It's Not Too Late: A Field Guide to Hope

A 'field guide' is a small, pocketable book that accompanies you on an adventure or journey. It's Not Too Late is a field guide to hope―sized so that you can carry it along with you on your daily journey of faith. The entries in this book will help you find hope, whether it's right in front of you or it remains elusive despite your searchings. The 'field' for this guide is the deterioration of the earth's environment and the economic well-being of humankind. Sitze wrote this book to thwart Despair and provides practical helps for pilgrims who are hungry for hope and want to find it. Sitze approaches hope-seeking in an appreciative way―believing hope already exists, that it waits your discerning eye and receptive spirit. Because you are looking for hope, you will soon find it to be present all around you―no matter what the field might look like. Sitze encourages us to follow the example of hopeful people who surround us, invisibly and quietly. His yearning is that we will see in God the source of hope who will sustain our spirit and ministry into the years ahead. It's never too late for you to hope. Never too late to speak of hope or to act hopefully. Never too late to seek hope. No matter the circumstances in which you find yourself. No matter who wants to tempt you to be afraid, angry, or desperate. These ideas fill this book.

Bob Sitze has been a leader, beneficiary, and critic of congregational life for over forty years. A former education, stewardship, and hunger staff member for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he spends his postdenominational days as a congregational consultant and writer. Bob is the author of Starting Simple: Conversations about the Way We Live, Your Brain Goes to Church: Neuroscience and Congregational Life, and Not Trying Too Hard, a behind-the-curtain look at congregational dynamics.