Christine Tracy has written a lovely personal memoir that reads like a novel. Introducing visionary Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as an inspiration and virtual mentor in her prologue, she takes us on a tour of her life, through thick and thin, in ten engaging chapters, each a story in itself. Her title, Just Trust Life, springs from the inspiration she takes from Teilhard to face the obstacles (what he would call diminishments) in her life. By interlacing Teilhard’s insights with her own existential encounters with life, she introduces us to this famous priest, scientist, and philosopher, while offering hope and encouragement to the rest of us who also face reversals and crises in our lives. Teilhard was an evolutionist a century ago when evolution wasn’t cool in the Catholic Church and paid a price for it. Above all, Teilhard’s version of evolution emphasizes the evolution of consciousness, offering a vision of hope for the future. And this is the evolution that Dr. Tracy details in her own life. She knows how to tell a story and makes reading a pleasure.
Just Trust Life earns five stars for its readability. Just Trust Life is available on Amazon.
Christine M. Tracy is a writer, journalist, rhetorician, and Teilhardian scholar. She holds a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she studied the evolution of media and worked as a founding editor of one of the web’s first e-zine, Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine.) Read full bio at this link.
