Just Beyond the Passage: Life's Changes in Art and Story - Couverture souple

This 144 page book is an inspirational paperback with 60 door, gate, and arch drawings and 60 essays from different writers. Essays that invite all of us to think more deeply and perhaps, differently about the doors in our own lives. Mort Crim Stories about events that have changed people's lives. Each story includes a passage of scripture which in this case has a double meaning. "Doors open, and doors close. All through life we face doors of some kind. And while not all are considered life changing experiences there most certainly are those times when we all have experienced a life-changing door, either upon its opening or upon its closing. My friend David Liverett's latest book, Just Beyond the Passage, will stir your soul and bring you great encouragement as your read about the life-changing experiences of people whose names you ll recognize and respect, and who have cheerfully shared their experiences for you." --Robert Silvers, Religion Editor/Executive Publisher The Saturday Evening Post "Liverett's drawings are vivid and charming they recall the Wall Street Journal s illustrations, only Liverett's pictures hum with more life." --Publishers Weekly "David Liverett has done it again. There were lighthouses, church steeples, gospel singers, barns, gates and doors he calls passages ...along with heartwarming and life changing stories. Thanks David for seeing and sharing the beauty of the world," --Judy Spencer Nelon, Vice President of Mana Music

David Liverett has been drawing pen and ink lighthouses since he, his wife, Avis, and their son, Mark, lived in Maine in the 1970's. He has worked as an illustrator since his days as a student at Anderson University in Indiana and has managed his own agency, D. Liverett Graphics, since moving back to Indiana in the late 1970's. David has traveled to both coasts and from northern Michigan to Florida sketching over 60 lighthouses. He has had five inspirational books that where published in his pointillism style. He has published a book about Charles Schulz featuring stories and letters to his friends during his early adult life. Two of David s books have featured singers from the gospel and country music genre. David Liverett and his wife Avis live in Indiana. They have a son, Mark, and two grandchildren, Connor Mark and Clare Anne.