Creating a Living Masterpiece: Faith, Gratitude, and Finding Meaning in Life's Hardest Seasons

Creating a Living Masterpiece: Faith, Gratitude, and Finding Meaning in Life's Hardest Seasons

Sometimes life's most important lessons arrive when hope seems hardest to find. Some moments in life turn from concern into action when ordinary people decide to step forward to help their community. The author's life experiences have taught him an important lesson: Each life is a masterpiece in the making. But creating a masterpiece requires a vision for what is possible and the courage to shape it. This book explains 15 "points of light" that establish how we should see the world, how to move outward from ourselves into relationships and service to others, and how our own masterpiece can be finished with a legacy of wisdom and spiritual completion. The book examines the elements of a masterpiece: a life of gratitude, balance, resilience, forgiveness, seeing the good in others, loving others without conditions, faith and belief, the power of a healing community, serving with compassion, and finding a purpose for living. "Ron wrestles with difficult questions, holds space for complexity, and seeks truth with humility... As a psychologist who has spent a lifetime studying human behavior and development, I have come to recognize certain qualities that distinguish those who merely age from those who truly grow. Ron embodies the latter." Mary Ann Imkamp, Psychologist, Whidbey Island, WA "Some of the chapters struck me as being nothing short of divinely inspired." Mike Sullivan, Senior Editor, Byblio Press