Death by Living

Life Is Meant to Be Spent

By: N. D. Wilson

Narrated by: N. D. Wilson

A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life.

In this astoundingly unique audiobook, best-selling author N. D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live, we must recognize that we are dying. Every second we create more of our past - more decisions, more breathing, more love and more loathing, all of it slides by into the gone as we race to grab at more moments, at more memories made and already fading.

We are all authors, creators of our own pasts, of the books that will be our lives. We stare at the future or obsess about the present, but only the past has been set in stone, and we are the ones setting it. When we race across the wet concrete of time without purpose, without goals, without laughter and love and sacrifice, then we fail in our mortal moment. We race toward our inevitable ends without artistry and without beauty.

All of us must pause and breathe. See the past, see your life as the fruit of providence and thousands of personal narratives. What led to you? You did not choose where to set your feet in time. You choose where to set them next.

Then, we must see the future, not just to stare into the fog of distant years but to see the crystal choices as they race toward us in this sharp foreground we call the present. We stand in the now. God says create. Live. Choose. Shape the past. Etch your life in stone, and what you make will be forever.

©2013 Tommy Nelson (P)2013 Canon Press

An eye-opening view of life, family, and Jesus

Beautiful words beautifully (and occasionally humorously) spoken like these and medicine to my busy soul.

Word pictures to the extreme

Author did a good job trying to convey a feeling/philosophy. “Death by Living”. Living well because we will all die anyway! A good reminder to live now and not later.

A must read!

Mr. Wilson skillfully had me laughing through one of the most profound books I have recently read.

Great Ride

Great ride and well done. Many thanks for sharing your story so beautifully.
S D G

Life changing!

Probably the most encouraging book I've ever read in all my life. Thank you, Nathan