Living with Hope

Living with Hope is for anyone who is coping with an illness or knows someone who is. It is an invitation to set aside the fear and seek hope. Author and artist Sandy Gingras has created the perfect gift of counsel, encouragement, and reassuring consolation for the friend, family member, or loved ones struggling with the many terrifying and often disheartening life changes that come after a diagnosis of a chronic condition or even a life-threatening illness. ''Hope is sometimes easy to find. On sunny days, its shining all around us. It's in the opening of a flower, in the butterfly's emergence from a cocoon, and in the way the butterfly lands in our hands gently. But sometimes, life gets dark, and hope is harder to find, harder to see. (It's like just when you need it most, your flashlight goes out . . .). Let this little book be a kind of flashlight. And let's go find hope together. Because we know it's right here within ourselves and our lives. We are all Living with Hope every day.'' Gingras brings her popular, hallmark style of a few, carefully chosen words and evocative watercolors to this enchanting, heartfelt book that celebrates the many ways you can encourage and support someone who is ill.