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

Author is narrator

I've read this book before but hearing the author read it was primo. Because he wrote it, he was able to give words and ideas the nuances he intended. N. D. Wilson challenged me to think harder and remember deeper. For what am I grateful?

Epic Word Stories

I hadn’t read anything by N. D. Wilson before this book. The author uses such epic word pictures that I could hardly help but to see his story. I laughed, I cried. I loved it. I love his outlook and his family and really think that Wilson’s love for life in God on display is needed.

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

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

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