Stuff Worth Passing On: Life and Lessons

Stuff Worth Passing On: Life and Lessons is not the story of a man who had life figured out.It is the story of a man who had to learn.Jason Strader writes about growing up believing unhealthy things were normal, carrying anger and defenses into adulthood, struggling with addiction, learning to ask for help, rebuilding relationships, finding faith, experiencing grief, and slowly becoming someone different from the person his past might have predicted.Along the way, many of his greatest lessons came from some expected and a few unexpected places-family, friends, recovery, counseling, marriage, fatherhood, loss, forgiveness, and even a three-legged goat.This isn't a book about having all the answers. It's about the things Jason learned from people who loved him, challenged him, forgave him, stood beside him, and sometimes told him the truth when he didn't want to hear it.At its heart, Stuff Worth Passing On is about hope: the belief that what happened to us does not have to determine who we become.Most of what is worth knowing gets passed from one person to another.This is Jason's attempt to pass some of it on.