Chapter 3
Some flavour-of-the-month mental health guru on PBS had once asked the audience: “What is lacking in your life? Answering this question is the first step in achieving your heart’s desire.”
“What is lacking in my life?” Ruth had asked herself. She’d sat down and really thought, because it seemed like a crucial question.
When she couldn’t come up with a simple answer, she’d written the question on paper, like the guru said, and then closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she found she’d written one word in response.
Hope.
Not only did Ruth have no hope, she had no hope of ever achieving hope. It was something beyond her grasp. She wasn’t even sure what hope was. Not until she met Agnes. Suddenly, another world opened up. She might not have what she desired, not y
