualifies. She’s also a good writer having been finalist for Pulitzer and sold millions of copies of her “God Never Blinks.” Brett’s goal seems to be to share stories she’s aware of and written about to see if one might motivate us to get off our butts and do something. I’m motivated.
Favorite excerpt: “My soul has a habit of magnifying what isn’t so good and godly [in others]... I put it on the past, a teacher who made fun of me in third grade, on friend who disappointed me in high school, and the wounds grow deeper. Or I put it in the future, and the endless stream of fear, anxiety and worry expands into a river that sweeps me away.”
