This Life I Live

Rory Feek

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780718090128
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **

Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory.

By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple way they chose to live; and how they loved each other every step of the way. But there is far more to the story.

"My life is very ordinary, " says Rory. "On the surface, it is not very special. If you looked at it, day to day, it wouldn't seem like much. But when you look at it in a bigger context—as part of a larger story—you start to see the magic that is on the pages of the book that is my life. And the more you look, the more you see. Or, at least, I do."

In this vulnerable book, he takes us for the first time into his own challenging life story and what it was like growing up in rural America with little money and even less family stability.

This is the story of a man searching for meaning and security in a world that offered neither. And it's the story of a man who finally gives it all to a power higher than himself and soon meets a young woman who will change his heart forever.

In This Life I Live, Rory Feek helps us not only to connect more fully to his and Joey's story but also to our own journeys. He shows what can happen when we are fully open in life's key moments, whether when meeting our life companion or tackling an unexpected tragedy. He also gives never-before-revealed details on their life together and what he calls "the long goodbye, " the blessing of being able to know that life is going to end and taking advantage of it. Rory shows how we are all actually there already and how we can learn to live that way every day.

A gifted man from nowhere and everywhere in search of something to believe in. A young woman from the Midwest with an angelic voice and deep roots that just needed a place to be planted. This is their story. Two hearts that found each other and touched millions of other hearts along the way.

Table of contents

• Contents
• 1. Famous for Love
• 2. Stronger
• 3. The Middle of Nowhere
• 4. Trailer Trash
• 5. Mama Bare
• 6. A Hero’s Story
• 7. Things That Go Away
• 8. Uncle Goombah
• 9. Froot Loots
• 10. Nashville
• 11. Joining Up to Sing
• 12. Your First Time Lasts
• 13. Forgiven Greatly
• 14. Marine Biology
• 15. From Texas to Tennessee
• 16. Song Righter
• 17. Baggage Claim
• 18. Father Figure
• 19. Duct-Tape Parenting
• 20. Self-Help Was No Help
• 21. Die Living
• 22. Never Gonna Happen
• 23. A New Family
• 24. Circa 1870
• 25. Something Good
• 26. Farmer Boy
• 27. Killing Myself
• 28. My Name Is Joey
• 29. A Girl, a Dog, and a Truck
• 30. Nothing to Remember
• 31. Sign Language
• 32. The Right Left Hand
• 33. A Clean Slate
• 34. Crossing Our Hearts
• 35. Alter Call
• 36. Sexual Healing
• 37. Honeymooners
• 38. Love Doesn’t Exist
• 39. A Green Heart
• 40. Changing Lives One Sip at a Time
• 41. Nothing Matters
• 42. Money
• 43. Rhymes with Tex
• 44. The Name Game
• 45. Ten Percent
• 46. On the Same Page
• 47. Baby Crazy
• 48. Almond Eyes
• 49. Life Is Complicated
• 50. Fame to Farm
• 51. Turn, Turn, Turn
• 52. Ups and Downs
• 53. Hurt People Hurt People
• 54. Josephine
• 55. Something Worse
• 56. Surgery and More
• 57. No More
• 58. Crying and Driving
• 59. Indiana Home
• 60. Saying Good-Bye
• 61. Second Guesses
• 62. Life Imitating Art Imitating Life
• Epilogue: After Happily Ever After
• About the Author