Hannah’s Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived

Thy Will (and Mine) Be Done (#litres_trial_promo)

Say Yes (#litres_trial_promo)

Healing Service Hypocrite (#litres_trial_promo)

… And the Cow Jumped over the Moon (#litres_trial_promo)

Mother’s Day (#litres_trial_promo)

Waiting to Exhale (#litres_trial_promo)

Grandma’s Promise (#litres_trial_promo)

Circle of Life (#litres_trial_promo)

Metamorphosis (#litres_trial_promo)

On the Threshold (#litres_trial_promo)

Everywhere I Am, There You’ll Be (#litres_trial_promo)

Compassion (#litres_trial_promo)

As Real as It Gets (#litres_trial_promo)

Sorry She Asked (#litres_trial_promo)

The Bathroom Guilt Trip (#litres_trial_promo)

Stillness (#litres_trial_promo)

Silence (#litres_trial_promo)

P.S. (#litres_trial_promo)

Amen (#litres_trial_promo)

Vacuum (#litres_trial_promo)

Breath (#litres_trial_promo)

Choice (#litres_trial_promo)

Descent (#litres_trial_promo)

Dreaming a New Life (#litres_trial_promo)

Peeling the Onion of Grief (#litres_trial_promo)

Dead Is Dead (#litres_trial_promo)

Are You Looking at Me? (#litres_trial_promo)

Social Grace (#litres_trial_promo)

Belonging (#litres_trial_promo)

Wonder (#litres_trial_promo)

Thirst (#litres_trial_promo)

Fragility (#litres_trial_promo)

Dreamweaver (#litres_trial_promo)

Exhale (#litres_trial_promo)

Given (#litres_trial_promo)

Gratitude (#litres_trial_promo)

Sea Change (#litres_trial_promo)

Harvest (#litres_trial_promo)

Dance (#litres_trial_promo)

Remembering (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue (#ulink_147e6c59-0e6d-502b-b1e4-c6655a5182d4)

The Red Shoes

LOOKING BACK, I REALIZE THAT MY WHOLE LIFE PIVOTS silently around this single moment: I was standing in a Stride-Rite children’s shoe store, wondering which pair of shoes to buy. Black or blue leather would coordinate with every outfit in Hannah’s preschool wardrobe. I held up one shoe in each color and asked, “Which one do you prefer?”

Hannah had already decided.