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You may have heard that I\u2019ve written a book called The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life and How They Can Transform Yours<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s available to Guideposts readers starting this month and will be on sale in bookstores May 1. I can\u2019t tell you how thrilled I am to say that. Like most books, this one was a long time in the making. And it didn\u2019t end up being the book I started out to write. But I\u2019m not the same person I was when I started the book either.<\/p>\n

A little background: We\u2019d been talking about me doing a book for the Guideposts audience for some time, one where I shared what I had learned from my experiences editing and writing Guideposts<\/em> stories, how people grew in the face of challenges and adversity and discovered or deepened their faith. I would take some of my favorite stories and retell them, trying to uncover universal truths about personal change, a topic I know you readers care about. In fact, every Guideposts story is about change. It\u2019s the first thing we editors ask ourselves when evaluating a manuscript: How does the narrator change?<\/p>\n

Plus, I was going to include some people and stories that had never been in the magazine, just to keep it fresh. Little did I know that my own story would be one of them.<\/p>\n

Not that I had any desire to tell my story. Virtually no one at Guideposts knew it, and certainly I\u2019d never dreamed of going public with it, except perhaps for the occasional guarded reference in one of my devotionals for Daily Guideposts<\/em><\/a>. That part of my life was behind me. Buried. Silent. Forgotten.<\/p>\n

Yet there are things we never bury or forget, no matter how hard we try, and there are always people who want to help us see the truth about ourselves. In my case that would be Julee, my wife.<\/p>\n

We were up at our little getaway cabin in the Berkshire Hills on a raw, blustery late afternoon in early spring, the sylvan light throwing long shadows across the yard. It was hard to tell if the distant howling came from the wind raking the budding trees or from a pack of starving coyotes on the hill behind our place, up beyond the Appalachian Trail that borders the property.<\/p>\n

The air still held the insinuation of winter, as if it might not be done with us yet. Early spring is tough on the coyotes and bears, and we had our young golden retriever, Millie, who was not even two yet. I\u2019d have to keep an eye on her.<\/p>\n

I brought in some wood for the stove. Julee was looking curiously at a sheaf of papers with a lot of small type strewn across the dining room table. It was a book contract I was about to sign.<\/p>\n

\u201cMillie in?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t leave her out with that bear around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI never do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA bear would make short work of her. You saw what it did to our trash bins\u2014crushed them like soda cans. Those coyotes too. They\u2019re not as big as she is, but they hunt in packs and they\u2019re hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s in.\u201d<\/p>\n

I dumped the wood in the holder and hung up my coat. Millie wagged her tail in expectation of a treat, a request I\u2019m trained to obey. Julee was looking at the papers again.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo,\u201d she said, \u201cwhat\u2019s this book about?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the power of personal change, discovering faith, spiritual growth and what I\u2019ve learned about people and their stories in my time at Guideposts. A little like a self-help book but more like a not-by-yourself help book. But mostly it\u2019s about the stories. The stuff people go through is amazing. Look at some of the stuff we\u2019ve been through, Jules.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was silent and all at once I sensed she was hoping I\u2019d actually heard what I\u2019d said. Finally she said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to tell your own story, aren\u2019t you, Edward?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I might touch on it,\u201d I replied noncommittally.<\/p>\n

Julee tended to the fire in the woodstove a little more vigorously than was strictly necessary. \u201cTouch on it?\u201d she asked. \u201cHow do you just touch on a story like yours?\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have an answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, Edward, you\u2019ve helped all kinds of people tell their personal stories for Guideposts<\/em>. But nobody knows yours, not in all these years. Maybe it\u2019s time to try your own medicine. Your story will help people. That\u2019s what Guideposts stories are supposed to do. And you have a Guideposts story. Big time.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the perfect opportunity to take Millie for a walk, I decided. I grabbed her leash and headed back outside to mull the question over. My heart was racing.<\/p>\n

I flopped down in an old log chair, leaned back and looked up through the denuded branches at the graying sky, where streaks of sunset were already appearing. Millie settled at my feet.<\/p>\n

Julee was right. For years I\u2019d been getting people to tell their stories, helping them to discover the spiritual and emotional truths of their experiences and bare their souls to millions of readers. These stories had transformed me from the person I was when I first stumbled into the Guideposts offices, knowing nothing about the organization but desperately needing a job\u2026needing a life, really. Needing something. These stories\u2014your stories\u2014changed my life; they saved it, in fact.<\/p>\n

Our stories are the road maps of our lives. They reveal and define us. People have been telling stories since they could carve on cave walls, and probably earlier. So why was I so afraid of telling mine?<\/p>\n

You never bury yourself completely. You never silence the past altogether. Your story is always a part of you. It had been years since I\u2019d thought deeply about the past, about my family, and how at one time I had been such a hopeless case, basically homeless, utterly lost, practically dead. I was absolutely the last person in the world anyone would have predicted might become the editor-in-chief of the country\u2019s most beloved inspirational magazine.<\/p>\n

Then came that day when I wandered into Guideposts and for reasons I still don\u2019t totally understand was offered a job and just as amazingly accepted.<\/p>\n

I heard Millie whine demurely, a pitiful sound coming from a 90-pound dog. But she was hungry for dinner. That was her story.<\/p>\n

Back inside Julee had stoked a fire that would have made Hephaestus proud, and the cabin was quite warm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see you\u2019re literally turning up the heat on me, Jules.\u201d<\/p>\n

She thrust a pen toward me. \u201cIf you are going to sign that agreement, sign it to write an honest book, because I don\u2019t think I want to spend a year never seeing you while you put together something about other people\u2019s stories and what lessons you learned from them. They\u2019re great stories, Edward, with powerful lessons. Just put yours in there too. All of it. It will help people, I promise. Don\u2019t you know that your story is why I married you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Writing autobiographically is a little like performing surgery on yourself without anesthesia, and I discovered that honesty is the true north of my spiritual compass. Yes, I yielded to Julee (gratefully, as it turns out) and wove my own personal story through the other stories I tell, trying to connect them all into a larger narrative mosaic.<\/p>\n

I was able to distill from these stories nine basic elements of faith-filled personal growth: Honesty, Willingness, Imagination, Commitment, Faith, Forgiveness, Acceptance, Resilience, Love. These nine themes constitute the chapters of the book and help you apply the lessons of the stories to your own life. Or you can just sit back and be inspired! Colleagues have said it\u2019s a pretty good read no matter how you approach it.<\/p>\n

The first time I heard the name Guideposts I thought it might be a travel magazine, and if you substitute the word journey for travel you wouldn\u2019t be wrong. Writing this book was a journey, one where I was able to see my life today as part of a larger story.<\/p>\n

I saw a journey that started in hopelessness and ended in faith. I saw my family and the love that held my parents together after the tragedy of my brother\u2019s death. I saw myself wander far off the lighted path and into the deepest darkness, only to emerge into a greater and more sublime light.<\/p>\n

And I saw at last the reason I wandered into Guideposts that day\u2014the promise of hope that I was to find in your stories.<\/p>\n

Download your FREE ebook, True Inspirational Stories: 9 Real Life Stories of Hope & Faith<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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